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Penelope Friday

@penthewriter.bsky.social

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Novelist (Bella Books & Nine Star Press) and Regency Period writer. This is my happy place. Find photos of cats & Cornwall, good news, funny things, updates of writing, and always ALT TEXT! #writersky No alt text, no follow. http://penelopefriday.com

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 14

Honestly, I think I’m proudest of my novel “The Sisterhood”. It’s cool (to me) because it’s focused around a real historical truth which gets little publicity: the way women fought to abolish slavery in the 18th and 19th C; but is also a lesbian romance.
www.bellabooks.com/product/9781...

Sisterhood, The – eBook

www.bellabooks.com

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Being decent etc in the face of correction may feel hard the first time, but it gets easier the more times you do it, and what’s more, when you end up having a *nice* conversation with someone rather than an argument, you go away feeling so much better. Learning to apologise has been so worth it.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also not funny for precisely the same reason…

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, and hard agree.

Tiny thing…but “disabled people” is sort of preferable to “the disabled” (like you wouldn’t say “the trans” as it’s generally considered depersonalising. Not meant as criticism, more info for future use, if that makes sense?)

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to make this view of #Penzance look as much like a postcard as I could. Do you think I succeeded?
#CornwallPhotos
#photography
#Cornwall

A view across Penzance, with the sea in front and behind, in the town, a church “with ears” (the four little turrets sticking up from the tower, which is a typically Cornish style, and used to be something we looked out for on journeys to Cornwall as meaning we were getting close to the destination). It is all in faded colours.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! That makes more sense! Yes, you don’t want to have sex matters thrust in your face necessarily all unexpected like :)

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Why tf is this labelled “graphic media” by bluesky?

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11d

stop thinking right now

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 10d

I have been slacking on photos of #Cornwall, so have one of Drift Reservoir.

There is a lake in the middle of the picture (technically a reservoir, but lake makes it sound prettier and it is quite picturesque). On the far side are rolling fields of green grass, rimmed with hedges, in typical British tamed countryside fashion. On the near side, browning bracken grows, then stumbling yellowy grass. The sky above is a light blue/grey, reflected in the colour of the lake.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 22d

This is another rather nice story. Read about the fish doorbell, if you missed it back in March.
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Fish Doorbell: the underwater livestream saving fish in the Netherlands | Discover Wildlife

A canal lock in the Dutch city of Utrecht has been making a splash with its underwater livestream. But what is the Fish Doorbell and how is it helping local wildlife?

www.discoverwildlife.com

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 27d

And another really positive story. They increased life expectancy by 75%, so people lived 4 years at each stage of illness they’d expect to spend 1 at.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 28d

Huh, you know, I don’t think I quite realised that ignorant and ignore came from the same base until then. So to be ignorant is literally to ignore the information, whether through refusing to learn or refusing to hear because it’s inconvenient…

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 29d

Wow.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29d

Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed

A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.

Due to the light they're hard to photograph.

Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 29d

Yes. Yes it does.
*hugs or if you are not a hug person, painkillers that actually work*
Also very much solidarity.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 29d

You actually have to make a real effort to be that ignorant about climate change if you are in his position, I think. In his time, scientists *will* have spoken to him about it, so he will have to have looked carefully for the 0.01% of scientists who say there’s any doubt at all.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 29d

Alt text, please, for future posting? It also helps people find things because the words used in alt text turns up in searches So if you put your name there it’ll reliably come up with the book name (which it won’t being just in your screen name, ime).

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · 29d

And while we’re here for good news, have this fantastic story about transgender rights in Kenya. A judge not only ruled in favour of a trans woman but ruled that there needs to be trans protective legislation in place.
qnews.com.au/kenya-transg...

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 22

Hey everyone, have a positive story about the recovery of the Kelp forest “cathedrals of the sea” in California, to be reminded not everything is bad news :)
archive.ph/Qj6PH

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 21

Yes. I’m not someone who doesn’t listen, so it can’t have been that clear, though to be fair I was bloody exhausted that first year as having ME and a baby who doesn’t sleep through the night isn’t a great combination. But there were so many vaccines that I thought one (not MMR!) was chicken pox.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 21

I felt guilty too because I stupidly thought that he *had* been vaccinated against it, because they did the other childhood illnesses I associated with it (measles, rubella, and CP being the 3 ‘spotty’ ones) so I didn’t remove him from the playgroup that day though I kept him away from the kid.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 21

My kid was about ten months old, just walking about the place but not able to talk or really comprehend why things were so miserable. We’d just moved house. It was midsummer and I had to close windows so we didn’t annoy the neighbours as I comforted him as he cried all night. It Was awful.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 20

But yeah, I think if I had a kid now, I’d pay for vaccination, tbh, and I *really* don’t approve of private medicine (plus I’m hideously poor) but your kid’s health is most important.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 20

I’m aware, as I also live in the UK. My son also got chicken pox because someone decided that bringing her son with chicken pox to a play group was perfectly fine, even 19 years ago. My dad has had shingles and not recovered properly, I’d rather my son hadn’t had chicken pox.

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 20

If you want to read a book by someone with severe ME and you’re interested in lesbian historical novels, then I’ve written a couple here:
www.bellabooks.com/category/bel...
Or if gay contemporary ménage erotica is more your thing, I’ve written that too:
ninestarpress.com/authors/p-a-...

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Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 20

Thanks for that, it was an excellent plan.

Penelope Friday @penthewriter.bsky.social · Sep 19

I post Greenpeace petitions on my “activist”/ranting bsky account, but I’d never post about anything else I did with them, were I to do them. Well, except the time I judged a poetry competition.
I know it’s exciting to do things so you want to talk about it but…