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Rose Ruane

@regretteruane.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 19h

Wouldn’t that be wonderful!?!?!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 20h

The veil is thinning & fracturing…

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 20h

YES😈😈😈

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 20h

There’s no I in team but there’s BLE in trouble

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 20h

Oh my god!!! Deceased, delighted: I am wheezing and puffing like an extremely undignified Ivor the Engine

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

Quite right too!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

Tempting since my last attempt at one was a catastrophe that resulted in rice everywhere. Might be nice to redeem myself this time. Although I suspect a repeat disaster would be the more likely outcome…

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

I’m equally cursed and blessed in the quality of the ones round me. Have to try to keep my Wombling to a manageable minimum and as you can see, I am not very good at it!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

Contents are as perfectly delightful as you’d imagine. Jill McDonald somehow managing to bring a colourful quality even to her monochromatic illustrations.
Very, very tempted to get a tattoo of that spectacularly sublime sickly cat

Page from a 1970s puffin post magazine, gorgeous cartoon pictures in black and white illustrate short texts about how to make a puppet theatre from a matchbox and instructions on creating a snake shaped draught excluder with a sickly looking cross eyed cat with a speech bubble reading yurck in capital letters, illustrating a short item on creating a recipe for deliberately disgusting food. The style of the illustration is a joyful junior psychedelia

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

I live and love to delight you dreamboat!
Truly, everything about Earl E. Mayan is an unsealed tomb of treasures and terrors in the best possible way

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21h

Divine! I can practically smell leaf mould and damp tree house from them, feel the heat from a three bar fire & the thrill of studying every foxed page in front of it, sitting on a carpet patterned like the vortex from The Adventure game with a vast cast of faces & stories swirling in the wallpaper

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h

Instagram constantly disappointing me with perfect outfits that either transpire to be for children or for adults but only available in size six & at a cost of five hundred quid

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 23h

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h

Wheeeeeeeeeee☃️❄️

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h

Innit though? Medicinal wonders!❤️

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h

I’m so glad! It’s fortunate that my daily mental health walk passes about six charity shops! And it gives me great pleasure to share the finds here

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 23h

Every single one a joy

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 23h

Wonderful wintry Jill McDonald Puffin Post cover, delightful bit of cartoon colour for a gloomy grey day

Cover of a 1970s puffin post magazine with a colourful cartoon illustration of puffins wearing cosy winter woolens, hats & scarves& jumpers, doing winter activities all over a giant snow puffin with a pipe in their beak, some puffins mountaineering over its head, others having a snowball fight on its belly and in the foreground some ice skating while another warms its wings over a brazier.
In the background, snow blizzards through a silvery grey sky and the title Puffin Post appears in the top right corner, hand lettered inside white puffs of cloud

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahahaaaa

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! So much!

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, kind one

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Too true, the soul’s own sweet tooth for an impossible confection: something delicious & discontinued, a craving, roving restlessness of the spirit that nothing can ever quite settle

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Oh her work is so extraordinarily beautiful! So tender and precise.
And I agree, most of my acquisitions cost about the same as a pint and they never cause a hangover

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

You opened the box. We came

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll tear your Sopel apart

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