Orchid update If you’ve got it, flaunt it ❤️

How beautiful. I just found a common spotted orchid in the garden ❤️ Mondays just aren’t the same these days 😀

Talking Tales #38 is open for submissions 🗣️ @melciavucco.bsky.social @markrutterford.bsky.social The event is July 2025 at The Robin Hood in Bristol! 🎉 If you'd like to perform, or just attend the event to listen, please read our latest newsletter ❤️ - mailchi.mp/b8c47c38a46f...

Well look at this! Poetry Plus on Tuesday night in @thebellinnbath 730pm start - part of @fringeartsbath No strings, no cost, no brainer ❤️ See you there 🙏 …along with @clayton.debbie @milenapaccani @raven_on_the_wire20 and more

Tis the day for this pic 🥚❤️ It will always make me smile 🙏

Big smiles for a big night 😍 I am delighted to be taking part in the Chimes Poetry Variety Night as part of Sparkfest Bath 🌟 May 22nd 6pm at Burdall’s Yard in Bath It will be a gorgeous mix of performances Book now www.ticketsource.co.uk/bathspalive/...

What an excellent evening of stories, poetry & spoken word at Talking Tales! 📖✍️🗣️ Thank you to everyone who read and performed, to our lovely supportive audience and to @markrutterford.bsky.social for hosting. The flyer pictured is from 10 years ago from the very first Talking Tales! 🥳

A reminder Even shipwrecked dreams can last And surprise us with their beauty ❤️ Wreck of the SS Nornen Berrow beach ⚓️

Submissions for Talking Tales 🗣️ #37 - an event taking place at The Robin Hood, St Michael's Hill, Bristol on 17th April and hosted by the amazing @markrutterford.bsky.social - close soon! Please check out our latest email for all the details 😊 mailchi.mp/36a7f795c19b...

I am coarse from the ravages of Winter I am broken, muddy, brown Is that sunlight in the distance? May it shine on us again ❤️

Very excited to be seeing @zahodesagazan in Bristol tonight. Will report back…expect much ❤️

Just saying… We don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time ❤️

Poet in Residence wanted for the National Memorial Arboretum for two years to use the Arboretum's landscape and memorials for a series of original poems to share stories with brand new audiences. Details in link. Please share :) www.thenma.org.uk/about-us/wor...

What a brilliant event - bravo to everyone that’s made this happen with @readwithyeovil.bsky.social 🙌 I have more props than is wise but I am buckled up and will enjoy the ride making a story with some 6 - 8 year olds ❤️ Let’s see where it takes us…

The winner of the best bit of marketing seen over the weekend award goes to 👇

Sorry to report tomorrow’s The Love Stories Show at The David Hall, South Petherton has had to be postponed due to circumstances beyond our control 💔 The David Hall and me are working on rescheduling but it won’t be for a while. Thanks for all the love and support x

Thanks to Somerset Live for this article ❤️ www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/wha... The Love Stories Show at The David Hall, South Petherton 8pm on Valentine’s Day Tickets from www.thedavidhall.com/events24-25/

One week to Valentine’s Day ❤️ And to save yourself from the same old same old 🙏 Get booked up for The Love Stories Show @thedavidhallsp and lets make Somerset sizzle Details and Tix via qr code at Pic 3 #valentines #love #somerset

🏍️ TO HULL AND BACK IS OPEN 🏍️ The 9th To Hull And Back humorous #shortstory competition is open for entries 🎉 - Closes 30th June 2025 - £10 early-bird entry fee, £12 standard - 2,500 words - Top prize £1,000 - Shortlist published in anthology Details: www.christopherfielden.com/to-hull-and-...

