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ABCtales is a brilliant, friendly writing site. Take a look and also give them a follow. There’s a Pick of the Day from writing on the site every day - great poems and stories. @abctales.bsky.social

Morning. Happy Mondays! ☕💙🍂

Cheers, T. Hope the wind has died down by you! So gusty last couple of days.

They do! 😂

Inside Fanzone at Villa Park for first time. Very civilised ⚽

#AstonVillavBurnley

Thank you 💙 Have a lovely Sunday. Cuddles and fun with the Bear! 🐻

Morning! Off to Brum for the foootie shortly then on to Northampton to stay with my boy at his flat for a few days and for the first time. Wish me luck ⚽💙☕😀

An illustration from the children's book The White Cat and the Monk, a retelling of a 9th-century Irish poem "Pangur Bán". The illustration, created by Sydney Smith, depicts a monk sitting in his simple room, holding his white cat, Pangur, on his lap. ‘With my white cat, Pangur’

Resharing an old post for #BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday

‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.

🖼️ Sydney Smith

Happy Fungi Day! 🍄

Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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Panther illustration

‘after its feasting it seeks
its rest in a secret place
within an earthen cave—
there the mighty fighter
for three nights’ space
wends into slumber,
occupied by sleep’ ~ The Panther, From The Exeter Book. #BookWormSat #Caturday
🖼️ Wellcome Collection

Happy #Caturday

Morning! 💙☕🌦️

From a medieval manuscript, The artwork depicts two hares, a beetle-like insect, and a moth in a field of flowers and other plants

‘The quick-scut, the dew-flirt,
the grass-biter, the goibert,
the home-late, the do-the-dirt.
The starer, the wood-cat,
the purblind, the furze cat…’ ~ The Names of a Hare, trans from Middle English by Heaney. #BookWormSat
🖼️ From Cocharelli Codex, c.1330, Genoa, Italy, Brit. Library, 28841, f. 6v

Story: Truth is Written

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Psychosis, subediting, and the stars.

Happy Friday!💙🐸

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Morning. Happy October! 💙☕🍂

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Congratulations, Drew 🎊

September 29, 2025: Fiction by Drew Gummerson Then she said, I’d like to see the Empire State Building. I’ve seen that movie. King Kong. Fay Wray in the hands of the beast. And then she, this little Peruvian woman with perfectly blank features…

And a new story by me, Collateral, over on Revolution John.

Tom Cruise, a Peruvian hairdresser, a New York cabbie, a snake called Otto.

And plenty of murder.

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Morning! Happy Mondays 💙☕🌥️

Sunday stroll

Handsome devil

Painting ~ A dark steam locomotive with several passenger cars heading towards the viewer on a single track. Its red headlights glow in the darkness, and steam billows from its smokestack. A lone figure, dressed in a long, tan or brown coat and hat, stands in the foreground to the right, facing the approaching train. The ground is covered in snow, with traces of tracks and sparse vegetation visible. Telegraph poles line the tracks on the left, and a small marker indicating "52 km" is partially visible near the tracks.

‘This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.’ ~ Night Mail, W.H. Auden ~ Goodnight from #BookWormSat
🖼️ Abraham Neumann
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Morning! 💙☕🌥️

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Hans Baluschek: City railway station painting. Night scene, steam, smoke, lights.

‘The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.’ ~ Ezra Pound.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here on the railways for #BookWormSat

Cheers, M 🙏