Northie
@northiewriter.bsky.social
Queer West Midlands writer of drama, romance. Musician; blogger; reader; listener; gardener. 2021 Pushcart nominee 🏳🌈
If you want to get a sense of the real Elizabethan London - what went on under the glitter and the finery - and expand your queer history, read @hessephillips.com Lightborne. It's dark, dangerous, and absolutely riveting. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Northie's review of Lightborne
5/5: A dark, deep, and dangerous tale Despite the ending of this book not being in doubt (Kit Marlowe's death), it does a great job of drawing you into the living underbelly of Elizabethan London. Be...
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April 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you want to get a sense of the real Elizabethan London - what went on under the glitter and the finery - and expand your queer history, read @hessephillips.com Lightborne. It's dark, dangerous, and absolutely riveting. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky 🌈📚
#booksky 🌈📚
March 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For International women's day, here's a blogpost about 1 or even 2 female composers associated with the CBSO. Expand your musical horizons...
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Made in Birmingham 7: Mary Chandler
To be a player in our city’s symphony orchestra in the 1940s and early 1950s must’ve been quite something. A couple of years ago, this blog explored the music of Ruth Gipps, oboist, con…
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March 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
For International women's day, here's a blogpost about 1 or even 2 female composers associated with the CBSO. Expand your musical horizons...
lobmusiclibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/m...
lobmusiclibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/m...
February 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I've donated. givebutter.com/donatetoglad Please consider doing so if you can. 🌈
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌱
February 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌱
Never land?
Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust…
Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust…
Never land?
Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust having a presence. Isn't the National Trust all about vast estates, huge houses, and the relics of an imperial past?
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February 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Never land?
Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust…
Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust…
Goodreads put up their book list for BHM (US) and the comments are already cleared and closed. 🤷♂️😠
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#booksky 📚💙
177 New Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Black History Month
February is Black History Month here in the U.S., and each year we like to join the celebration with big, bookish lists that will keep you reading lo...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Goodreads put up their book list for BHM (US) and the comments are already cleared and closed. 🤷♂️😠
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/28...
#booksky 📚💙
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#booksky 📚💙
Isn't this gorgeous?
The #JanuArty theme today is a cheerful one! Yellow!
January 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Isn't this gorgeous?
Those pleasant feelings of brain ache and achievement that come from working your way through one of @mattkendrick.bsky.social 's craft courses. 👍🖊
January 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Those pleasant feelings of brain ache and achievement that come from working your way through one of @mattkendrick.bsky.social 's craft courses. 👍🖊
If you see this, post something pink. 🌱
January 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you see this, post something pink. 🌱
Well... one of my #resolutions appears to be resurrecting my #blog, A Pencil Is Best. Here's the first post in quite a while:
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Revisiting old friends
[It’s been a while, a long, long while, since I last produced anything for this blog. 2023 passed with me being out of writing ideas and drive; last year, things improved and I spent time enj…
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January 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Well... one of my #resolutions appears to be resurrecting my #blog, A Pencil Is Best. Here's the first post in quite a while:
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I'm so looking forward to this. 😊
So excited by this book, and to have made the music for the cover reveal trailer! @natashapulley.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm so looking forward to this. 😊
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles #photography (Tags copied from @bigbeardedbookseller.com ) Part of the extraordinary A la Ronde house (NT) in Devon.
January 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles #photography (Tags copied from @bigbeardedbookseller.com ) Part of the extraordinary A la Ronde house (NT) in Devon.
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Help stop this madness - just one of the many evils associated with the 'Glorious 12th'.
