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Helen Grant

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Lives in Scotland & writes books. Latest novel JUMP CUT published by Fledgling Press. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by Fraser Ross Associates.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 21h

Towards evening we also went to see the King's Caves. We didn't have very long there as it was getting very close to nightfall.

Exterior of the King's Cave. There is an opening in the cliff face with a caged entrance over it.

Helen Grant and v small dog in a dark cave

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday we went to see the "Giants' Graves", actually the remains of two large chambered Cairns. This was on the Isle of Arran.

Neolithic stones and small dog (long-haired Chihuahua). The stones are parallel.

Neolithic stones. I think this was the entrance to a chambered cairn.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 23h

When I am dead and in my grave
And all my bones are rotton
I hope the Lord will think on me
When I am quite forgotton

Cute eh? NB rotton/forgotton is spelled that way in the story.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 23h

"Seaburgh is my dwelling place"

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

Before you @ me, I've looked it up now...

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

Me at 2a.m.:
Nathaniel Ager is my name
And England is my nation
Something something something
And Christ is my salvation
OMG WHAT IS THAT MISSING LINE

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

Time to have my second tea of the day and I don't have to boil the kettle because it's in this fabulous thing. I absolutely love that Yeti mug. #VanLife

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting read. “It boils down to this,” Bazzano says. “The measure of mental health in a person is the degree of their interest in others. That could be their neighbours, or it could be social and political.”
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Look out for number one! Selfish self-help books are booming – but will they improve your life?

If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though

www.theguardian.com

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

Have sent this to my son who is an archaeologist as I am sure he will appreciate it

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

After our trip to the Library in the Woods we stopped off for tea and scones at the Glenisle Hotel, which is magnificently dog friendly and also has this cool bar:

Illuminated bar with timber salvaged from a steamer, with name reading TALISMAN and carved image of a man.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely old book, possibly the oldest there.

Title page of book shown in previous pic. Dated 1925.

Illustration of bird with nest and eggs.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Inside the Library in the Woods!

Interior with table, six chairs, several shelves of books and leaves of paper pinned up everywhere.

Bookshelves full of books surrounded by papers pinned to the wall.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

The Library in the Woods, Arran!

Log cabin style building with grass growing on the roof.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

"Bow your head for you enter sacred and magical lands" - trip today to see the Library in the Woods on Arran.

Small black and white dog going under a tree trunk across a path with a carved wooden notice on it.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, absolutely. Just tell people to use a free online tax calculator now and again if they need to know their tax liability. Sorted.

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Eep! Good luck with that!

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Some (absolutely free) Hallowe'en listening: the peerless @davelonghorn.bsky.social reads 4 of my stories including my completion of M.R.James's THE GAME OF BEAR:
youtu.be/Wd_8tt6KWl8?...

4 Helen Grant Stories - ASMR

YouTube video by David Longhorn

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d

Wandering in the kirkyard

Helen Grant, back to camera, walking in a graveyard with lichenous stones

Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d

Went for a walk and found an old burial ground. Some of the stones were illegible but I found one from 1820. #Scotland #Arran

Lichenous tombstones including one tall one with an obelisk.

Close up of a marble relief of Jesus's face on a lichenous tombstone.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d

@mariadahvana.bsky.social My son finished BEOWULF last night and messaged: "Has to be one of my favourite books yet... He rode hard, he stayed thirsty, he was the man. He was the man... Fantastic stuff... I loved the flow of the entire thing."

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely devastating news about a major theft from Amgueddfa Cymru - thieves have stolen Bronze Age gold artefacts held at the St Fagans galleries 😭! St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem - BBC News share.google/wHR1bDtJxDq4...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem - BBC News

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 4d

STRANGE EPIPHANIES by Peter Bell

“Bell is not a purveyor of pure horror, but of something much more interesting.” Wormwood

“Bell has a talent for finding isolated and less known corners.” Ghosts & Scholars

“Poetic in style and emotionally intimate.” Hellnotes

swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/st...

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

The dog is now comatose as she generally is after long trips. She probably thinks humans are all nuts.

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