Wayne Connolly
@wayneconnolly.bsky.social
Still the luckiest person in the world. Living in NE England. Body failing, spirit soaring, walking with Gusto in Pontburn Wood. Plymouth Argyle supporter. Monument Maker. MD ANT!
Pinned
Home from my Helsinki holiday to some great bookpost today - my contributor's copy of Night Terrors from Acid Bath Publishing. I'm made up to be in the company of so many fine writers.
You can order your copy here: acidbathpublishing.com
You can order your copy here: acidbathpublishing.com
Drop something watery if you feel like
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Drop something watery if you feel like
Listening to these in order tonight. If you tell me there's a better sequence of four albums by anyone, I won't believe you.
January 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Listening to these in order tonight. If you tell me there's a better sequence of four albums by anyone, I won't believe you.
One thing I’ve learned from working in a charity shop for a few months is that some people (particularly donors, but also customers) don’t just need thanks and appreciation from us. What they mostly need is a bit of love.
January 16, 2026 at 9:07 PM
One thing I’ve learned from working in a charity shop for a few months is that some people (particularly donors, but also customers) don’t just need thanks and appreciation from us. What they mostly need is a bit of love.
Amazingly I still have 694 followers on twitter. I wonder if they miss me.
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Amazingly I still have 694 followers on twitter. I wonder if they miss me.
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Hey, cool cats! This is to let you know that A Personal Anthology is back, baby! Yes: back! Back! BACK!
Today's anthology features a dozen favourite short stories picked and introduced by Mike Fox (@polyscribe70.bsky.social), and hits inboxes at 2pm.
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About - A Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
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January 16, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Hey, cool cats! This is to let you know that A Personal Anthology is back, baby! Yes: back! Back! BACK!
Today's anthology features a dozen favourite short stories picked and introduced by Mike Fox (@polyscribe70.bsky.social), and hits inboxes at 2pm.
Sign up here, and RT if you already subscribe!
Today's anthology features a dozen favourite short stories picked and introduced by Mike Fox (@polyscribe70.bsky.social), and hits inboxes at 2pm.
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It's not really 'plotting in secret', is it, when a Tory defecting to Reform is as inevitable as a turd ending up in a sewer?
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 11:28 AM
It's not really 'plotting in secret', is it, when a Tory defecting to Reform is as inevitable as a turd ending up in a sewer?
Such a fine painter. There's a must-see big exhibition of her work coming up at the Royal Academy in London in the spring.
Michaelina Wautier: A Brilliant but Forgotten Flemish Artist
www.discoveringbelgium.com/michaelina-w...
www.discoveringbelgium.com/michaelina-w...
Michaelina Wautier: A Brilliant but Forgotten Flemish Artist
Michaelina Wautier is a forgotten Flemish Baroque artist whose rediscovery reveals her gender-defying mastery of portraits, historical and mythological scenes
www.discoveringbelgium.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Such a fine painter. There's a must-see big exhibition of her work coming up at the Royal Academy in London in the spring.
Good news from Tyneside
📣 Last year we said big changes were coming. Here’s the first!
Side is establishing a curatorial office at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, making the AmberSide Collection, our programming and documentary photography more accessible than ever.
📰 Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/side-at...
Side is establishing a curatorial office at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, making the AmberSide Collection, our programming and documentary photography more accessible than ever.
📰 Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/side-at...
January 13, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Good news from Tyneside
Panic over. He’s back…
Did a pod with my friend Peter about how to thrift for menswear (and why buying vintage is sometimes better than buying new anyway).
pod.link/blamo/episod...
pod.link/blamo/episod...
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Panic over. He’s back…
Where is the suit guy? @dieworkwear.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Where is the suit guy? @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Our classes start again this week on Tues, Wed & Sun. Full details here: thi-wurd.com/classes/
January 11, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Our classes start again this week on Tues, Wed & Sun. Full details here: thi-wurd.com/classes/
Favourite Bowie 10 (no order)
Drive-in Saturday
Conversation Piece
Sound and Vision
Joe the Lion
Sweet Thing/Candidate
Dollar Days
Changes
Up the Hill Backwards
Jean Genie
Ziggy Stardust
Drive-in Saturday
Conversation Piece
Sound and Vision
Joe the Lion
Sweet Thing/Candidate
Dollar Days
Changes
Up the Hill Backwards
Jean Genie
Ziggy Stardust
Favourite Bowie 10, usual caveats
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Everyone Says Hi
Wild is the Wind
Station to Station
Sound and Vision
Joe the Lion
Subterraneans
Moss Garden
“Heroes”
Up the Hill Backwards
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Everyone Says Hi
Wild is the Wind
Station to Station
Sound and Vision
Joe the Lion
Subterraneans
Moss Garden
“Heroes”
Up the Hill Backwards
January 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Favourite Bowie 10 (no order)
Drive-in Saturday
Conversation Piece
Sound and Vision
Joe the Lion
Sweet Thing/Candidate
Dollar Days
Changes
Up the Hill Backwards
Jean Genie
Ziggy Stardust
Drive-in Saturday
Conversation Piece
Sound and Vision
Joe the Lion
Sweet Thing/Candidate
Dollar Days
Changes
Up the Hill Backwards
Jean Genie
Ziggy Stardust
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist
January 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist
It’s a bargain at full price. Get extra copies now and give them to your friends.
