Sally Brown

Dr Sue Clayton@topofthefield.bsky.social

Spectacular lifts! #DaniNikita

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

What do I enjoy as a reader and editor? And aim for as a poet? - a sense of line and its inherent tensions. - a concise, precise and fresh use of language. - a naturally heightened cadence. - a delving into the universal via the specific. - an emotional awareness of the reader’s role. Not much! 🤪

Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social

I want an interrogation with the Strictly producers. Viewers loved Claudia’s comedy after the dances so they’ve given us…JoJo’s empathy. They hired a comedian in Josh so they’ve put him with…Tess’s autocue. Have these people ever seen television before?!

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social

Reform UK Councillor Mick Mahoney, representing Kenton on Newcastle Council. Who are ‘they’, Mick? What’s more, we also have Councillor Michael Vincent Fitzpatrick, also of Newcastle City Council liking it.

@suebecks@suebecks.bsky.social

I have yet to see a puffin in real life but through you and @kaysambell.bsky.social have fallen for these gorgeous creatures Sadly on our summer holiday to Northumberland late August it was too late to see them on the Farne Islands.

@suebecks@suebecks.bsky.social

Next UK banknotes to feature barn owls, bumblebees, PUFFINS and hedgehogs @profsallybrown.bsky.social kaysambell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.comNext UK banknotes to feature barn owls, bumblebees, puffins and hedgehogsFour native species selected after consultation, but which one adorns which note is yet to be decided

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd

Yesterday, I met the home parenteral support nurse. She will train me to administer IV feeding to myself, w/ support from my wife, at home. We begin training proper today! Meanwhile, medics continue to try to bring my weight up w/ feed.

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

Important if you've published anything (poetry or prose) in a U.K.-based print journal or mag with an ISSN in the past three years! The deadline to add it to your ALCS account is 31/10 this year. And if you haven't joined yet, do so for free. Get paid for your writing...! www.alcs.co.uk/join-alcs/

Colin Rogers@colrog.bsky.social

Just done this. Really nice. Got 20, just got to decide which gets sent to whom

Dr Heidi Colthup@heidi-colthup.bsky.social

I've dropped my elderly uncle off at his eye clinic where he'll be for about an hour. I can now wait in the car or get a coffee in the next door garden centre which appears to be filling up with zombies.

Gail Myerscough@gailmyerscough.co.uk

You certainly can :-) Pick any 10 cards and they will automatically discount to £20.

Sally Brown@profsallybrown.bsky.social

Can I get a random mixed pack of 10 different cards for £20?

Gail Myerscough@gailmyerscough.co.uk

Mix-and-match card offer. Pick 5 for £12 or pick 10 for £20 (that's a tenner off buying individually). The whole range is included. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/greeting-cards

gailmyerscough.co.ukGreeting Cards | Bold Illustrated Cards UK | Gail MyerscoughBold illustrated greeting cards for all occasions. Blank inside. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK. £3 each. 5 cards for £12. Ten for £20.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

A new batch of books has now reached me and they're all itching to find a reader, clamouring for me to slip them into an envelope and post them off, ready to be devoured. Would you like to lend them a helping hand?! 😜 If so, just drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

Kate Elliott@kateelliottsff.bsky.social

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

Jim Edwards @jimedwardsart.bsky.social

My Studio is open today, even though I’m normally closed on a Sunday. To make up for last couple of days I’ve been away, & I do need to catch up on a couple of commissions. If you want to pop in, I’ll be open 10am-4pm. Jim Edwards Studio, 57 Lime St, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ.

Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋@fashionnatascha.bsky.social

💕♍#FashionFriday #Virgo edition ♍💕 Celebrating entering my #queenage wearing vintage Debenhams & Freebody 1930s draped dress originally bought for my 1990s honeymoon. #NaturallyCurlyHair gold wreath headdress, charm bracelet #firehorse necklace, Grecian sandals & neon pink manicure

Sally Brown@profsallybrown.bsky.social

Have you recently called an ambulance (UK)? (note for US citizens ambulances are free here, courtesy of the magnificent NHS). I am helping a friend revise for a viva and am sending her daily mini scenarios& she responds via voice note as she would in the exam. Please send me your mini scenarios

nightjrrs.bsky.social@nightjrrs.bsky.social

Great last line.

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Thank you.

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

Don't know whether that's good or bad, Sally...!

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

Dennis O'Driscoll here uses deceptively simple language to construct a powerful poem that reaches out far beyond its modest physical constraints...

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

The Last Carry has now hit 1,800 likes on here! If you've enjoyed it, please do grab a copy of the collection it's taken from, Whatever You Do, Just Don't, which was a Poetry Society Book of the Year in 2023. Drop me a DM for more details...

@suebecks@suebecks.bsky.social

I loved reading this book

@suebecks@suebecks.bsky.social

If you’d like a companion count me in!!

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com

ICYMI: Author Matt Haig is set to open a new community bookshop in Seven Dials, Brighton with a plan to launch in December. 👇

ebx.shAuthor Matt Haig to open bookshop in Brighton

Rob Farrow@rfarrow.bsky.social

My news is that I have been promoted to full professor at The Open University. I will take up the title of 'Professor of Critical Educational Technology' in reflection of my disciplinary trajectory and distinctive approach to research. Grateful to all those who helped on the journey!

@suebecks@suebecks.bsky.social

My 65th birthday 🎂 celebrations included a birthday 🎂 with a Baby City Rollers theme!

Sally Brown@profsallybrown.bsky.social

Wordle 1,878 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 First time ever! I don’t use a regular starter word, just a random word that pops into my head and today I hit the jackpot

Orcspiration@orcspiration.bsky.social

WHAT'S SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL YOU SAW RECENTLY?

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

Time to prep another copy to be posted out tomorrow. This one's heading for Leicester...

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social

Spent the evening in largely car-free Utrecht and sad to see the devastating impact the exclusion of cars has had on the bars, cafes and restaurants, and the liveliness of the city centre.