Patrick Limb
@patchlimb.bsky.social
Half-English, half-French, half-Scots KC @ropewalklaw. Completing biography of Capt FC Dietrichsen. Learning how to handle the Northumberland Small Pipes.
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Patrick Limb
@patchlimb.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Where the river flows out to the sea by Patrick Limb - Little Toller Books
A new essay by Patrick Limb for The Clearing on returning home to the village of his youth, during his mother's illness.
www.littletoller.co.uk
‘Where the river flows out to the sea’ - published in LTB’s online journal in ‘The Clearing’ - tempus fluit
#NatureWriting
#NatureWriting
No finer team to support than Team Jamie
Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
No finer team to support than Team Jamie
Pivoting from “in the hole” to “in the bunker” really is quality sledging.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Pivoting from “in the hole” to “in the bunker” really is quality sledging.
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“We must strive to become intellectual nomads, keep moving, keep learning, resist confining ourselves in any cultural or mental ghetto, and spend more time not in select centres but at the margins, which is where real change always comes from.”
- Elif Shafak
- Elif Shafak
September 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“We must strive to become intellectual nomads, keep moving, keep learning, resist confining ourselves in any cultural or mental ghetto, and spend more time not in select centres but at the margins, which is where real change always comes from.”
- Elif Shafak
- Elif Shafak
September 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.”
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
August 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.”
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
Lawdy, the social media output for the app called ‘liven’ is anything but …
August 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Lawdy, the social media output for the app called ‘liven’ is anything but …
“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog”
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
August 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog”
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
Now the hot winds blows
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Now the hot winds blows
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
The nights are fair closing in
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July 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The nights are fair closing in
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July 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Vive la France!
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
July 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Vive la France!
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
Andrew Castle is John Inverdale in old money
July 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Andrew Castle is John Inverdale in old money
A really interesting thread. Medico-legal work can also be generative of - as well as generated by - the shifting sands of diagnoses.
(For all that, as the Observer seems to have done, ‘follow the money’)
(For all that, as the Observer seems to have done, ‘follow the money’)
More on this in light of Winn's rebuttal. 1. There is a lot of pressure on memoirists to simplify narratives. 2. As I write about in #SomeOfUsJustFall, diagnosis is an ongoing process, especially with complex chronic conditions. Theories are posed; the body concurs, or doesn't. #TheChronicLife
There were lots of other comments but probably the one that tipped me right over the edge was ' find a solution. Don't be a victim'. Friend, the solution is writing about it and continuing to exist. There's much more to this story, but the most pertinent bit just now is what happened next.
July 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A really interesting thread. Medico-legal work can also be generative of - as well as generated by - the shifting sands of diagnoses.
(For all that, as the Observer seems to have done, ‘follow the money’)
(For all that, as the Observer seems to have done, ‘follow the money’)
The Full English: www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/...
Your rights if a hotel refuses to serve English food on a foreign holiday
A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday
www.mirror.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Full English: www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/...
“Un petit coin de parapluie
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
July 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Un petit coin de parapluie
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
A bad business, but good journalism.
I'm sure you're already on this, but I recommend the article itself, which is by Chloe Hadjimatheou. See what you make of it. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
July 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A bad business, but good journalism.
Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020)
July 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020)
Oh la la. The Moulin Rouge awaits.
July 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Oh la la. The Moulin Rouge awaits.