Chris Perera
@chrispwriter.bsky.social
Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him chris@chrisperera.co.uk
Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road
- Ogden Nash
#BookWormSat
✍️ James Thurber
#BookChatWeekly
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Jan Pienkowski
Don't talk to me of solemn days
In autumn's time of splendor,
Because the sun shows fewer rays,
And these grow slant and slender.
Why, it's the climax of the year,—
The highest time of living!
🖊 Paul Laurence Dunbar
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Arthur Rackham
In autumn's time of splendor,
Because the sun shows fewer rays,
And these grow slant and slender.
Why, it's the climax of the year,—
The highest time of living!
🖊 Paul Laurence Dunbar
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Arthur Rackham
October 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Don't talk to me of solemn days
In autumn's time of splendor,
Because the sun shows fewer rays,
And these grow slant and slender.
Why, it's the climax of the year,—
The highest time of living!
🖊 Paul Laurence Dunbar
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Arthur Rackham
In autumn's time of splendor,
Because the sun shows fewer rays,
And these grow slant and slender.
Why, it's the climax of the year,—
The highest time of living!
🖊 Paul Laurence Dunbar
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Arthur Rackham
Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
#BookWormSat
🖋 Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Alphonse Mucha
#BookWormSat
🖋 Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Alphonse Mucha
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
#BookWormSat
🖋 Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Alphonse Mucha
#BookWormSat
🖋 Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
#BookChatWeekly
🎨Alphonse Mucha
I understand what you are saying, and your comments are valuable..
but I'm going to ignore your advice.
#BookWormSat
Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)
but I'm going to ignore your advice.
#BookWormSat
Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I understand what you are saying, and your comments are valuable..
but I'm going to ignore your advice.
#BookWormSat
Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)
but I'm going to ignore your advice.
#BookWormSat
Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)
Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall,
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more
🖊️ John Betjemen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 JMW Turner
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more
🖊️ John Betjemen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 JMW Turner
September 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall,
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more
🖊️ John Betjemen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 JMW Turner
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more
🖊️ John Betjemen
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 JMW Turner
The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste
He has a big head and a very small waist
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim
And a good little child will not play with him
🖋 Hilaire Belloc
#BookWormSat
🎨Salvador Bartolozzi
#BookChatWeekly
He has a big head and a very small waist
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim
And a good little child will not play with him
🖋 Hilaire Belloc
#BookWormSat
🎨Salvador Bartolozzi
#BookChatWeekly
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste
He has a big head and a very small waist
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim
And a good little child will not play with him
🖋 Hilaire Belloc
#BookWormSat
🎨Salvador Bartolozzi
#BookChatWeekly
He has a big head and a very small waist
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim
And a good little child will not play with him
🖋 Hilaire Belloc
#BookWormSat
🎨Salvador Bartolozzi
#BookChatWeekly
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see..ridicule and deformity and some scarce see nature at all But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
🖊️ WilliamBlake
#BookWormSat
📷 me
#BookChatWeekly
🖊️ WilliamBlake
#BookWormSat
📷 me
#BookChatWeekly
September 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see..ridicule and deformity and some scarce see nature at all But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
🖊️ WilliamBlake
#BookWormSat
📷 me
#BookChatWeekly
🖊️ WilliamBlake
#BookWormSat
📷 me
#BookChatWeekly
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
#BookWormSat
🖋 Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
#BookChatWeekly
🎦 #bladerunner
#BookWormSat
🖋 Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
#BookChatWeekly
🎦 #bladerunner
August 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
#BookWormSat
🖋 Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
#BookChatWeekly
🎦 #bladerunner
#BookWormSat
🖋 Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
#BookChatWeekly
🎦 #bladerunner
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
Clive James #reading
#BookWormSat
🎨 detail from Injury Time
#BookChatWeekly
Clive James #reading
#BookWormSat
🎨 detail from Injury Time
#BookChatWeekly
August 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
Clive James #reading
#BookWormSat
🎨 detail from Injury Time
#BookChatWeekly
Clive James #reading
#BookWormSat
🎨 detail from Injury Time
#BookChatWeekly
The Prancing Pony is a large tavern where the hobbits meet Strider in Bree. #lotr
#BookWormSat
Also, if Middle Earth was real, it’s where I would have sat out the war of the ring, getting drunk and listening to gossip from afar 🍻
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 🎥 Ralf Bakshi animated film
#BookWormSat
Also, if Middle Earth was real, it’s where I would have sat out the war of the ring, getting drunk and listening to gossip from afar 🍻
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 🎥 Ralf Bakshi animated film
August 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Prancing Pony is a large tavern where the hobbits meet Strider in Bree. #lotr
#BookWormSat
Also, if Middle Earth was real, it’s where I would have sat out the war of the ring, getting drunk and listening to gossip from afar 🍻
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 🎥 Ralf Bakshi animated film
#BookWormSat
Also, if Middle Earth was real, it’s where I would have sat out the war of the ring, getting drunk and listening to gossip from afar 🍻
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 🎥 Ralf Bakshi animated film
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus #amreading
#BookWormSat
Magical Realism
🎨 Viking 1st Ed.
#BookChatWeekly
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus #amreading
#BookWormSat
Magical Realism
🎨 Viking 1st Ed.
#BookChatWeekly
August 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus #amreading
#BookWormSat
Magical Realism
🎨 Viking 1st Ed.
#BookChatWeekly
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus #amreading
#BookWormSat
Magical Realism
🎨 Viking 1st Ed.
