David Willis

Dad, husband, oxter-tickler, word-stickler. Views my own.

[David Willis @vywi]

Starting a wee thread on what I’ve read this year…
First up: Children of Memory by @aptshadow - conclusion of his Children of Time trilogy, and a great exploration of what it means to be alive and sentient. Fantastic ideas just pour out of this writer. Recommended.

[David Willis @vywi]

@pacarnahan Meant to say! Read the book and it was brilliant. Very evocative of my times there too, and loved Bert’s cameo. Looking forward to book two.

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@smudger__ @dogavic @secondmentions You, sir, may be a genius.

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Here’s one for you @secondmentions

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@dogavic @secondmentions “The multi-segmented tree product”

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@xdemondayzx @SHGames @CODUpdates @CallofDuty They need to get this fixed

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@CallofDuty Any chance you can patch whatever is causing the random lagging? Game is unplayable.

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Replies on this are choice…

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

My favourite John Savident story (and there were many). As I recall it, as he recalled it to me during my Coro St days.

He was stocking up on some Christmas booze one year at a posh off license in the West End. Ahead of him at the counter there’s a woman placing an order. John S thinks, ‘oh damn - I’m sure I’ve worked with her in something, but for the life of me I can’t remember what, or even her name.’ So he tries to strike up a conversation - ‘Oh hello, my darling, lovely to see you again!’ - bit of actors’ chat.

She’s polite but a bit icy. ‘How’s work? Doing panto this year?’ he asks. ‘No’, she replies, with a bit of a stare.

She heads off. John Savident thinks, oh, bit toffee-nosed her, wish I could remember her name and what we were in together, I know that face so well …

A moment later the penny drops.

‘Oh God. That was Princess Margaret.’

[David Willis @vywi]

@robmanuel @anon_opin Aye, but did those rockets have pilots?

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@stuartmathie Are you the one leaning forward or the one leaning back?

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@crispinhunt @YouTube That is bloody mental!

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@stuartmathie Disappointing that it had such a small audience. But a quality audience nonetheless- merry xmas!

[David Willis @vywi]

@stuartmathie Not quite Tannadice by the bathroom lights quality, but I was happy.

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@stuartmathie Yippee- kai-ay, Mathie mucker!

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@pacarnahan Love this one…

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@Graham_Lister Good grief. Have I woken up in 1973?

[David Willis @vywi]

@aptshadow @MargaretAtwood @RealBobMortimer @adrianwalker @Mark__Lawrence @dannywallace I love @adrianmckinty’s Sean Duffy books. But this one - and The Chain - not so much. Tourists get in a pickle after accidentally killing an Aussie on an island where only one extended family lives. Every bad decision leads to another. Sean’s new adventure is on my TBR.

[David Willis @vywi]

Starting a wee thread on what I’ve read this year…
First up: Children of Memory by @aptshadow - conclusion of his Children of Time trilogy, and a great exploration of what it means to be alive and sentient. Fantastic ideas just pour out of this writer. Recommended.

[David Willis @vywi]

@aptshadow @MargaretAtwood @RealBobMortimer @adrianwalker @Mark__Lawrence @dannywallace Jonathan Frantzen’s The Corrections is filled with a family on the brink of failure. Even the worst of them is funny, though, if only unintentionally. Brilliant writing dragged me through the parts where everyone was kissing me off. Don’t live your life to satisfy others…