Dean Freeman
@heronunderwillow.bsky.social
Run my own bookshop (Heron & Willow). Not a book expert. Write stories, songs, sometimes. Videogames and films please. In The Scottish Borders, previously Yorkshire. Here looking for positive inspiration. 🏴(He/Him)
March 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Finally submitted a short story I've been working on. 2000 words. Worked really hard on it, if anything it's made me more frightened of writing as that much effort over a full novel would definitely kill me.
February 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Finally submitted a short story I've been working on. 2000 words. Worked really hard on it, if anything it's made me more frightened of writing as that much effort over a full novel would definitely kill me.
February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Helped promote a theatre show last night. One woman performance of A Room Of One's Own by #VirginiaWoolf - a hundred people at a show like this in a rural location is a massive win. Performed by Firebrand Theatre Company.
February 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Helped promote a theatre show last night. One woman performance of A Room Of One's Own by #VirginiaWoolf - a hundred people at a show like this in a rural location is a massive win. Performed by Firebrand Theatre Company.
February 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Fresh arrivals at P&S HQ! 🥳
From lost pubs to medieval mental health, whisky to war diaries—there’s something for everyone. Which one are you adding to your TBR? 📚
From lost pubs to medieval mental health, whisky to war diaries—there’s something for everyone. Which one are you adding to your TBR? 📚
February 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Fresh arrivals at P&S HQ! 🥳
From lost pubs to medieval mental health, whisky to war diaries—there’s something for everyone. Which one are you adding to your TBR? 📚
From lost pubs to medieval mental health, whisky to war diaries—there’s something for everyone. Which one are you adding to your TBR? 📚
First cinema trip of the year for A Real Pain. Brilliant, love little character pieces like this, and some great comedy too. Kieran Culkin especially good and great Jesse Eisenberg script. Recommended.
February 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
First cinema trip of the year for A Real Pain. Brilliant, love little character pieces like this, and some great comedy too. Kieran Culkin especially good and great Jesse Eisenberg script. Recommended.
#ABookInMyShop - Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray. It's massive!
#booksky #alasdairgray #indiebookshop
#booksky #alasdairgray #indiebookshop
February 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#ABookInMyShop - Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray. It's massive!
#booksky #alasdairgray #indiebookshop
#booksky #alasdairgray #indiebookshop
#ABookInMyShop - Northerners: A History by Brian Groom.
Tagine could have been From The Ice Age To The Dole Age to make it a bit more northern. Would like to tackle this one day.
Tagine could have been From The Ice Age To The Dole Age to make it a bit more northern. Would like to tackle this one day.
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#ABookInMyShop - Northerners: A History by Brian Groom.
Tagine could have been From The Ice Age To The Dole Age to make it a bit more northern. Would like to tackle this one day.
Tagine could have been From The Ice Age To The Dole Age to make it a bit more northern. Would like to tackle this one day.
A rare sit down to listen to album in full on speakers (headphones good but different). All time fave band but off the boil of late, this might be their most consistent for a while. Sounds a little more like a band than one member's studio project. Still got a returning guitar tone I can't dig tho
February 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A rare sit down to listen to album in full on speakers (headphones good but different). All time fave band but off the boil of late, this might be their most consistent for a while. Sounds a little more like a band than one member's studio project. Still got a returning guitar tone I can't dig tho
Thank to @alltherightmovies.com I've bought and rewatched this tonight. You forget the skinless T101 is a proper reveal. It's a brilliant design and genuinely unsettling, amazing it was so underused in all those sequels.
February 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Thank to @alltherightmovies.com I've bought and rewatched this tonight. You forget the skinless T101 is a proper reveal. It's a brilliant design and genuinely unsettling, amazing it was so underused in all those sequels.
