Jo Beckford
@jodiebeckford.bsky.social
Writer of fiction that is somewhere between cosy and spooky. Also an artist and illustrator. Book designer. Academic on the down low. Avid hiker and lover of animals. Eater of plants. I drink tea by the pint. Will do many things for a Jammy Dodger.
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My daughter Ella is raising £500 for Thornton Rose RDA. Help her provide life-changing therapy for riders with disabilities. Every bit helps!
Please consider donating, and if you can't, please share the fundraiser wherever you can.
gofund.me/47b5dd50c
Please consider donating, and if you can't, please share the fundraiser wherever you can.
gofund.me/47b5dd50c
Donate to Help Our Riders Soar at Thornton Rose RDA, organized by Ella McLeod
Today, we're reaching out to our wider community to help us raise £500 as a tru… Ella McLeod needs your support for Help Our Riders Soar at Thornton Rose RDA
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October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My daughter Ella is raising £500 for Thornton Rose RDA. Help her provide life-changing therapy for riders with disabilities. Every bit helps!
Please consider donating, and if you can't, please share the fundraiser wherever you can.
gofund.me/47b5dd50c
Please consider donating, and if you can't, please share the fundraiser wherever you can.
gofund.me/47b5dd50c
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“Grandpa, what does ‘awesome’ mean?”
“Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”
“Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”
October 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Grandpa, what does ‘awesome’ mean?”
“Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”
“Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”
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I can’t recommend these two books highly enough. Jules Brown aka @rexburke.bsky.social writes cracking good travel books. Try these for size and you’ll want the rest as well!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQXDWZ5S
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQXDWZ5S
On the Rails
Visit Amazon's On the Rails Page and shop for all On the Rails books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of On the Rails
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October 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I can’t recommend these two books highly enough. Jules Brown aka @rexburke.bsky.social writes cracking good travel books. Try these for size and you’ll want the rest as well!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQXDWZ5S
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQXDWZ5S
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Life afloat is always an adventure.
Join me on two of mine and travel the canals of the Netherlands, Belgium and France!
Vereeniging Fares South: azonlinks.com/B0DPJDHXS7
Sidesteps to the Somme: azonlinks.com/B0CW1GLVQT
#welovememoirs #boatlife #travel #bookstoread
Join me on two of mine and travel the canals of the Netherlands, Belgium and France!
Vereeniging Fares South: azonlinks.com/B0DPJDHXS7
Sidesteps to the Somme: azonlinks.com/B0CW1GLVQT
#welovememoirs #boatlife #travel #bookstoread
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Life afloat is always an adventure.
Join me on two of mine and travel the canals of the Netherlands, Belgium and France!
Vereeniging Fares South: azonlinks.com/B0DPJDHXS7
Sidesteps to the Somme: azonlinks.com/B0CW1GLVQT
#welovememoirs #boatlife #travel #bookstoread
Join me on two of mine and travel the canals of the Netherlands, Belgium and France!
Vereeniging Fares South: azonlinks.com/B0DPJDHXS7
Sidesteps to the Somme: azonlinks.com/B0CW1GLVQT
#welovememoirs #boatlife #travel #bookstoread
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Looks timely
🚨OUT NOW🚨
Space-suit vs Jackboot – Can science fiction save us from fascism? Writer, critic and host of a fascinating online science fiction community @damiengwalter.com discusses the lessons of future oligarchs, space tyrants and cosmic populism with @nndroid.bsky.social 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Space-suit vs Jackboot – Can science fiction save us from fascism? Writer, critic and host of a fascinating online science fiction community @damiengwalter.com discusses the lessons of future oligarchs, space tyrants and cosmic populism with @nndroid.bsky.social 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
October 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Looks timely
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Some interdimensional portals I found on walks yesterday and today.
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Some interdimensional portals I found on walks yesterday and today.
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All I am really saying is that EVERY coffee you ever order should come with a tiny Toblerone chocolate.
Bravo France!
#travel #france #chocolate
Bravo France!
