Ed Parnell
@edparnell.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, mysterious shadowy figure.
Medium. Substack. Spreaker. Patreon.
I am literally all over the place. Just look for me.
Medium. Substack. Spreaker. Patreon.
I am literally all over the place. Just look for me.
📣 New Podcast! "Torbay's Town Crier Dispute" on @Spreaker #coastalcalm #communityspirit #devoncoast #devonlife #devonshiredelight #exploredevon #hiddengems #historictraditions #localheritage #naturelovers #offthebeatenpath #peacefulretreat #quietescape #quietplaces #ruralcharm #sereneliving
Torbay's Town Crier Dispute
Torbay in Devon. It’s a quiet place. People move there for the silence and respite from the chaos of more crowded conurbations. It’s part of Torquay, but off the beaten track for the tourists and unexpected visitors.
The area even has a town cryer. A town crier is an officer of a royal court or public authority who makes public pronouncements as required. Through the centuries Town Criers have informed residents of emergencies and sundry other announcements, accompanied by his mighty hand bell.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Torbay's Town Crier Dispute" on @Spreaker #coastalcalm #communityspirit #devoncoast #devonlife #devonshiredelight #exploredevon #hiddengems #historictraditions #localheritage #naturelovers #offthebeatenpath #peacefulretreat #quietescape #quietplaces #ruralcharm #sereneliving
Spare a kind thought for my Mother, who died this morning.
I'd appreciate that.
I'd appreciate that.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Spare a kind thought for my Mother, who died this morning.
I'd appreciate that.
I'd appreciate that.
📣 New Podcast! "Reluctant Political Asylum" on @Spreaker #1970samerica #asylumseekers #barstories #connecticuttales #crossculturalexperiences #culturalencounters #historicalfiction #immigrationstories #lifeatsea #lostintranslation #maritimehistory #nauticalnarratives #newlondonadventures
Reluctant Political Asylum
The story of how one man got more than a beer.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Reluctant Political Asylum" on @Spreaker #1970samerica #asylumseekers #barstories #connecticuttales #crossculturalexperiences #culturalencounters #historicalfiction #immigrationstories #lifeatsea #lostintranslation #maritimehistory #nauticalnarratives #newlondonadventures
Bought this low budget minestrone soup.
I am not even sure this is soup. Tastes like boil ointment. Don't ask me how I know.
I am not even sure this is soup. Tastes like boil ointment. Don't ask me how I know.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bought this low budget minestrone soup.
I am not even sure this is soup. Tastes like boil ointment. Don't ask me how I know.
I am not even sure this is soup. Tastes like boil ointment. Don't ask me how I know.
Shocking how Boris Johnson can advise on journalistic integrity, like an elephant advising how to avoid squeaky floorboards.
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Shocking how Boris Johnson can advise on journalistic integrity, like an elephant advising how to avoid squeaky floorboards.
How many youtube ads are there with the opening lines
"The Government don't want you to know"
"The industry are panicking over this new"
"Let us let you in on a well kept secret"
Now, the last one is intriguing. How secret must something be to be the subject of a YouTube advertising campaign?
"The Government don't want you to know"
"The industry are panicking over this new"
"Let us let you in on a well kept secret"
Now, the last one is intriguing. How secret must something be to be the subject of a YouTube advertising campaign?
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
How many youtube ads are there with the opening lines
"The Government don't want you to know"
"The industry are panicking over this new"
"Let us let you in on a well kept secret"
Now, the last one is intriguing. How secret must something be to be the subject of a YouTube advertising campaign?
"The Government don't want you to know"
"The industry are panicking over this new"
"Let us let you in on a well kept secret"
Now, the last one is intriguing. How secret must something be to be the subject of a YouTube advertising campaign?
So much noise last night. Fireworks suck. But there's a metaphor. The fancy display, the design is amazing when you think about it. But people just stand there gawping. They have no curiousity about how that is constructed to get that effect. Curiousity and critical thinking are important.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
So much noise last night. Fireworks suck. But there's a metaphor. The fancy display, the design is amazing when you think about it. But people just stand there gawping. They have no curiousity about how that is constructed to get that effect. Curiousity and critical thinking are important.
📣 New Podcast! "Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2" on @Spreaker #1920s #americanliterature #bookrecommendations #classicnovels #daisybuchanan #fscottfitzgerald #gatsbyparties #ginevraking #jaygatsby #jazzage #literaryanalysis #literaryinspiration
Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.
