Phil Butcher

@TvDidYouSee Remember my mum keeping this for many years later!

#OnThisDay from April 1975 TV TIMES present the Crossroads Wedding Souvenir - This is the Wedding of the Year, and you are invited. Share with Meg (#NoeleGordon) and Hugh the magic moment they have waited so long for. Live again the #Crossroads story . . .

@REFaust1 That's nicely whetted my appetite! Thanks. Always enjoy your reviews - so keep them coming!

@PhilButcher3 I enjoyed that one, thought it was one of the best of Lorac's early mysteries for Sampson Low

E C R Lorac is an author whose reputation has flourished recently. On my blog you can read reviews of her pre-Collins Crime Club books, which are yet to be reprinted. Her debut.. E.C.R. Lorac - 'The Murder On The Burrows' (1931) witnesstothecrime.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/rev…

@AndrewJRTaylor Couldn't wait until it came out in paperback! But really enjoyed it!

Not a bad weekend, all in all…

@puzzledoctor @BL_Publishing They are reprinting an early Ryvet novel later this year, which I'm looking forward to.

Out now from @BL_Publishing - The Double Turn by Carol Carnac/ECR #BookTwitter #ClassicMystery classicmystery.blog/2026/03/27/the…

@BoardOverlord It's our favourite. Play once or twice most weeks!

🎲 Have you played Firefly? No I haven't either and its a completely irrelevant question for today's post, Wingspan from Stonemaier Games is a game that I've played 46 times. What are your thoughts on Wingspan? #BoardGames #BoardGameGeek #TabletopGaming #BoardGameCommunity

@NotThatRBaxter You did caviat the findings saying they are being questioned as other figures don't bear it out...

Doing a presentation on the Quiet Revival a week before the Quiet Revival report gets taken down is pretty on-brand for me.

#OTD March 19, 1711: Thomas Ken dies at Longleat, England. A steadfast bishop, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to endorse King James II’s Declaration of Indulgence. Though known in his time for his courage, he is best remembered today as the author of the beloved doxology: “Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”

@_David_Shaw I see that the RSC are doing a two play adaption of Middlemarch this year. I'd like to see that!

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” Middlemarch

@PhilButcher3 Do you have a link? I couldn't find it

On this day 37 years ago...

@AdamMerrivale Have you seen that the BLCC schedule for July to December is out? I saw it on the Waterstones website!

@PhilButcher3 Thanks Phil! I've unwrapped a few exciting literary presents, but another is apparently arriving today, so I will post a picture later!

@AdamMerrivale I've read a few in the Khan series and have others on my TBR pile. I loved all 3 Horowitz's - very clever but so readable too.

@PhilButcher3 I already had the other two Susan Ryeland books, but not this one. I look forward to starting the series and actually reading them now!

Secondhand booksale in a local church hall £5

@AdamMerrivale We want to be together... (In a broad Brummy accent)

SERMON HIVEMIND What are your favourite 80s/90s/00s UK advertising slogans or jingles?

@AdamMerrivale @EvangelicalsNow National pie week this week. Hope you are celebrating!

@EvangelicalsNow No

"People who eat yogurt and cottage cheese are not having the time of their lives." - No Context Dale Ralph Davis

@AlwynTurner Currently reading your 90s book, but hoping to get this one for my birthday in a few months time!

@AdamMerrivale Glad you are enjoying Hawkins. I recently read the latest in her new historical series set in Oxford.

This week on Murder at the Manse, two historical mysteries featuring (in very different ways) transatlantic sea crossings: open.substack.com/pub/murderatth…

@AdamMerrivale Do they still have the bacon milkshake option?

Today's half term food fun: Five Guys milkshakes Who has the better order, Reuben or me?

@BL_Publishing Halfway through and enjoying it!

Art world secrets. Religious mania. Demands of kinship. All this and more in this month’s Crime Classic, The Double Turn.