Writer. Tee maker @AbovetheLore, Bad historian @FogsBeefandBeer, author of 'Conversations with Spirits’ (Unbound/Penguin), and ingrate curator @TheFilmCrowd

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Joined June 2011
My son’s drawing of ‘safe.’
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Delivery company #Evri is trialling a two-legged postal #robot in ‘tech town’ Barnsley. It can climb stairs and carry 15kg. Yet, a human controller still has to supervise it. The future has arrived. But it’s on probation. Would you say “cheers, mate” to a delivery robot?
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M&S has introduced a £75 beauty advent calendar. As a child, I opened a cardboard door and got a rubbish etching of a shepherd. Apparently I should have been building a skincare portfolio. What would you actually want behind the doors of an adult advent calendar? #shopping
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Is anyone ever going to start calling Artifical Intelligence ‘Super Intelligence’?#AI
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11 years with the same broadband provider? That’s too Faithful. 🗡️ Out of contract? You could save £100+ a year by comparing. Don’t get murdered by your broadband bill. #Traitors #TraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors
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"But you won't be a Mrs." "No, I'm a doctor." 👏 Dr Ateh Jewel on divorce, raising girls, and why the title that matters is the one you earn yourself. Listen to the full episode of Doing It Differently, available on all podcast platforms. #AtehJewel #DoingItDifferently
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£1,723 isn’t the most your energy bill can be. From the 1st of October, that’s the annual figure for typical gas and electricity use on a direct-debit tariff covered by Ofgem’s ‘cap’. It caps the rates. Your total still depends on usage. Reassuring name, though. #EnergyBills
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Your basket is £38. Delivery is £3. Delivery becomes free if you spend £40. You now have a very important decision to make about a £2 item you did not want. What are you adding? #Shopping
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Starting a free trial takes one tap. Ending it can involve a password you don’t remember, a page you can’t find and a sudden, touching interest in your feedback. Somewhere, a company calls this ‘customer retention’. Before you sign up, find the exit. #freetrials #money #UK
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My son going to #worldbookday as Andy McNab. #worldbookday2026
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.@bonesandbugs. Hullo, Beth, my son Henry is a big dodo fan — and you’re a huge inspiration! He has made a podcast explaining his dodo love. (We had to visit the only Nicobar pigeon in the UK the other day!) Anyway, just thought I’d share. Thanks! X podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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If you do one thing today, you should seek out this handsome, beautifully-written, and slightly ridiculous book by @TheLaarsHead. And find out how Jack the Ripper just might have been Adolf Hitler. amzn.eu/d/jjFIJ20 #jacktheripper
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My copy of Jack of All Trades: The Untold Lives of Jack The Ripper by @TheLaarsHead has arrived. The whole family are delighted and I fully intend to get round to reading it one day.
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Read the excellent biography of Harry Price by @ahistoryinart by the fireside in a pub in Draperstown in Ireland last night. It led to a big discussion on the supernatural with the wonderful locals. Lot of ghosts out there, it seems. (I had nothing…)
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Are you a Victorian ghost? Embarrassed by your faded vestments? Why not check out the hot new range at H&M?
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Not everything about 2024 was perfect, if I’m honest. But I am pleased I’ve got to the point in life that I’m being aggressively marketed capes.
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Whatever you’re doing, have a great night tonight — and I wish you a happy and successful 2025! (At least try not to arse everything up in the next couple of days — or this post will seem tactless...)
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I suspect that if all Mariah Carey got for Christmas WAS me, you wouldn't hear the bloody end of it...
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My neuro-superb boy wants to do a podcast about stuff he likes. The first episode will cover the dodo and mangel-wurzels.
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I certainly wouldn’t be keen.
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