Love is…a small bag of wonder ❤️ I know half of you are going to be…just…WRONG😡 But who’s got these on their Valentine’s lust list? #marmite #marmitecrispsuk #valentines #loveit

Some days, you wake up and think you’re a bit off kilter…and then you remember to smile and get some coffee 😎

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Been writing about songs in languages I do not speak and the fire and ice of a 1960s love affair. Emotions are a bit close to the surface today 🙏

I am broken - in a beautiful way I’ve just watched a video of @zahodesagazan and @tompeterodell meeting for the first time and it’s just a beautiful tribute to creativity, it’s impact and the connections it can bring ❤️ look it up And keep writing, playing, singing, rhyming and making ❤️❤️❤️🙏

Within 100 miles of Bristol Words to share…prose, poems, the essay you’d graffiti on a wall if only you were ok on a ladder? Check out and come along to Talking Tales ❤️

One month until Valentine’s Day ❤️ Make it one you’ll never forget ❤️❤️ Come to this at @thedavidhallsp ❤️❤️❤️ The interactive story-telling show where the audience is the ying to my yang 😉 Tickets available here www.tickettailor.com/events/thepe... #valentines #love #theatre

This is a dog house You have 5 weeks today to get yourself out of it Surprise your squeeze on Valentine’s Day Come along to The Love Stories Show at @thedavidhallsp and earn yourself many ❤️ points Booking here www.tickettailor.com/events/thepe...

Beautiful afternoon walk Energising Melancholy Brutal 🙏

Resolutions? Really! That implies room for improvement… ❤️❤️❤️ Don’t rule out the possibility you can be different And that changes you want to make are achievable Remind yourself, you can do anything But don’t rule out the possibility that you are beautiful just as you are 🫶

In the grey days before New Year A reminder At the end of one cycle There is beauty in the next one 🙏❤️

You. All of you. I hope you’re feeling the love this eve I hope you are gifted love tomorrow And all the days that follow 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️

Staff Christmas party today 🎄 There’s always someone that invades your personal space…but she’s the boss and I don’t mind 🫶 #christmas #patterdale #cheeseandgrain

“You have to love what you do so much that you don’t care what people think.” ~ Mary Ruefle

I’m surprised I can tie my own shoelaces… 🙄

Talking Tales is back Quarterly in2025 New year, new venue but you’ll do just fine as you are ❤️

Well this look rather amazing ❤️

Does everyone know about Project Gutenberg? E-books for free. The world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for free. Digitized and diligently proofread by thousands of volunteers. Please share.

I noticed frost on a lime tree Hanging in the morning air It was both beautiful and bleak A paradox of the season

Every year, GS provides Christmas Dinner for people who have been in the care system who may not have anywhere else to go on a day when family can be thin on the ground. Christmas Dinners are held around the country and they always needs funds, support and help. Details below. Please share.

I might deploy this tactic…until February. I’ll do this now - Happy New Year 😘

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No contest Coming back as a dog… 🐾❤️🙏

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Thrilled to announce that The Love Stories Show is coming to smooch Somerset on Valentine's Day 2025 ❤❤❤ Huge thanks to all at The David Hall, South Petherton All the details about the show and the ticket link are here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepe...

Dear algorithm, I have been here for a while and am still here to connect with writers, performers, publishing industry, theatre makers and venues, event hosts and other respectful people with big hearts. If you could restore my faith in algorithms and the human race more generally, that would be ❤️

I need this today Shared in case you do too ❤️ youtu.be/bYodg42FAd4?...

I have finally written up the shows from Fringe TheatreFest ❤️ You can see the dubious audience choices and the beautiful audience love stories on my website here: www.markrutterford.com/blogandnews Huge thanks and big love to everybody who made the shows possible xx

had such fun performing Love Stories at The Alma Tavern, Bristol last week. With thanks to Holly and the team and to everyone who came along, you can read about it here: Love Stories on 18th Jun 24 - The Alma Tavern (markrutterford.com)

I am proud to launch the manifesto of the Love Party ❤️ We pledge: Big hearts Lower tummy butterflies Higher blood sugar levels and Love for all forms of love ❤️ Conference is at @almataverntheatre on 18th June at 8pm Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/almat...? Here to serve…