We’ll take that.

Always good to listen to a @bigfinish.bsky.social Eighth Doctor adventure and unexpectedly hear a friend’s voice! @greigarjohnson.bsky.social

Time for the annual bin parade. Who will be marked best in show?

There’s a lot to unpack here- Toss Master and the Ring of Truth, coming to a cinema near you!

Close up of some of the carvings

Trip to Ripon yesterday. Good tree stump carving of Alice in Wonderland, a fun blue plaque and a great gravestone.

Happy Christmas! 🙄

Dean and team @cthulhureborn.bsky.social do great work. As well as the core rules they have loads of scenarios. I’ve run several. They’re well laid out and even have different ending options. They’re all pay what you feel- even free, but if you can, pay something. The team have done amazing stuff.

Great visit to the small but perfectly formed Ice Age Art exhibition at Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighly as part of @bradford2025.co.uk Great to see the pieces, and some more local flints! The cave projection was particularly good. Recommended!

Very pleased with the @gailmyerscough.co.uk print that I got for my birthday. I grew up very close to Roseberry Topping 😊

So I made the #mslexia shortlist 😊 I’ve known for a little while but thought this was a good opportunity to post. I’m absolutely delighted! Congratulations to my fellow short listees, the other finalists and the winner!

Holiday at Home Day 8: Day out in Birmingham. Went to the NT’s back to back houses- these were much smaller than the one I lived in as a student in Bradford, then, fulfilling my husband’s dream, the Pen Museum (better than expected!). More info on the alt text on the photos.

Holiday at Home Day 7: trip to the UK Games Expo in Birmingham. We’ve not been for about six years- it has grown massively since then. Great to see so many people in the hobby and so many creative people, too.

Holiday at Home Day 6: Brunch at Cragside Farm near Leeds, attempts to power wash the patio stopped by a faulty hose connection (🙄), bit of life admin and worked on the synopsis for my novel.

Holiday at Home Day 5: Trip to Leeds with my sister and nieces. We had pizza and a trip to the Leeds City Museum- there was a Miffy exhibition on.

Holiday at Home Day 4: a pretty quiet day. Sorted out my new garden hose (#rocknroll 🙄) but rain stopped play. Worked on some writing. Watched TV- enjoying the latest series of The Chelsea Detective.

Holiday at Home Day 3: baking on a rainy bank holiday. Anzac biscuits and onion pretzels 😋

Holiday at Home Day 2: Trip to RHS Bridgewater in Manchester. Wind meant a lot of the site was closed but entry reasonably discounted. Nice to have a wander- even saw a pheasant and her chicks amongst the plants!

Holiday at Home Day 1: Lazy day at home after the supermarket trip and a Morrison’s breakfast. Watched a lot of TV and built some Lego. Still woke up at 7.30, mind 🙄

Rocking a strong brow, there!

Great day at the first Bradford @writershq.bsky.social retreat. I’ve totally missed these. I managed to reread my WiP which I hadn’t, um, opened for longer than I’d realised, then got about 3000 words down. 🌟💪 Good to chat to other writers too. Thanks to Tabitha for hosting.

Love this!

Booked my first retreat with @writershq.bsky.social since Feb 2020 - and it’s in Saltaire! I wrote most of my last novel at WHQ retreats. Looking forward to tackling my most recent WiP.

Saw my first heron of the year.

This is brilliant!

A Bradford @writershq.bsky.social retreat that is walkable from my house?! Yes please thank you very much.

Never thought I would hear @bellyofficial.bsky.social played on Come Dine With Me!

Finally a little bit light when I left the house this morning!

Editing a novel I mostly wrote pre-lockdown at @writershq.bsky.social writer’s retreats in Leeds and I found several of my gold stars in my notebook 😊

Post you favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

While I am still enjoying the plot, I’m finding the dialect a little challenging. There’s a conversation between Scottish and Cockney characters which was painful.

Also made muffins.

Continuing an annual post from the other place, this year’s reading scores on the doors are 45 books, so up on last year. My reread was the Thursday Next series. I also started working my way through the Peter Wimsey novels, which I am very much enjoying.

Great evening watching @nunkie.bsky.social at The Leeds Library this evening. A very atmospheric performance with two great stories we hadn’t heard before.

I love @nowthensunshine.bsky.social’s lovely bright designs. I’ve just put an order in for some Christmas gifts (and maybe something for me!).

Joined up!