John Alex Taylor
@johnunworded.bsky.social
Author, Apples in the Dark series. Contemporary fiction drawn from my own experience of epilepsy. Ex-social care worker, believer in people. South Wales is my home. Returning Cymraeg learner 🏴
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How did those presenters keep a straight face
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
How did those presenters keep a straight face
A visit to Kath's lovely Bardic Books in Llantwit Major (hint: where both my books are for sale 😁). Feeling nostalgic, I bought a vintage Ladybird book that I once owned. And the visit was topped off by apocalyptic skies over Llantwit beach. There's nothing like a stormy sky over the channel.
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A visit to Kath's lovely Bardic Books in Llantwit Major (hint: where both my books are for sale 😁). Feeling nostalgic, I bought a vintage Ladybird book that I once owned. And the visit was topped off by apocalyptic skies over Llantwit beach. There's nothing like a stormy sky over the channel.
River Clydach in spate! The rain has to go somewhere, and it's a very short river.
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
River Clydach in spate! The rain has to go somewhere, and it's a very short river.
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Hey, they’ve invested a lot in faragism, you don’t just expect them to give up?
Can someone explain why someone from the losing party in the Caerphilly by-election is invited onto Sky News and not someone from the party that trounced them?
Hey Oligarchs, your bias for far-right chaos is showing.
Hey Oligarchs, your bias for far-right chaos is showing.
October 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Hey, they’ve invested a lot in faragism, you don’t just expect them to give up?
Out before the wind and rain (which is now battering our windows).
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Out before the wind and rain (which is now battering our windows).
If you can't read @ronanhession.bsky.social's wonderful novel, watch the series... and relax.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life
Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If you can't read @ronanhession.bsky.social's wonderful novel, watch the series... and relax.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Day by day, nature's palette grows. Even under grey skies.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Day by day, nature's palette grows. Even under grey skies.
"Follow me for more..."
"Just a quick video."
(Children's author, tho I imagine it might go for other creative professions in this post pandemic era)
(Children's author, tho I imagine it might go for other creative professions in this post pandemic era)
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Follow me for more..."
A present from daughter, courtesy of the Bodleian Library. Yes, I do prefer to write in silence.
October 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A present from daughter, courtesy of the Bodleian Library. Yes, I do prefer to write in silence.
Rush hour at the public baths.
October 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Rush hour at the public baths.
Moonrise over Gilwern.
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Moonrise over Gilwern.
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Nature notes: shrews are very fond of sketching their surroundings and can often be seen carrying a small cushion with them to sit on whilst drawing.
(And yes I did make a teeny tiny sketch book and teeny tiny pencil with actual lead in it - come and see at GNCCF Manchester 16-19Oct )
(And yes I did make a teeny tiny sketch book and teeny tiny pencil with actual lead in it - come and see at GNCCF Manchester 16-19Oct )
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Nature notes: shrews are very fond of sketching their surroundings and can often be seen carrying a small cushion with them to sit on whilst drawing.
(And yes I did make a teeny tiny sketch book and teeny tiny pencil with actual lead in it - come and see at GNCCF Manchester 16-19Oct )
(And yes I did make a teeny tiny sketch book and teeny tiny pencil with actual lead in it - come and see at GNCCF Manchester 16-19Oct )
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
'Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly...'
from Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath.
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly...'
from Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath.
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
'Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly...'
from Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath.
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly...'
from Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath.
View from my writing desk as I write Apples in the Dark 3: Shouting at Angels.
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
View from my writing desk as I write Apples in the Dark 3: Shouting at Angels.
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Two years on from the roll out of Wales' controversial 20mph default speed limit, new data has revealed that policy has resulted in over 1000 fewer casualties
1000 fewer casualties in Wales after 2 years of 20mph default speed limit
Two years on from the roll out of Wales’ controversial 20mph default speed limit, new data has revealed that policy has resulted in over 1000 fewer casualties. Collision data is now available for the ...
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September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Two years on from the roll out of Wales' controversial 20mph default speed limit, new data has revealed that policy has resulted in over 1000 fewer casualties
Almost the end of the rainbow...
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Almost the end of the rainbow...
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Arrested for malicious communications? Really? I’d like to see this one in court…
September 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Arrested for malicious communications? Really? I’d like to see this one in court…
I went to see the choo choos at Blaenavon steam gala. Sunshine and cloudbursts added to the drama. Amazing to see a locomotive built in 1872 happily pulling passengers. Imagine if your mobile phone could still operate in the year 2178!
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I went to see the choo choos at Blaenavon steam gala. Sunshine and cloudbursts added to the drama. Amazing to see a locomotive built in 1872 happily pulling passengers. Imagine if your mobile phone could still operate in the year 2178!
I keep forgetting that Bluesky has expanded massively since my first novel arrived last year. Apples in the Dark is about love and loyalty, and tackles the effects of #HiddenDisability. The sequel, Angels and Blackbirds is available, and I'm writing the third in the series. #Disability #Epilepsy
September 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I keep forgetting that Bluesky has expanded massively since my first novel arrived last year. Apples in the Dark is about love and loyalty, and tackles the effects of #HiddenDisability. The sequel, Angels and Blackbirds is available, and I'm writing the third in the series. #Disability #Epilepsy
Stormy at Parc Bryn Bach, my favourite place to write nowadays.
September 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Stormy at Parc Bryn Bach, my favourite place to write nowadays.
TOMORROW I'll be at the Ross-on-Wye Book Fair at the Larrupertz Centre, with my two (so far) novels in the Apples in the Dark series. See you there?
August 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
TOMORROW I'll be at the Ross-on-Wye Book Fair at the Larrupertz Centre, with my two (so far) novels in the Apples in the Dark series. See you there?
Another early walk, and the Hawthorn thinks it's autumn already (so does our apple tree). Poor nature is in a muddle. #climatechange
August 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Another early walk, and the Hawthorn thinks it's autumn already (so does our apple tree). Poor nature is in a muddle. #climatechange
Kath in her gem of a bookshop in Llantwit Major, Bardic Books. Kath has stocks of both my novels, but so much more. Bardic Books is my dream of a bookshop: everything from vintage books and second-hand paperbacks to current local authors. And not a ghost-written celebrity title in sight!
August 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Kath in her gem of a bookshop in Llantwit Major, Bardic Books. Kath has stocks of both my novels, but so much more. Bardic Books is my dream of a bookshop: everything from vintage books and second-hand paperbacks to current local authors. And not a ghost-written celebrity title in sight!