@mariabarrett.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Warwick. DCMS Parliamentary Fellow. Cultural Policy, theatre, audiences, class, Bourdieu, Arts management, Liverpool #WIASN. She, her
Wild Twn won!
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
So pleased for Jeff and @wildtwin.bsky.social, a beautiful book that effortlessly tells many stories and redefines memoir. And the writing 🔥
‘To believe’.
Very proud xxx
And you, I hope x
20.07.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Actually having a reasonable day myself. Always a relief.
20.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh I’m glad. Hope for more of them
20.07.2025 16:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wish I’d said that!
How are you today, Wombat?
Oh gosh yes! And now I can’t unsee it
20.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Within a cascade of water shooting from a floor level fountain is the silhouette of a girl
Nantes, August 2019.
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Fabulous
17.06.2025 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🕵️♀️
17.06.2025 15:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh! There’s a clue!
17.06.2025 11:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh, very much agreed. It may be all we have. And that is an absolute classic
16.06.2025 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Before of course were plunged back into hell by the very valid question of the reporter
16.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s wonderful isn’t it
16.06.2025 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you seen where he drops the papers?
16.06.2025 22:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pleasure Jeff, so pleased for you xxx
16.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic news!
A wonderful book, important for its stories, social history, and personal politics, but most of all for Jeff’s beautiful writing.
Much deserved. Well done @wildtwin.bsky.social and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social ❤️
Image shows front and back cover of Jeff Young's WILD TWIN. Collaged images, text about the book, quotes from various writers.
SOME BOOK NEWS!
Wild Twin has been shortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 along with Catherine Coldstream's 'Cloistered' and Clair Wills's 'Missing Persons'. The winner of the prize will be announced at Foyles on 23 July. Happy days!
@thetls.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Brown dog wearing a Liverpool scarf sits in a trailer, seemingly exhausted from the excitement of the parade
Waiting for the parade
#LFC Victory Parade, Allerton Road, Liverpool. 26th May 2025
#dog
@wombat37.bsky.social #SundayPix #SundayPixWheels
Green bus, as previous post, but without waving man
For the #bus afficianadoes. With more bus, less man
Bus at Greenway, August 2015.
#GreenwayHouse in #Devon is the former home of #AgathaChristie,
now owned by the #NationalTrust.
@wombat37.bsky.social #SundayPix #SundayPixWheels
😂😂😂
15.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’d settle for ‘absolute beauty’.
Oh. You meant the bus, didn’t you
Well that’s not on my usual list of sobriquets. But feel free!
15.06.2025 18:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0![A big old green bus with red wheels. A man in a hat is waving at the camera while pretending to board.
Apparently ‘The Greenway Estates' bus (A Baranaby-bodied Leyland Tiger PS1 registered AHL964) […] used to take visitors to and from Agahta Christie's old house which is now managed by the National Trust’ - Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galmpton_-_Greenway_bus_AHL694.jpg](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ohd2goolyb4kd4gbz55zgpw/bafkreihoquxgdoevsa6oz6hdrf6dwkl26mzgjrzdtnwebvz2vexu3ajnby@jpeg)
A big old green bus with red wheels. A man in a hat is waving at the camera while pretending to board. Apparently ‘The Greenway Estates' bus (A Baranaby-bodied Leyland Tiger PS1 registered AHL964) […] used to take visitors to and from Agahta Christie's old house which is now managed by the National Trust’ - Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galmpton_-_Greenway_bus_AHL694.jpg
Bus at Greenway, August 2015.
#GreenwayHouse in #Devon is the former home of #AgathaChristie,
now owned by the #NationalTrust.
@wombat37.bsky.social #SundayPix #SundayPixWheels
It should be
15.06.2025 17:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You thought it was my car, didn’t you
15.06.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😂
Magical vehicle, of course!
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A ship’s wheel leans against the wall of a gallery waiting to be sited. It is white, outlined in black paint. By artist Helen Oliver Adelson. In front of it is a very ordinary black and white striped doormat.
Ship’s Wheel.
Part of exhibition ‘The Sea’, by Helen Oliver Adelson and Alex Wolkowicz, Brick Aux Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Oct-Nov 2024.
Wheel astonishingly enough inspired by me
#SundayPix #SundayPixWheels
@wombat37.@bsky.social
Fantasy vehicle on white with painted flames in red and yellow from red and white wheels. It’s a float being pulled as part of the parade
Manchester Day Parade. On this day, 2015
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