playlist of music coming from cars at the traffic lights under my window: get ur freak on

project hail mary alien > disclosure day alien

47/100

c'est moi

no-one likes the language police so i usually keep my thoughts about fast fashion vocab to myself ... except for my despair over 'get xx out' political headlines which can be traced directly back to davina-era big brother crowds. gaaah.

watching the 1980 version of 'the fog' for the first time. i love all movie versions of teeny tiny local radio stations

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looking for a boost of writerly self-belief? i wrote this for the national centre for writing - launches tomorrow! nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/courses/the-...

publishing again! the second set of handbooks (handmade concertina books of poetry, prose, photos and images) are out on 15 april. adam bridgland, alex macdonald + aisha farr, emily cooper, ian cowmeadow and rashed aqrabawi. more at www.blownrose.net/handbooks/set2

wednesday's planned outfit confounded by moths

films watched this year inc frankenstein, hamnet, wuth-high & dracula and now i have an english degree

nana-watching the brits

farewell for four years, olympic snowboard dads

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hh1... keats-themed papercraft this saturday in hampstead. get, quite literally, stuck in

top marks for george michael / seal music and leather jacket / fake versace costumes from the british ice skaters

dunno what's up with my telly, but i'm currently watching the rugby like it's a slide show projected onto a suspended bedsheet in a 1970s living room

synchronised armani, stadium poetry and rainbow coloured dancing coffee pots. my favourite genre is olympic opening ceremony

got me labubu stuck in the tube door, there was very nearly an incident on the northern line

once a nervous keatsian, always a nervous keatsian

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proud to be a trustee for this excellent organisation - give 'em a listen

frankensplaining happening on this tube

@juliamarybird.bsky.social’s pin cushion ghost story is a series of tellings that haunt each other in the way families handle & hand on memories like heirlooms: my grandma’s older sister… cooked for Lord and Lady X and saw or said she saw or felt a presence in the kitchen… #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

number of supermarkets i have been to over the last two days before i was successfully able to purchase parsnips: seven

hang in there, ian mcshane

heathers is on itvx. it has more quotable lines than hamlet

accidental hyalauronic acid to the eyeballs. do not recommend

most amazing outfit spotted on the tube just now: gold and black shot fabric sun ray pleated skirt. near the waistband, a handful of the pleat edges were pierced with rivets, and threaded through the holes were stainless steel belly bars. brought me total joy. additional accessory: a grey labubu

i have met claude

wood pigeon sing-off going on outside my window. the first one is doing the normal pattern - 'i've BROken my toe, i've BROken my toe' but the second one is improvising and adding extra notes. firstly it was 'i've HIDDen the remote' for 10 minutes, now it's 'i FANcy a potato scone' ...

number of monks i saw on my walk home tonight: two. separately

as a connoisseuse of telly murder, i heartily recommend 'bookish'

i bless the rains down in battersea

walking down a street in streatham and can hear someone doing theie violin practice ('climb ev'ry mountain'). am almost but not quite in a carol ann duffy poem

36.5 party girl

just looked for the sausage emoji to illustrate a particularly witty message i was sending. there is no sausage emoji. what i was thinking of was the grange hill titles

this was a fun chat ...

if you wish to never know peace, buy a pomeranian. or, like me, live next door to one

"Julia" from #FF8 on the harp ♥️ my leg was cramping..

neither my local budgens nor i are immune to the hype. £1.29 for this. tasty, but you can get a whole giant mint aero for £1.50

“Julia's Song” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark #nowplaying #6music

i would like to read an account of that lady space trip written by evelyn waugh

sneaking admiration for the fella who stole 325 creme eggs. nearly three months' supply!

toss up between the barbican and somerset house as to who has the best large london exhibition curators. just been to the soil show at the latter - awesome worms

You asked for an extension. Your editor agreed. 😆 We are running the crowdfund for another two weeks to try and maximise donations. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aftershock... #poetry

you are top of the reservations list. that's 4% of our stock accounted for already!

if you're a lover of the small press venture, here's one more to look for - 'blown rose' is my friend mike sims' and my publishing and project collective. these beauties are by clare pollard, will harris, will ashon, the late chris meade and ollie o'neill. more info soon and at blownrose.uk

my daffodil bonnet is askew

“Julia” by The Beatles #nowplaying #6music

stop it. i am not going to make any IWD-related purchases. at all