Simon Nicholson

Writer of children's television and books. Shows include PJ MASKS and a bunch more. YOUNG HOUDINI published by OUP/Sourcebooks he/him

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@DanBerlinka Heard them ten years ago with Rattle, TurangulilaSymph. Similar effect.

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@NicoleDubuc But they didn’t eat each other. So basically ok.

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Manga about a gay couple whose state doesn’t recognise same sex marriage

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À Plein Temps is on iPlayer - an unbearably tense and kinetic drama about a woman trying to manage work and childcare during a paris metro strike. There aren’t many feminist action movies about the charge mentale but there should be, and this is one

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@artsofdenial It’s very good but it’s giganticism unleashed, makes Mahler’s 8 seem like a string quartet

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Saw the vast and pitiless Dune 2 which ate my tiny brain like a snack and sucked it into its sand-speckled maw

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@exitthelemming @oldvictheatre Went through a wig a night because of insisting he was drenched head to foot in fake blood for the dagger scene

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Kimchi in space

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@stephenkb @JolyonMaugham @AlexLiviaJones The old Alec Guinness film Kind Hearts and Coronets has the same plot and is a much more radical film, maybe because it was made when the Attlee government was in power and the aristocracy really was under some sort of attack

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So cold this morning that I wore my reading glasses as I walked into town to shield my eyeballs from the chill

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Incredible biography - “The Vatican begins issuing rebukes… Taylor and Burton are ticked off for displaying “the caprices of adult children”… Taylor is described as “an avaricious vamp who destroys families and devours husbands…” which actually isn’t an exaggeration…”

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To all writers getting notes today here is this absolute humdinger

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Trying to help daughter with maths homework that is « so hard even the calculator can’t do it »

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@HenryNormalpoet Apparently Crunchies are a better comparison.

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Beautiful but slightly bleak book about a father and son trying to make sense of US societal collapse and climate disaster, and not really managing to, who blames them.

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CARRIE FISHER promoting Star Wars on French TV, and speaking very good French.

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Swimming, Hampstead ponds