Got my royalty statement for Saltburn. It sold 24 copies in last six months. Selling books is tough.
You can get it now for 50% off in Renard Press’s Books of 2025 promotion. Yours for £5.
#SupportIndiePublishing
renardpress.com/books/saltbu...
You can get it now for 50% off in Renard Press’s Books of 2025 promotion. Yours for £5.
#SupportIndiePublishing
renardpress.com/books/saltbu...
Saltburn – Renard Press
May the residents of the real Saltburn-by-the-Sea and neighbouring towns forgive my mermaids, my nuclear power stations, my foetus museums and so on and so on. They were written with love. Welcome to ...
renardpress.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
It’s a bargain at full price. Get extra copies now and give them to your friends.
This is the best blind date ever
“Q: What do you think Jonathan thought of you?
A: It doesn’t matter.”
The Jewish Chronicle tried to replicate the Guardian’s Blind Date column. It didn’t go very well.
(via @lindasgrant.bsky.social)
A: It doesn’t matter.”
The Jewish Chronicle tried to replicate the Guardian’s Blind Date column. It didn’t go very well.
(via @lindasgrant.bsky.social)
JC blind date: ‘I was surprised she was wearing trousers’ - The Jewish Chronicle
Hopeful singletons Gaby and Jonathan met for dinner at Delicatessen in north London, where the food was kosher and excellent – but what about the chemistry?
www.thejc.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:48 PM
This is the best blind date ever
This has occupied me for weeks. It insisted on being read slowly, one small scrap at a time. But what a journey - I don't think there's a more fascinating writer alive now. Thanks to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for bringing it to us in a fine English translation after all these years.
January 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This has occupied me for weeks. It insisted on being read slowly, one small scrap at a time. But what a journey - I don't think there's a more fascinating writer alive now. Thanks to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for bringing it to us in a fine English translation after all these years.
Top 10 all time favourite vocalists, off the top of my head…
Captain Beefheart
Laura Veirs
David Byrne
John Lennon
Natalie Merchant
Sam Cooke
Leonard Cohen
Francoise Hardy
Jimmy Cliff
Dory Previn
Captain Beefheart
Laura Veirs
David Byrne
John Lennon
Natalie Merchant
Sam Cooke
Leonard Cohen
Francoise Hardy
Jimmy Cliff
Dory Previn
top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Off the top of my head
Natalie Mering
Joni Mitchell
David Bowie
Jeff Buckley
Marvin Gaye
Nina Simone
Mimi Parker/Alan Sparhawk
Gruff Rhys
Jake Thackray
Josh Tillman
Natalie Mering
Joni Mitchell
David Bowie
Jeff Buckley
Marvin Gaye
Nina Simone
Mimi Parker/Alan Sparhawk
Gruff Rhys
Jake Thackray
Josh Tillman
Who are your top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Off the top of my noggin...
Liz Fraser
Nina Simone
Kate Bush
Marvin Gaye
Chris Cornell
Joni Mitchell
David Bowie/Bryan Ferry/David Sylvian (counts as 1😁)
Dinah Washington
Jon Anderson
Jeff Buckley
Liz Fraser
Nina Simone
Kate Bush
Marvin Gaye
Chris Cornell
Joni Mitchell
David Bowie/Bryan Ferry/David Sylvian (counts as 1😁)
Dinah Washington
Jon Anderson
Jeff Buckley
January 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Top 10 all time favourite vocalists, off the top of my head…
Captain Beefheart
Laura Veirs
David Byrne
John Lennon
Natalie Merchant
Sam Cooke
Leonard Cohen
Francoise Hardy
Jimmy Cliff
Dory Previn
Captain Beefheart
Laura Veirs
David Byrne
John Lennon
Natalie Merchant
Sam Cooke
Leonard Cohen
Francoise Hardy
Jimmy Cliff
Dory Previn
World's gone mad, I tell ya
Connections
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January 9, 2026 at 7:00 AM
World's gone mad, I tell ya
Connections
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These are the best writing classes, without doubt.
"Writing Fiction'. Starts next Wednesday, 14 January. We are based in Glasgow but our classes are open to writers anywhere in the world. Book here: thi-wurd.com/product/writin…
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 AM
These are the best writing classes, without doubt.
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Why does it take 18 months from the date of acceptance to publish a book? Asking for a frustrated reader… and maybe some frustrated authors.
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Why does it take 18 months from the date of acceptance to publish a book? Asking for a frustrated reader… and maybe some frustrated authors.
Usual pusillanimity from the govt:
'We respect international law until the USA breaks it, then we don't. Oh, yeah, that goes for Israel too.'
'We respect international law until the USA breaks it, then we don't. Oh, yeah, that goes for Israel too.'
January 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Usual pusillanimity from the govt:
'We respect international law until the USA breaks it, then we don't. Oh, yeah, that goes for Israel too.'
'We respect international law until the USA breaks it, then we don't. Oh, yeah, that goes for Israel too.'
‘Churches disagree’
How about: Jesus, grifters, temple?
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
How about: Jesus, grifters, temple?
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond
C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel message
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
‘Churches disagree’
How about: Jesus, grifters, temple?
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
How about: Jesus, grifters, temple?
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Happy Christmas to me
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy Christmas to me
Gusto's annual festive trip to the beach
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Gusto's annual festive trip to the beach