Rhymes Of Britain Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Happy musical Folklore Thursday! Only four days to our first ever London show – and nine to our Bath book launch! We dearly hope to see you at one of them if you're anywhere near the bottom half of this island... We should just take a moment to…
SOUPY TWISTS: Fifth and Final Bit
42) Soupy Twists, and GOODBYE! Friday, 18 January 2019 Weeeeeeeeell, my dear old Soupy supporters, as the old adage goes, all finite things must come to an end, and the Soupy Twists odyssey has gone on far longer than anyone could have predicted back in MAY 2016 FOR GOSHNESS' SAKE when the crowdfunder was first…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Autumn 2018
MERRY YULE, AND MARI LWYD! Thursday, 20 December 2018 Happy festive Folklore Thursday everybody! Please find attached this year’s totally bonus ‘brand new’ yule story, for all you lovely pledgers – MARI LWYD. As you know, our book is more about tales than ‘lore’, but thanks to those lovely folks at folkwales.org.uk, there seemed just enough…
The Bath Plug 2018: Rachel Parris
It's that time of year again! Previous winners: TERRY JONES, PETER RICHARDSON, BARRY CRYER Now read on, dot dot dot... With the precedent set by Jones, Richardson and Cryer, it may well be that anyone who knows about the Bath Plug Award, which I created, and which it is my duty to dole out every…
WHITE STRAIGHT MEN LIKE ME…
Happy Mithras, lovelies! WHITE STRAIGHT MEN LIKE ME SHOULD STFU – Download HERE. The sad thing about funding TWO books on Unbound in fewer than two years, is it becomes a lot harder to keep a personal blog going when you're having to blog literally every single week to get projects off the ground –…
SOUPY TWISTS! Fourth Bit
You will have heard by now the horrible news that I've apparently written a rather good book – so good, Unbound have delayed it until 2018 to try and give it maximum coverage. I'm thinking of becoming a security guard to survive until then. But for now, here's the latest digest of Soupy activity... 17)…
Bath Plug Award 2017: BAZ!
Well, another Bath Comedy Festival tucks itself up in bed, and levity flies from the city once again for another year. This was a particularly light year for me, as my usual multiple duties mainly boiled down to just performing at Moles club on Sunday 9th, for this year's FUNNY NOISES: MY LOVELY HORSE! True, a…
SOUPY TWISTS! Third Bit
More updates on SOUPY TWISTS: Digested and excreted for your pervy pleasure! Now read on, dot dot dot… 9) Since You Have Been Kind Enough Never To Be Peter Sissons... Sirs and Madams, I am chastened and bowed – ever the men and women of affairs, you have reminded us all, ALL, of our duty. A Fry &…
UPDATE: HALLOWE’EN ON JEKYLL ISLAND
"Unless, of course, I’m absolutely entirely wrong, again." To be fair, it's still a remake – they just went with Brexit's 'DICKS ARE RUNNING EVERYTHING' finale instead.
HALLOWE’EN ON JEKYLL ISLAND
HAPPY HALLOWE'EN, SOUPY TWISTERS! https://twitter.com/JemRoberts/status/792080187324334080 I am actually IN America (The States) as the holiday comes around (so don't throw me out of a window, Stephen and Hugh), and sadly, with that reference, I've already used up the best Fry & Laurie video for Hallowe'en in the text above, but to celebrate us hitting a wonderful…
Jem Roberts 