#BookChatWeekly
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
July 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Don Quixote
🖊️ Cervantes
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Alfred Pomeroy Jones, sealawyer, born in Mumbles, sung like a linnet, crowned you with a flagon, tattoed with mermaids, thirst like a dredger, died of blisters.
Under Milk Wood
🖋 #DylanThomas
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Under Milk Wood
🖋 #DylanThomas
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
July 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Alfred Pomeroy Jones, sealawyer, born in Mumbles, sung like a linnet, crowned you with a flagon, tattoed with mermaids, thirst like a dredger, died of blisters.
Under Milk Wood
🖋 #DylanThomas
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Under Milk Wood
🖋 #DylanThomas
#BookWormSat
🎨 W Heath Robinson
#BookChatWeekly
Nice morning walk before the day began to heat up. Ripples of water reflected on the underside of the branch.
July 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Nice morning walk before the day began to heat up. Ripples of water reflected on the underside of the branch.
July 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In their gold coats spots you see
Those be rubies, fairy favours
In those freckles live their savours
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear
Shakespeare 🖋 (Midsummer Night's Dream) #BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Willy Pogany
Those be rubies, fairy favours
In those freckles live their savours
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear
Shakespeare 🖋 (Midsummer Night's Dream) #BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Willy Pogany
July 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In their gold coats spots you see
Those be rubies, fairy favours
In those freckles live their savours
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear
Shakespeare 🖋 (Midsummer Night's Dream) #BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Willy Pogany
Those be rubies, fairy favours
In those freckles live their savours
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear
Shakespeare 🖋 (Midsummer Night's Dream) #BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Willy Pogany
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire
#BookWormSat
Voltaire
#BookWormSat
June 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire
#BookWormSat
Voltaire
#BookWormSat
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
To Summer - William Blake
#BookWormSat
🎨 #Erté Summer Breeze
#BookChatWeekly
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
To Summer - William Blake
#BookWormSat
🎨 #Erté Summer Breeze
#BookChatWeekly
June 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
To Summer - William Blake
#BookWormSat
🎨 #Erté Summer Breeze
#BookChatWeekly
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
To Summer - William Blake
#BookWormSat
🎨 #Erté Summer Breeze
#BookChatWeekly
"Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump"
Astonishingly Candide (or 'Optimism') 🖋 by Voltaire was #bannedbooks in US until 1959
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨penguin classics ed.
Astonishingly Candide (or 'Optimism') 🖋 by Voltaire was #bannedbooks in US until 1959
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨penguin classics ed.
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump"
Astonishingly Candide (or 'Optimism') 🖋 by Voltaire was #bannedbooks in US until 1959
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨penguin classics ed.
Astonishingly Candide (or 'Optimism') 🖋 by Voltaire was #bannedbooks in US until 1959
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🎨penguin classics ed.
🎨 Hipgnosis for #AlanParsonsProject album #Pyramid. (Which nicely parodies this bit of 70s hippy mysticism).
June 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🎨 Hipgnosis for #AlanParsonsProject album #Pyramid. (Which nicely parodies this bit of 70s hippy mysticism).
“Pyramidology” claims that pyramids have the power to preserve foods, sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health, function "as a thought-form incubator" trigger sexual urges and cause other effects.
🖊️ Pyramid Power by Patrick Flanagan
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🖊️ Pyramid Power by Patrick Flanagan
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
June 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
“Pyramidology” claims that pyramids have the power to preserve foods, sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health, function "as a thought-form incubator" trigger sexual urges and cause other effects.
🖊️ Pyramid Power by Patrick Flanagan
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
🖊️ Pyramid Power by Patrick Flanagan
#BookWormSat
#BookChatWeekly
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
🖊 Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Erté
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
🖊 Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Erté
May 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
’Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
🖊 Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Erté
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit
Like splendour-wingèd moths about a taper
Round the red west when the sun dies in it
And then into a meteor
#BookWormSat
🖊 Percy Shelley/ The Witch of Atlas
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 Erté
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
🖊️ Anthony Burgess
A 🕰️ 🍊
#BookWormSat
🎨 Japanese Programme
#BookChatWeekly
🖊️ Anthony Burgess
A 🕰️ 🍊
#BookWormSat
🎨 Japanese Programme
#BookChatWeekly
May 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
🖊️ Anthony Burgess
A 🕰️ 🍊
#BookWormSat
🎨 Japanese Programme
#BookChatWeekly
🖊️ Anthony Burgess
A 🕰️ 🍊
#BookWormSat
🎨 Japanese Programme
#BookChatWeekly
Surely the most bloodthirsty seafaring adventure ever told…
The Pirates' Tale
#BookWormSat
🖊️ by Janet Aitchison (aged 5 1/2)
🎨 by the peerless Jill McDonald of #Puffin Books in 70s
#BookChatWeekly
The Pirates' Tale
#BookWormSat
🖊️ by Janet Aitchison (aged 5 1/2)
🎨 by the peerless Jill McDonald of #Puffin Books in 70s
#BookChatWeekly
May 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Surely the most bloodthirsty seafaring adventure ever told…
The Pirates' Tale
#BookWormSat
🖊️ by Janet Aitchison (aged 5 1/2)
🎨 by the peerless Jill McDonald of #Puffin Books in 70s
#BookChatWeekly
The Pirates' Tale
#BookWormSat
🖊️ by Janet Aitchison (aged 5 1/2)
🎨 by the peerless Jill McDonald of #Puffin Books in 70s
#BookChatWeekly