Gary Horrocks

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💓

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 💕

Events Calendar - Special Interest Group: UK eInformation Group - CILIP: the library and information association Michael Rosen keynotes our cross-sector programme which, this year, explores key themes around ethics and influencing. Join us for two days of inspiring talks, workshops and networking.

Early heads up. I am going to host another workshop for @ukeig.bsky.social @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social
September 30th - 12-2pm.
Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences

Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space
www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...

We’ve transitioned 40 years from Band Aid to Banned Aid. Good old Ian Hislop who articulated the bitter irony of the situation on tonight’s #bbcpm #GazaStarving

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 👏

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Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 !
So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people!
@cilip.bsky.social

Inspiring words from Sue Bryant, opening #cilipconf25 "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"

Some of the best library events I've ever been to have opened with a poem. This is one. Thankyou Rishi 🙏 #cilipconf25

Brilliant keynote speech from Sebastian Cuttill at #CILIPConf25 on "the power of advocacy", putting forward a forceful argument for fighting back against allowing the AI agenda of "predominantly U.S-based tech firms to dictate our future". Am excited for the rest of the day!

Quality panel debate at #cilipconf25 - AI, creative rights, ethics and more

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

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

A shout out to the great CILIP team on the morning of their two day annual conference in Birmingham. I have coffee, a biro and notebook and am raring to go. There’s old fashioned for you 👏@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

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 😔

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

Such a joy to know that the remains of my fridge should be on Digging for Britain 👏

One is trying to visualise this process.

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

Pray divulge …

Easter joy 💓🌈

You gorgeous creature! Miss you immensely. Congratulations 🥳 Let’s grab that phone call (or fern curl) as one says in Humberside 😊

Think of all the vitamins

Have six 💋