the endless ground of your own deep pulse, Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. David Young

Tigist and the Wolf. A Willerby Story. A village fairytale of woodcutters, a blacksmith and a Big Bad Wolf. willerby.substack.com/p/tigist-and...

After the latest russian attack on Kyiv, I’m sharing extracts from my diary. This is not news. It’s daily life. www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

Another set of orders going out tomorrow. Order today to get yours sent too. UK or intentionally. Come find us. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Next batch of orders ships tomorrow, just quietly mentioning it in case your future self would appreciate some chocolate. 🍫👀

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

And at the risk of annoying everyone, here is another. philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/s...

Greetings from Kyiv. We survived the night. No electricity, water, or heating at home. –8 °C outside. Some apartments in our building lost their windows in the attack. Still, I believe everything will be fine.

In the photo is Serhii Smoliak, a medic killed by russians in Kyiv last night He was 56yo When the ambulance crew arrived, russian terrorists carried out a second strike He was killed on the spot Serhii had worked over 25 years as a senior paramedic in Kakhovka, Kherson region 💔💔💔

A Year in Willerby is now available in just one good local bookshop.. Hunt's in Rugby. If you can't make it there you can still get it here. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Right I've written a blog. At least I think I have as this may not work: philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/r... It's pretty dull.

Most of us got a song that says: “This mattered to me. Maybe it will to you too.” So we pass each other songs instead. That’s not noise. That’s people finding each other in the dark.

On January 7th, 2026, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good by shooting her in the head through her car window. She was a poet and writer, a wife, and a mother of three. Here is the full poem from Amanda Gorman's Facebook page: Amanda Gorman is in Minneapolis, MN, United States @aclumn.bsky.social

Here's something I wrote earlier for #poemsabout #static. Happy new year everyone and thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt! #poems #poetry

This is a brilliant book. It's about pubs. But it's about much more than pubs.

Lovely review of our book.

#FridayFive 1. Snow - Tracey Thorn 2. Winter song - Sam Fender 3. Winter lady - Leonard Cohen 4. Winter winds - Mumford & Sons 5. Freeze tag - Suzanne Vega

Snow and ice! #FridayFive 1. Long Cold Winter. Cinderella 2. Ben Howard. Promise 3. Rush. By-Tor and the Snow Dog 4. David Essex. Only a Winter's Tale 5. Simon and Garfunkle. A Hazy Shade of Winter

#FridayFive 1 Snowy Atlas Mountains - Fionn Reagan 2 In the Snow - Longpigs 3 The Ice is Getting Thinner - Death Cab for Cutie 4 Wintering - The 1975 5 Time Will Bring You Winter - Richard Hawley

1. Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon and Garfunkel 2. Year Long Winter - Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane 3. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce 4. On Broadway - Gustaffson 5. January Man - Lau and Katine Polwart #FridayFive

1. A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon & Garfunkel 2. Running on Ice by Billy Joel 3. Snowed Under by Keane 4. First Snowfall by Sonic Sea Turtles 5. Winter by Joshua Radin #FridayFive

Snow and ice! #FridayFive 1. Immigrant Song. Led Zeppelin. 2. Goodbye England.. Laura Marling. 3. In This Home On Ice. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. 4. Winter Valley Song. Fountains of Wayne. 5. Winter Fields. Bat for Lashes.

Wrapping up warm for today’s #FridayFive

The Roman Running Club. A Willerby Story. Jamal runs in the mornings with three timeslipped legionnaires. willerby.substack.com/p/the-runnin...

you know what would be a genuinely useful site? "Was It Better or Were You Younger?" just take various elements of life and look at the actual facts of the past. because it is true of some stuff! but generally much less than nostalgia and aging leads us to believe

Peter Hook & Ian Curtis during Joy Division’s performance at August 1979’s Leigh Festival, by the great Kevin Cummins.

Samuil Kaplan (Ukrainian, 1928–2021) "Pecherskyi Ice Rink. Kyiv", 1979. Oil on Canvas. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Join us in wishing @michaelstipe.bsky.social a very happy birthday today! 🎉

Anna Akhmatova (from “Requiem” tr. by D.M. Thomas)

If you know spooky Midlands villages like I know spooky Midlands villages...you'll want to investigate Willerby....

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Jack's Pool. The very first Willerby Story and a good introduction to the village. Jack-in-the-Pond, our dark spirit of blood and water is woken by two newcomers who don't know better. willerby.substack.com/p/jacks-pool

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Those of us who grew up in 1970s Britain didn’t have mobile phones or computer games. But we did have fantastic children’s TV programmes. Like Rentaghost. Here’s my tribute to a wonderful BBC show that was born 50 years ago. #Rentaghost

Shortcuts. A Willerby Story. Stay on the road. Stick to the paths you know. Don't get lost. willerby.substack.com/p/shortcuts

Happy new year! I love sharing this poem by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social. I’m reminded this year of Audre Lorde: “These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness.”

Robert Abele ~ Stick of Gold, 2025

#FridayFive 1. Good luck - Basement Jack 2. Great Things - Echobelly 3. The Best is Yet to Come - Tony Bennett & Diana Krall 4. Autobahn - Kraftwerk 5. Going for Gold - Shed Seven

#FridayFive. New year, more beginnings etc. Just the vibe is fine. 1. Wide Open Spaces. The Chicks. 2. Back to Livin' Again. Curtis Mayfield. 3. Finest Worksong. REM. 4. Unwritten. Natasha Bedingfield. 5. So fresh so clean. Outkast.

We had a thread recently about quotes from movies that we use regularly. (@missmc.bsky.social @bethgg.bsky.social - was it you?) Anyway, Mr R has just cleaned the glass splashback til it squeaks, and I’ve asked, “Is there a Mr Gump, Mrs Gump?”

Welcome to Willerby. A haunted village somewhere in the midlands. Over fifty free uncanny stories that can be read in any order. Original music and art. This year, come find us. www.welcometowillerby.co.uk Three good stories to start with in the thread below.

happy birthday to @eliotcardinaux.bsky.social, who wrote this perfect poem

Jane Kenyon

happy last #smallpoemsunday of 2025! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote and/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s W. S. Merwin, from “Song of Three Smiles”~

The Tapestry. A Willerby Story. A party of New Year's Eve revellers open a sealed room in old Willo House and find a strange tapestry. willerby.substack.com/p/the-tapestry

💙💛 People stand in line for a drinking water in Kyiv on December 27, 2025. Russian strikes caused fires, damaged residential buildings and critical infrastructure, and disrupted electricity, heating and water supply systems.