Guy Cook

Author of Culture Man ( The Overarm Dog and the Sporting Tales blog. For snippets on writing and literature – and the odd cartoon.

[Guy Cook @SportingTales1]

You can get involved in high culture by voting for the 2021 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. Voting deadline is Friday and winner announced
3 Dec. See https://t.co/yrdaQklqad for the shortlist and https://t.co/wzvsTfufQm to vote.

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This update of my arts prizes blog brings us right up to date with the latest awards including Booker Prize, Emmys, MTV Video, Arthur C. Clarke award and a heads up on the Turnip Prize! https://t.co/d8sSSRmV7P

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Just submitted my book to https://t.co/ydC4t77dEw for exposure so readers can find it and read it TY @ourawesomegang #authors #amwriting

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After a hiatus of a couple of weeks, here's this week's cartoon. It's an old joke, but rarely drawn quite like this!

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By the way, Culture Man is on 99p (or 99c) offer until next Thursday (Kindle version): https://t.co/7gtCD3HMaw #kindle #book

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This week's #cartoon. I'm surprised I haven't been picked up by Clinton Cards yet.

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This week's cartoon - not as complex as last week's! #cartoon

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Jack Fairweather wins for The Volunteer, a biography of Witold Pilecki, who voluntarily entered Auschwitz to report on its horrors and was executed by the Polish communists in 1948. The Costas: for UK-based writers; 5 categories; 1 overall winner; started in 1971. #literature

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Here's this week's cartoon. Do you think they're getting any better🙂

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True stars, both

[Basil Brush @realbasilbrush]

I don’t know what to say, I’m so desperately sad. 😢😢🦊such times we had, rest in peace Mr Derek, my best friend forever #DerekFowlds #BasilBrushshow

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Here's this week's cartoon

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Despite trying to focus on writing, here's a weekly cartoon. Be assured that the production standards will improve (probably) 🙂 #cartoon

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@AllisonSymes1 Hi Allison - good to meet you at the writers' festival yesterday. Will check out CF Today and From Light to Dark and Back Again ....

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Culture Man - set in Winchester - is free on Kindle this week! I'm delighted with the uptake, with 2,200 downloads so far and it's listing at no. 1 in historical mysteries in the US. https://t.co/7gtCD3HMaw

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As it states, first commercial satellite producing colour video from space - (and a pretty cool video!) - from the company I work for, Earth-i. https://t.co/Rr8YGeSHAV

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One of many excellent pictures from @eardleyart, this time of Salisbury Cathedral and on the cover of @SalisburyLife https://t.co/fdZ9n9s0tB

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Earth-i (a UK company in Guildford) launched a prototype of the world's first full-colour video satellite constellation today. Here's a clip of the satellite being ejected at 505km, after its launch from India! https://t.co/Az3wTaj0ta

[Earth-i @Earthi_]

We're thrilled that today has been such a huge success! Here's a little clip of #VividX2 being deployed from the #PSLVC40 today at 505km above the #Earth. 🌍

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My handle is about to change from CultureMan8 to SportingTales1 to match my other social media, and to better reflect there are and will be other stories. Fear not, though, Culture Man is still out there, swooping across the Winchester skies. Happy New Year from Culture Man!

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Culture Man (currently guarding Winchester's culture) congratulates Coventry, UK's City of Culture for 2021. #ThisisCoventry #UKCityofCulture2021

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Plus a brass band, a bit of cold, and some excellent stalls, I believe ..... https://t.co/Jck0jHoAmT

[Curious Lions @curious_lions]

Jaunty jugglers and a surreal fire-eating man were kicking off the revelry at Twyford Christmas Fair last Friday. #funfayre #christmasfair #twyfordtogether