Mark Brown
@markoneinfour.bsky.social
Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
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Lewisham 21st May 2022
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lewisham 21st May 2022
Been away at a youth hostel for the night. Was subject to the shreik of owl in the bright moonlight, saw bats and jackdaws and larks, dst under a radio mast and managed to bring home a Devils Coach Horse in my bag
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Been away at a youth hostel for the night. Was subject to the shreik of owl in the bright moonlight, saw bats and jackdaws and larks, dst under a radio mast and managed to bring home a Devils Coach Horse in my bag
I continued a private tradition at the weekend of listening to new Manic Street Preachers albums while up a hill. Resistance is Futile was around Windermere. The Ultra Vivid Lament was in the dark at Firle Beacon looking out to Newhaven. Critical Thinking: Mount Caburn in the mist
September 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I continued a private tradition at the weekend of listening to new Manic Street Preachers albums while up a hill. Resistance is Futile was around Windermere. The Ultra Vivid Lament was in the dark at Firle Beacon looking out to Newhaven. Critical Thinking: Mount Caburn in the mist
Went to the covid memorial wall today for the first time today. So many names, so much loss. I really miss my sister.
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Went to the covid memorial wall today for the first time today. So many names, so much loss. I really miss my sister.
Can we all just stop and applaud Foresight Pease Pudding and its staunch refusal to update any of its serving suggestions and general aesthetic since the 1970s. Thanks
August 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Can we all just stop and applaud Foresight Pease Pudding and its staunch refusal to update any of its serving suggestions and general aesthetic since the 1970s. Thanks
Said sky, sans bat. If you want to see some bats in Lewisham, get down to Manor House Gardens just as the sun goes down. They hunt over the pond as the herons look on
August 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Said sky, sans bat. If you want to see some bats in Lewisham, get down to Manor House Gardens just as the sun goes down. They hunt over the pond as the herons look on
Thinking about the whole decline in reading for pleasure thing. British homes don't have enough space for bookshelves.
And I mourn the demise of the big silly books that readers digest did, or that you bought in garden centres or supermarkets. Big, fat, larger than an annual.
And I mourn the demise of the big silly books that readers digest did, or that you bought in garden centres or supermarkets. Big, fat, larger than an annual.
August 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Thinking about the whole decline in reading for pleasure thing. British homes don't have enough space for bookshelves.
And I mourn the demise of the big silly books that readers digest did, or that you bought in garden centres or supermarkets. Big, fat, larger than an annual.
And I mourn the demise of the big silly books that readers digest did, or that you bought in garden centres or supermarkets. Big, fat, larger than an annual.
Hugely pleasing charity shop buy today. This post employs a device known as Anamorphic projection. (so the lyric sheets says. Hold your phone to you eye at right angles to see Maddy Prior, Tim Hart and Robert Johnson in true perspective)
August 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hugely pleasing charity shop buy today. This post employs a device known as Anamorphic projection. (so the lyric sheets says. Hold your phone to you eye at right angles to see Maddy Prior, Tim Hart and Robert Johnson in true perspective)
Really interestingly, Take A Break magazine is backing a campaign with the Royal Psychological Society (#makeit10) to make social class a protected characteristic under the Equality Act
June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really interestingly, Take A Break magazine is backing a campaign with the Royal Psychological Society (#makeit10) to make social class a protected characteristic under the Equality Act
I've just eaten one of these delicious things from Finland and I'm wondering what it is about the history of British confectionary that makes chocolate and liquorice an uncommon combination in the British Isles. Were the chocolate makers and the liquorice makers at opposite ends of the country?
June 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I've just eaten one of these delicious things from Finland and I'm wondering what it is about the history of British confectionary that makes chocolate and liquorice an uncommon combination in the British Isles. Were the chocolate makers and the liquorice makers at opposite ends of the country?
I am sat at the base of a radio mast surrounded by skylarks. No action by HAVOC though.
June 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I am sat at the base of a radio mast surrounded by skylarks. No action by HAVOC though.
The second was this busy little worker
May 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The second was this busy little worker
Was in a charity shop yesterday and found two cursed objects. The first is the spine of this Sade album
May 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Was in a charity shop yesterday and found two cursed objects. The first is the spine of this Sade album
I'm in a youth hostel at the moment and there's a big school or college party here on a field strip. They're all huddled around a laptop watching the football in the cooling evening air. It's the most wholesome thing I've seen in years. More youth hostels. More opportunities for kids to come to them
May 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm in a youth hostel at the moment and there's a big school or college party here on a field strip. They're all huddled around a laptop watching the football in the cooling evening air. It's the most wholesome thing I've seen in years. More youth hostels. More opportunities for kids to come to them
Can we all just stop and appreciate this amazing Oor Wullie panel by Ken Harrison:
WINDAES
WINDAES
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Can we all just stop and appreciate this amazing Oor Wullie panel by Ken Harrison:
WINDAES
WINDAES
Today I saw the biggest cardboard box I have ever seen
May 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Today I saw the biggest cardboard box I have ever seen
I cannot stop laughing at the phrases 'Straight from the jungle and into your arms' and 'You'll love her sweet monkey sounds'
May 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I cannot stop laughing at the phrases 'Straight from the jungle and into your arms' and 'You'll love her sweet monkey sounds'
Went to Zippo's Circus on Blackheath last night. Circus is incredible, like touching for a brief time the membrane that divides the mundane world from another, more special, more colourful world. I'm at my most happy at the circus, being held in the gentle care of people who make an art of amazement
April 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Went to Zippo's Circus on Blackheath last night. Circus is incredible, like touching for a brief time the membrane that divides the mundane world from another, more special, more colourful world. I'm at my most happy at the circus, being held in the gentle care of people who make an art of amazement
Hello. I would like to share the best letter written to a magazine this month (Take a Break Fate & Fortute April. 2025)
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hello. I would like to share the best letter written to a magazine this month (Take a Break Fate & Fortute April. 2025)
You know I was talking about my new fox friend? Today it was sleeping curled around a dandelion and came up to the back door every time I made a cuppa. Look! Look at its lovely face!
March 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You know I was talking about my new fox friend? Today it was sleeping curled around a dandelion and came up to the back door every time I made a cuppa. Look! Look at its lovely face!
Met the fox in garden again today
March 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Met the fox in garden again today
Technicians of space ship earth this is your captain speaking your captain is dead
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
December 31, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Technicians of space ship earth this is your captain speaking your captain is dead
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Just listen to them birds
December 25, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Just listen to them birds