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she/her 📌Lancaster 📖CGP Books / Lancaster Litfest
Library takeover for
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Sunday 📚
22 days ago
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Snapshots of a sunny Saturday with Lancaster
@litfest.bsky.social
. Off home for a sit down before we go again tomorrow!
23 days ago
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29 days ago
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Have you ever tried to eat a custard-filled croissant the size of your hand on a train? I do not recommend you try to eat a custard-filled croissant the size of your hand on a train. (I do however recommend Tuck's croissants in all other circumstances, and with extreme gusto) 🥐
about 2 months ago
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Litfest, Lancaster
2 months ago
It's time to reveal the programme cover for Litfest's 2026 Spring season, including our 47th Litfest (13th-22nd March)! Whilst you'll have to wait a little longer for the full release of our packed programme, you can grab early-bird in-person tickets for a selection of events!
geni.us/LF26Spring
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In case the January darkness is getting to you too, here is your Wednesday reminder that we are now a mere 27 DAYS from Pancake Day. And (bonus factoid): you can actually make pancakes whenever you want!!
3 months ago
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All hail 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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3 months ago
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I have been solidly Christmas shopping either in-person or online since roughly 3pm today, pleased to announce I am ✨losing the plot✨
4 months ago
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Saw Del Toro's Frankenstein, and it has reaffirmed my absolute conviction that no film merits a 2.5h+ runtime. (Except, obviously, the first Wicked film, which whizzed by, and which I would still have watched if it was 500 hours long.)
5 months ago
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Dr Penny Bradshaw
6 months ago
‘The more local you are, the more global you are’: the ever-brilliant Sarah Hall on her new novel, ‘Helm’, place-writing, and the importance of positivity in environmental fictional writing at
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Reasons to be cheerful, September edition: - Dog sitting on a rainy Sunday - The yellowest-yellow flowers - Seeing beautiful places, doing beautiful things
7 months ago
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ceej
8 months ago
when driving on the highway it’s important to at all times have established an enemy
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11 months ago
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Tom Cox
12 months ago
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.
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Loved learning all about the women of Lancaster today in the sunshine, brilliant guided walk by Eleanor Levin ☀️
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about 1 year ago
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Marie Le Conte
about 1 year ago
obviously still looking forward to it hugely but turns out there really is an age at which "getting ready for a massive boozy party to be attended by dozens of pals" stops feeling fully "weeeyyyyy" and starts feeling a bit more "Theoden minutes before the battle of Helm's Deep"
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So loved hearing Amy kick off Lancaster Litfest this evening 💕
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about 1 year ago
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Litfest, Lancaster
about 1 year ago
What makes Litfest...is you! Lancaster Litfest wouldn't exist without our volunteers. If you're interesting in taking part, and would like to learn more, drop us a email to
[email protected]
and/or join us at our volunteers meeting this Saturday, 10:30am at the Café in The Storey!
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Litfest, Lancaster
about 1 year ago
One month to go until Litfest comes back to Lancaster! You might have seen our programmes cropping up across the North West or popping through your letterbox if you're on our mailing list, but you can also browse the programme online and book your tickets here:
geni.us/Litfest2025
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A few years ago I had the unbelievably stupid idea of trying to watch every episode of Star Trek. I didn't really like Star Trek that much, and I had not looked up how many hours of Star Trek existed (I really, really wish I had)...
about 1 year ago
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Litfest, Lancaster
about 1 year ago
Welcome to Litfest 2025! Today, we’re delighted to launch the full programme for our 46th Lancaster Literature Festival —‘The World Into Words’.
geni.us/Litfest2025
This year there are over 50 ways to get involved inc. activities, co-creation opportunities and workshops!
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️
about 1 year ago
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
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Techpriest
about 1 year ago
It's barely 4 years since the UK had a British-Pakistani chancellor in Downing Street, calling out to his mum in Punjabi at the Tory Party conference "mum, did you ever think we'd make it here?" And now Jenrick is smearing the whole community from the Tory front bench
www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...
