Pete Hartley
@pmghartley.bsky.social
Sometime dramaturg, perennial scribbler, perpetual Prestonian.
Walking the Guild Wheel
A guided circular walk around some of the prettiest parts of the city of Preston in Lancashire, using public transport to break the journey into four parts.
A guided circular walk around some of the prettiest parts of the city of Preston in Lancashire, using public transport to break the journey into four parts.
Walking the Guild Wheel
A guided circular walk around some of the prettiest parts of the city of Preston in Lancashire, using public transport to break the journey into four parts.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Walking the Guild Wheel
A guided circular walk around some of the prettiest parts of the city of Preston in Lancashire, using public transport to break the journey into four parts.
A guided circular walk around some of the prettiest parts of the city of Preston in Lancashire, using public transport to break the journey into four parts.
Whilst being weighed, Pete the hog took a peep at today's Lancashire Post which features an extract from Great Hedgepectations. All proceeds from the book go to Leyland Hedgehog Rescue.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Whilst being weighed, Pete the hog took a peep at today's Lancashire Post which features an extract from Great Hedgepectations. All proceeds from the book go to Leyland Hedgehog Rescue.
www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Hedgep...
www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Hedgep...
Rockfall on Heartbreak Hill
A lack of appreciation for a 'missing' Strawbs album.
A lack of appreciation for a 'missing' Strawbs album.
Rockfall on Heartbreak Hill
A lack of appreciation for a 'missing' Strawbs album.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rockfall on Heartbreak Hill
A lack of appreciation for a 'missing' Strawbs album.
A lack of appreciation for a 'missing' Strawbs album.
A ghost story to chill the owners of the (former) Punch Bowl pub near Hurst Green in Lancashire, who demolished the listed building and refused to rebuild it. Published in last Saturday's Lancashire Post.
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A ghost story to chill the owners of the (former) Punch Bowl pub near Hurst Green in Lancashire, who demolished the listed building and refused to rebuild it. Published in last Saturday's Lancashire Post.
One year on from the unearthing of Modern Gothic, the spooky season is about to resurface. Sample some here:
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One of those dreams
The first twelfth of the second story in Modern Gothic, an anthology of darkly mysterious fiction published by Fly on the Wall Press.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
One year on from the unearthing of Modern Gothic, the spooky season is about to resurface. Sample some here:
uneasywords.com/2024/11/11/o...
uneasywords.com/2024/11/11/o...
Harris and Gromit
A response to the unwrapping of a refurbished museum and the grand unanimated marvels within. Plus a hunt to rediscover a mythical lover.
A response to the unwrapping of a refurbished museum and the grand unanimated marvels within. Plus a hunt to rediscover a mythical lover.
Harris and Gromit
A response to the unwrapping of a refurbished museum and the grand unanimated marvels within. Plus a hunt to rediscover a mythical lover.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Harris and Gromit
A response to the unwrapping of a refurbished museum and the grand unanimated marvels within. Plus a hunt to rediscover a mythical lover.
A response to the unwrapping of a refurbished museum and the grand unanimated marvels within. Plus a hunt to rediscover a mythical lover.
Concentric thoughts on war-makers from an arachnid.
A dictator’s handbook for self-abuse
Concentric thoughts on war-makers from an arachnid.
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September 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Concentric thoughts on war-makers from an arachnid.
A pedantic plea, that is probably too late, and warning to fellow scribblers, editors and publishers.
I was not sat but sitting
A pedantic plea, that is probably too late, and warning to fellow scribblers, editors and publishers.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A pedantic plea, that is probably too late, and warning to fellow scribblers, editors and publishers.
Making Myra has experienced a spike in sales since its cameo in the recent BBC documentary about the Moors Murders. Here's a post from 2018, explaining how and why we staged it.
uneasywords.com/2018/03/23/making-making
uneasywords.com/2018/03/23/making-making
Making Making Myra
Researching, rehearsing and staging the reconstructing of an icon of evil The most unsettling moment was when Andrew stopped the car. We asked why he had done so. He said it was the place. Which …
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August 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Making Myra has experienced a spike in sales since its cameo in the recent BBC documentary about the Moors Murders. Here's a post from 2018, explaining how and why we staged it.
uneasywords.com/2018/03/23/making-making
uneasywords.com/2018/03/23/making-making
Still available for purchase and performance.
www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Myra-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Myra-...
August 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Still available for purchase and performance.
www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Myra-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Myra-...
14 years ago I wrote a play about Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Last night I discovered that Brady had obtained a copy. I'm obliged to a former Drama student for informing me. I was planning on watching the programme on iplayer, and I'm not sure I'd have survived the shock if I'd not been forewarned.
July 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
14 years ago I wrote a play about Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Last night I discovered that Brady had obtained a copy. I'm obliged to a former Drama student for informing me. I was planning on watching the programme on iplayer, and I'm not sure I'd have survived the shock if I'd not been forewarned.
