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helen

@hejparry.bsky.social

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reader, aspiring writer, wool-gatherer, cat-wrangler occasional blogger at http://gallimaufry.typepad.com/blog/ chronically lazy she/her in Belgium!

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Bissiges Mäuschen 🐭 @bmauschen.bsky.social · 1d

What do British sea monsters eat?

Fish and ships 🤭

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 1d

OK, plan to take part! Exciting!

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 1d

Forced myself to read The Tainted Cup & so glad I did, it's very good. I hope you enjoy it too!

helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 1d

I am having my mind blown by Mary Butts & her novel Armed with Madness. I bought it after I saw discussion of it here on Bluesky. It’s brilliant but also wtf.

My hand holding a copy of The Taverner Novels by Mary Butts in front of red marble. This edition comprises Armed with Madness & The Death of Felicity Taverner. The abstract swirly cover image, which brings to mind a cave or passage, also somehow depicts my experience of reading it.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2d

Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon

Detail from a page from puffin post magazine black text on white reads, Deborah finally 13, the moon above a black outline of a crescent moon inside which is a poem that reads “poor moon, will you really shine so well when men step upon you and break your spell” under which italicised text reads a black and white copy of a charming painting by Deborah Findlay

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 4d

A good-news story for your morning!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 5d

Happy writing!

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 5d

dawn holds dusk gently
as if light were a secret
only they could share

#Photography JBC
@johnbcaddell.bsky.social

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 8d

Afternoon! I am reading No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, a collection of brilliant short stories by Rosalind Brackenbury. They were originally published as a pamphlet in 1975, now reissued by Walmer Books.

My hand holding a paperback copy of No Such Thing as a Free Lunch by Rosalind Brackenbury, Introduction by A.L. Kennedy.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 9d

Your Happy Thread of the Day:

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 9d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 9d

I am so sorry to read this. I am just endlessly shocked at how people can be like this. I hope you are OK, although that seems a naive thing to write.

helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 9d

What beautiful pictures to wake up to this morning! Thank you.

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 10d

💫 how the light gets in 💫

bright patches of coloured light on old stone and through stained glass

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 9d

It is an amazing thing, isn't it, finding a life in a few objects? A sort of magic. & how very lucky both uncle & niece were that you were the person who bought the bureau. You did a beautiful thing there.

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 10d

This is a great story! Make sure you read right to the very end.

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 10d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 10d

This is a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing it on here. Brought a tear to my eye.

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 10d

#StorySharerWeek is coming, and we're so excited about the webinar we have lined up for you!

We'll be exploring research and case studies to discover how shared reading can help to build key life skills.

Book your free spot here 👇

https://bit.ly/4gtIqjI

A photo of a woman sharing a book with a child plus the words: "Story Sharer Week - Join our webinar. How shared reading in the early years can help build key life skills. 2pm - Thursday 16 October."

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 11d

The Family of El Greco, c. 1695
By the painter's only son, Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, d. 29 Mar 1631 (Museo de la Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, via WGA)

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11d

2/2 Landscape at the edge of the Alps, 1532. Another fantastic (rosy sky!) yet somewhat mysterious watercolor by Wolf Huber, whose day is today.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 11d

1/4 Antisemitism is not taken seriously enough in progressive spaces or in pro-Palestinian activism spaces - that is simply a statement of fact

Week after week we saw antisemitic elements at pro-Palestine protests, shouting hatred with protesters walking by saying and doing nothing about it

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 11d

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS?

Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication

Deadline: 15 Oct
Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry manuscript?
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plus
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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 11d

Enid looks as if she doesn't actually like parting with any of her stock.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 11d

A pair of Jays swoop us into the first #FlyDay of October! 😍

📷 @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social

Two Jays in mid-air against a backdrop of golden autumn leaves, one banking sharply with wings fanned wide, the other gliding towards it…dramatically swooping us into October’s first FlyDay.

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