Andrea Mullaney

@andreamullaney.bsky.social

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Writer, lecturer, recovering journo, constant reader, mother, cailleach èibhinn living in Glasgow. Literary agent @llmonts. "All of the birds are laughing, come on, let's all join in."

Whether deliberately or by luck, his chosen pseudonym was likely to pique the interest of fans of Disney's Pinocchio (in which Jiminy Cricket is a key character), those interested in orthopteran insects in general and lovers of the greatest summer game.
A black and white dog pants during the heatwave two weeks ago, looking beautiful
Round picture of a Scottie dog on a yellow wall, with a peculiar intense expression on its face, looking right at you and judging you.
Toilet with many, many knickknacks and decorations, painted in blue
Woodlands Road statue of a sheriff on a two legged horse with a traffic cone on its head
Poster for The Karate Kid The Musical, in which the actor playing Mr Miyagi looks about 45.
A puffin sits on a rock with sand eels in its mouth, looking very cute, with the sea and a soaring gull in the background
Text image reading: Reclaim Our Streets No To The Far Right Protest takes place at 1pm at the Buchanan Street steps on Saturday 13 June
An immature pine cone looking totally rank, all soft and furry, still on a tree
A white dog sniffs around a disgusting pile of rubbish scattered around a large bin in a park
A hand feeding an adorable baby goat who is wearing a coat that is patterned to make him look like a small cow
Three stones with googly eyes sit on a mini sofa
Sam Neill with a beard
The story I'm about to tell has its origin in a modernist cuboid office block that straddles the M8 at Charing Cross. When I started my investigation, I didn't think it'd take me surfing online in the Bahamas and Barbados or put me on a train to Wester Hailes. I didn't think I'd come across 11-year-old company "directors," talking raccoons, and a self-made candy millionaire. I didn't think I'd be casually threatened shortly before playing an augmented reality go-kart game. And I didn't know I'd uncover a £1million tax bill owed to Glasgow City Council.
I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice? "You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."
A young Robert Redford, playing Death in The Twilight Zone, holds out his hand towards the camera appealingly.
A mocked up Star Trek Pocket books novel showing Kirk and Pike called Why Are You Always On My Ship?
From Star Trek episode Balance of Terror, Captain Kirk says to Lt. Stiles, "Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge."
A grey seal sleeps in green water with its head poking out
Paula Rego print of a goose with the head of a cheerful woman
A large pig in a clean pen
Patrick Stewart in a scene from Extras says "I've seen everything. I've seen it all."
Gina, you are a spectacular and artistically brave woman and movie star. How do you rationalise - and hopefully enjoy - the fact that your audiences often encounter you as a beacon of beauty, sexuality and eroticism? Geroellheimer
The book Glasgow's Greatest Hits sits on the distinctive seat pattern of a Glasgow subway train
Brian Wilson stands next to a woman in front of a toy theatre in a house
Photo of a white dog with black eyes and ears emerging from a river and looking hopefully for another stone to be thrown in for him to retrieve
Photo taken from below of the tops of trees against a clear blue sky
A photograph of a white dog facing away from the camera, off a dirt path which goes into mature woodland
Fenella Fielding, a woman with a neat brown bob, smirks and points at a map, in a still from a 1970s film
A yellow door stands alone in a frame in front of a waste ground surrounded by a metal fence.
Tweet from @AuraNLan which reads: What a success! the Aura Voice group launch event 'She Said It' a 'Zine' to celebrate International Women's Day... As with anything the Voice group do, it was an emotive and powerful afternoon with women reading out their work & sharing their experiences in a packed room... Photo below shows the zine which has a cover of sunflowers and butterflies.
Keir Starmer at a podium. Caption says "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom".
Broadcaster Janice Forsyth stands in a corridor smiling, holding the leash of a small back and white dog
Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize winning author: I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.
A spray of shiny, dead brown leaves leans against a tree trunk with a park in the background.
Close up photo of the face of a black and white dog
A set of 12 hardback books by "Mrs Robert Henrey" sit on a library shelf