Steph Longmuir
@shimmerypenguin.bsky.social
Quiet. Love: songs featuring trumpets, tea, birds, any shades of blue, baked beans, trains and travel. A construction industry librarian during the day.
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We keep things interesting in this household.
June 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We keep things interesting in this household.
Disappointing news. I fell in love with these beach huts when I visited Bournemouth a few years ago, when I attended an architecture librarians conference. Hope they’ll be moved rather than destroyed.
Plan to demolish UK’s first public beach hut in Bournemouth prompts anger
Plan to demolish UK’s first public beach hut in Bournemouth prompts anger
Local people criticise council over decision to raze hut built in 1909 to make way for work on nearby pier
Admittedly, it looks a little shabby. A wooden slat next to the front door and a window pane are missing and a lick of paint would definitely not…
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Disappointing news. I fell in love with these beach huts when I visited Bournemouth a few years ago, when I attended an architecture librarians conference. Hope they’ll be moved rather than destroyed.
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Spending New Year’s Eve in time honoured fashion…
Making a giant pot of soup for the bar on New Year’s Day 🥣
Making a giant pot of soup for the bar on New Year’s Day 🥣
December 31, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Spending New Year’s Eve in time honoured fashion…
Making a giant pot of soup for the bar on New Year’s Day 🥣
Making a giant pot of soup for the bar on New Year’s Day 🥣
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Y1...
RIP President Carter, a fine man.
That's my late father in the red frock coat, he was Lord Mayor of Newcastle at the time. It was actually my mother who taught the President to say "Howay the lads" when the official party collected him the airport 🙂
#NUFC #HTL
RIP President Carter, a fine man.
That's my late father in the red frock coat, he was Lord Mayor of Newcastle at the time. It was actually my mother who taught the President to say "Howay the lads" when the official party collected him the airport 🙂
#NUFC #HTL
SYND 6 5 77 USA PRESIDENT CARTER VISITS NEWCASTLE
YouTube video by AP Archive
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December 30, 2024 at 2:07 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Y1...
RIP President Carter, a fine man.
That's my late father in the red frock coat, he was Lord Mayor of Newcastle at the time. It was actually my mother who taught the President to say "Howay the lads" when the official party collected him the airport 🙂
#NUFC #HTL
RIP President Carter, a fine man.
That's my late father in the red frock coat, he was Lord Mayor of Newcastle at the time. It was actually my mother who taught the President to say "Howay the lads" when the official party collected him the airport 🙂
#NUFC #HTL
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Having not read the sentencing remarks, I’m cautious about rushing to conclusions, but on its face Feathers McGraw appears to be a prime example of the rampant sentence inflation that has led to chronic overcrowding in our zoos and the unedifying spectacle of animals being released early.
Curious to know whether
@barristersecret.bsky.social thinks 30 years behind bars for robbery and attempted murder was a fair sentence for Feathers McGraw? It seems a bit steep #WallaceAndGromit
@barristersecret.bsky.social thinks 30 years behind bars for robbery and attempted murder was a fair sentence for Feathers McGraw? It seems a bit steep #WallaceAndGromit
December 28, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Having not read the sentencing remarks, I’m cautious about rushing to conclusions, but on its face Feathers McGraw appears to be a prime example of the rampant sentence inflation that has led to chronic overcrowding in our zoos and the unedifying spectacle of animals being released early.
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“[L]ibrarians say the root cause of the backlog remains the same: restrictive e-book publishing practices.” /1
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Astronomical' hold queues on year's top e-books frustrate readers, libraries | CBC News
More than 1,000 people are waiting to borrow the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-book of 2024, and librarians say inflated prices and restrictive e-book publishing practices are responsible.
www.cbc.ca
December 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM
“[L]ibrarians say the root cause of the backlog remains the same: restrictive e-book publishing practices.” /1
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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How delightful! A Treecreeper is playing hide and seek in your feed. 😀
December 18, 2024 at 11:48 AM
How delightful! A Treecreeper is playing hide and seek in your feed. 😀
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The final part of our journey back to Newcastle today was the lovely train ride from Edinburgh. Here depicted in 18 pictures, taken at 5ish minute intervals with the random filter option on an old Hipstamatic app.
December 14, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The final part of our journey back to Newcastle today was the lovely train ride from Edinburgh. Here depicted in 18 pictures, taken at 5ish minute intervals with the random filter option on an old Hipstamatic app.