NOTE - TRIGGER WARNING
This chapter has a derogatory term and has a scene of domestic violence.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2" on @Spreaker #1920s #americanliterature #bookrecommendations #classicnovels #daisybuchanan #fscottfitzgerald #gatsbyparties #ginevraking #jaygatsby #jazzage #literaryanalysis #literaryinspiration
Working on a couple of Colin and Brian double entendre marathons.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Working on a couple of Colin and Brian double entendre marathons.
📣 New Podcast! "Book of the week - YOU Can Make a Stradivarius Violin" on @Spreaker #1940sliterature #antique #culturalcritique #diy #dramaanalysis #handbook #historicalliterature #literaryfigures #literarylegacy #music #performanceart #playwrights #psychoanalysis #queervoices #strafivarious
Book of the week - YOU Can Make a Stradivarius Violin
Ever wanted to make a very valuable antique violin from the comfort of your own shed and the bits and pieces within? BEHOLD.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Book of the week - YOU Can Make a Stradivarius Violin" on @Spreaker #1940sliterature #antique #culturalcritique #diy #dramaanalysis #handbook #historicalliterature #literaryfigures #literarylegacy #music #performanceart #playwrights #psychoanalysis #queervoices #strafivarious
📣 New Podcast! "Barry Pain - Rose Rose" on @Spreaker #barryericodellpain #britishliterature #cambridgewriter #corpuschristicollege #ghoststory #grantacontributions #humorousstories #literaryhumor #parodyauthor #podcast #roserose #sedberghschool #short #spooky #writerspotlight
Barry Pain - Rose Rose
Born in Cambridge, Barry Eric Odell Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.
Rose Rose is a story from 1910, and is about a model who is always late. Until she is late permanently.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Barry Pain - Rose Rose" on @Spreaker #barryericodellpain #britishliterature #cambridgewriter #corpuschristicollege #ghoststory #grantacontributions #humorousstories #literaryhumor #parodyauthor #podcast #roserose #sedberghschool #short #spooky #writerspotlight
I don't think anyone in their right mind objects to paying tax for the services we need, care, police, fire, NHS, education etc.
Increasingly we see a lot of it is not; it goes on banquets and visits. For a Prime Minsiter to visit somewhere in the UK, costs about £45m. For what, exactly?
Increasingly we see a lot of it is not; it goes on banquets and visits. For a Prime Minsiter to visit somewhere in the UK, costs about £45m. For what, exactly?
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I don't think anyone in their right mind objects to paying tax for the services we need, care, police, fire, NHS, education etc.
Increasingly we see a lot of it is not; it goes on banquets and visits. For a Prime Minsiter to visit somewhere in the UK, costs about £45m. For what, exactly?
Increasingly we see a lot of it is not; it goes on banquets and visits. For a Prime Minsiter to visit somewhere in the UK, costs about £45m. For what, exactly?
The second chapter is done and scheduled for Saturday night. There's a couple of flubs in there, but nothing major. Got to say, hope it cheers up a bit. It'll be here. www.spreaker.com/episode/satu...
Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2 - Just Reads
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November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The second chapter is done and scheduled for Saturday night. There's a couple of flubs in there, but nothing major. Got to say, hope it cheers up a bit. It'll be here. www.spreaker.com/episode/satu...
Make sure your bonfire is hedgehog free, please. Unlit, they are ideal habitat for hedgehogs, and I can't imagine anyone wanting something to burn to death. No one worth knowing, anyway.
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Make sure your bonfire is hedgehog free, please. Unlit, they are ideal habitat for hedgehogs, and I can't imagine anyone wanting something to burn to death. No one worth knowing, anyway.
I am impressed with myself. I looked ath chapter two and though "That's a looooong bit of reading" but it's actually not that bad. Still not sure I am going to go all the way with this Gatsby thing.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I am impressed with myself. I looked ath chapter two and though "That's a looooong bit of reading" but it's actually not that bad. Still not sure I am going to go all the way with this Gatsby thing.
Reading Gatsby is not as much fun as I thought it would be. It's a tragic tale of greed, indulgence, arrogance and murder. And some sex. All the things which make a great novel difficult to read. Especially the sex. Which I had to read several times.
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reading Gatsby is not as much fun as I thought it would be. It's a tragic tale of greed, indulgence, arrogance and murder. And some sex. All the things which make a great novel difficult to read. Especially the sex. Which I had to read several times.
