#30DaysBooksByWomen #BookChallenge #BookSky Day 5: Reading, cuddling up and talking about what we see is the first step to making the readers of the future. For under 5s, those pictures matter.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge 19, sounds happy but has sad lyrics A tune to dance to? No, not at all. Listen, low in the mix: ‘just run’. It’s a chilling song about incels and shootings. Is it empathetic? Resigned? Angry? Bitter? I just don’t know. open.spotify.com/track/6hVJ1H...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen #musicsky 1. The Libertines x12 2. Mogwai x6 3. Benjamin Francis Leftwich x7 4. The Cure x4 5. Swim Deep x4

Drop someone CRAZY ❤️🖤❤️

Let's go for a walk, as someone once said. This morning, just down the road to er....Floodland. The river is usually over by the far trees in pic 1 and 3.

#30DaysBooksByWomen #BookChallenge #booksky Day 4, and this creepy Gothic fantasy novel is 100 years old this year.

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Nearly midnight. I'm on a train out of London full of noisy, slightly drunk people. Standing room only. Can someone just magic me home, please?

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge 18, a song for when you're lonely 'So I find out your reason For the phone calls and smiles And it hurts And I'm lonely And I should never have tried And I missed you tonight You see it meant everything to me' open.spotify.com/track/0VktLU...

#readandplay (590) #MusicChallenge #musicsky 'Sun is set in front of me, worldwide on the widest screen New gold dream Burning bridge and ecstasy, crashing beats and fantasy... And the world goes hot And the cities take And the beat goes crashing All along the way' open.spotify.com/track/4hvrLE...

What's my bluesky mode? Like we need to ask? Dark. open.spotify.com/track/7AGcWS...

#30DaysBooksByWomen #bookchallenge #booksky Here's a series of books by Harriet Muncaster that are wonderful for little girls who are new readers. I always vote for the vampire side, my young companion always votes fairy.

@markfaulkner24.bsky.social thanks for the follow, but can I ask why? Have had quite a few new followers recently and can't work out the reason, thanks.

@heidi-colthup.bsky.social Good morning. Thanks for the follow.

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #musicsky 17, a song that shows pure anger More The 1975 from me today. Here, in the style of what they listened to in their teens. Ouch. And ouch again. And again. open.spotify.com/track/3ERlkL...

Painful to watch, I know, but this is more evidence of the harm done by the Great Guitar Shortage of 1999. #TOTP

#readandplay (589) #musicchallenge Yes, I'm almost the only one here loveing The 1975, but do listen. 'Then she said "I've been so worried about you lately" "You look shit and you smell a bit" "You're mad thinking you could ever save me" "Not looking like that" ' open.spotify.com/track/035QPH...

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

#TheCureFriday Robert is, I think, a not so secret fan of dressing up and am dram. Maybe it all stems from meeting M in that drama lesson long ago? 🙂 youtu.be/Q7F9LhuMsrQ?...

#30DaysBooksByWomen #booksky #BookChallenge 1, and by same, A God In Ruins is day 2

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge #musicsky 16, a song you discovered recently but feels timeless Introduced to me by a dear friend on Bluesky who posts rarely, but whose music knowledge seems to know no bounds. Thank you, M. open.spotify.com/track/5NFZLp...

Watching #thetraitors on delay. When did this dreadful practice of saying 'yourself' when you mean 'you' start? Whenever, it needs to stop, and soon. Sorry, a pedantic moment.

Share a smile 😄

#readandplay (588) #musicchallenge Sometimes stating the obvious is just OK 🙂 'Thursday doesn't even start It's Friday, I'm in love' youtu.be/mGgMZpGYiy8?...

*Pokes world with stick.” C’mon… Stop burning…

Oops, this quoted below is #IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

Good morning! Let's start the day right, with something positive and melodic. You're welcome. 🙂 #firstsongoftheday #musicchallenge open.spotify.com/track/26ytdR...

That's it, the end of a very long day. Goodnight everyone, let's all hope to sleep well whatever our personal worries, or the worries of the world, bring.

Following the press conference today, Germany has deployed troops to Greenland.

15, a song that feels like the ocean My first thought was The Cure's FTEOTDGS, but, really, it has to be AltJ's recollection of the sea, mother's love, childhood. 'And pulse to pulse, now shush She makes the sound, the sound the sea makes, to calm me down' open.spotify.com/track/2Dv7PT...

#readandplay (587) #musicchallenge #musicsky Oh, this version! 'I think I'm old, and I'm feeling pain, you said And it's all running out Like it's the end of the world" you said And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead Then you smiled for a second' youtu.be/xpL_TF_GPng?...

Born on this day: Patricia Morrison of The Sisters of Mercy

On Wednesdays We Wear Black 🖤

Good morning. Yes, It's only Wednesday, but let's all grit our teeth, we can do this.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge #musicsky Day 24, a song about self discovery 'No, I won't do it some more Doesn't take any sense If it can't be like it was, I've got to let it rest I don't want what I did, I had a change of tense But maybe someday...' open.spotify.com/track/6x2f8j...

And, non music post, have been to see #Hammet today. More intense than book, claustrophobic, dutch painting style of cinematography, different emphasis re the themes, eyes got a bit leaky at end. Would recommend.

#readandplay (586) #musicchallenge #musicsky 'Aren't you ashamed of this? I surely hope that you are We live in a society that's maybe heading for Mars But down here we still have a shower of bastards leading the charge Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar' open.spotify.com/track/1PhwjW...

This week in 1978, Simple Minds took the stage for the very first time at Satellite City in Glasgow. If you still have ticket stubs or photos from those early days, share them and tag us for a chance to be featured on the band’s official channels 📸 Photos by Laurie Evans

And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my lone and level sandes And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

Our debut album ‘Birding’ is out 3rd April on @bella_union featuring new single ‘Seabird’ Pre-Order Now - Link in Bio

Drop some COATS

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #musicsky Day 13, a song that feels surreal That dreamlike quality, that airy voice, the subfocus video....take a breath, it will make the mundane just fly away. youtu.be/24Vwg2CDFYI?...

#readandplay (585) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 'The rising suns sets Mandela on his way Its been 25 years around this very day From the one outside to the ones inside we say Oh oh oh oh Mandela's free' open.spotify.com/track/1cAKfD...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge Day 12, song with a strong bass line The bass starts off the urgency and sense of despair the lyrics develop. You know things aren't going to end well from the first note. Thst last nail is going to be kicked well & truly in. open.spotify.com/track/2wanmH...

Post a pic of the venue where you attended your first concert, and the band The Strawbs, Woodstock (not that one) Town Hall. Not saying when!

For love ys so ancient a worde And love dareth thee to care for The folke upon the brinke of despayre And love asketh thee to chaunge ower waye of Caringe about owerselves Thys ys ower last daunse Thys ys ower laust daunse Thys ys owerselves undir pressure undir pressure pressure #bowie

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #musicsky Day 11, a song about society or politics No comment needed, sadly. open.spotify.com/track/6fqTGD...

#readandplay (584) #musicchallenge #musicsky 'They moved into a place they both could afford He found a nightclub, he could work at the door She had a guitar and she taught him some chords The sky was the limit... Into the great wide open... A rebel without a clue' youtu.be/xqmFxgEGKH0?...

Who are your top 10 favourite vocalists? Real quick, off the top of your head Robert Smith Peter Doherty David Bowie Jim Kerr Andrew Eldritch Xenya Genovese (Freak Slug) Joni Mitchell Gary Numan Regina Spektor Sam Fender