George Simmers

Literature of the Great War, plus Snakeskin webzine. Old and Bookish.

[Formula 1 @F1]

The ultimate taxi ride? 😮‍💨

Nigel Mansell gives Ayrton Senna a lift back to the Silverstone pits in 1991 after Senna's McLaren broke down 👏

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Porter, the world’s first driving dog learned how to drive in just 47 days.

He was trained by a driving school in New Zealand that specializes in teaching dogs to drive.

[Michael Caines @michaelscaines]

Artists and thinkers are not, as a rule, deeply preoccupied with the “main currents” of their age.. That is why all the dictators, fascist and communist alike, have to use threats, bribes and brute force to compel their artists to be “social-minded”.
– Aldous Huxley, Oct 27 1946

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@The_Globe Titus Andronicus. He could do the cooking.

[Liverpool University Press @LivUniPress]

The Byron Journal 51.1 features musings on Lord Byron in the footsteps of William Beckford by Rob Alexander, and an unpublished letter from Byron to Murray by @GeorgeSimmers and Mary Lister. ➡️https://t.co/2bnpbmbBk1 @byron_society, @ByronSociety, @sera_romantic, @EPatersonMorgan

[Sarah Fletcher @SarahFPoetry]

After the Titanic sinking, the New York Times got so many bad poetry submissions they had to publish this:

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

Long story short I had a zoom with channel 4 to ask about paying for some prizes on my show and they said they wouldn’t give us any more money cause it’s expensive to do a live show outside of London or some shit. I jokingly said, ‘I’ll just give away my possessions shall I?’

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@readsheffield Thanks for reminding me of it. I read it a long time ago, and should take another look. An exceptional book.

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

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[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@EJHmicroauthor @ABRACKENBURY @brdemuth Great dog.

[Reading Sheffield @readsheffield]

Still time to book and come along.

[Reading Sheffield @readsheffield]

And another trail for our @Reading1900to50 anniversary book...

@GeorgeSimmers writing about Leslie Charters and Simon Templar alias The Saint.

[Reading Sheffield @readsheffield]

So I hear you asking. What novels are reviewed in @Reading1900to50 new, first book?

Let's start with Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's General Belinda (1924). Holdsworth is often described as the first working class novelist. Belinda is the story of a 'general - is, a maid of all work.

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@80_mcswan No.

[John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 @JohnMcCullough_]

Cracker of a poem by Nicholas Moore. It was published in his school magazine, Siesta, in Autumn 1936 when he was just 17. My friend Giles Goodland found it sifting through his dad’s old papers.

[Titania McGrath @TitaniaMcGrath]

Martin Luther King had a dream that one day we would see greater diversity among anthropomorphised chocolate treats.

At last... that dream has come true.

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@sjbrenton Give me the sound of a semi-colon any day.

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@John_Attridge @SC94501728 Black woods was crucial to the Brontes, too

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@jordanbpeterson Damn auto correct.

[George Simmers @GeorgeSimmers]

@jordanbpeterson Sir Christopher Rick's.