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God bless the Belgian food agency for providing me with one solitary news story this January that doesn't fill me with existential dread.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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A tree is just for Christmas, not for dinner, Belgian food agency warns
Message came after northern city of Ghent posted tips for recycling the conifer as a dish
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/07/belgium-christmas-tree-food-advisory
about 1 year ago
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We're one month into a new Spotify year, and I'm already very concerned that my Spotify 2025 is going to look like this:
over 1 year ago
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My 26-30 Railcard runs out next year. Vague sense of dread at the thought of going out into the wild west of the railways without it by my side.
over 1 year ago
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Me too, puffins, me too.
over 1 year ago
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Bluesky
over 1 year ago
Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
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I beg of you, please do not send me reels as a form of communication; the world is already too much about tiny videos and I don't want to invite gerilynnecooks505 into our friendship. I want your words, friend!
over 1 year ago
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Today my *entire* brain has been taken over with the idea of swapping over Halloween and Harvest Festival. Keep Halloween in primary schools and let the kids have at it. Then let the grown ups have soup and nice bread, maybe sing a little song, an autumnal craft. It makes SO much sense.
over 1 year ago
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PSA if you have a Twitter account still, even if it's dormant - Twitter collects your data to train its Grok AI, but you can turn it off in your privacy settings.
over 1 year ago
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I burnt ALL the way out this weekend and spent about three quarters of it in bed (mostly asleep). Woke up tired this AM but broadly back on the level and capable of fun things like "loading the dishwasher" and "doing laundry and hanging it out on the same day". Rest is radical folks, take a nap x
over 1 year ago
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I am largely a peaceable creature but I have very strong feelings about two-factor verification. I've verified once! Why must I do it twice!! Time is money!!! I have 30 thousand unread emails in my inbox and your 2FA nonsense is not helping!!!
over 1 year ago
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Everyone around me is getting MARRIED but I've just made a banging TOFU BOWL so WHO'S LAUGHING NOW (it's me, I'm laughing because i love seeing my pals happy and also am eating a banging tofu bowl)
over 1 year ago
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There is a non-zero chance that you will live to 100+ years old and become one of those old people who gets repeatedly asked about your "secret to a long life". It is VERY important to prepare for this, so please pick one weird thing now & start doing it daily.
over 1 year ago
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The bit about The Jabberwock in this article has both tickled and charmed me deeply.
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
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Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published
Long-lost verse from the Lord of the Rings author will reach bookshops 50 years after his death
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/24/beyond-bilbo-jrr-tolkiens-long-lost-poetry-to-be-published
over 1 year ago
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Leaving this here for no particular reason.
#globalInternetOutage
#Crowdstrike
#xkcd
over 1 year ago
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Impulse bought some expensive shampoo (£30 a bottle 🤮) and am FUMING to discover it is in fact, better
over 1 year ago
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Take me to the moon cave, I will be the moon hermit.
over 1 year ago
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Watching this on repeat to calm myself down from all the
#euro2024
stress. Honestly think I might deploy it in any stressful situation from now on. ⚽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebqa...
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Oakie Doke
The start of an old TV show i used to watch that no one else remembers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbqaxWjIgOg
over 1 year ago
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My most ludicrous trait is engaging with international football, but only in a very stereotypical woman-in-her-thirties way. That is to say: with wine, occasionally distracted by laundry, feeling vaguely maternal towards Jude Bellingham.
almost 2 years ago
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Effin' Birds
almost 2 years ago
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I do think Brits wang on about the heat and our "Edwardian houses" too much, but for the record: I've just spent a week in 30-degree, extremely hilly, dry-heat Lisbon and not once did I feel as bad as I did walking up the hill home in humid 20-degree Lancaster.
almost 2 years ago
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I've spent 31 years pondering this, and I do honestly and truly believe I have the ideal birthday date (21st June): - Summer solstice (cool) - Halfway to Christmas - Weather broadly acceptable - Get to call yourself a solstice baby and feel like the title of a Lorde track Endless benefits!!
almost 2 years ago
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I'm not a gardener but I am growing sunflowers at the moment. I've had these for maybe a month and, mircaulously, they are still alive! A triumph! 🌻
almost 2 years ago
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My superpower is watching Taskmaster and somehow zoning out completely when they actually read the tasks. I honestly never know what they're up to. Just in it for the vibes.
almost 2 years ago
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The Tortured Poets Department could never:
almost 2 years ago
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Most of the time I feel like I've assimilated to life in The North, until these sunny-but-chilly 12°C days show up. Nothing but respect for the shorts and t-shirt brigade, but I will not be joining you until the temperature at least doubles ☀️🌡️
almost 2 years ago
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I am going to HOOVER. Is this bleat* a form of procrastination or motivation? Am I dodging the chore or holding myself to account? You will NEVER KNOW.** * still maintain they should be called bleats, as in bluesky-tweets. I don't know the real name for them. ** the answer is BOTH
almost 2 years ago
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Cats of Yore
almost 2 years ago
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text:
www.perkins.org/resource/how...
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