Keiron Pim
@keironpim.bsky.social
Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social
Nipping down Pelican Stairs when the Thames is at low tide gives you a great chance to see the gibbet at Executioner’s Dock up close, if that’s your idea of a good time.
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nipping down Pelican Stairs when the Thames is at low tide gives you a great chance to see the gibbet at Executioner’s Dock up close, if that’s your idea of a good time.
And this piqued my interest. Never seen ‘TH’ styled like that before, with the T and next letter forming the stalks of the H.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
And this piqued my interest. Never seen ‘TH’ styled like that before, with the T and next letter forming the stalks of the H.
Kind of haunted by these memorials in All Hallows-on-the-Wall church in the City of London. Poor Yvon, poor Joan, and her poor children.
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Kind of haunted by these memorials in All Hallows-on-the-Wall church in the City of London. Poor Yvon, poor Joan, and her poor children.
Staircase in Puteaux House, a 15-storey tower block on the Cranbrook Estate, taken from the bottom looking up
October 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Staircase in Puteaux House, a 15-storey tower block on the Cranbrook Estate, taken from the bottom looking up
Really enjoyed the episode — and by coincidence have just reached this entry in Kenneth Williams’ diaries… a trip to see Charles Hawtrey in Deal in 1970. Every bit as grim as Seabrook suggests!
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Really enjoyed the episode — and by coincidence have just reached this entry in Kenneth Williams’ diaries… a trip to see Charles Hawtrey in Deal in 1970. Every bit as grim as Seabrook suggests!
Ah — except I see Bluesky has cropped Bindon out of the pic… well, you can just imagine him there, and read this if your imagination needs any assistance.
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Ah — except I see Bluesky has cropped Bindon out of the pic… well, you can just imagine him there, and read this if your imagination needs any assistance.
I interviewed him a few years ago for an as yet unreleased David Litvinoff documentary, in which we recreated this shot with my copy of Borges’ A Personal Anthology.
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I interviewed him a few years ago for an as yet unreleased David Litvinoff documentary, in which we recreated this shot with my copy of Borges’ A Personal Anthology.
RIP Stanley Meadows, who has died aged 94. May his memory be for a blessing. A fine character actor whom I’ll always remember for his understated menace as Rosebloom in PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970).
“Your old man was a barber, wasn’t he Rosey?”
“No. No, he wasn’t.”
“Your old man was a barber, wasn’t he Rosey?”
“No. No, he wasn’t.”
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
RIP Stanley Meadows, who has died aged 94. May his memory be for a blessing. A fine character actor whom I’ll always remember for his understated menace as Rosebloom in PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970).
“Your old man was a barber, wasn’t he Rosey?”
“No. No, he wasn’t.”
“Your old man was a barber, wasn’t he Rosey?”
“No. No, he wasn’t.”
Currently trying to work through some fiercely contested ownership issues regarding our house.
September 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Currently trying to work through some fiercely contested ownership issues regarding our house.
I recently read this book about an East End skinhead gang. It’s absolutely grim in places. Their favourite activity in the early 1970s was ‘P***-bashing’, which on one occasion resulted in murder.
September 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I recently read this book about an East End skinhead gang. It’s absolutely grim in places. Their favourite activity in the early 1970s was ‘P***-bashing’, which on one occasion resulted in murder.
Little Egret at Burnham Overy Staithe this evening
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Little Egret at Burnham Overy Staithe this evening
Truly there is nothing she cannot do.
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Truly there is nothing she cannot do.
I’m away at the moment — when I’m back home I’ll have to check which edition I’ve got! Lovely to hear that about Brian’s writing. He was a great influence on me and I hold him very dear (as I acknowledged in my David Litvinoff book). He turned 88 last week!
August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m away at the moment — when I’m back home I’ll have to check which edition I’ve got! Lovely to hear that about Brian’s writing. He was a great influence on me and I hold him very dear (as I acknowledged in my David Litvinoff book). He turned 88 last week!
Starting to think I should have properly researched the local customs before I brought my children to this part of France.
August 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Starting to think I should have properly researched the local customs before I brought my children to this part of France.
