Strawberry Thief

Close captioning of The Mayfair Witches.

The word they are looking for is Taltos

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Ouroboros 🐍

Winter evening looking over the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River)

Glass house on a winter night (luckily the heaters were on!) 🥶

Was working at a local university this morning - or trying to - when I got lost on campus and came across this peaceful little spot

Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

April 2025 Ghostly Gardens April 2025 Ghostly Gardens Awards For New Writers

One of my stories placed in the top 10 for @elegantliterature.bsky.social ‘s April competition

You can download the issue here:

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Beautiful! 🐦🍓

Adore 🍓

Usually it goes like this:

Them: so why Strawberry Thief?

Me: it’s to do with wallpaper

Them: 😶

I’d pretty much got used to ppl not getting the reference behind my username & then this happens 🥹

All the Morris fans! So much Strawberry Thief 💗🍓💗🍓💗🍓

I’ve just been happily strawberry-thiefing (thieving?) along & then this happens. Happy scrolling to see all the 🐦& 🍓

Oh, thank you 🙏🏻 Really glad you liked it

One of these stories is by me 😊 and, as I am discovering reading through the others, it is in such good company

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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

I had no idea that semi-colon use was divisive (and not in a clausal sense) 😟 I love semi-colons and can’t remember not using them; both in my writing and for prompting old-school winky faces ;)

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Alfred Untold by Neil Clark Alfred Untold – Am I a woman? – It’s Guess Who? Of course not. – Are we twins, separated at birth? Do we sometimes feel a pang, like the tug of an invisible chord? We’re not sure what it …

When asked, as I sometimes am, which is my favourite short fiction, I reply with this one. 5 years on and still in the top spot for me…

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Deimos Before Dawn - NASA NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the

A recent amazing photo courtesy of the Perseverence rover, Mars’ tiny moon Deimos shining in the pre-dawn sky. NASA combined 16 long exposure photos to produce the final image 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Weekend drive to Wagin & first time to see The Giant Ram (his name is Baart 😄) Studied his stats and took a cheeky pic of his ‘undercarriage’

Better than the Big Orange at Harvey but not quite as good as The Big Pineapple at Nambour

Thank you! ☺️

A story that didn’t know what it wanted to be when it grew up finally came of age - and got 2nd place. I am thrilled! 😍

Waking up this morning to find out that my odd little story not only (finally!) found a home but took 2nd place is so gratifying! Thanks to the judges 🙏🏻 Excited to read the edition when it’s published

36 years in Perth - finally made it to #WaveRock (bonus #HipposYawn)

Watched the blood moon rise across the Ravensthorpe plains. The photo doesn’t do justice to the deep bronze colour which I saw
#bloodmoon #ravensthorpe

Western Australia election: Liberals fail to attract swing required as Labor secures third-term victory WA Labor will hold a third term in office, with the early vote count showing the Liberals failing to gain traction with any significant swing • Western Australia has one story about the gas industry. It won’t accept dissent from ‘over east’ Labor will…

Western Australia election: Liberals fail to attract swing required as Labor secures third-term victory

Antony Green has called the WA state election - WA Labor has been returned for a 3rd term & Roger Cook will remain Premier. #wavotes 🙌🏻

Settling in to watch #wavotes on the ABC. Sad to know that it is psephologist Antony Green’s last time to call a state election 🥺 #loveantonygreen

Garden update: I have tiny capsicums, a new geranium, and some sprouting passfruit vines (not pictured)

One of these 10 stories is by me 😊

Voted (pretty much 2nd person through the door this morning). Hot tip - I’d wait until later in the day if you like a faster process. The Perth CBD early voting centre was all over the place today… #vote #earlyvoting #australianelection #australiavotes

Musée des Beaux Arts is my favourite poem about grief