@khursheb.bsky.social
poet & geek #exactcolourofsnow #lastdaysofpetrol #thecellarman bridgetkhursheed.com
Billboard in Dundee. Pic: Alistair Heather
11.02.2026 19:39 β π 504 π 119 π¬ 7 π 6
Headline from the BBC about some rich old loser buying the right to some airtime for his racist views & NF getting in on the hate of it all as usual
wtf does some billionaire based in Monaco know about UK society - picking away at a perceived vulnerability as to what it means to be English with the only answer offered waving flags and to hate whatever today is categorised as the "other" - all while the rich get richer.
12.02.2026 12:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
'Winter Menhirs, Imbolc' - Brian Graham (2003)
02.02.2026 09:12 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A swift building brick with a nesting hole for swifts
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law #birds #Scotland #conservation #environment #swifts @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
John wants to be an artist but instead he spends most of his time avoiding student Molly who adores him and pining for the goth girl Marianne who he first saw in a graveyard. Earning a meagre living at the Black Dragon pub in Hayds as a bar and cellarman, he finally meets his muse. But appearances can be deceptive. She is a young mother escaping from an unhappy marriage. And he is not sure if art is enough anymore. Book cover showing Tweedbank roundabout at night.
The Cellarman. Available now.
A small town love story set in the eighties. Paperback coming soon if you don't do Kindle and/or Amazon.
amzn.eu/d/6hdqqsa
So close...
16.01.2026 17:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mars Attacks πΎ
16.01.2026 16:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Indonesia blocks #Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Young women with sunglasses and a big smile sits in the Batmobile with her hands on the wheel
Sitting in the #Batmobile in a mall in #SurfersParadise in 1987 - I was 21 and the other two in the queue were under 8 #Batman #AdamWest #livingthedream
You can tell the photo was important as it was where I kept my secret pincode!
Poster and trailor for Pollux et le chat bleu aka in English Dougal and the Blue Cat - follow the link to imdb to learn more
Feel like I should watch this again #DougalAndTheBlueCat #PolluxEtLeChatBleu #MagicRoundabout
Life at the Magic Roundabout is disrupted. Everyone loves Buxton except for Dougal, who discovers the cat's mad plan to become blue army king & destroy all who are not blue.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0308...
The Perrymount in Haywards Heath but it closed down and I only ever remember seeing one film in the cinema as a child Dougal and the Blue Cat - watched a lot of tv to compensate though!
#childhoodcinema
A view from Ettrick Water footbridge by Selkirk campsite and the river upstream is disappearing into the gloaming
Upstream Ettrick Water #dusk #river
03.01.2026 10:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Christmas market in Vienna entered through a giant star on a rainy day
Festive
24.12.2025 09:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π₯ Why do we people part with these?! I found this one a while back
20.12.2025 16:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Boycott Eurovision. News clipping from Sky News: Israel allowed to take part in Eurovision 2026 - as several countries withdraw. Scottish Greens.
Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel.
After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.
I got married in 1996 with just two witnesses in attendance: a photographer and a friend of a work colleague - contacted the latter (a stranger) via email prior to the event and they showed up on the day.
The marriage lasted less than a year.
But this wedding was arranged via Reddit π
Peaceful pool on the river Tweed breaks snd boils over the cauld
By the cauld #riverTweed #river
29.11.2025 09:09 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Daily Fail ask Rachel Reeves' uncle to rewrite her CV for some reason - my uncle used to say the best and most astonishing things about my career to anyone who would listen. This guy less so. Take both with a pinch of salt.
My uncle used to tell folk that I explained the World Wide Web to Bill Gates.
Bad luck #RachelReeves new low from #DailyFail
Ukraine could have surrendered in 2014. But we didnβt.
Ukraine could have surrendered in 2022. But we didnβt.
And we could surrender now. But we will not.
We. Are. Ukrainians. We will not surrender.
Only a few days left to enter the Cafe Writers poetry competition. Our sole judge is Jessica Mookherjee. First prize is Β£1000 and there are other prizes too. #poetry www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
20.11.2025 11:51 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
A South Downs book cover which features wooden signposts against a green downland colour background.
Callum James' South Downs: Paths of the Dead is partly a grimoire of the walk, partly a linear topography, partly a treatise on necromancy. Subverting the expectation that books on landscape are divorced from folklore, spirits & the magic of a place. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social π₯
20.11.2025 08:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Book cover showing an image of a roundabout with street lights at night - the book is called The Cellarman by Bridget Khursheed and it is due out in 2026
Coming in 2026 #coverreveal & yes it is fiction
02.11.2025 22:51 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Okkkkayyyyyyyy π₯
01.11.2025 22:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you @bordertelegraph.bsky.social for your support for Exact Colour of Snow #poetry #saltires
www.bordertelegraph.com/news/2551344...
Honoured to be included on the #poetry longlist for the Scottish National Book Awards with #ExactColourOfSnow
11.09.2025 20:03 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Anas Al-Sharif βkilled in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.β
What are they hiding? This removal of witnesses wasnβt accidental.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
SOME NEWS: Dust will open for submissions 20th August - 20th September.
This will be for our fifteenth issue which will have the title and theme βDear Worldβ.
We canβt wait to read your poems π
(Poems sent before 20.08.25 wonβt be read)
Itβs real privilege to be reviewed alongside the much missed #GerryLoose & the Leaving Songs of Donald S Murray - you can find all three of us including #ExactColourOfSnow critiqued by Lewis poet Ian Stephen in the new & lovely issue of #northwordsnow #poetry
www.northwordsnow.co.uk/issue46/enti...
Distant hills with sentinel trees under a grey sky with a field of green clover in the foreground
The Eildon #hills and #trees
04.08.2025 20:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βI was going to tell youβ¦
I saw a fox in the hospital grounds
when I was orienteering & that
the sky was very blue & fine &β
The closing poem of Issue 14 is βI was going to tell youβ¦β by Bridget Khursheed @khursheb.bsky.social
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/i-was-g...