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth in the Pyrenees this afternoon — swipe for the full picture
August 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth in the Pyrenees this afternoon — swipe for the full picture
The perfect cover for a wonderful novel, which I’ve just finished. Sam Selvon’s fictional Trinidadian and Jamaican characters are beautifully realised, adrift but buoyant in ’50s London. I’m just left needing to know more about ‘Brilliant Spider’ and the East End pool hall where he’s pictured!
August 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The perfect cover for a wonderful novel, which I’ve just finished. Sam Selvon’s fictional Trinidadian and Jamaican characters are beautifully realised, adrift but buoyant in ’50s London. I’m just left needing to know more about ‘Brilliant Spider’ and the East End pool hall where he’s pictured!
This sign hasn’t lost so much as gained something in translation.
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This sign hasn’t lost so much as gained something in translation.
I haven’t loved a novel so much for a long time. A brilliant evocation of an Ohio town at the close of the 19th century, with every character uncannily real, living and breathing on the page, seeking their own individual form of release from the constraints of small town life. Just beautiful!
August 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I haven’t loved a novel so much for a long time. A brilliant evocation of an Ohio town at the close of the 19th century, with every character uncannily real, living and breathing on the page, seeking their own individual form of release from the constraints of small town life. Just beautiful!
House clearance finds #3:
A reminder of a different era when a club like Norwich City could beat a club like Bayern Munich. I was one of the 20,089 people at Carrow Road that night (I’d forgotten how small the capacity was then). By a huge distance the highlight of my 40 years supporting NCFC…
A reminder of a different era when a club like Norwich City could beat a club like Bayern Munich. I was one of the 20,089 people at Carrow Road that night (I’d forgotten how small the capacity was then). By a huge distance the highlight of my 40 years supporting NCFC…
August 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
House clearance finds #3:
A reminder of a different era when a club like Norwich City could beat a club like Bayern Munich. I was one of the 20,089 people at Carrow Road that night (I’d forgotten how small the capacity was then). By a huge distance the highlight of my 40 years supporting NCFC…
A reminder of a different era when a club like Norwich City could beat a club like Bayern Munich. I was one of the 20,089 people at Carrow Road that night (I’d forgotten how small the capacity was then). By a huge distance the highlight of my 40 years supporting NCFC…
House clearance finds #2:
films and filming magazine, March 1969, with a cover story on the recently filmed but as yet unreleased PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
films and filming magazine, March 1969, with a cover story on the recently filmed but as yet unreleased PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
August 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
House clearance finds #2:
films and filming magazine, March 1969, with a cover story on the recently filmed but as yet unreleased PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
films and filming magazine, March 1969, with a cover story on the recently filmed but as yet unreleased PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
Just found a letter from the wonderful pop artist Martin Sharp (1942-2013) re: my book about his friend David Litvinoff. I wish he’d lived to see it published, given all the help he gave me (though not financially, I politely declined the kind offer!). The last couple of lines helped spur me along…
August 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just found a letter from the wonderful pop artist Martin Sharp (1942-2013) re: my book about his friend David Litvinoff. I wish he’d lived to see it published, given all the help he gave me (though not financially, I politely declined the kind offer!). The last couple of lines helped spur me along…
Quietly paying my respects to Tom Lehrer in the way I know he would have wanted.
July 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Quietly paying my respects to Tom Lehrer in the way I know he would have wanted.
The River Bure looking sunlit and serene this evening. Wish I had managed to get a shot of the swallows flying over the water.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The River Bure looking sunlit and serene this evening. Wish I had managed to get a shot of the swallows flying over the water.
Just found a book I mislaid years ago! It’s fair to say I’m not as much of a fan of Road Dahl as I was when I queued up to meet him sometime in the early 1980s… but still, glad to have tracked it down.
July 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just found a book I mislaid years ago! It’s fair to say I’m not as much of a fan of Road Dahl as I was when I queued up to meet him sometime in the early 1980s… but still, glad to have tracked it down.
Getting back into the reading for my East End book. This is a wonderful anthology of writing about the Thames, published in 1951.
July 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Getting back into the reading for my East End book. This is a wonderful anthology of writing about the Thames, published in 1951.