Great meeting of our writing group, sharing work in progress short stories for @edinburghawards.bsky.social competition. Great that none of us would have entered without the group. I'm now getting the #Heron&Willow reading groups to feedback on them too. #creativewriting #indiebookshop
February 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Great meeting of our writing group, sharing work in progress short stories for @edinburghawards.bsky.social competition. Great that none of us would have entered without the group. I'm now getting the #Heron&Willow reading groups to feedback on them too. #creativewriting #indiebookshop
First film of the month. This week's theme was Film Under 95 Minutes. At 80 mins this easily got in. Didn't know it was a 'one-shot' too, something I very much enjoy. Definite #insidenumber9 vibes, so much so that we watched Mr King afterwards.
February 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
First film of the month. This week's theme was Film Under 95 Minutes. At 80 mins this easily got in. Didn't know it was a 'one-shot' too, something I very much enjoy. Definite #insidenumber9 vibes, so much so that we watched Mr King afterwards.
Finished up #Clear by #CarysDavies today. Remote Scottish Island? That's all I need know. Look forward to discussing with the bookgroup next week. #Booksky #scotland #newbooks
January 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Finished up #Clear by #CarysDavies today. Remote Scottish Island? That's all I need know. Look forward to discussing with the bookgroup next week. #Booksky #scotland #newbooks
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Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.
Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
January 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.
Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
Running a little competition for the day: how many books do you think are in my bookshop? £15 voucher for the closest answer. Shop is about 700 square ft... good luck!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Running a little competition for the day: how many books do you think are in my bookshop? £15 voucher for the closest answer. Shop is about 700 square ft... good luck!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Absolute lightbulb moment for how to write my new story. Means I wasted a day and 5000 words but I get it now. I find it so hard writing fiction to know what the voice is. Journism, opinion; fine. Excited to see if this works!
January 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Absolute lightbulb moment for how to write my new story. Means I wasted a day and 5000 words but I get it now. I find it so hard writing fiction to know what the voice is. Journism, opinion; fine. Excited to see if this works!
Took six months to clear the loft out. Plotting a new book idea for three months. Finally, a free day to start writing something. Very hard. Feels boring when first laid down but have to do that foundation work. 5000 words, very tiring!
#writing #writingroom #creativewriting #loftspace #newbook
#writing #writingroom #creativewriting #loftspace #newbook
January 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Took six months to clear the loft out. Plotting a new book idea for three months. Finally, a free day to start writing something. Very hard. Feels boring when first laid down but have to do that foundation work. 5000 words, very tiring!
#writing #writingroom #creativewriting #loftspace #newbook
#writing #writingroom #creativewriting #loftspace #newbook
January 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Good heavens, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this paragraph
January 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Good heavens, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this paragraph
Late Xmas present to myself. Maybe the most metal album ever. What can you do to it? Dance, write, sleep, think? It's great.
#Doom #MickGordon #gaming #gamingsoundtrack #metal #doomslayer #idsoftware #vinyl
#Doom #MickGordon #gaming #gamingsoundtrack #metal #doomslayer #idsoftware #vinyl
January 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Late Xmas present to myself. Maybe the most metal album ever. What can you do to it? Dance, write, sleep, think? It's great.
#Doom #MickGordon #gaming #gamingsoundtrack #metal #doomslayer #idsoftware #vinyl
#Doom #MickGordon #gaming #gamingsoundtrack #metal #doomslayer #idsoftware #vinyl
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21 year old woman makes it to the South Pole! So much brilliance, determination and strength. Bravo, Karen Kylleso.
www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-k...
www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-k...
21-year-old Norwegian woman becomes youngest person to reach South Pole on skis, her team says
Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.
www.cbsnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM
21 year old woman makes it to the South Pole! So much brilliance, determination and strength. Bravo, Karen Kylleso.
www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-k...
www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-k...
My half dipped copy of #TheOffing by #BenjaminMyers - the closer I get to the end the more its drowned state becomes appropriate - and twice so in a land (Tenerife) with no actual Offing (line between Horizon and Sea.)
#Booksky
#Booksky
January 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My half dipped copy of #TheOffing by #BenjaminMyers - the closer I get to the end the more its drowned state becomes appropriate - and twice so in a land (Tenerife) with no actual Offing (line between Horizon and Sea.)
#Booksky
#Booksky