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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 2d

Falmouth!* Come see me and Jonn talk about all the things at Falmouth Book Festival! It will be a very fun evening as he shouts about borders and I shout about the apocalypse and we both shout about conspiracy theories probably.

*and surrounding areas such as Penryn

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

Two weeks' today, @tom-phillips.com and I are having a lovely chat at the Falmouth Book Festival. Come along, and watch me torn limb from limb by a rampaging mob of Mebyon Kernow activists, while Tom laughs that I got what I asked for!

Elledge and Phillips | Falmouth Book Fest

www.falmouthbookfestival.com

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 3d

Alack, I forgot to buy parsley for the Nigel Slater recipe and it is nearly 7pm on a Sunday in rural Devon, so we will have to to without 😢

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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DevonChurchLand @devonchurchland.bsky.social · 4d

I love him 😁

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 4d

Watching some of the Joan Hickson Miss Marple on iPlayer and she has some amazing facial expressions, absolute goals

Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 5d

I was this years old when I realised Crediton actually has a bishop. (For those not from this part of Devon, it’s a tiny town).
Bearing in mind the entirety of Plymouth (RC) Diocese (which covers this 👇 geography) currently has zero bishop.

Part of a map showing Catholic diocese in England. Plymouth Diocese stretches from Penzance to Dorset.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 6d

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already.

What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Have we passed peak social media? on.ft.com/46OjAa1 | opinion

Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

on.ft.com

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 7d

Storm Bram. Bad news for any ships carrying boxes of earth.

Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 7d

2025 Storm names. I'm loving "Bram". Good work Met Eireann

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 9d

As someone with a very loud brain that I like to try and silence with lots of loud things (video, radio, music, etc)... I am so mad that the best thing to do is to actually just sit in silence without moving for a full half an hour. Game changing. Silences the brain completely for hours.

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 9d

It is the last day of my autumn sale, if you want to pick up a bargain! #embroidery www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Comm...

An embroidery hoop with hand embroidery of hawthorn with berries, held against a background of a hawthorn hedge covered in berries

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 9d

I have cut down my caffeine consumption quite a lot and have done this partly by drinking decaffeinated tea and coffee. Somehow I’ve developed a mild addiction to these too, as I discovered when it turned out this morning that we had run out of decaf coffee 🤔

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 12d

I went a bit mad in the Vilnius souvenir shops, but you don’t know you need a chocolate map of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania until you see a chocolate map of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 11d

A good year for fungi

A bright red fly agaric with white speckled cap growing in brown leaf mould.

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 12d

Dawlish Water

A still stream looking peaceful with large planes to one side and overhanging trees.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 12d

Fortunately they are different in all other ways, not like they have anything in common is it

Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 12d

Look, I just think that one of the St Teresas could have chosen a feast day which wasn’t in October, to make things less confusing

Image of printed text which says 1 Wed Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

Image of printed text which says 15 Wed
Saint Terese of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 14d

Cockwood Harbour as the tide is rising.

Boats in a harbour with sunset reflected in the water and houses in the distance

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 16d

Mostly, hell is on fire (checks out) but sometimes hell is also an empty place (hell designed by an extrovert) and sometimes there’s a helpful signpost telling you how to get there 😅

Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 16d

The gospel this week is the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, which has what led me to search for the word “Hell” in a stock photo library and be somewhat intrigued by the results.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 17d

Over on 'All Old Strange Things' I've written a new free-to-read post reflecting on @peteralanross.bsky.social's thought-provoking book 'Upon A White Horse': substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 17d

Where sky and water meet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is the Broomway Britain's deadliest path or its most serene spot?

A path that 100 people have died trying to cross attracts curious visitors, but what is it really like?

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 17d

'I was glad it was a very hot, sunny day with bright blue skies, because otherwise the deserted, ruined church with legends connected to it of fiends and black dogs breathing fire might have spooked me a little.'
open.substack.com/pub/deepdown...

An empty, ruined church on a sunny day with blue skies. The church is filled with weeds.

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 17d

My current thing is to just keep writing as often as I can, and hopefully at some point I’ll become better at it and maybe decide what to write about.

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Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social · 17d

There are a lot of Larkin references in my Substack posts - I'm not sure what it says about me that the only English-language poets I can reliably quote are Philip Larkin, Gerard Manley Hopkins and AA Milne.

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