Belated #HistDay25 post! Had a lovely time yesterday - lovely to chat to and meet so many people 💗🏛️

it has never been more week 5 of semester 1.

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

the fear has gone and i just got to discuss and learn about collection management (one of my favourite things ever) for ages. this was perhaps the most fun idea ever

butterfly effect is crazy because someone (me, apparently) thought a library masters would be a fun idea back in march and now i have to do another degree

just stared my own lack of cardiovascular fitness dead in the eyes cycling through central london

Forgot to show you the deer! I love London so much :,)

Just watched The Devil Wears Prada for the first time ever and I have never seen myself in a character more than Andy Sachs I fear.

Love to plot a hiking route and immediately get distracted by deer and ducks

This USA v AUS game has been INSANE… 5 mins to go and I can’t call who will win

On this fine Saturday I am overwhelmed with nostalgia for autumn term of my third year of undergrad.

used a card catalogue to locate some bound tracts with missing location metadata today and it felt like an escape room

Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out. I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!

Will I survive? Unlikely :)

week 1 of new job overview: - caused horror by revealing my year of birth and how old i was when covid hit - got lost so many times - gasped at cool buildings/library spaces/fossils - did lots of fun collections tasks that i have never done before :D 10/10 I’m having a great time

2024/5 GTs - over and out! <3

Final week cry count is currently sitting at 5 separate instances.

lionesses currently in Southend airport, 20 minutes from my parents house, whilst i am in London. they will then do a victory parade in London, whilst I am employed.

also i love london i’ve chatted to SO many strangers this evening

never felt so patriotic in my LIFE

if lucy bronze is seriously injured i’ll just die x

when taylor swift said “we’re happy free confused and lonely at the same time,” she was talking about turning 22 in a city where no one in a 5+ mile radius knows it’s your birthday.

wrote a lovely linkedin post and then linkedin decided to not post the images OR let me remove them so i had to delete it. #misery

would highly recommend booking a seaside trip with your uni housemate ☀️

"'N' are the Nurses, the right sort of wenches..." wrote Joyce Dennys, H. Cordon and M. C. Tindall in 1916. This picture book satirises life in WW1 Army Hospital. Joyce Dennys, its illustrator, had volunteered as a VAD, and had even illustrated VAD recruitment posters. (🧵1/3) #HistNursing

if anyone wants me, i’m laying on the beach and also swimming in the sea x

oxford street IKEA is gods gift to those of us forced to work in central.

Yesterday I moved to London, and as I was leaving Waitrose, the cashier gave me some yellow roses. Maybe it’s the SSRIs starting to kick in, but I’m feeling more optimistic about this new chapter now.

we've hit the part of summer where i can exclusively eat fruit

Have signed a contract and am feeling MORE human emotions

I'm officially looking for my first flatshare in London which means I am feeling the full range of human emotions all at once at every second

Booked my train tickets to Brighton at the end of the month! Pls send cute cafe recs - I'm only there for 48h so want to make the most of my time!

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.

June 1 = testing & recalibrating my gaydar all day

My commute & bank holiday read this week was Practical Tips for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries by @drbeth.bsky.social & if you haven’t had the chance to read it I would 100% recommend ⭐️ Such a fantastic and genuinely useful overview of library-based EDI practice

I have a haircut booked for Wednesday and an interview booked for Thursday. How I feel about that haircut will make or break whether I get the job I fear.

Haunting the hallowed halls of my old Secondary & Sixth Form today!

encountered a bug I'd not come across before while checking my banking app today, seems to be called "whoopsie I spent too much this month and/or didn't earn enough last month", does anyone know of any fixes for this problem

My mum wants me to go back on my old medication but that would mean explaining to a doctor that I came off them without medical supervision

Has anyone ever done a careers talk on libraries before? I’m giving a 30 minute presentation to 16 year olds next week & want to convey just how interesting and varied it can be but struggling for structure and format 😭

In 2015, the UK was the leading country on LGBTI human rights in Europe according to IGLA-Europe, with 86%. In 2025, we have dropped to 46%.

Today, a duck stood on my lap & i hand-fed a swan. My favourite goose had a baby and he let me hand-feed her too. #waterfowlwhisperer

First 5⭐️ new read of 2025!

Sunday in the sun, fry up cooking, solar power by lorde on the speakers. Sat in my best friends garden back in York. Life is so good.

Cannot believe the year is coming to an end - I’ve had the best time & would thoroughly recommend to anyone considering a career in libraries 🫶🏻

never ever let someone tell you that libraries are neutral & apolitical (nor are museums, nor archives, nor art centres, nor histories..)

This circular was SO fun if we ignore the fact that I lost the footpath I wanted to follow for 4km so climbed two extra hills.

Leaving the archive, 400 posters on the spreadsheet that were not there this morning 😎

Off to the archive, let’s see whether I get my fortnightly awful paper cut today