📣 New Podcast! "Walter De La Mare - The Looking Glass" on @Spreaker #carnegiemedal #childrensliterature #classicliterature #englishpoet #literarylegacy #memoirsofamidget #psychologicalhorror #shortstories #thelisteners #walterjohndelamare
Walter De La Mare - The Looking Glass
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction,[3] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Walter De La Mare - The Looking Glass" on @Spreaker #carnegiemedal #childrensliterature #classicliterature #englishpoet #literarylegacy #memoirsofamidget #psychologicalhorror #shortstories #thelisteners #walterjohndelamare
📣 New Podcast! "Salvador Dali" on @Spreaker #arthistory #artisticmastery #bizarreimagery #daliart #daliexhibition #salvadordali #spanishartist #surrealism #surrealistmovement #technicalskill
Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Salvador Dali" on @Spreaker #arthistory #artisticmastery #bizarreimagery #daliart #daliexhibition #salvadordali #spanishartist #surrealism #surrealistmovement #technicalskill
There's some great stuff on BBC 4. They keep saying they have no money to support it but if they'd stop throwing money at tat and piffle on other channels they'd have enough. It's not even tat and piffle I wrote, which irks me particularly.
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There's some great stuff on BBC 4. They keep saying they have no money to support it but if they'd stop throwing money at tat and piffle on other channels they'd have enough. It's not even tat and piffle I wrote, which irks me particularly.
You know I pasted the link to that Headline Edition thing and two people defriended me. There's no point posting to Facebook or Twitter, I think. Hardly any traffic comes from there.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You know I pasted the link to that Headline Edition thing and two people defriended me. There's no point posting to Facebook or Twitter, I think. Hardly any traffic comes from there.
📣 New Podcast! "Headline Edition - My Dogs Love 'em" on @Spreaker #affordablefood #awardnight #bagsforlife #brexitchallenges #consumerawareness #consumerconcerns #costoflivingcrisis #dirtynapkinawards #economicimpact #foodforthought #foodindustryinsights #foodpriceincrease #governmentscheme
Headline Edition - My Dogs Love 'em
Your headlines delivered straight to your ears piping hot or not.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣 New Podcast! "Headline Edition - My Dogs Love 'em" on @Spreaker #affordablefood #awardnight #bagsforlife #brexitchallenges #consumerawareness #consumerconcerns #costoflivingcrisis #dirtynapkinawards #economicimpact #foodforthought #foodindustryinsights #foodpriceincrease #governmentscheme
Increasingly of the opinion I am wasting my time and should concentrate on playing with my teddy bears.
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Increasingly of the opinion I am wasting my time and should concentrate on playing with my teddy bears.
📣 New Podcast! "Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 3" on @Spreaker
Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 3
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 3" on @Spreaker
📣 New Podcast! "Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman" on @Spreaker #1940sliterature #250timesisawaplay #artandpsychoanalysis #austrianliterature #austrianpsychoanalyst #culturalcritique #dramaanalysis #historicalliterature #homosexualliterature #keithodonewman #playwrights
Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman
Keith Odo Newman, whom the Guardian has described as "a homosexual Austrian psychoanalyst," authored 250 Times I Saw A Play, which was published in 1944. As the title suggests, it describes his experience of watching a play 250 times.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6482011M/Two_hundred_and_fifty_times_I_saw_a_play_or_Authors_actors_and_audiences
Original subject was a https://www.amazon.co.uk/Historical-Curiosity-Birmingham-Forty-One-Birmingham/dp/B003MPA8T8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ERU0EPER9HA9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.goDSWJTzgLWVIIxp5llinkyLd8KOsXtq57-fCs3Ph14.15lro9cywPndu6FhO6Dya7ukpxiXW1_KyKq9fTFk22o&dib_tag=se&keywords=ways+of+spelling+birmingham&qid=1761942932&s=books&sprefix=ways+of+spelling+birmingham%2Cstripbooks%2C161&sr=1-1 about Birmingham.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣 New Podcast! "Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman" on @Spreaker #1940sliterature #250timesisawaplay #artandpsychoanalysis #austrianliterature #austrianpsychoanalyst #culturalcritique #dramaanalysis #historicalliterature #homosexualliterature #keithodonewman #playwrights
📣 New Podcast! "Two Tier Justice" on @Spreaker #bergen1978 #bergenstories #costumecontroversy #costumedrama #costumepartytales #culturalcommentary #deviladvocate #disturbingthepeace #epiccostumes #fairtrial #fancydressparty #februaryfestivities #historicalcostumes #jesusanddevil #legalhumor
Two Tier Justice
It's not fair!
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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM