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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 2h

Happy writing!

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 9h

dawn holds dusk gently
as if light were a secret
only they could share

#Photography JBC
@johnbcaddell.bsky.social

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 2d

Afternoon! I am reading No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, a collection of brilliant short stories by Rosalind Brackenbury. They were originally published as a pamphlet in 1975, now reissued by Walmer Books.

My hand holding a paperback copy of No Such Thing as a Free Lunch by Rosalind Brackenbury, Introduction by A.L. Kennedy.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 3d

Your Happy Thread of the Day:

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

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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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 3d

I am so sorry to read this. I am just endlessly shocked at how people can be like this. I hope you are OK, although that seems a naive thing to write.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 3d

What beautiful pictures to wake up to this morning! Thank you.

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 4d

💫 how the light gets in 💫

bright patches of coloured light on old stone and through stained glass

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 3d

It is an amazing thing, isn't it, finding a life in a few objects? A sort of magic. & how very lucky both uncle & niece were that you were the person who bought the bureau. You did a beautiful thing there.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 4d

This is a great story! Make sure you read right to the very end.

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 4d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 4d

This is a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing it on here. Brought a tear to my eye.

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 4d

#StorySharerWeek is coming, and we're so excited about the webinar we have lined up for you!

We'll be exploring research and case studies to discover how shared reading can help to build key life skills.

Book your free spot here 👇

https://bit.ly/4gtIqjI

A photo of a woman sharing a book with a child plus the words: "Story Sharer Week - Join our webinar. How shared reading in the early years can help build key life skills. 2pm - Thursday 16 October."

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5d

The Family of El Greco, c. 1695
By the painter's only son, Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, d. 29 Mar 1631 (Museo de la Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, via WGA)

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5d

2/2 Landscape at the edge of the Alps, 1532. Another fantastic (rosy sky!) yet somewhat mysterious watercolor by Wolf Huber, whose day is today.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 5d

1/4 Antisemitism is not taken seriously enough in progressive spaces or in pro-Palestinian activism spaces - that is simply a statement of fact

Week after week we saw antisemitic elements at pro-Palestine protests, shouting hatred with protesters walking by saying and doing nothing about it

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 6d

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS?

Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication

Deadline: 15 Oct
Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry manuscript?
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plus
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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 5d

Enid looks as if she doesn't actually like parting with any of her stock.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 6d

A pair of Jays swoop us into the first #FlyDay of October! 😍

📷 @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social

Two Jays in mid-air against a backdrop of golden autumn leaves, one banking sharply with wings fanned wide, the other gliding towards it…dramatically swooping us into October’s first FlyDay.

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 6d

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week and in the rest of the UK next week. As a dyslexic reader myself I wanted to use #KidsBooksFriday this week to celebrate brilliant, accessible and super-readable texts of all kinds.
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

Book cover for Reek by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Caltsoudas showing a young person with a helmet and rocket books swinging through a futuristic Edinburgh via a rope.

Book cover for Wonderfully Wired Brains by Louise Gooding showing a young person with short hair and glasses wearing a green hoodie. Around their head are a myriad of different things from animals to basketballs, pencils, paint brushes and games controllers.

Book cover for Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi showing three girls with papers in their hand as if passing our leaflets, hovering over a medieval European style city.

Book cover for The Horse Dreamer by Holly Surplice showing a sketch style drawing of a girl riding a galloping horse.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 6d

This is amazing, right down to the details of ringing telephones. I hope his sister played happily with it for years.

Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 6d

An elaborate four-storied Swedish Dollhouse crafted in 1913 by John Carlson for his younger sister.

#archaeohistories

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Amos Miller @amosmiller.bsky.social · 6d

Genius. Even greater than my personal favourite from the 1970s Blue Peter book of prize-winning limericks

there was an old old man
who had a big big pan
and when he had it
he caught a rabbit
and made some rabbit jam

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #NationalPoetryDay !!
#ukpoets #poetrysky

The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 7d

It's National Poetry Day! We'll be celebrating all day - stay tuned to our socials so you don't miss a thing 👀🎉

Wherever you are, The Poetry Society wishes you a very happy National Poetry Day in the company of poetry.

The official graphic for National Poetry Day 2025 on the theme of 'Play'. It's an 8-bit, pastel background of a cherry blossom tree against a blue sky with books being thrown into the air. In large, alternating pink and blue text in the centre of the image, it reads: National Poetry Day / 02.10.2025 / PLAY

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 6d

What a perfect title!

David Litchfield @dc-litchfield.bsky.social · 7d

#Competition Time. Win a signed copy of my new Picture book ‘My Friend Billy Whiskers’. All you have to do is Like, Repost and Follow me to be in with a chance. I’ll pick at random a winner on Monday 6th October. Good Luck all 🤞🦁👦🏻
#giveaway #picturebook

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 8d

The Bridge ~ Valerie Thornton, 1954

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