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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you x

Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 9h

Handed in my notice this morning so I'll be full time freelance from January. Simultaneously exciting and terrifying. Taking the afternoon off to recover my nerves 😂

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 14h

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

A fine piece of writing there from Sam Leith

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 15h

Not helped by the fact that my brain insists on putting the lyrics to What Child is This? to Greensleeves, so it's an unseasonal earworm to boot.

Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 16h

That's today's earworm sorted.

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 16h

BBC Radio 3
Breakfast

Now Playing
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Owain Arwel Hughes & Hallé Orchestra
Fantasia on Greensleeves

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post tackling one of the questions I get asked most often about communications monitoring. How do you choose what to measure when the possibilities seem overwhelming?

shellydennison.co.uk/2025/10/07/w...

#comms #charitycomms

Which communications statistics should I be measuring?

This post tackles one of the questions I get asked most often about communications monitoring. How do you choose what to measure when the possibilities seem overwhelming? For small organisations, k…

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 2d

😂

Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 2d

I've been editing and proofreading stuff all day and my brain feels like it's dissolving.

a woman is sitting at a table with her hand on her forehead and saying `` my brain is gone . ''

Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with her hand on her forehead and saying `` my brain is gone . ''

media.tenor.com

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d

New post for An Ecology of Love & Ruin: a week left in the old house, & a home bookended by 2 farms, 2 estates, 2 birthdays & 2 books: all at the beginning & end of the farming year. #booksky #naturewriting nicolachester.com & nicolawriting.substack.com/p/an-ecology...

An Ecology of Love and Ruin

Michaelmas-tide

nicolawriting.substack.com

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 2d

I read some of her books way younger than I should have done too! 😂 (I strongly suspect most of it flew over my head)

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Operation Noah @operationnoah.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a Christian with a passion for addressing the climate & biodiversity crises? Do you believe the Church has a vital role to play in this work? Operation Noah is looking for new trustees to help inspire the Church to take action on the climate crisis. www.operationnoah.org/operation-no...

Operation Noah Seeks New Trustees - Operation Noah

Operation Noah is looking for new trustees to help lead our mission to inspire and equip the Church to take action on climate change. In this voluntary position, you will play an active role in shapin...

www.operationnoah.org

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 3d

Hello all, a newsy round up, ahead of a new blog for An Ecology of Love and Ruin. Incs: TWO new nature reserves, a residency, the exciting future of nature writing, a house move, Climate Fiction Prize news & TWO new books. A lot, all at once! #booksky #naturewriting nicolachester.com/2025/10/05/a...

A lot, all at once!

A lot of exciting things have happened, all at once! My new book, Ghosts of the Farm, Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land and Community is out now – and I’ve had the most wonderful and encouraging...

nicolachester.com

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 3d

Cards on the table is properly bonkers.

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 4d

YES

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 4d

Today's second hand bookshop haul.

Stack of books. Dorothy L Sayers - Unnatural Death. Francis Brody - Death at the seaside. Gill Hornby - Godmersham Park. James Rebanks - The Place of Tides.

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

*sighs nostalgically* The number of hours I spent in the JBM...

(We'll gloss over the number of Danish pastries consumed in the cafe next door. Ahem.)

University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 5d

The Morrell Library is 59 years old today!

Join us on a brief pictorial trip back in time with his much loved* brutalist building, starting with this cracking picture of the mid-60s campus, with the Morrell behind Central Hall.

Look at those crisp architectural lines. Woof.

Next up: plans >> 🧵

Black & white image showing the lake (very still), Central Hall looking alien, Vanbrugh College and behind that a very white and clean Morrell Library

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

I feel Patricia Routledge needs incorporating here somewhere.

Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 5d

Today on this website

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

I do sometimes wonder if a lifetime of listening to sermons is responsible for my apparent addiction to writing three point blog posts.

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

Quite.

Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

Arggghhh.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 5d

“So, I tapped her on the cleavage with my cake fork. That got her attention.”

RIP Kitty

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

I think they may have been clutching at straws for Bedfordshire.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5d

GB News can, to put it politely, get stuffed.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

So interesting that GB News is sticking with female archbishop story longer than BBC/Sky, going through her tweets live on air, starting to cancel her for being woke.

They keep talking about the Christian public taking it badly, fits with the growing US-style religious vibe of the British right?

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Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social · 5d

Seconded!