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phaude
@phaude.bsky.social
Bookish inactivist seeking a tolerable social medium. Cambs. (No longer on Twitter/X.)
Alas, I can’t make out the rest. Sorry.
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Looks to me like ALBION ENGINEERING COMPANY
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Ha. It’s a hell of an image…
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Scanning through my feed, I briefly thought this said ‘Ethel Merman’.
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Me too.
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Anything to distract from how horrible the outside world appears to be, eh?
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Magpie. Grasshopper. Whatever. I don’t have the attention span to distinguish…
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This advertisement for ‘Pelmanism’ from the back pages of an old Penguin seems pertinent, utter nonsense though it obviously is.
September 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Congratulations! I’ve preordered it.
August 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
No. Penguin Twentieth Century Classics’ eau de nil spines are catnip to me the way Picador’s white spines are to you…
July 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
What a beautiful thing. (It makes my Sceptre edition look positively lacklustre.) Thank you for sharing.
July 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Aha. That’s it. I’ve just tried on my desktop and it works fine. (The error message was via Apple’s Safari browser on iPhone if that’s of any use to you.)

I look forward to reading it – as I do all of your books.
June 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
What an annoying typo.
May 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I can’t decide whether I’d rather hear Dwayne Johnson deliver the line “Hard cheese, old boy!” or T-T intone “Can you smell what Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage is cooking?”
May 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM