All welcome. If you're not already on the guest list email me via my website for an invitation. davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

POST MODERN: an online gathering next Thursday 24th September at 7pm (BST). Featuring authors Kevin Boniface, Susanna Crossman, Patrick Kavanagh and Tony White. What connects them? Here's a clue:

Animated Postman Sorting Mail

Alt: Postman Pat sorting parcels

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Can I just take you’re name for this Special Delivery Coopland How do you spell that? Like the baker’s in Filey Can’t say I’ve ever been Well they’ve got one in Scarborough too Do you want this letter or not?

Starlings rule

My favourite thing is when the Ring doorbell says ‘We’ll be right there’ (I mean who even says that anyway?) and you wait for ages and nobody comes

RIP Catherine Ringer withnFred Chichin Rita Mitsuko 1988. Paris By Robert Doisneau

This is sad news. I came home from my high school French exchange trip completely smitten by Catherine Ringer and Les Rita Mitsouko. Cool, massively creative and a bit eccentric. Perfect faroutmagazine.co.uk/les-rita-mit...

Catherine Ringer, singer of Les Rita Mitsouko, dies at 68

The singer of iconic French pop band Les Rita Mitsouko, Catherine Ringer, has died at the age of 68 following a short illness. Find out more here.

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Spider at work on our kitchen window

Don’t know who the team in blue are but they’ve just conceded two goals in the time it’s taken me to deliver the post to nos 46 and 48. “Heads up lads, you’re still in this!”

1. Forster Square, Bradford, early 2000s. Probs taken with a Sony Compact Cyber-Shot 2. St Peter's Street, Huddersfield, 2026. iPhone 11 Round About Town: thirty years of life out and about as a postal worker now available from all the podcast places shows.acast.com/round-about-...

A-frame blackboard with the slogan ‘Action CuRes all feaR’ prominently displayed in a front garden on my post round

Simpler times: 10 September 2015 The music in the Co-op is Groovy Train by The Farm. The man in a fleece jacket and ruck sack has just burped ostentatiously by the pre-packed sandwiches.

This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

Sovereignty for sale

Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state

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Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 2w ago

Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...

Tripped over the stone frog at the house where the woman asked me to stop bringing hate mail* *She meant junk mail

Round About Town Episode 22: Her from Number 14 Available here: kevinboniface.co.uk/podcast

Kevin Boniface - Podcasting/Broadcasting

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CAR PARK OFFICE

30 years of observational notes since becoming a postal worker. Round About Town Episode 22: Her from Number 14 "A little gem of a podcast" M00nmouse via Apple Podcasts

Your heart is the big box of paints. 📷

Anyway, here’s Clive James’s cameo performance as Ramsay Street’s postman in Neighbours youtu.be/iAdi1iLEt7w

Clive James in Neighbours - 1995

YouTube video by Assorted Videos

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If you can't get published, do it yourself. It's not vanity publishing, it's punk as anything.

In the last year or so 90s music has finally usurped 80s music to become the builders’ site radio favourite. Was beginning to think the 80s would never end

Bet she’s crap at dancing

Thanks to all who joined me, author Simon Crump and his publisher @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social tonight to celebrate the marvel that is 'Post-it Notes from Underground.' Get yours here: bluemoosebooks.com/shop/post-it...

This is utter genius and deserves the widest possible audience. This has been hiding in plain sight for the last 50 years. 🤣🤣🤣

Here’s the video of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy at home with their Liberace hot nut dispenser which led one of my colleagues to conclude with 100% nailed on certainty that they were aliens youtu.be/1qDq8CGZr8o?...

The Cramps - At home with Lux and Ivy - Interview Footage 1990

YouTube video by lemonsqueezermunich

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Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...

The 1st time i delivered leaflets for conservatories and extensions to a block of flats I told my mates about it in the pub and we all had a good laugh at the absurdity of it. Having done it many many times since over the last 30 years, it’s no longer worth a comment. Absurdity is the new normal

Thursday 27 August at 7pm - can’t wait - @davidcollard.bsky.social events are always so wonderful & have heard nothing but good things about this book🩵📚🩵 #books #booksky @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 4w ago

This Thursday 27th August live online at 7pm. Join me and author Simon Crump to celebrate publication of 'Post-it Notes from Underground' (Bluemoose Books), an unclassifiable and absorbing account of his time spent as an office cleaner. All welcome! bluemoosebooks.com/shop/post-it...

Here's a picture my grandad took of the Do-It-Yourself funeral director's sign in Holmfirth c1980