Tom
@tomli.bsky.social
Husband, father, listener, reader. Not too much of a talker. Teacher of Secondary English. Occasional DJ
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Had a lot of fun working with Leesa Morris on this, a comic festive disaster story about a working-class woman's first Christmas with her fiancé's middle-class parents. Her observations of rituals and manners from sausage rolls eating to present opening are a yuletide delight 🐝🎄🐝🎄🐝🎄
How I Ruined a Middle-Class Christmas
Her family scoff sausage rolls, love a bit of tinsel, and open their presents when they get up. His eat tiny amounts of Thorntons, colour-co-ordinate, and – yes, we are in Hell – wait until after dinn...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Had a lot of fun working with Leesa Morris on this, a comic festive disaster story about a working-class woman's first Christmas with her fiancé's middle-class parents. Her observations of rituals and manners from sausage rolls eating to present opening are a yuletide delight 🐝🎄🐝🎄🐝🎄
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Can we get some shares going? This album is free to download or pay what you want, we wanted to give back for all the support you've give us this year. Thank You.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can we get some shares going? This album is free to download or pay what you want, we wanted to give back for all the support you've give us this year. Thank You.
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them:
boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...
boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them:
boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...
boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...
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Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
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Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab | The Quietus
Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering H...
thequietus.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
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Ryan Bridge and his gang of thugs returned to Stirchley, or “lefty central” as he now calls it, on Wednesday night to threaten and intimidate local people and put up more flags.
fb.watch/CNRSiiz4CU/
fb.watch/CNRSiiz4CU/
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Ryan Bridge and his gang of thugs returned to Stirchley, or “lefty central” as he now calls it, on Wednesday night to threaten and intimidate local people and put up more flags.
fb.watch/CNRSiiz4CU/
fb.watch/CNRSiiz4CU/
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I think people who write columns for big newspapers should be smart people who say intelligent things instead of the world's biggest morons who routinely say dumbass things that get them mocked by tens of thousands of people for days on end
September 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I think people who write columns for big newspapers should be smart people who say intelligent things instead of the world's biggest morons who routinely say dumbass things that get them mocked by tens of thousands of people for days on end
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Our sale continues over the weekend: 40 per cent off purchases on our website. Details below:
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🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵
To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.
Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com
To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.
Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Our sale continues over the weekend: 40 per cent off purchases on our website. Details below:
bsky.app/profile/fitz...
bsky.app/profile/fitz...
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I keep trying to think of what I might want to say right now. Then I find I keep coming back back to this poem, ‘Risk patterns’.
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I keep trying to think of what I might want to say right now. Then I find I keep coming back back to this poem, ‘Risk patterns’.
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Knee slappers!!!
"Why didn’t the dad want to have kids?
He was worried that he would pass on the gene for Huntington’s disease."
"Why didn’t the dad want to have kids?
He was worried that he would pass on the gene for Huntington’s disease."
What did one dad say to the other dad?
Not much. Forging a new friendship as an adult male is exceptionally difficult.
Not much. Forging a new friendship as an adult male is exceptionally difficult.
Realistic Dad Jokes
Why did the banana split? It found out it was going to be a father. - - -Why do dads love mowing the lawn? They see lawn care as maintaining their ...
buff.ly
September 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Knee slappers!!!
"Why didn’t the dad want to have kids?
He was worried that he would pass on the gene for Huntington’s disease."
"Why didn’t the dad want to have kids?
He was worried that he would pass on the gene for Huntington’s disease."
@hareandhounds.bsky.social @dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com please share.
I have a spare ticket for British Murder Boys this Saturday. Face value - DM if interested. Thanks.
I have a spare ticket for British Murder Boys this Saturday. Face value - DM if interested. Thanks.
August 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
@hareandhounds.bsky.social @dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com please share.
I have a spare ticket for British Murder Boys this Saturday. Face value - DM if interested. Thanks.
I have a spare ticket for British Murder Boys this Saturday. Face value - DM if interested. Thanks.
@dadadrummer.bsky.social This may help
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July 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
@dadadrummer.bsky.social This may help
@thisistmrw.bsky.social Any idea on stage times for Sacred Paws on Thursday? Just realised I have a clashing childcare commitment. Thanks
May 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@thisistmrw.bsky.social Any idea on stage times for Sacred Paws on Thursday? Just realised I have a clashing childcare commitment. Thanks
During the holidays, I mixed some records together for the first time in years. Unless you were in the same clubs as me in the late 90s, you will probably find this either boring or weird. However, if you were there, you may enjoy this deep house mix www.mixcloud.com/TomLingham/a...
Mixcloud
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August 29, 2024 at 3:01 PM
During the holidays, I mixed some records together for the first time in years. Unless you were in the same clubs as me in the late 90s, you will probably find this either boring or weird. However, if you were there, you may enjoy this deep house mix www.mixcloud.com/TomLingham/a...