Andrew Oldham
@bongosherbert.bsky.social
Writer, Blogger, PhD Researcher & Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Mechanics Institute Review online & narrator of films for Channel 4 #writer
Sunday writing or sitting in the garden?
April 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sunday writing or sitting in the garden?
We need more of this in our news so it becomes a cultural norm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #kindness
World Happiness Report: Readers share acts of strangers' kindness
BBC News told of kind acts following UN report that found strangers' helpfulness was underestimated.
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March 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
We need more of this in our news so it becomes a cultural norm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #kindness
One from the archives: 'I have become the Green Man' youtu.be/8v47jCU-U9g @McrPoetryLib @McrLitFest #WorldPoetryDay #WorldPoetryDay2021 #unesco
World Poetry Day 2021 with Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library
YouTube video by Manchester City of Literature
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March 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
One from the archives: 'I have become the Green Man' youtu.be/8v47jCU-U9g @McrPoetryLib @McrLitFest #WorldPoetryDay #WorldPoetryDay2021 #unesco
@louisarmand.bsky.social can you spot what's on my book shelf 😂
March 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@louisarmand.bsky.social can you spot what's on my book shelf 😂
Now completed my Genesis collection pre-Hackett leaving. After there was three, I was free.
March 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Now completed my Genesis collection pre-Hackett leaving. After there was three, I was free.
I simply have no words. It just shows the injustice of #climatechange. The rich maintain their status quo and the poor get displaced, and their communities destroyed but then denied a voice at #COP30 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I simply have no words. It just shows the injustice of #climatechange. The rich maintain their status quo and the poor get displaced, and their communities destroyed but then denied a voice at #COP30 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Watching these guys on BBC Four #laurelandhardy #cuckoosong
February 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Watching these guys on BBC Four #laurelandhardy #cuckoosong
Creativity does not come from a machine, it comes from human interaction, human understanding and concerns. It is the power of many to change one idea. The power of one person to spread an idea. It is not the thieving and desecration of writers with words #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans
February 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Creativity does not come from a machine, it comes from human interaction, human understanding and concerns. It is the power of many to change one idea. The power of one person to spread an idea. It is not the thieving and desecration of writers with words #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans
Album collecting.
February 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Album collecting.
I think I am as ready as I can be for my PhD final viva, even with a rotten cold, I have prepped and prepped. Always hard to know what to expect in a creative viva. So, I have given myself the day off and I am in bed, feeling rotten, watching #doctorzhivago
February 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I think I am as ready as I can be for my PhD final viva, even with a rotten cold, I have prepped and prepped. Always hard to know what to expect in a creative viva. So, I have given myself the day off and I am in bed, feeling rotten, watching #doctorzhivago
Still like this piece of creative non-fiction therealstory.org/2021/01/29/d...
Deathband by Andrew Oldham – The Real Story
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February 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Still like this piece of creative non-fiction therealstory.org/2021/01/29/d...
My DNA is 66% Scandinavian Viking and I have DNA from this guy. Yes, Cheddar Gorge Man, I am one of only 10% of UK people who are descended from the first Briton.
February 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My DNA is 66% Scandinavian Viking and I have DNA from this guy. Yes, Cheddar Gorge Man, I am one of only 10% of UK people who are descended from the first Briton.
Reading on my sumptuous duvet #sheristepper #sf
January 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reading on my sumptuous duvet #sheristepper #sf
Why do I need AI to rewrite my words? I have spent a lifetime doing so. There are no worlds or words that it can show me that I have not imagined or read because AI has yet to truly create, truly think, truly imagine #writers
January 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Why do I need AI to rewrite my words? I have spent a lifetime doing so. There are no worlds or words that it can show me that I have not imagined or read because AI has yet to truly create, truly think, truly imagine #writers
All I can say about AI images is why? Perfect people from an imperfect past, created by the perfect first steps to creating a digital God. And as all Gods do, it will leave us behind.
January 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
All I can say about AI images is why? Perfect people from an imperfect past, created by the perfect first steps to creating a digital God. And as all Gods do, it will leave us behind.
And in the grim garret I mooch and moan about the weather.
January 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
And in the grim garret I mooch and moan about the weather.
I wrote this many years ago and I was always touched that someone else recorded it #HolocaustMemorialDay youtu.be/khExjWf8jBU?... #poetry #neverforget
Invasion II - Andrew Oldham
YouTube video by poem notes
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January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I wrote this many years ago and I was always touched that someone else recorded it #HolocaustMemorialDay youtu.be/khExjWf8jBU?... #poetry #neverforget
So climate change anxiety does have a name, it's called pre-traumatic stress disorder and was first recorded in climate change scientists in the early 1990s #climatechange
January 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So climate change anxiety does have a name, it's called pre-traumatic stress disorder and was first recorded in climate change scientists in the early 1990s #climatechange
DNA has come back, 6% Irish and 5% Norwegian.
January 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
DNA has come back, 6% Irish and 5% Norwegian.
Love Hennikay with Bill Bailey on Radio 4.
January 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Love Hennikay with Bill Bailey on Radio 4.
Just leaving that here, perfection youtu.be/TwuzI8Y0uW0?... #davidlynch
Blue Velvet - Opening Sequence
YouTube video by A Film Channel
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January 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just leaving that here, perfection youtu.be/TwuzI8Y0uW0?... #davidlynch
Truly unique. I used to teach the opening of Blue Velvet, a masterpiece in film, damn perfect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #davidlynch #bluevelvet
Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says
The Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker is famous for the film Mulholland Drive and the TV series Twin Peaks.
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January 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Truly unique. I used to teach the opening of Blue Velvet, a masterpiece in film, damn perfect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #davidlynch #bluevelvet
My lovely new record player for my 50th.
January 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My lovely new record player for my 50th.