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November 25, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Help stop this madness - just one of the many evils associated with the 'Glorious 12th'.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
If you see this, post something green
November 24, 2024 at 2:06 PM
If you see this, post something green
Introducing myself with these (choosing only one is impossible)
One book 📚 - Project Hail Mary
One movie 🎬 - Master and Commander
One album 🎙 - Praetorius Christmas Mass (Gabrieli)
One TV show 📺 - Our mutual friend (BBC Dickens)
One book 📚 - Project Hail Mary
One movie 🎬 - Master and Commander
One album 🎙 - Praetorius Christmas Mass (Gabrieli)
One TV show 📺 - Our mutual friend (BBC Dickens)
Introduce yourself with:
One book 📚 — Watership Down
One movie 🎥 — Princess Mononoke
One album 💿 — Incubus - Make Yourself
One TV show 📺 — Halt & Catch Fire
One book 📚 — Watership Down
One movie 🎥 — Princess Mononoke
One album 💿 — Incubus - Make Yourself
One TV show 📺 — Halt & Catch Fire
Introduce yourself with:
One book 📚 — The Silmarillion
One movie 🎥 — Ever After
One album 💿 — The Killers - Hot Fuss
One TV show 📺 — Buffy the Vampire Slayer
One book 📚 — The Silmarillion
One movie 🎥 — Ever After
One album 💿 — The Killers - Hot Fuss
One TV show 📺 — Buffy the Vampire Slayer
November 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Introducing myself with these (choosing only one is impossible)
One book 📚 - Project Hail Mary
One movie 🎬 - Master and Commander
One album 🎙 - Praetorius Christmas Mass (Gabrieli)
One TV show 📺 - Our mutual friend (BBC Dickens)
One book 📚 - Project Hail Mary
One movie 🎬 - Master and Commander
One album 🎙 - Praetorius Christmas Mass (Gabrieli)
One TV show 📺 - Our mutual friend (BBC Dickens)
Not absolutely sure, but I think this is Stourhead, NT.
October 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Not absolutely sure, but I think this is Stourhead, NT.
so lucky to be greenlit for an E-ARC of @kjcharleswriter.com newest offering, 'Death in the spires'. Looking forward to it. 😊📚
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Death in the Spires
The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a g…
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March 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM
so lucky to be greenlit for an E-ARC of @kjcharleswriter.com newest offering, 'Death in the spires'. Looking forward to it. 😊📚
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
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Again my non-socials friend has posted a queer #poem. #poetry Enjoy!
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Not Things
You’d think I’d know a thing or maybe two, For I am not an innocent, And in some quiet moment I will think Of many things magnificent, Like graceful silver pitchers polished bright, Or Mom’s blu...
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November 15, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Again my non-socials friend has posted a queer #poem. #poetry Enjoy!
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Over the way, they're playing 10 favourite #novels from different authors. Here's mine in no order
◼The secret history
◼Clarissa
◼In memoriam
◼Dominium
◼Our mutual friend
◼Go-between
◼Mr Loverman
◼A marvellous light
◼The ask & the answer
◼The last of the wine
What are yours?
◼The secret history
◼Clarissa
◼In memoriam
◼Dominium
◼Our mutual friend
◼Go-between
◼Mr Loverman
◼A marvellous light
◼The ask & the answer
◼The last of the wine
What are yours?
November 5, 2023 at 10:07 PM
Over the way, they're playing 10 favourite #novels from different authors. Here's mine in no order
◼The secret history
◼Clarissa
◼In memoriam
◼Dominium
◼Our mutual friend
◼Go-between
◼Mr Loverman
◼A marvellous light
◼The ask & the answer
◼The last of the wine
What are yours?
◼The secret history
◼Clarissa
◼In memoriam
◼Dominium
◼Our mutual friend
◼Go-between
◼Mr Loverman
◼A marvellous light
◼The ask & the answer
◼The last of the wine
What are yours?
Quote post this with your favourite photo you took
November 3, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Quote post this with your favourite photo you took
Not about me for a change, A non-socials friend of mine has posted some #poetry. Enjoy.
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Searching
The carpenter knows where the basswood grows as the jay is aware of the berry, while the monarch goes where the wild red rose decks the meadow in finery merry, and hungry black bears leave their crude...
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October 18, 2023 at 9:01 PM
Not about me for a change, A non-socials friend of mine has posted some #poetry. Enjoy.
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apencilisbest.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/s...
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What wouldn't I have given to read Ben Pechey's 'Your gender book' when I was young. Kind, honest, and affirming. Coming soon. Here's my review from an e-arc.
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What wouldn't I have given to read Ben Pechey's 'Your gender book' when I was young. Kind, honest, and affirming. Coming soon. Here's my review from an e-arc.
www.netgalley.com/book/285020/...
Your Gender Book
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October 1, 2023 at 7:41 PM
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What wouldn't I have given to read Ben Pechey's 'Your gender book' when I was young. Kind, honest, and affirming. Coming soon. Here's my review from an e-arc.
www.netgalley.com/book/285020/...
What wouldn't I have given to read Ben Pechey's 'Your gender book' when I was young. Kind, honest, and affirming. Coming soon. Here's my review from an e-arc.
www.netgalley.com/book/285020/...