Dave Cousins: poetry in lotion
Earlier this month, singer-songwriter Dave Cousins died. There are many obituaries out there. I will not add to those. This, instead, is an attempt to explain how and why his work became vital to my spiritual searching, my creative impetus, my imaginary plundering…
Earlier this month, singer-songwriter Dave Cousins died. There are many obituaries out there. I will not add to those. This, instead, is an attempt to explain how and why his work became vital to my spiritual searching, my creative impetus, my imaginary plundering…
Dave Cousins: poetry in lotion
Earlier this month, singer-songwriter Dave Cousins died. There are many obituaries out there. I will not add to those. This, instead, is an attempt to explain how and why his work became vital to my spiritual searching, my creative impetus, my imaginary plundering and my psychological balance.
uneasywords.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dave Cousins: poetry in lotion
Earlier this month, singer-songwriter Dave Cousins died. There are many obituaries out there. I will not add to those. This, instead, is an attempt to explain how and why his work became vital to my spiritual searching, my creative impetus, my imaginary plundering…
Earlier this month, singer-songwriter Dave Cousins died. There are many obituaries out there. I will not add to those. This, instead, is an attempt to explain how and why his work became vital to my spiritual searching, my creative impetus, my imaginary plundering…
And here are my thoughts on The Talents, by Carl McGarrigle:
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Tick-Wok
The Talents of Mr McGarrigle There’s the unique; then there’s the resplendently unique; and then there’s the regeneratively unique. The latter kind of uniqueness is one that conti…
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July 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
And here are my thoughts on The Talents, by Carl McGarrigle:
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Tea and owls with Carl McGarrigle, author of the truly original fantasy The Talents. Tea and owls are in book 2.
July 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Tea and owls with Carl McGarrigle, author of the truly original fantasy The Talents. Tea and owls are in book 2.
Today's Lancashire Post contains my latest tongue -in-cheek cultivation. The satire is probably only appreciated by those who have seen the great serpent of tuber-chewers snaking across Preston flag market and slithering into the labyrinth of social media to erupt from the tummies of PNE players.
July 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today's Lancashire Post contains my latest tongue -in-cheek cultivation. The satire is probably only appreciated by those who have seen the great serpent of tuber-chewers snaking across Preston flag market and slithering into the labyrinth of social media to erupt from the tummies of PNE players.
David Cousins, the single biggest influence on my creativity, died this morning aged 85. Some understanding of his influence can be gained from my September 2020 blog about the band he fronted: uneasywords.com/2020/09/27/savouring-strawbs/
I snapped the picture of Dave at Salford Uni in 1978
I snapped the picture of Dave at Salford Uni in 1978
July 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
David Cousins, the single biggest influence on my creativity, died this morning aged 85. Some understanding of his influence can be gained from my September 2020 blog about the band he fronted: uneasywords.com/2020/09/27/savouring-strawbs/
I snapped the picture of Dave at Salford Uni in 1978
I snapped the picture of Dave at Salford Uni in 1978
Cool off with something swiftly citric.
www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-Lemon-Pe...
www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-Lemon-Pe...
July 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Cool off with something swiftly citric.
www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-Lemon-Pe...
www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-Lemon-Pe...
Thanks to everyone who purchased Great Hedgepectations after the reading from it at Chorley Theatre this week. Your full purchase spend has been deposited in the funds of Leyland Hedgehog Rescue.
June 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thanks to everyone who purchased Great Hedgepectations after the reading from it at Chorley Theatre this week. Your full purchase spend has been deposited in the funds of Leyland Hedgehog Rescue.
Eight hundred years of trading, two kids and a time-travelling shopping trolley. The story of Gertie and the Guild Machine, a play for children about Preston Guild.
One Giant Leap for Childkind
Eight hundred years of trading, two kids and a time-travelling shopping trolley. The story of Gertie and the Guild Machine, a play for children about Preston Guild.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Eight hundred years of trading, two kids and a time-travelling shopping trolley. The story of Gertie and the Guild Machine, a play for children about Preston Guild.
Two weeks tonight, I'll be telling a tiny bit of a story in Chorley.
June 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Two weeks tonight, I'll be telling a tiny bit of a story in Chorley.
From Papercuts: www.amazon.co.uk/Papercuts-sh...
June 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
From Papercuts: www.amazon.co.uk/Papercuts-sh...
The Male Fern. Plucked from The Atheist's Prayer Book. Snapped at sundown in The Unspoken Garden.
May 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Male Fern. Plucked from The Atheist's Prayer Book. Snapped at sundown in The Unspoken Garden.
Did a touch and go at Halfpenny Green Airfield, where I learned to fly 51 years ago while an air cadet. It was a personal highlight that has featured little in my fiction, but watch this airspace. Maybe.
May 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Did a touch and go at Halfpenny Green Airfield, where I learned to fly 51 years ago while an air cadet. It was a personal highlight that has featured little in my fiction, but watch this airspace. Maybe.
Flying babies and fledging thoughts.
Great Fledgespectations
Flying babies and fledging thoughts.
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May 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Flying babies and fledging thoughts.
From 'Hellfire Blues' one of Dave Cousins' anti-war songs. From 'The Boy in the Sailor Suit' album inspired by his father, who died in a submarine.
May 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
From 'Hellfire Blues' one of Dave Cousins' anti-war songs. From 'The Boy in the Sailor Suit' album inspired by his father, who died in a submarine.