Madeleine Brettingham
@littlemaddles.bsky.social
I have a work-in-progress at Top Secret Comedy Club in 3 weeks.
Come :)
thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk/events-listi...
Come :)
thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk/events-listi...
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I have a work-in-progress at Top Secret Comedy Club in 3 weeks.
Come :)
thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk/events-listi...
Come :)
thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk/events-listi...
"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
October 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
Lithuanian (sort of) Spitting Image
September 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Lithuanian (sort of) Spitting Image
Had a ball with this photo 🥳
August 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Had a ball with this photo 🥳
AI got my back. I fried 16 penguins for this.
July 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
AI got my back. I fried 16 penguins for this.
As a child, Mozart had an "overwhelming" fear of trumpets and his father used to get his siblings to blow them in his face to cure him.
(From Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life)
(From Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life)
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
As a child, Mozart had an "overwhelming" fear of trumpets and his father used to get his siblings to blow them in his face to cure him.
(From Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life)
(From Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life)
One more week to see the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ cast and team of Dear Martin @arcolatheatre.bsky.social
“Short, sharp and sassy”
Tickets here
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
“Short, sharp and sassy”
Tickets here
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
March 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
One more week to see the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ cast and team of Dear Martin @arcolatheatre.bsky.social
“Short, sharp and sassy”
Tickets here
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
“Short, sharp and sassy”
Tickets here
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
"It's nice to be charmed by a psychopath..."
Lovely audience vox pops from Dear Martin on at the Arcola Theatre until March 29 🍿👇
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
Lovely audience vox pops from Dear Martin on at the Arcola Theatre until March 29 🍿👇
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
March 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"It's nice to be charmed by a psychopath..."
Lovely audience vox pops from Dear Martin on at the Arcola Theatre until March 29 🍿👇
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
Lovely audience vox pops from Dear Martin on at the Arcola Theatre until March 29 🍿👇
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
Some lovely photos of the Dear Martin cast and crew goofing off (me being extra goofy on right).
Five days to go!
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
Five days to go!
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Some lovely photos of the Dear Martin cast and crew goofing off (me being extra goofy on right).
Five days to go!
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
Five days to go!
www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...
Really enjoyed the literary criticism in Margo Jefferson’s Negroland because she sees technique problems for what they are – the product of horrible psychological flaws!!
February 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really enjoyed the literary criticism in Margo Jefferson’s Negroland because she sees technique problems for what they are – the product of horrible psychological flaws!!
A nice person has uploaded the whole of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht from the 2012 Olympic Festival to YouTube including (from 3hr00m) Helicopter String Quartet filmed over Birmingham
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9H...
February 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A nice person has uploaded the whole of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht from the 2012 Olympic Festival to YouTube including (from 3hr00m) Helicopter String Quartet filmed over Birmingham
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9H...
Make me think of the famous Tibor Fischer panning of Martin Amis
February 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Make me think of the famous Tibor Fischer panning of Martin Amis
“The gap between who [they are] and who they would like to be…often compels them to want to switch from what they have mastered or what comes naturally to a different profession, game or life they think of as better…"
February 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“The gap between who [they are] and who they would like to be…often compels them to want to switch from what they have mastered or what comes naturally to a different profession, game or life they think of as better…"
Lovely to do the Leicester Comedy Festival last week where the photographer caught this wonderful photo of an audience member making off with a bag of Mr Porky Pork scratchings 😎
February 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Lovely to do the Leicester Comedy Festival last week where the photographer caught this wonderful photo of an audience member making off with a bag of Mr Porky Pork scratchings 😎
And, finally, for comparison, the only magician that counts
February 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
And, finally, for comparison, the only magician that counts
A cheeky Italo Calvino recreating the same card (his favourite)
February 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A cheeky Italo Calvino recreating the same card (his favourite)
The best-known rendering of The Magician, from the Rider-Waite
February 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The best-known rendering of The Magician, from the Rider-Waite
A scribbled sketch for The Magician card by artist Frieda Harris for the Aleister Crowley tarot deck
(from the Warburg Institute exhibition)
(from the Warburg Institute exhibition)
February 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A scribbled sketch for The Magician card by artist Frieda Harris for the Aleister Crowley tarot deck
(from the Warburg Institute exhibition)
(from the Warburg Institute exhibition)
My financial plan
February 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My financial plan
Julie Lumsden
February 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Julie Lumsden
