I don't like to boast about my glamorous lifestyle, but I'm about to have an endoscopy.
Mike Rampton
@mikerampton.bsky.social
Author, journalist, hero, dad, sleepy etc. He/him. Cambridge, UK. Please buy the fun, funny books I write for children and grown-ups. mikerampton.com / interestingskull.beehiiv.com
“Today’s my weekly metal joinery class with one of the stars of Once Upon A Time In America.” “Tuesday Weld?” “Yes, that’s the name of the class I attend with Elizabeth McGovern.”
I like using the phrase "busman's holiday" when I travel. The thing is, I use it so much at home...
Not 100% sure about the cropping choices on this page from Gerard Depardieu’s cookbook.
“I cried a lot when given my Oscar. Everything was covered in tears.” “Statuette?” “It was, and my tuxedo was soggy too.”
"That's enough photographing the Swinging Sixties for me, I'm going to compress large quantities of hay for easy transportation!" said David, bale-y.
"I've done such a good job of painting this pair of Egyptian symbols that I feel like rewarding myself with a treat." "Two ankhs?" "I was thinking more of a nice cup of tea and a biscuit, but perhaps."
All of my beliefs are shaped by the fundamental idea that we are all equally good at aikido and blues guitar. I guess you could call it a seagalitarian outlook.
who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now
"Games Workshop are hiring a writer who's really into Warhammer." "40,000?" "Doubt it. Writing is very poorly paid." www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
Games Workshop hiring Writer in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 2:08:44 PM. About The JobDo you live and breathe Warhammer and have your finger on the pulse of the global…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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"One of the members of Slade broke both his arms, and employed me to help him go to the toilet." "Noddy Holder?" "That was one of the things Dave Hill employed me as, yes. And a botty-wiper."
This is joyous! Also I enjoy that I managed to sneak a loki behind @athenakugblenu.bsky.social's head....
Mike Rampton@mikerampton.bsky.social · 3w agoAlong with @louiestowell.bsky.social and @athenakugblenu.bsky.social I am in issue eight of The Epistle, the school newspaper of a Cambridge school that I think is called St Paul’s. They have a Newspaper Club and do an issue every term. Excellent work!
Along with @louiestowell.bsky.social and @athenakugblenu.bsky.social I am in issue eight of The Epistle, the school newspaper of a Cambridge school that I think is called St Paul’s. They have a Newspaper Club and do an issue every term. Excellent work!
Hello. I'm neck-deep in fun book projects but could really do with some fun smaller freelance writing work. I'm good at it and have written for lots of magazines, websites and brands, but I've fallen out of touch with people. If you are someone who commissions writers, please commission me. Thanks!
Writers & authors, with all the nonstop scams going around, you should be aware of @victoriastrauss.com's heroic work at Writer Beware. It's sponsored by SFF by has great info for writers of all genres.
Writer Beware
Shining a small, bright light in a wilderness of writing scams
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Cartoon from 2005: Ann Widdecombe and her High Church Mice
Why wasn’t the badger at school? It was an in-sett day.
A personal disclosure and a great joke about a badger. interestingskull.beehiiv.com/p/a-foot-note
A foot note
And many great jokes, including a really wholesome one about a badger
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Thriller idea: man with world's second smallest penis has to stop him.
Weekend book buyers. Here's what my latest is all about...
What do you call an actor, orator and after-dinner speaker who is sufficient and no more? Sir Peter Justenov
“A pharaoh bought me dinner where Home & Away is set.” “Rameses’ treat?” “No, you are thinking of Neighbours. Home & Away is set in Summer Bay, and that is where Cleopatra paid for my meal.”
There's a new Viz on sale today, featuring 'Keir Starmer's Pajama Drama.' And my use of the American spelling for 'pyjama' throughout the strip was of course deliberate - it was a wry, ironical comment on, er, the global infiltration of Americanisms, or something.
I am fleetingly mentioned in a boxout in The Bookseller in a story about Nosy Crow's enormous success in China. www.thebookseller.com/features/as-...
How children's indie Nosy Crow became big in Beijing
Nosy Crow chief executive Kate Wilson reflects on a successful decade and a half of doing business in China.
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“The Queen has put my worries about her fruit preserves to rest.” “Ma’am allayed?” “No, it was the raspberry jam she gave me which assuaged my doubts.”
“I wonder what would happen if we let a huge wild African river animal loose within a famous former music hall in London.” “The Hippodrome?” “It'd probably do exactly that, yes, within the Hammersmith Palais.”
“When I retire I’m going to move to Devon and spend lots of time on my hobbies.” “Dartmoor?” “Yes, and play more billiards.”