Daniel Blythe
@danblythewriter.bsky.social
Surviving Author. Writer in schools. Occasional editor and mentor.
Who-er. Husband. Dad. European. Rationalist. Sceptic. Man. www.danielblythe.com
Who-er. Husband. Dad. European. Rationalist. Sceptic. Man. www.danielblythe.com
Does this bottle of perfume (or whatever it is) intentionally look like Ambassador Kosh from 'Babylon 5'?
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Does this bottle of perfume (or whatever it is) intentionally look like Ambassador Kosh from 'Babylon 5'?
Traffic news this morning reporting congestion on the line between Bristol Parkway and Kembel! Good thing for him that Mavic Chen hopped on a Spar at Swindon...
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Traffic news this morning reporting congestion on the line between Bristol Parkway and Kembel! Good thing for him that Mavic Chen hopped on a Spar at Swindon...
What's everyone's favourite comfort #DoctorWho for when they're feeling grotty? 'The Android Invasion' is working hard against my flu!
October 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What's everyone's favourite comfort #DoctorWho for when they're feeling grotty? 'The Android Invasion' is working hard against my flu!
All of which just leaves the question of who her evil nemesis is to be...
October 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
All of which just leaves the question of who her evil nemesis is to be...
Given that 'Halt and Catch Fire' is (at first) set in Texas, it's fun to imagine it in the same universe as 'Dallas', with J.R. having a wary chat with Joe M at a barbecue, and Jacob Wheeler at the Oil Barons' Ball and getting in a punch-up with Clayton Farlow 😆 Cameron would despise the Ewings 😆
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Given that 'Halt and Catch Fire' is (at first) set in Texas, it's fun to imagine it in the same universe as 'Dallas', with J.R. having a wary chat with Joe M at a barbecue, and Jacob Wheeler at the Oil Barons' Ball and getting in a punch-up with Clayton Farlow 😆 Cameron would despise the Ewings 😆
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...
July 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...
I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁
Don't Tail Back In Anger
July 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Don't Tail Back In Anger
I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.
June 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.
It's a weird coincidence that two perky commercial girlband trios, a generation apart, both had a member who was a little spicier and more enigmatic than the others, and who left to go off in a more quirky art-rock kind of direction -- and that they were both called Siobhán.
May 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's a weird coincidence that two perky commercial girlband trios, a generation apart, both had a member who was a little spicier and more enigmatic than the others, and who left to go off in a more quirky art-rock kind of direction -- and that they were both called Siobhán.
When I was on holiday in Villefranche near Nice a few years ago, it struck me that it would have been a good place to record 'Castrovalva', had JN-T started his annual overseas jaunts a year earlier. I messaged CHB with the idea and he quite liked it!
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
When I was on holiday in Villefranche near Nice a few years ago, it struck me that it would have been a good place to record 'Castrovalva', had JN-T started his annual overseas jaunts a year earlier. I messaged CHB with the idea and he quite liked it!
When you're thinking about shots from 1960s 'Doctor Who' which are still astonishing even today... Many candidates, but this came to mind. #DoctorWho
April 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When you're thinking about shots from 1960s 'Doctor Who' which are still astonishing even today... Many candidates, but this came to mind. #DoctorWho
Making me feel old. It was Sarah-Jane Honeywell 'for the dads' when my kids were of the CBeebies age.
April 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Making me feel old. It was Sarah-Jane Honeywell 'for the dads' when my kids were of the CBeebies age.
I think he's more than right of centre 😁
March 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I think he's more than right of centre 😁
Still Marion Maréchal (Le Pen). I know. Terrible.
March 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Still Marion Maréchal (Le Pen). I know. Terrible.
These reality TV contestants' names are getting weirder every year.
March 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These reality TV contestants' names are getting weirder every year.
1) I have yawned my way through quite a few of the Historicals. Even more so where they only exist as recons.
2) Even with all the fascinating academic discourse around it, I still find it hard to take 'Kinda' seriously.
3) Gallifrey stuff bores me.
2) Even with all the fascinating academic discourse around it, I still find it hard to take 'Kinda' seriously.
3) Gallifrey stuff bores me.
March 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
1) I have yawned my way through quite a few of the Historicals. Even more so where they only exist as recons.
2) Even with all the fascinating academic discourse around it, I still find it hard to take 'Kinda' seriously.
3) Gallifrey stuff bores me.
2) Even with all the fascinating academic discourse around it, I still find it hard to take 'Kinda' seriously.
3) Gallifrey stuff bores me.
I only found out in the last few years that the transmat globes are the same ones as in 'Revenge'! Suspected as much since I was 5 but only recently had it confirmed.
February 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I only found out in the last few years that the transmat globes are the same ones as in 'Revenge'! Suspected as much since I was 5 but only recently had it confirmed.
Enya has clearly seen both 'Horror of Fang Rock' and 'The Leisure Hive'.
January 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Enya has clearly seen both 'Horror of Fang Rock' and 'The Leisure Hive'.
Were all of us straight 90s indie boys absolutely besotted with Harriet Wheeler? Oh, to be young again...
January 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Were all of us straight 90s indie boys absolutely besotted with Harriet Wheeler? Oh, to be young again...
The family are watching some Sportsballing or other. Apparently this happens on Boxing Day. I am entertaining myself in other ways.
December 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM
The family are watching some Sportsballing or other. Apparently this happens on Boxing Day. I am entertaining myself in other ways.
I like the darker ones best.
December 23, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I like the darker ones best.
Apparently one of the things which could be wrong with my pump is the 'impeller'. I've only ever encountered that word in one place before and it doesn't exactly reassure me.
December 8, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Apparently one of the things which could be wrong with my pump is the 'impeller'. I've only ever encountered that word in one place before and it doesn't exactly reassure me.