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J.S. Watts
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Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
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Still feeling decidedly 'ick today -a bit like hitting a brick wall. So, here's Pic 41 in my brick wall series. More dutch brick from back in the summer when I felt healthy and all of energy . #brickinthewall
Photograph looking up at front wall in red brick of dutch building dated 1723. Pale cream window surrounds and ornamentation. Deep blue sky in top left hand corner of photo.
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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It's tomorrow, if you are in the area. #Baldock #Letchworth #Hertfordshire #BaldockCommunityOrchestra
Poster for Baldock Community Orchestra Winter Showcase on Sunday 30th November 2025 at 3pm at Letchworth Free Church. Black and red text across a pale background with a faint watermark of musical notation. The bottom of the poster is a strip image of fir cones, red berries and green leaves on brown tiles or wood.
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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One for #Caturday The boy when he was younger and had a fetish for paper bags.
Brown paper bag with handles on top of a pale grey/green carpet. A black cat with white whiskers is peering out of the bag.
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Very pleased to have a new, illuminating story in the second Midnight Ink anthology. The story is called "Candles".
Front cover of the 2025 Midnight Ink Anthology. Ornate black iron candelabra and mirror frame against a grey, distressed background. Six lighted cream coloured candles are burning on the candelabra. White text as follows: Livina Press Presents: Midnight Ink 2025 Poetry Creative Non-fiction Fiction
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Pic 40 in my brick wall series. Contemplative brick. #brickinthewall
A decorative brick wall from the Central Cambridge mosque. Cream brick wall with raised pale brown brick patterns. Shoe racks are visible at the bottom of the photograph.
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A belated Happy Birthday to my poetry collection #Underword which is three year's old today. I'd almost forgotten. Bad me. #BookSky
From cover of Underword. Text and cover image all in black and white. Cover image is of an animal skull on blades of grass.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Pic 39 in my brick wall series. Brick wall in autumn #brickinthewall
Red and yellow vine hangs over a red brick wall. Green ivy climbs up the wall. Assorted green flora at the foot of the wall. Above it blue sky, a tall fir tree and a chimney stack.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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This is not my cat, though it is my garden and my garden table. He can be found in my garden a lot. Yesterday evening he turned up at my front door and sat there until my cat went out to join him. Normally they just scream at one another. Now I'm not sure what is going on. #Caturday
Fluffy black cat with yellow eyes sitting curled up on a wooden garden table, glaring at the photographer
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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A view from this weekend just gone.
The interior of the Central Cambridge Mosque. White ceiling with circular fanlights, white walls, pale grey carpet and organically curving wooden pillars
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Saturday 15 November, beginning at 6pm at the Thrive Cafe, Cambridge, I'll be one of the selected open micers and will be reading a couple of my poems from Songs of Steelyard Sue and Underword.
Sadly, the lovely Thrive Cafe will be closing its doors for good the following day, Sunday 16 November.
Photograph of poster for 15/11/25 Word Salad event tied to black iron railings. The main poster image is an open red mouth with white teeth. Above the red tongue are the words open mic poetry. The poster background is blue.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Pic 38 in my brick wall series. Dutch brick from an angle #brickinthewall
Photograph of the front facade of a house in Amsterdam taken at an angle looking upwards. The brickwork is red with pale mortar and cream surround. The windows in the wall are black framed and display lace curtains. In the top left-hand corner the sky is bright blue.
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Saturday's cat has far to go (yes, I know it should be Thursday's, but #Caturday only takes place on Saturday).
A black and white cat walks purposefully along a dry, stony path heading towards the camera, long green grass and wildflowers to the left of him.
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Yesterday's late sunset glow was something.
A photograph of a pink and yellow sunset and a mass of foliage, mostly orange and red, but with a few green leaves visible. In the background rooftops and fencing are visible.
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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A view from yesterday when there was some blue amongst the grey.
A flat landscape of fields broken by hedgerows of bushes and trees. On the horizon, higher land is darkly visible. the ski is cloudy with patches of pale blue
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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This weekend's purchase. No spoilers until I've read it, please. #BookSky
A photograph of the hardback edition of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, Volume three - The Rose Field. In shades of pink, yellow and orange, the cover image depicts two riders on camels crossing an empty desert plain edged by a rocky escarpment. Text is in white or yellow. On the D of Dust is a pine marten looking up. On the second O of Book a ginger cat looks down towards the pine marten.
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Yesterday's angled dusk on phone camera.
Photograph taken at dusk. At the front a low, pale brick wall runs diagonally left to right. From it a wooden fences veers diagonally right to left culminating in a pale blue-grey metal barn. Above, electricity cables run diagonally left right across a pale blue sky. On the left hand side of the photo a dark metal barn wall runs steeply diagonal towards green trees.
October 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Pic 37 in my brick wall series. Ornate South Cambridgeshire brickwork (or it may be a face) #brickinthewall
Red brick, end of building wall visible over a paler, yellow brick wall. The chimney is sharply delineated red brick. Either side are scalloped red bricks. Two diamond patterned windows are either side of the chimney and there is a plaque in the middle of the chimney, making (possibly) two eyes and a nose. Black leading, visible above the lower wall, makes a potential mouth.
October 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Autumnal Cambridge view from yesterday afternoon.
A road runs straightforward towards a pale building. At the edges of the road and down its centre are fallen yellow leaves. The road is lined with low green hedges and yellow-green trees, their black branches beginning to show through the thinning foliage
October 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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I have a shiny new, bitter-sweet story of between the wars published in the October issue of Corncrake. You can read "An Easy Life" here: corncrakemag.com #writing
The front cover if #20 of Corncrake Magazine - a full yellow moon against a dark background of black, maroon and pale orange moon reflections. Text in white- magazine title, issue and list of included authors
October 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Pic 36 in my brick wall series. More dutch brick c/o the Rijksmuseum #brickinthewall
Sharply delineated red and cream brick - a glass window at the bottom, red and cream striped panels at the top
October 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A poem for National Poetry Day. The theme of the day is "Play". I don't have any really on-theme poems, but this one is, more or less, about colouring. #poetry #NationalPoetryDay #YearsAgoYouColouredMe
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Some photos from yesterday's #RoystonBookFair: Jude Simpson, yours truly, @cleric20.bsky.social and a general shot of people happily browsing books
Jude Simpson playing acoustic guitar and singing People at Royston Book Fair Matt Adcock and some of his books including Complete Darkness J.S. Watts and a selection of her novels
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Tomorrow, it's #RoystonBookFair. I'll be there. Will you? www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/home #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky
Poster for Royston Book Fair 2025 being held on Saturday 27th September 2025 from 12 -4pm at Royston Parish Church. Primarily in blue, yellow and white, with the Royston Arts Festival logo in blue, green and white, it lists the names of 30+ writers taking part and the timings of talks and readings throughout the event.
September 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Pic 35 in my brick wall series. More external dutch brick c/o the Rijksmuseum #brickinthewall
Sharply delineated red brick with white and yellow patterning. Tree-shaped fence ironwork in the foreground
September 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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It appears new poems are like London buses and arrive all in one go. First there was a poem in this month's Acumen. Now there are two poems in September's issue 106 of the Frogmore Papers: "Fen Shadow" and "Swimming Through a Hot Summer Night"
a photograph of J.S. Watts holding a copy of issue 106 of The Frogmore Papers in front of layered bookshelves
September 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM