Nick Reed
@nickinmasham.bsky.social
Southern type happily adopted by Masham (where I programme music and comedy at the Town Hall), by Yorkshire, and by @janrreed. Culture, quizzing, market town life, bit of sport, serendipity. He/him.
When I was (?) 15 I went to the Reading Hexagon on two consecutive nights to see Oxford Stage’s linked productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties. I already liked wordplay but those evenings made me fall in love with theatre. RIP and thank you Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
When I was (?) 15 I went to the Reading Hexagon on two consecutive nights to see Oxford Stage’s linked productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties. I already liked wordplay but those evenings made me fall in love with theatre. RIP and thank you Tom Stoppard.
Ted Chippington and Fuzzbox
Who would you choose to host Strictly?
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ted Chippington and Fuzzbox
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
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Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
There’s a word for people who are “asset rich and cash poor”. That word is “rich”.
This country seems to have a bottomless well of sympathy towards asset rich pensioners and only contempt for anyone under 50 who is putting half their income into paying their landlords fourth mortgage and a big chunk of the rest into skyrocketing bills.
Look it’s never nice to find yourself in a position of having to move when you don’t want to but given that due to the volatility of the London housing market I have had to move FIVE TIMES since 2020 I’m struggling to feel very sympathetic towards people whose ’problem’ is a paid off 2mil property.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There’s a word for people who are “asset rich and cash poor”. That word is “rich”.
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macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988
elliott erwitt
1988
elliott erwitt
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988
elliott erwitt
1988
elliott erwitt
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh
Today in “people are basically nice” news. I would not have noticed without this being left on the windscreen.
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today in “people are basically nice” news. I would not have noticed without this being left on the windscreen.
Off the top of my head…
Perfect Skin (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes)
Buffalo Stance (Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi)
I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King, Tapestry)
Cuz I Love You (Lizzo, Cuz I Love You)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited)
Perfect Skin (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes)
Buffalo Stance (Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi)
I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King, Tapestry)
Cuz I Love You (Lizzo, Cuz I Love You)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited)
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Off the top of my head…
Perfect Skin (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes)
Buffalo Stance (Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi)
I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King, Tapestry)
Cuz I Love You (Lizzo, Cuz I Love You)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited)
Perfect Skin (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes)
Buffalo Stance (Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi)
I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King, Tapestry)
Cuz I Love You (Lizzo, Cuz I Love You)
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited)
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
Grand day, can’t beat a bit of frost and a pastel sky. See if you can spot the church spire.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Grand day, can’t beat a bit of frost and a pastel sky. See if you can spot the church spire.
This is a lovely rock/pop memoir. Debsey Wykes has the same knack for writing as Dolly Mixture had for 60s-girl-group-referencing harmony, and the stories of the late 70s scene I was a frustrating couple of years too young to experience are fascinating.
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is a lovely rock/pop memoir. Debsey Wykes has the same knack for writing as Dolly Mixture had for 60s-girl-group-referencing harmony, and the stories of the late 70s scene I was a frustrating couple of years too young to experience are fascinating.
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Lots of artists have been great at B-sides but only The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (albeit perhaps not beyond My Nation Underground) did enough to compile into a stone-cold, no notes, filler-free, ten-out-of-ten, sky-high all-time masterpiece. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ju...
East Of The Equator – The Other Side Of Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lots of artists have been great at B-sides but only The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (albeit perhaps not beyond My Nation Underground) did enough to compile into a stone-cold, no notes, filler-free, ten-out-of-ten, sky-high all-time masterpiece. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ju...
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I did not subscribe to @dannymlavery.bsky.social's (excellent, yes yes) newsletter for this sort of direct personal attack 😖
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What It Feels Like to Not Have to Write Something Down
No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
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November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I did not subscribe to @dannymlavery.bsky.social's (excellent, yes yes) newsletter for this sort of direct personal attack 😖
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Well knock me down with a feather
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Well knock me down with a feather
🥹
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🥹
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RIP Jimmy Cliff. Soundtracks don’t come any better than this
🇯🇲🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKc...
🇯🇲🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKc...
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff. Soundtracks don’t come any better than this
🇯🇲🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKc...
🇯🇲🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKc...
I like that this article completely ignores the fact that This Life *did* come back
Did Egg get a Michelin star? Did Super Hans make it to Macedonia? The TV shows that most need a comeback
Did Egg get a Michelin star? Did Super Hans make it to Macedonia? The TV shows that most need a comeback
From a newer, greener Top Gear to the greatest comedy of all time, here are the series Guardian readers most want back on our screens
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I like that this article completely ignores the fact that This Life *did* come back
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What a great idea!
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What a great idea!
I bought a couple of lightbulbs online yesterday, for £17 including postage. So far I have had 7 (seven) emails about the transaction 🥴
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I bought a couple of lightbulbs online yesterday, for £17 including postage. So far I have had 7 (seven) emails about the transaction 🥴