Mary Earnshaw
@maryearnshaw.bsky.social
Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
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Trying to establish if, following the 7/7 bomb attacks in London, flights from London Airports were suspended.
Anyone know? Online searches getting me nowhere.
Anyone know? Online searches getting me nowhere.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trying to establish if, following the 7/7 bomb attacks in London, flights from London Airports were suspended.
Anyone know? Online searches getting me nowhere.
Anyone know? Online searches getting me nowhere.
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ELLE: A Verse Novel is published (and launched) on Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
ELLE: A Verse Novel is published (and launched) on Saturday: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
These winter walks were enchanting.
Lovely to see that Lemn Sissay's gorgeous winter walk to Dent Station is being repeated on BBC4 again tonight.
BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay journeys into a world of snow-capped hills, blue skies and birdsong.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
These winter walks were enchanting.
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Badenoch is so incredibly unpleasant. Her response is nothing but personal attacks and describing support for kids in poverty as "hand outs". Grim.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Badenoch is so incredibly unpleasant. Her response is nothing but personal attacks and describing support for kids in poverty as "hand outs". Grim.
Things do often get better, actually.
A young boy mule spinning at Jones' Cotton Mill, Manchester, July 1909 (Getty Images).
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Things do often get better, actually.
Not many people understand how much strength it takes to be a woman in any very senior position in a still male dominated world - very impressive indeed!
The misogynistic "Rachel from Accounts" has never looked so tired, unfunny and inappropriate.
Reeves is very impressive.
#Budget
Reeves is very impressive.
#Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Not many people understand how much strength it takes to be a woman in any very senior position in a still male dominated world - very impressive indeed!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I’ve done this for years!
If you think Black Friday is nonsense, it’s very therapeutic!
If you think Black Friday is nonsense, it’s very therapeutic!
A little thing that works for me, maybe it can work for you, is that Black Friday week is also "Focused Unsubscribing Week". EVERY company that ever got you on their mailing list will send an email this week. Make an intention as you enter the week to unsub, not just ignore, to anyone you're over.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I’ve done this for years!
If you think Black Friday is nonsense, it’s very therapeutic!
If you think Black Friday is nonsense, it’s very therapeutic!
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Midweek message. Life is a crossword with no answer sheet. You do your best with the clues, hope happiness is spelt correctly, and accept that 7 Down will forever remain a mystery. 💙
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Midweek message. Life is a crossword with no answer sheet. You do your best with the clues, hope happiness is spelt correctly, and accept that 7 Down will forever remain a mystery. 💙
Good morning from the frosty north west coast of England. May the sun shine on your day.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Good morning from the frosty north west coast of England. May the sun shine on your day.
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Good morning. Anybody else fed up hearing the words Black Friday? When did Christmas start meaning spending a fortune? It's your time and presence your family and friends need. They won't remember most of the gifts but they will remember the time you spent with them xx
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Good morning. Anybody else fed up hearing the words Black Friday? When did Christmas start meaning spending a fortune? It's your time and presence your family and friends need. They won't remember most of the gifts but they will remember the time you spent with them xx
The Zadie Xa room at the Turner prize exhibition at Cartwright Hall in Bradford. There is a soundscape too...
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Zadie Xa room at the Turner prize exhibition at Cartwright Hall in Bradford. There is a soundscape too...
Also blue sky with a bit of a big Yorkshire mill and its chimney
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Also blue sky with a bit of a big Yorkshire mill and its chimney
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Out of the city is a moon world, blue and white,
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Out of the city is a moon world, blue and white,
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This seems like a reasonable request, right? Timely and relevant. Let's make it happen.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This seems like a reasonable request, right? Timely and relevant. Let's make it happen.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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I'm in this somewhere (excerpt from ELLE).
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I'm in this somewhere (excerpt from ELLE).
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
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The Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library yielded a delight: Lady Mountbatten’s lingerie, sewn from old Italian campaign maps. Austerity at its most intimate. 👙
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library yielded a delight: Lady Mountbatten’s lingerie, sewn from old Italian campaign maps. Austerity at its most intimate. 👙
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If you're able to get to Bradford any time soon do go to Cartwright Hall in Lister Park and see the Turner Prize exhibition - all fascinating but this room, showing Zadie Xa's work reflecting in a mirrored floor is fabulous (well I think so!).
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you're able to get to Bradford any time soon do go to Cartwright Hall in Lister Park and see the Turner Prize exhibition - all fascinating but this room, showing Zadie Xa's work reflecting in a mirrored floor is fabulous (well I think so!).
If you're able to get to Bradford any time soon do go to Cartwright Hall in Lister Park and see the Turner Prize exhibition - all fascinating but this room, showing Zadie Xa's work reflecting in a mirrored floor is fabulous (well I think so!).
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you're able to get to Bradford any time soon do go to Cartwright Hall in Lister Park and see the Turner Prize exhibition - all fascinating but this room, showing Zadie Xa's work reflecting in a mirrored floor is fabulous (well I think so!).
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Eternal memory to all the victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor genocide and the mass artificial famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947.
Zelenskyy: “We defended Ukraine, we defend it now, and we will always defend it. Because this is our only home. And in our home, Russia will never be the master.”
Zelenskyy: “We defended Ukraine, we defend it now, and we will always defend it. Because this is our only home. And in our home, Russia will never be the master.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Eternal memory to all the victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor genocide and the mass artificial famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947.
Zelenskyy: “We defended Ukraine, we defend it now, and we will always defend it. Because this is our only home. And in our home, Russia will never be the master.”
Zelenskyy: “We defended Ukraine, we defend it now, and we will always defend it. Because this is our only home. And in our home, Russia will never be the master.”