A little more Beatrix Potter for #BookWormSat today and naughty, mouse-loving Simpkin.

‘The shop was also patronized by mice—only the mice were rather afraid of Ginger. Ginger usually requested Pickles to serve them, because he said it made his mouth water. ‘I cannot bear,’ said he, ‘to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels.’ ~ Beatrix Potter for #BookWormSat

‪My latest story: 'Prophesy: The Immortal Witch 12' The creature in the cave www.abctales.com/story/marand...

So good to see daffodils up and about. Spring is coming.

Over the moon that the latest instalment of my work-in-progress is a Pick of the Day at @abctales.bsky.social Thank you 🙏

‘Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.’ ~ Eliot, Little Gidding, Four Quartets. @racheldeering.bsky.social very late for #BookWormSat unavoidably delayed partly by cake. 🍰 🖼️ Monet

‘Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.’ ~ Eliot, Burnt Norton, Four Quartets. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Gould, 1873.

Happy #Caturday

My latest story: Prophesy: The Immortal Witch 11 A banishing act www.abctales.com/story/marand...

‪ ‪ My latest story Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (10) Subterranean discoveries www.abctales.com/story/marand...

Wyrdlings! The platform that was once twitter faces the Wyrd’s final curtain this week and so we give you: “Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. And while the Mothers of Wyrd quit * that * place, we'll still be here on Bluesky & over on Instagram every week!

Owl Babies, Martin Waddell, illustr. Patrick Benson. #OwlishMonday

My poem Night Walk from Forest Girl 🙂🌳 (Signed copies on my website, special bundle for two. www.jumpingjulespoetry.com/book-shop)

Another story written yesterday. This one is Rodney. About a man who opens a two seater movie theater in his front room. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

'What greater gift than the love of a cat.' ~ Dickens. #BookWormSat #Caturday 🖼️ Terri Foss

Another splendid afternoon at the Optima #WSMvEastbourne

‘If no love is, O God, what fele I so? Allas! what is this wondre maladie? For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I dye.’ ~ Petrarch (trans by Chaucer) for #BookWormSat 🩷💔❤️‍🩹🖤 🖼️ Thought to be Petrarch’s love Laura, Laura de Nove.

Happy #Caturday

‪ Excited to support the new project from @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Here's my contribution Looking forward to reading everyone's work #fragmentsfriday

SHARE AWAY!!! Announcing a new project - a platform each Friday. #FRAGMENTSFRIDAY’ - 18 words or less - a startling, inventive poem. Tag in #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & share one startling fragment of your own poetry. No A.I. generated poetry!

Very happy that the latest part of my work in progress is a Pick of the Day from @abctales.bsky.social Thank you! 🙏

My latest story: Prophesy: The Immortal Witch Part 9 My work in progress A graveyard shift www.abctales.com/story/marand...

My latest poem: 'Dust' When drink doesn't wipe the memories www.abctales.com/story/marand...

A poem of mine, toadish, from In the Shadow of Gods. Have a read of it! 🐸

‘He ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking…’ 1/2 Dickens’ Daniel Quilp for #BookWormSat

Very happy to get Story of the Week for my Tom Cruise / Ann Quin mash-up, Minority Report over on @abctales.bsky.social www.abctales.com/story/drewgu...

#Caturday Cats by a fish bowl by Horatio Henry Couldery

Happy #Caturday

‘You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.’ ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. #BookwormSat

‘I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.’ ~ Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of Charles Dickens with a day of wholly Dickens, more Dickens with a side of Dickens. Join us.

A review of a recent Panorama - Our Man in Moscow. Heroic and resilient - Steve Rosenberg www.abctales.com/blog/marandi...

Delighted that my latest piece is Poem of the Week @abctales.bsky.social Thank you! 🙏

Another birthday arrives and I am replaced once again by Shelley the alpha cat. Time catches up to us all 😸🎉🎂

Wishing everyone a wonderful Spring ahead for Imbolc. May all your wishes bloom and blossom. 🖼️ The Coming of Bride, John Duncan, 1917.

Here we go again! #AstonVillavBrentford ⚽

‘But as he approached the tree, a lion jumped up from beneath it, shook himself, and roared until the leaves on the trees trembled. "I will eat up anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!" he cried.’ ~ Brothers Grimm for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Rackham

Happy #Caturday

My latest poem (it's been an age) 'Uphill, January 29th 2026' www.abctales.com/story/marand... Sanctuary

#PoetryAlert #HolocaustDay2026 No apologies for reposting this yet again, today of all days.'After Oświęcim' www.abctales.com/story/ewan/a...

My latest story: 'The Devil's Bridge' www.abctales.com/story/marand... A salutary tale of eternity

Sunday lunch, beer and footie at my favourite pub ⚽ COYL! 🦁

I love The Cure. One of their earliest songs I remember is 'Primary'. Up there with 'A Forest'. Magnificent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xrZ...

A poem from me from my last collection, In the Shadow of Gods. Very proud of that collection. Do have a read. 👇

‘(I)n a moment the dark trees had thinned, the nameless shrubs had disappeared, and on either side of us was a wall of colour, blood-red, reaching far above our heads. We were amongst the rhododendrons.’ ~ Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier. #BookWormSat

#Caturday Bengal Cat 'Cat Nap' By Kate Elgood

Thanks to @robertwelbourn.bsky.social for this lovely review of my chapbook You: From Pissed to Publication. (And it’s £5 from @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social - all are numbered and signed) www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...

Here we go. Come on united! ⚽

‘There is no heat in the old red barn. Winter’s piling up, the wind is pricking sharp.’ Regine Ebner from ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...