Mike Harding
@churchcat.bsky.social
Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
Just signed the first 100. They’ll be available from the website from Midnight Thursday.
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just signed the first 100. They’ll be available from the website from Midnight Thursday.
First copies arriving with me tomorrow - I’ll try and post up website shop details by Friday. Its edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Meanwhile tickets are still available for the official launch Portico Library Manchester 18th Dec.
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
First copies arriving with me tomorrow - I’ll try and post up website shop details by Friday. Its edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Meanwhile tickets are still available for the official launch Portico Library Manchester 18th Dec.
Look at the cold, dead eyes. The world seems to be mostly run by madmen and looking back through history it seems nothing new. From Genghis Kahn to Trump, from Nero to Reagan. Boris Johnson to Pol Pot. Lunatics, Liars and Psychopaths every one.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Look at the cold, dead eyes. The world seems to be mostly run by madmen and looking back through history it seems nothing new. From Genghis Kahn to Trump, from Nero to Reagan. Boris Johnson to Pol Pot. Lunatics, Liars and Psychopaths every one.
I've been in France working on final edits of the next book of short stories -- should have signed, numbered, first ed. copies to sell online by late Nov. Im signing copies at The Portico Library, Manchester on the evening of December 18th. Early doors.
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I've been in France working on final edits of the next book of short stories -- should have signed, numbered, first ed. copies to sell online by late Nov. Im signing copies at The Portico Library, Manchester on the evening of December 18th. Early doors.
The Connemara Rain Museum was closed for most of my stay there recently. When the sky is like this there is nowhere I would rather be.
August 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Connemara Rain Museum was closed for most of my stay there recently. When the sky is like this there is nowhere I would rather be.
More Flowerpot People, Settle, N Yorks
August 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
More Flowerpot People, Settle, N Yorks
I think she knows that unless she clears Trump she will die in prison - and I don’t mean of old age.
July 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I think she knows that unless she clears Trump she will die in prison - and I don’t mean of old age.
I saw these two chaps with one book and their ‘hurry up and take me walking) dog and all I had to do was aim and click. It also gladdens my heart to see kids reading and not enslaved by their smartphones. Reading is cool, smartphones are handy but can make us dumb IMHO.
July 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I saw these two chaps with one book and their ‘hurry up and take me walking) dog and all I had to do was aim and click. It also gladdens my heart to see kids reading and not enslaved by their smartphones. Reading is cool, smartphones are handy but can make us dumb IMHO.
Specky Four Eyes has sold out - thanks to all who bought. An unnumbered 2nd edition? Kindle? I don't know yet - but Vol. 2 As The Sky With Stars is online for 21st Sept publication. mikeharding.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Specky Four Eyes has sold out - thanks to all who bought. An unnumbered 2nd edition? Kindle? I don't know yet - but Vol. 2 As The Sky With Stars is online for 21st Sept publication. mikeharding.co.uk
Just Signed and posted 90 copies of the book, another 60 tomorrow. For people in the Yorkshire / N Lancs area Limestone Books of Settle is the only shop stocking the books on their shelves. Support your local bookshop if you can.
June 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just Signed and posted 90 copies of the book, another 60 tomorrow. For people in the Yorkshire / N Lancs area Limestone Books of Settle is the only shop stocking the books on their shelves. Support your local bookshop if you can.
mikeharding.co.uk/books/short-...
Only 250 signed numbered first edition copies available. Stories both funny snd not funny inspired by the first steps of the journey we all take. £10 + p&p. Published 21June 2025. U can order now.
Only 250 signed numbered first edition copies available. Stories both funny snd not funny inspired by the first steps of the journey we all take. £10 + p&p. Published 21June 2025. U can order now.
June 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
mikeharding.co.uk/books/short-...
Only 250 signed numbered first edition copies available. Stories both funny snd not funny inspired by the first steps of the journey we all take. £10 + p&p. Published 21June 2025. U can order now.
Only 250 signed numbered first edition copies available. Stories both funny snd not funny inspired by the first steps of the journey we all take. £10 + p&p. Published 21June 2025. U can order now.
Serrabonne. High up in the Pyrenees, a magical place, remote, a romanesque jewel
June 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Serrabonne. High up in the Pyrenees, a magical place, remote, a romanesque jewel
Mucha do about something. JOB papers are still made in Perpignan.
June 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Mucha do about something. JOB papers are still made in Perpignan.
Cat on a hot windowsill Caunes Minervois 2021
June 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Cat on a hot windowsill Caunes Minervois 2021
Trump will hate this. Excellent.
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trump will hate this. Excellent.
Settle station today - the hump of Penyghent in the far distance.
April 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Settle station today - the hump of Penyghent in the far distance.
Comes with free rickets. I love caring people - they do so gladden my heart.
April 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Comes with free rickets. I love caring people - they do so gladden my heart.
Redwood blocked me on X. He’s a liar He knows that UK boats willingly sold their quotas off. Ask anybody in Hull about “ slipper skippers” ship owners who sold off their Qs and retired. The EU saved the cod stocks by a moratorium on overfishing. Redwood is a bad person.
April 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Redwood blocked me on X. He’s a liar He knows that UK boats willingly sold their quotas off. Ask anybody in Hull about “ slipper skippers” ship owners who sold off their Qs and retired. The EU saved the cod stocks by a moratorium on overfishing. Redwood is a bad person.
Thats one way of looking at it.
April 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thats one way of looking at it.