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How great is this
December 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM
How great is this
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
13/20
#Libraries #BookSky 💙📚
13/20
#Libraries #BookSky 💙📚
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
13/20
#Libraries #BookSky 💙📚
13/20
#Libraries #BookSky 💙📚
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A pair of daffynitions every day until I run out, number 35…
Sparing = a ring you have in case you lose your main ring
Farming = an expensive Chinese vase that is not nearby
Sparing = a ring you have in case you lose your main ring
Farming = an expensive Chinese vase that is not nearby
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 AM
A pair of daffynitions every day until I run out, number 35…
Sparing = a ring you have in case you lose your main ring
Farming = an expensive Chinese vase that is not nearby
Sparing = a ring you have in case you lose your main ring
Farming = an expensive Chinese vase that is not nearby
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My brain’s not well at all atm but small creative routines can help so I’m going to try to post a (hopefully dopamine-boosting) photo for you every day through till🎄. Some small wreaths bc I really like twiggy circles 🌿:
December 1, 2024 at 12:25 PM
My brain’s not well at all atm but small creative routines can help so I’m going to try to post a (hopefully dopamine-boosting) photo for you every day through till🎄. Some small wreaths bc I really like twiggy circles 🌿:
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I know it’s a bit early but making this cheered me up: Christmas tree made of fossils. The baubles & stars are crinoids, branches are sharks’ teeth, trunk is dinosaur bone, pot is stingray teeth plates 🦖
November 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I know it’s a bit early but making this cheered me up: Christmas tree made of fossils. The baubles & stars are crinoids, branches are sharks’ teeth, trunk is dinosaur bone, pot is stingray teeth plates 🦖
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It feels nice to not have to scroll quickly past all the fake blue checks pooping at the top of all my comments.
I’m here to stay.
I’m here to stay.
December 1, 2024 at 12:28 PM
It feels nice to not have to scroll quickly past all the fake blue checks pooping at the top of all my comments.
I’m here to stay.
I’m here to stay.
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For one of my books, I did the index (as usual). The publisher outsourced the production to a company which generated their own error-strewn index (why?) and then merged it with mine. Result: a total mess which delayed publication by 2 months while it was repaired.
So no, computers can't do it.
So no, computers can't do it.
The question we're most often asked, as indexers, is 'Can't a computer do that?' Well, no. In a recent blog post we asked a panel of expert indexers how they respond to this question when it inevitably comes up
Ask the Indexers: can’t a computer do that?
This is the first in a series of blog posts that ask a panel of experienced indexers questions about indexing practice and life as an indexer. These will be appearing regularly over the next few…
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December 1, 2024 at 12:41 PM
For one of my books, I did the index (as usual). The publisher outsourced the production to a company which generated their own error-strewn index (why?) and then merged it with mine. Result: a total mess which delayed publication by 2 months while it was repaired.
So no, computers can't do it.
So no, computers can't do it.
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Barry Flanagan, Loch Tarff, 1976
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116358
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116358
November 29, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Barry Flanagan, Loch Tarff, 1976
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116358
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116358
Fabulous idea. It would be great to find out if there are any other examples.
Do other libraries keep Biography files for cats?!! Ours for Tetley, late of Walthamstow village, includes a souvenir of his attendance at a Vestry House citizenship ceremony in 2007. #ExploreYourArchive #EYAAnimals
November 29, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Fabulous idea. It would be great to find out if there are any other examples.
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Great find! We love #Paolozzi and always try to get a visit to the Scottish Modern museum when Edinburgh bound. Hope Billy will be thrilled with this nod ❤️
Reminds me of some of my mate @dad2dam2dum2mum.bsky.social work. It’s that small, square format.
Eduardo Paolozzi, 6228 Plus: Cry on my Shoulder, No Sad Songs etc. (from Zero Energy Experimental Pile Series), 1969
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115561
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115561
November 26, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Great find! We love #Paolozzi and always try to get a visit to the Scottish Modern museum when Edinburgh bound. Hope Billy will be thrilled with this nod ❤️
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Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
November 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
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Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians
#literacy #libraries #librarians
November 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians
#literacy #libraries #librarians
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Considering the animated illustrations are by the excellent Chris Riddell & it’s soundtracked by the wonderful local band The Unthanks. It’s no surprise I really like this years Fenwicks Christmas Window
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Considering the animated illustrations are by the excellent Chris Riddell & it’s soundtracked by the wonderful local band The Unthanks. It’s no surprise I really like this years Fenwicks Christmas Window
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IMPORTANT: We completed an important project a while ago, looking into the links between MPs+the private health sector🚨
Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️.
💙We have decided to bring our research up to date💙
www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️.
💙We have decided to bring our research up to date💙
www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
Labour's Wes Streeting takes £175k from donors linked to private health firms
LABOUR shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has continued to accept tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to private healthcare while…
www.thenational.scot
November 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
IMPORTANT: We completed an important project a while ago, looking into the links between MPs+the private health sector🚨
Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️.
💙We have decided to bring our research up to date💙
www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️.
💙We have decided to bring our research up to date💙
www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
All the best songs, we jigged and sang and can’t stop smiling! Quite the best night out.
The obligatory Pre gig photo for @bellowhead.bsky.social / @thelongestjohns.bsky.social gig at the Glasshouse
November 23, 2024 at 11:45 PM
All the best songs, we jigged and sang and can’t stop smiling! Quite the best night out.