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Ed Parnell
@edparnell.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, mysterious shadowy figure.
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I am literally all over the place. Just look for me.
Spare a kind thought for my Mother, who died this morning.

I'd appreciate that.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 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.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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
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?
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 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.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Working on a couple of Colin and Brian double entendre marathons.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 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?
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 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...
Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2 - Just Reads
www.spreaker.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 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.
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 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.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 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.
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 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.
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 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.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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
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