This…always this
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This…always this
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The 2026 edition of Colouring In is published. After all the effort that feels amazing.
Some giveaways soon, so stay tuned: and also a 🧵 about the book for good measure. If you feel like sharing, perhaps because you’ve read previous editions, please don’t be shy. #books #writing #noteworthybooks
Pets at Home leaving room to grow
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Picture shows dog lying down to eat
He eats breakfast like he hasn’t slept all night #dogs
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Picture shows a spoon in a bag of flour
Ha! The missing spoon 🙂
06.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You need to share this new found knowledge, please.
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has almost 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
21.01.2026 06:41 — 👍 497 🔁 364 💬 24 📌 19Ship ahoying?
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Old school cooking 🙂
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Congratulations to @ronanhession.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul is the first Bluemoose book to be selected as a national set text in secondary schools.
September this year it will be on the Irish Junior Certificate for English alongside Hemingway, Austen, Blackman.
Marvelous.
I’m keen to increase use and engagement on Instagram as I ramp up book news over there. If you feel like joining me over there I’ll follow back. Link in my profile but also 👇
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The first collection of each bin after Christmas our chaps will take any extras placed beside it. They also always wave at my dog in the window. It’s the hilight of his week.
02.01.2026 08:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Service stations and garden centres. It’s fascinating how the names have changed over the years. Also, your name is on the mug in the background 🙂
30.12.2025 05:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Over the year his voice has got better and better.
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A dozen Long Tailed Tits (puffballs!) in the tree again.
#birds #birdsky
Good luck with that! (I’m 5ft 1)
22.12.2025 20:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Either a children’s book character or a spy name.
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A lovely start to the day
Sparrow, Buzzard, Robin, Starling, Graylag and Egyptian Goose.
#birds
I find it can lift me to outrageous heights of joy or drop me to unfathomable depths of despair. And both are exquisite.
17.12.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Goosebumps ❤️
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He signed my beer 🙂
12.12.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A sparrow interrupted Yann Martel
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Stunning, wasn’t it?
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Robin Smith was a lovely man and a fine cricketer RIP, Judge xx
#cricketsky
#cricket @hampshirecricket.bsky.social
I have just ordered the Kobo Remote 🙂
@mtamblyn.bsky.social @kobobooks.bsky.social
#kobo #booksky
Brief thoughts here
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Oh, the final chapter...
@faberbooks.bsky.social #freezingpoint #andersbodelsen #joantate #booksky
It’s time. Nigel Slater’s The Christmas Chronicles is so, so evocative. He is a wonderful writer and this is my favourite Christmas book.
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social @nigelslater.bsky.social #booksky
