Gary Horrocks
@garyjhorrocks.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor, researcher, presenter, PR, librarian, information scientist. #JudyGarland aficionado, elucidating for the UK e-info Group, champion 4 library & learning resources in FE, benevolent tongue-in-cheek social media, friend of Dorothy 🌈
I feel a book review coming on 😊
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I feel a book review coming on 😊
So melancholy as today would have been my late, great friend Stephen’s 61st birthday. Sadly he joined the choir in August 2018 😞 My birthday follows in 2 weeks and I always rang him on the 9th to rub it in that I was, for a short while, 2 weeks younger 👏 Bless him💓
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
So melancholy as today would have been my late, great friend Stephen’s 61st birthday. Sadly he joined the choir in August 2018 😞 My birthday follows in 2 weeks and I always rang him on the 9th to rub it in that I was, for a short while, 2 weeks younger 👏 Bless him💓
I’m sure this would make a brilliant Pet Shop Boys album title 👏
August 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I’m sure this would make a brilliant Pet Shop Boys album title 👏
Fab tap in my garden. I was about to check if the water flowed when a family of incy wincy spiders dangled down from its interior to grab a glimpse of a humid summer day. Fragile athletics on a teetering web. Bugger. I haven’t the heart to evict these sweet creatures with a full on tap tsunami 💕
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Fab tap in my garden. I was about to check if the water flowed when a family of incy wincy spiders dangled down from its interior to grab a glimpse of a humid summer day. Fragile athletics on a teetering web. Bugger. I haven’t the heart to evict these sweet creatures with a full on tap tsunami 💕
Fabulous 👏 Me, the BBC and Oasis
July 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Fabulous 👏 Me, the BBC and Oasis
Whirlwind work visit to my hometown of Manchesterford. Squeezed in a steak and kidney pudding with hard core chips, gravy, mushy peas, L S Lowry… and my old mate of 56 years or so Paula 👏
July 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Whirlwind work visit to my hometown of Manchesterford. Squeezed in a steak and kidney pudding with hard core chips, gravy, mushy peas, L S Lowry… and my old mate of 56 years or so Paula 👏
Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
#cilipconf25
#cilipconf25
July 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
#cilipconf25
#cilipconf25
Fabulous #CILIP conference first day (and night) yesterday. So much food for thought, and I ingested it like a hoover👏 Bring on day 2 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25
July 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Fabulous #CILIP conference first day (and night) yesterday. So much food for thought, and I ingested it like a hoover👏 Bring on day 2 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25
Birmingham knows I’m here 🌈👏😊 @cilip.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Birmingham knows I’m here 🌈👏😊 @cilip.bsky.social
Donalbain in bloody Macbeth! My father the king was dead and I skipped on saying ‘what is amiss?’ The producer sighed and said, ‘we’re not doing the Polanski version dear. It’s not a game show.’ I begged them to put me in a comedy. Bloody Shakespeare
June 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Donalbain in bloody Macbeth! My father the king was dead and I skipped on saying ‘what is amiss?’ The producer sighed and said, ‘we’re not doing the Polanski version dear. It’s not a game show.’ I begged them to put me in a comedy. Bloody Shakespeare
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die #JudyGarland
June 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die #JudyGarland
Bloody hell. Must we descend into this quagmire of bullshit. We’re staring WW3 in the eye for goodness sake 😔
June 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bloody hell. Must we descend into this quagmire of bullshit. We’re staring WW3 in the eye for goodness sake 😔
My office at King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry in the early 1990s. It was in the Pepperpot building in Camberwell, South London at the famous hospital site. I sunbathed on the roof. The posters tell a tale of the info industry as it was back then @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My office at King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry in the early 1990s. It was in the Pepperpot building in Camberwell, South London at the famous hospital site. I sunbathed on the roof. The posters tell a tale of the info industry as it was back then @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social
There’s an essential truth to this, played out decades on with the ascendancy of disruptive #AI. That sense of anxiety, angst and our library, information and knowledge profession’s immediate response to get to grips @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social @nedpotter.bsky.social @colric.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There’s an essential truth to this, played out decades on with the ascendancy of disruptive #AI. That sense of anxiety, angst and our library, information and knowledge profession’s immediate response to get to grips @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social @nedpotter.bsky.social @colric.bsky.social
I must get into the habit of using this …
April 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I must get into the habit of using this …
Such a joy to experience police protection to protect old relics 😆👏
March 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Such a joy to experience police protection to protect old relics 😆👏
My late, loved bessie mate David Perry with #LesDawson way back. Talk of the North ? nightclub I think. Les had a mini fridge loaded with bottles of scotch. He said he wanted to play King Lear
March 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My late, loved bessie mate David Perry with #LesDawson way back. Talk of the North ? nightclub I think. Les had a mini fridge loaded with bottles of scotch. He said he wanted to play King Lear
‘Mother and father would have had to tie me down, apply handcuffs and put a straight jacket on me to have kept me from becoming a performer.’ Grab a copy 🌈 #YoursRetro #JudyGarland
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
‘Mother and father would have had to tie me down, apply handcuffs and put a straight jacket on me to have kept me from becoming a performer.’ Grab a copy 🌈 #YoursRetro #JudyGarland
Delighted to be hosting @nedpotter.bsky.social for a repeat of his popular course on everything @bsky.app this Friday lunchtime (March 21st). You can book a place via the @ukeig.bsky.social web site. Ned’s depth of knowledge on this ascending social media platform is inspiring 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Delighted to be hosting @nedpotter.bsky.social for a repeat of his popular course on everything @bsky.app this Friday lunchtime (March 21st). You can book a place via the @ukeig.bsky.social web site. Ned’s depth of knowledge on this ascending social media platform is inspiring 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
All time gorgeous #JudyGarland favourite 💋
March 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
All time gorgeous #JudyGarland favourite 💋
