P.G. Wodelouse

Truly

I do like Rubber Soul A LOT

Yeah, I was like, oh, it’s one of these old knockabout comedies, not sure I can sit through two hours of this

Oh, and how wrong I was (thankfully)

Just glorious

A perfect cinematic moment as Clive and Theo men begin their duel in the gymnasium

The most touching moment as Theo and Edith react - their eyes and expressions saying so much more than words - when Clive congratulates them on their engagement

Deborah Kerr looking heavenly as Angela/Johnny

Clive Wynne-Candy’s final salute

Had to struggle through the first ten minutes of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp but damned glad I did because dash it all if that film didn’t end up half-breaking my heart

Very basic of me but Revolver (closely followed by Abbey Road)

Sure you don’t give a fuck but I’m Down is currently my favourite Beatles song

Which is unusual because I tend to lead towards the psychedelia

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Agreed. Eight years later and my stepdad’s estate is still causing enormous confusion

Gigolo Aunt by Syd Barrett from his Barrett album. The album cover features a variety of bees, ants and other insects

Very welcome ear worm this morning

How much did you have to splash out?

Good on you

I trust there was an internal enquiry after his retirement

Love it

He was a right plonker, wasn’t he?

Fingers crossed 🤞

‘Do you know what else can go? Brass rubbings, that’s what. Nobody’s interested. Not me, anyway. Oh, and let’s get rid of people playing the spoons while we’re at it’

Timothée Chalamet

Oh my :(

We were talking about Inspector Gadget only last night

Nightmare. Had a neighbour like that… until he burned down his house and five others

Album cover for electronic music pioneers Silver Apple’s eponymous first album

Hugely respect Silver Apples for being so massively pioneering but they’re a bit too much of a challenging listen for me*

*though I’ve added a couple of songs to a suitable playlist

Happy birthday!

A felt pigeon watching me. It has felt boobs.

I will felt sensible pigeons today. There will be no other pigeons, just sensible ones.

Bez from Happy Mondays, I’m hearing

🤣🤣🤣

It's all in the technique

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Anyway, it’s a humdinger, even if I do say so myself

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There’s also a sinister twist in the tale

I had my good friend Jonny Virgo (hip hop artist and novelist) give the story a good going over so that he could pick up any potential instances of racial insensitivity he and my other editor(s) might have missed

My version is, I think, a little more nuanced. Told by an unreliable white narrator, it describes the dynamics between two black boys - one high-born and wealthy, completely at home in his environment; the other from a more humble background on a full scholarship - at a major public school

Black and white photo of a landau (horse drawn carriage)

Amanda Donohoe in The Madness of King George pinning a lad to the wall by his fella

The final story in my short story collection is based on a legend from my school about the ghost of a lascivious aristocratic woman who goes about the grounds in a horse drawn carriage luring adolescent chaps inside and wanking them off