Jasper Fforde
@jasperfforde.bsky.social
Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
Latest Substack: 'Satan Announces Planned Expansion of Hell
Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Satan Announces Planned Expansion of Hell
Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Latest Substack: 'Satan Announces Planned Expansion of Hell
Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
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Just finished reading Early Riser by @jasperfforde.bsky.social in which much of the population hibernates as an adaptation to extreme winters caused by climate change. Highly entertaining, as are all his books.
Jasper Fforde (@jasperfforde.bsky.social)
Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
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September 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Just finished reading Early Riser by @jasperfforde.bsky.social in which much of the population hibernates as an adaptation to extreme winters caused by climate change. Highly entertaining, as are all his books.
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« There will always be the Gower » cc @jasperfforde.bsky.social
A quiet one at Rhossili this evening with just a handful of Gannets passing offshore and the usual Chough, Stonechats and Linnets battling winds along the coast. Only two Swallows over the Vile. Think the Grey Seals had the right idea, bottling away in the more sheltered coves. #birdingWales
September 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Consider this a recommendation of The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social. How a novel can mesh moving social commentary along with laugh-like-an-idiot absurdism so well is amazing
August 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Consider this a recommendation of The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social. How a novel can mesh moving social commentary along with laugh-like-an-idiot absurdism so well is amazing
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? If your answer to that question is "I'll have to think about it", you just might have the indecisive qualities necessary to become a career procrastinator.
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So, you think you'd like to be Hamlet?
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? Wanted to strut your stuff around a gloomy Danish castle, annoying your uncle and insulting the king's advisor? Take our FREE test and see how you fare.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? If your answer to that question is "I'll have to think about it", you just might have the indecisive qualities necessary to become a career procrastinator.
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@waterstones 25% discount for many books, including 'Just Jeeves' a compendium of Jeeves & Wooster retellings by excellent wordsmiths (and me)
July 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
@waterstones 25% discount for many books, including 'Just Jeeves' a compendium of Jeeves & Wooster retellings by excellent wordsmiths (and me)
On my Substack: Film Review F1 The Movie. If you go to see one motorsport movie this year, watch Steve McQueen's thundering 1971's petrol-soaked epic 'Le Mans'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Film Review: F1 (The Movie)
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
On my Substack: Film Review F1 The Movie. If you go to see one motorsport movie this year, watch Steve McQueen's thundering 1971's petrol-soaked epic 'Le Mans'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
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Actually as the excellent @jasperfforde.bsky.social writes in the brilliant The Constant Rabbit - we are trying to run a 21st century world on Palaeolithic thoughts and sentiments
June 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Actually as the excellent @jasperfforde.bsky.social writes in the brilliant The Constant Rabbit - we are trying to run a 21st century world on Palaeolithic thoughts and sentiments
Alzheimer's TREK26 Update: This is my Mum, in 2020, lockdown Summer. I often used to push an armchair out into the garden for her. Team Fforde are tackling, for the third time, the 26 mile TREK26 challenge here in Mid Wales on Saturday 14th June '25. Link: www.justgiving.com/team/theteam...
June 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Alzheimer's TREK26 Update: This is my Mum, in 2020, lockdown Summer. I often used to push an armchair out into the garden for her. Team Fforde are tackling, for the third time, the 26 mile TREK26 challenge here in Mid Wales on Saturday 14th June '25. Link: www.justgiving.com/team/theteam...
The time I met the guy who built the Colditz Glider open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Chance meeting with a remarkable man
Building an amphibian aircraft out of scrounged materials to settle a score with history
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June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The time I met the guy who built the Colditz Glider open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
On my Substack: Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers. Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers, survey shows
Toad News Archive: Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective.
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June 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On my Substack: Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers. Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening. Police are puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening
Police are currently puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage
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May 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening. Police are puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
On my Substack: Astronaut claims ‘Moon Landing Hoax’ never happened. Chris Hadfield, former astronaut and noted public educator finds himself in hot water after making bold and unproven claim. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
On my Substack: Astronaut claims ‘Moon Landing Hoax’ never happened. Chris Hadfield, former astronaut and noted public educator finds himself in hot water after making bold and unproven claim. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car
This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car
This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952.
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May 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car
This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
In training for Trek26, a 26-mile walk through the Brecon Beacons in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Mum had it for seven years, and this is the third Trek26 I've done. Any contribution to the Alzheimer's Society would be gratefully received. www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...
May 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In training for Trek26, a 26-mile walk through the Brecon Beacons in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Mum had it for seven years, and this is the third Trek26 I've done. Any contribution to the Alzheimer's Society would be gratefully received. www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...
Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Enraged Herbivores sue Hay Festival over 'misinterpretation'.
Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs
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May 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy: Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in' Full story on my FREE Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy
Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in'
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May 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy: Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in' Full story on my FREE Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Literary Festivals - Author Perspective
25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome.
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25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome.
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Literary Festivals - Author Perspective
25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland.
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May 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Literary Festivals - Author Perspective
25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome.
open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome.
open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
British citizens fear 'Surveillance Society'. Suspicion of surveillance and creeping government overreach are just a few of the subjects revealed in the nation's intercepted email, phone and text messages, it was reported yesterday.
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British citizens fear 'Surveillance Society' intercepted messages reveal
Fear of surveillance and creeping government overreach are just a few of the subjects revealed in the nation's email, phone and text messages, it was reported yesterday
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April 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
British citizens fear 'Surveillance Society'. Suspicion of surveillance and creeping government overreach are just a few of the subjects revealed in the nation's intercepted email, phone and text messages, it was reported yesterday.
open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
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Easter Substack: Government rejects Expert Advice from Expert Advice Experts. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Government rejects Expert Advice from Expert Advice Experts
Parliament pledges to ignore expert advice, despite expert advice that expert advice 'is best not ignored'.
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April 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Easter Substack: Government rejects Expert Advice from Expert Advice Experts. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
On my Substack: Quality Street Chocolates deemed to be 'only adequate' by Trading Standards Authority, name change demanded. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Quality Street Chocolates Renamed
Chocolate assortment deemed 'only adequate' by Trading Standards Authority
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April 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
On my Substack: Quality Street Chocolates deemed to be 'only adequate' by Trading Standards Authority, name change demanded. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
On my Substack: Conversations with Cabbies.
Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Convos with Cabbies
Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers
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April 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
On my Substack: Conversations with Cabbies.
Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
It's that time of year when I lace up my action booties and head to the hills to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society - a 26 mile walk in the Brecon Beacons. Any amount you can spare would by wonderful - thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...
Team Fforde's Fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society
Help Jasper Fforde raise money to support Alzheimer's Society
www.justgiving.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It's that time of year when I lace up my action booties and head to the hills to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society - a 26 mile walk in the Brecon Beacons. Any amount you can spare would by wonderful - thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...
On my Substack: Let's hear it for casual decency: A toddler in jeopardy and I only get the bronze
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Let's hear it for casual decency
Microdecenies to counter the microaggressions: A toddler in jeopardy and I only get the bronze
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April 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
On my Substack: Let's hear it for casual decency: A toddler in jeopardy and I only get the bronze
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