Eigon
@eigon03.bsky.social
Bookseller in Hay-on-Wye, Town of Books, archaeologist, she/they.
I don't think I've ever heard him sing!
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I don't think I've ever heard him sing!
To be fair, it wasn't his fault - he's much, much better in the Big Finish audio stories.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
To be fair, it wasn't his fault - he's much, much better in the Big Finish audio stories.
Ye Gods, that is appalling!
Come back, Errol Flynn, all is forgiven!
Come back, Errol Flynn, all is forgiven!
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ye Gods, that is appalling!
Come back, Errol Flynn, all is forgiven!
Come back, Errol Flynn, all is forgiven!
Rocket Robin Hood is a real cartoon. It was made in the late 1960s in Canada!
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Rocket Robin Hood is a real cartoon. It was made in the late 1960s in Canada!
Well, we all thought Darth Vader was the villain until we met the Emperor.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Well, we all thought Darth Vader was the villain until we met the Emperor.
My step-brother belonged to an anarcho-syndicalist community in Germany. They had a weekly meeting to decide on any issues that came up, and everyone took a turn at chairing the meeting. It was the oldest and largest group in Germany, so the system worked pretty well.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My step-brother belonged to an anarcho-syndicalist community in Germany. They had a weekly meeting to decide on any issues that came up, and everyone took a turn at chairing the meeting. It was the oldest and largest group in Germany, so the system worked pretty well.
I don't see any chance of that ever happening. We can't even use book tokens - the people who sell book tokens won't let them be used in our shops (there are 20 secondhand bookshops in Hay, and we got together to petition for people to be able to buy our books with book tokens).
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I don't see any chance of that ever happening. We can't even use book tokens - the people who sell book tokens won't let them be used in our shops (there are 20 secondhand bookshops in Hay, and we got together to petition for people to be able to buy our books with book tokens).
I work for the Hay Cinema Bookshop - we sell secondhand books, and sometimes we get CDs, but we can't sell stuff that we aren't offered, and I don't know how we could be offered audiobooks that are not on CD or some other physical format.
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I work for the Hay Cinema Bookshop - we sell secondhand books, and sometimes we get CDs, but we can't sell stuff that we aren't offered, and I don't know how we could be offered audiobooks that are not on CD or some other physical format.
Gladstone's Library in North Wales is rather wonderful
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Gladstone's Library in North Wales is rather wonderful
I was certainly very happy there when I lived there (way back when the Castle Mall shopping centre was being built, I was one of the archaeologists who did the dig ahead of the development. It's really weird to go back and see what it looks like now).
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I was certainly very happy there when I lived there (way back when the Castle Mall shopping centre was being built, I was one of the archaeologists who did the dig ahead of the development. It's really weird to go back and see what it looks like now).
Yes, they are - because choirs and rugby are Welsh, bagpipes and kilts are Scottish, harps and shamrocks are Irish.
The Neanderthals going on about British culture never mean those things, do they?
The Neanderthals going on about British culture never mean those things, do they?
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Yes, they are - because choirs and rugby are Welsh, bagpipes and kilts are Scottish, harps and shamrocks are Irish.
The Neanderthals going on about British culture never mean those things, do they?
The Neanderthals going on about British culture never mean those things, do they?
We're the country of Shakespeare, Elgar, Wordsworth, real ale, morris dancing and far more, but I never see the "patriots " celebrating any of these things
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We're the country of Shakespeare, Elgar, Wordsworth, real ale, morris dancing and far more, but I never see the "patriots " celebrating any of these things
Little Women. I was 11.
"Hang on - actual people write books? They don't just appear on the shelves? Jo March writes? I could do that!"
And then my sister in law gave me a Barbara Cartland romance, and I thought "I could definitely do better than that!"
"Hang on - actual people write books? They don't just appear on the shelves? Jo March writes? I could do that!"
And then my sister in law gave me a Barbara Cartland romance, and I thought "I could definitely do better than that!"
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Little Women. I was 11.
"Hang on - actual people write books? They don't just appear on the shelves? Jo March writes? I could do that!"
And then my sister in law gave me a Barbara Cartland romance, and I thought "I could definitely do better than that!"
"Hang on - actual people write books? They don't just appear on the shelves? Jo March writes? I could do that!"
And then my sister in law gave me a Barbara Cartland romance, and I thought "I could definitely do better than that!"
