Jan Carson
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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Right, can Christmas please be over now. Ready to get back to normal.
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Right, can Christmas please be over now. Ready to get back to normal.
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas for the win…
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas for the win…
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Happy Christmas Eve! This picture shows Poirot looking miserable, not because of the outcome of a case, but because he hasn't yet listened to The #SwingingChristies annual Christmas special!!!!? 🎄💃
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Happy Christmas Eve! This picture shows Poirot looking miserable, not because of the outcome of a case, but because he hasn't yet listened to The #SwingingChristies annual Christmas special!!!!? 🎄💃
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
Happy 100th birthday Winnie. If you need a little heartening listen this week you could do worse that listen to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Who Are You In Winnie the Pooh? on Radio 4. It’s been great company this week.
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happy 100th birthday Winnie. If you need a little heartening listen this week you could do worse that listen to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Who Are You In Winnie the Pooh? on Radio 4. It’s been great company this week.
Mary Ruefle… and breathe
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Mary Ruefle… and breathe
It’s almost two and I’ve been saying, I’ll just put five more pieces into this jigsaw for at two and a half hours…
December 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It’s almost two and I’ve been saying, I’ll just put five more pieces into this jigsaw for at two and a half hours…
Always delighted to stumble upon another response to The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Spending the afternoon with @jesstraynor.bsky.social stunning new poetry collection. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Always delighted to stumble upon another response to The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Spending the afternoon with @jesstraynor.bsky.social stunning new poetry collection. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
It’s only taken me for 45 years to work out what my true vocation is. From here on in, I’ll be doing jigsaws while listening to Uncanny and eating prawn cocktail crisps. You would not believe how good I am at this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It’s only taken me for 45 years to work out what my true vocation is. From here on in, I’ll be doing jigsaws while listening to Uncanny and eating prawn cocktail crisps. You would not believe how good I am at this.
Has anyone ever come up with a cocktail for using up Shloer?
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Has anyone ever come up with a cocktail for using up Shloer?
Just finished Barbara Pym’s autobiography in diaries and letters - perhaps one for the completists rather than the casual fans as it’s truly exhaustive, quite repetitive and the young Pym is a bit insufferable. However it doesn’t throw up some wonderful one liners. Here are a few of my favourites.
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just finished Barbara Pym’s autobiography in diaries and letters - perhaps one for the completists rather than the casual fans as it’s truly exhaustive, quite repetitive and the young Pym is a bit insufferable. However it doesn’t throw up some wonderful one liners. Here are a few of my favourites.
Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin. “Original” hmmmmm
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin. “Original” hmmmmm
…… it’s jigsaw time.
December 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
…… it’s jigsaw time.
Back at it, working on something extremely exciting this morning. We’ll have news to share after Christmas #FewAndFarBetween
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Back at it, working on something extremely exciting this morning. We’ll have news to share after Christmas #FewAndFarBetween
Yesterday I had such a good hair day. This morning I woke with the hair of your man from Spinal Tap.
December 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Yesterday I had such a good hair day. This morning I woke with the hair of your man from Spinal Tap.
Once I spent two whole weeks making a giant poster of every lyric from the Counting Crows’ song “Anna Begins” by cutting out each individual letter from a newspaper and I have just this evening remembered this and realised that is two weeks of my life I’m never getting back.
December 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Once I spent two whole weeks making a giant poster of every lyric from the Counting Crows’ song “Anna Begins” by cutting out each individual letter from a newspaper and I have just this evening remembered this and realised that is two weeks of my life I’m never getting back.
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shout out the guardian photo editor one time
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
shout out the guardian photo editor one time
Loved being a London commuter this week but it’s so good to be back home in Belfast for the foreseeable. 2025 was some year for travel adventures/misadventures. Staying put for the next few months.
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Loved being a London commuter this week but it’s so good to be back home in Belfast for the foreseeable. 2025 was some year for travel adventures/misadventures. Staying put for the next few months.
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I want to adopt every single one of these.
Particularly "you have no dead in this funeral"
Particularly "you have no dead in this funeral"
A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one…
A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I want to adopt every single one of these.
Particularly "you have no dead in this funeral"
Particularly "you have no dead in this funeral"
And that’s a wrap on recording the audiobook of #FewAndFarBetween. I learnt loads over the last few days like segue isn’t pronounced seeg and it’s amazing the way one of your characters can miraculously change names in the final chapter and nobody will notice. Off to sit in a dark room quietly.
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And that’s a wrap on recording the audiobook of #FewAndFarBetween. I learnt loads over the last few days like segue isn’t pronounced seeg and it’s amazing the way one of your characters can miraculously change names in the final chapter and nobody will notice. Off to sit in a dark room quietly.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As someone who considers herself a connoisseur of prawn cocktail crisps, am positively evangelical about the latest offering from M&S. 5 stars from me.
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As someone who considers herself a connoisseur of prawn cocktail crisps, am positively evangelical about the latest offering from M&S. 5 stars from me.
These smiley faced legends have worked so hard to make #TheRaptures and #FewAndFarBetween audiobooks sound great. Big thanks to Rosie, Alfie, Gray (who was hiding) and all @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social audio team. Had such a lovely time in the studio this autumn. Audiobooks coming in April
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
These smiley faced legends have worked so hard to make #TheRaptures and #FewAndFarBetween audiobooks sound great. Big thanks to Rosie, Alfie, Gray (who was hiding) and all @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social audio team. Had such a lovely time in the studio this autumn. Audiobooks coming in April
As per every year since the advent of social media, I will not be sharing my favourite books of the years till the stroke of midnight on 31st December. There are still 14 perfectly usable reading days left in the year. I may yet be blown away.
December 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
As per every year since the advent of social media, I will not be sharing my favourite books of the years till the stroke of midnight on 31st December. There are still 14 perfectly usable reading days left in the year. I may yet be blown away.
Just finished The Letters of Shirley Jackson and it was such a good read. There’s a Jackson here who’s neither the Jackson of her fiction or non-fiction writings about family life.
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just finished The Letters of Shirley Jackson and it was such a good read. There’s a Jackson here who’s neither the Jackson of her fiction or non-fiction writings about family life.
South Bank looking very sparkly and festive tonight.
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
South Bank looking very sparkly and festive tonight.