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Janet

@bookwormjan.bsky.social

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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. Wife, Mum, reader, baker, gardener, letter writer, pacifist, LGBT+ ally. She/her

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 9d

Next book.

Heidi Swain
All Wrapped up

Cosy evenings,crisp days,
and love on the horizon..

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 3d

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 15h

Popped to the garden centre today. The bird food section comes highly recommended, the birds even shop there themselves.

Robin standing on top of boxes of fat balls.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 15h

Painting of the day - A View of Tantallon Castle With the Bass Rock by Alexander Naysmith.

The painting shows the dramatic, semi-ruined Tantallon Castle, on high cliffs overlooking the sea, with the iconic Bass Rock in the background. The ocean is turbulent and the weather dramatic.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely xx

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 20h

Very true though. As a teacher I often had to explain that to parents. Some often wouldn't let their children choose a book they thought was too easy or a cartoon book. Same in bookshops. I have an honours degree yet I still sometimes read a children's book, it's good for my mental health and fun.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 22h

'Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.'

R.L. Stine, American author, screenwriter, and producer, born on this day in 1943.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 22h

May have ordered some more books 🤷

Image of piles of books with pumpkins on top and autumn leaves.
The weords read:

LIKE SQUIRRELS GATHER NUTS FOR
WINTER, AUTUMN SIGNALS MY NEED
TO COLLECT MORE BOOKS FOR THE
COLD MONTHS AHEAD.
- JAMIE E DAVIS -
@BECAUSEALLTHEBOOKS

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to you both xx

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

❤️x

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. I just thought it would lift my spirits as the days get gloomier.

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Mine too . We're only an hour away from Manchester and we don't go to their art gallery to see it often enough.

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the vivid blue still stays in my mind too xx

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful. I love that painting. I saw it in person at the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at the Walker a few years ago.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Painting of the day - Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais.

Oil on canvas paibting of four girls, in twilight,collecting and raking together fallen leaves in a garden. They are making a bonfire, but the fire itself is invisible, only smoke emerging from between the leaves. The two girls on the left are wearing middle-class clothing of the era; the two on the right are in rougher, working class clothing.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Me too x

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, I think it's brightened the place up a bit x

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

I also shopped for a little garden planning.

Two cyclamen one cerise coloured and one red.

Bag of 30 tulip bulbs, rainbow collection.

Pack of 8 tulip bulbs, volcano peonies blend (red and yellows).

Two packs of anemone bulbs, bland mixed (white, purple and pink).

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 1d

Have autumned home. The cooler, darker nights will feel more snuggly now.

Sofa with woodland throw over it, two rust coloured cushions and a cushion with two smiling pumpkins. A rust throw folded on teh back for snuggly evenings.

Armchair with woodland characters throw over the backend hedgehog cushion and flowery cushion.

Autumn bouquet in vase on the windowsill

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 4d

Painting of the day - The Gust of Wind by Jean-Francois Millet.

Painting of a tree being violently uprooted by an intense gale, with a small peasant figure dwarfed by nature's force and the windswept La Hague peninsula landscape.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 4d

This is so true. For those who are interested mine is an archaeopteryx and the bookseller I was talking to's favourite is an allosaurus

Shelf with mugs on the decoration on the mug is a shocked looking man sitting down holding a dinosaur. The words on the mug say:

When you grow
up, people
stop asking
you what your
favourite
dinosaur is.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 4d

Image of cartoon smiling mushroom. The words below say
"YOU ONLY HAVE SO
MUCH EMOTIONAL
ENERGY DAILY. DONT
FIGHT BATTLES THAT
DONT MATTER.

(by @SUNFLOWERMOONSHOP)

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so sorry I don't know. I just follow patterns. This adult hat was 138 stitches if that's any help x

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 6d

❤️x

Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 6d

And, just so @helenpoems.bsky.social doesn't feel cheated tomorrow, hwre is the Friday poem - Alone by Mays Angelou - poets.org/poem/alone

Alone

Lying, thinking

poets.org

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 6d

I think I need another social media break. News and politics is creeping in again. It is all so very negative and is making me feel so sad. I think some time with my books and crafts are what is needed. Keep shining, keep trying to make the world a better place. It needs more love. Sending hugs xx

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