#travel #france #chocolate
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
All I am really saying is that EVERY coffee you ever order should come with a tiny Toblerone chocolate.
Bravo France!
#travel #france #chocolate
Bravo France!
#travel #france #chocolate
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Photo of the Day - Beverley buildings.
September 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Photo of the Day - Beverley buildings.
Woohoo!! Quite chuffed to find this in my postbox this morning. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Woohoo!! Quite chuffed to find this in my postbox this morning. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
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If you want inspiration for hiking in wonderful scenery, take a look at @uphilldowndalew.bsky.social’s beautiful walks here: uphilldowndaleart.substack.com/p/index-of-w...
Index of Walks
Where I've enjoyed walking and taken lots of pictures... enjoy!
uphilldowndaleart.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
If you want inspiration for hiking in wonderful scenery, take a look at @uphilldowndalew.bsky.social’s beautiful walks here: uphilldowndaleart.substack.com/p/index-of-w...
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Was just discussing with a writer friend the weird headspace of leaving a piece to compost for a bit.
Not working on a thing to make it better is often a necessary but odd part of the creative process.
You gotta let it sit so you can come back with fresh eyes.
Not working on a thing to make it better is often a necessary but odd part of the creative process.
You gotta let it sit so you can come back with fresh eyes.
July 31, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Was just discussing with a writer friend the weird headspace of leaving a piece to compost for a bit.
Not working on a thing to make it better is often a necessary but odd part of the creative process.
You gotta let it sit so you can come back with fresh eyes.
Not working on a thing to make it better is often a necessary but odd part of the creative process.
You gotta let it sit so you can come back with fresh eyes.
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I’ve just finished this wonderful
book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you @jodiebeckford.bsky.social for giving it to me as a paperback! I’ll definitely read it again!
a.co/d/5VB5QBO
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917...
book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you @jodiebeckford.bsky.social for giving it to me as a paperback! I’ll definitely read it again!
a.co/d/5VB5QBO
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917...
July 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I’ve just finished this wonderful
book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you @jodiebeckford.bsky.social for giving it to me as a paperback! I’ll definitely read it again!
a.co/d/5VB5QBO
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917...
book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you @jodiebeckford.bsky.social for giving it to me as a paperback! I’ll definitely read it again!
a.co/d/5VB5QBO
m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917...
The second of my Skye Walker videos 😄 In which Lucy channels her inner goat and I have a rant about TP.
#hiking #scotland #isleofskye
#hiking #scotland #isleofskye
Hiking with my dog on the Isle of Skye - Part 2 - The Quiraing
YouTube video by Epic Trundles
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July 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The second of my Skye Walker videos 😄 In which Lucy channels her inner goat and I have a rant about TP.
#hiking #scotland #isleofskye
#hiking #scotland #isleofskye
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Book Spotlight ~Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century, by Helen Carr tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/05/book... @helencarr.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚
Book Spotlight ~Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century, by Helen Carr
Available from Amazon UK and Amazon US The death of Edward I in 1307 marked the beginning of a period of intense turmoil and change in Engl...
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June 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Book Spotlight ~Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century, by Helen Carr tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/05/book... @helencarr.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚
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Iggy Pop, deer, impossibly hot curry, the Dorset landscape, book dealers, record dealers, the sea, antiques and a cat who eats human ear wax... An excerpt from my upcoming novel (and an inexpensive internationally-friendly way to pre-ordered a signed copy of it):
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-reason...
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-reason...
June 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Iggy Pop, deer, impossibly hot curry, the Dorset landscape, book dealers, record dealers, the sea, antiques and a cat who eats human ear wax... An excerpt from my upcoming novel (and an inexpensive internationally-friendly way to pre-ordered a signed copy of it):
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-reason...
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-reason...
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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
June 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
First part of my Skye travelogue is up on Substack. Grab a cup of tea and watch out for feral goats!
The great Scottish adventure, part 1
It’s been two months since I set off on my great big adventure to the Isle of Skye; two months in which I have tried to find a way to condense all of the fantastic experiences down into 500 words, and...
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June 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
First part of my Skye travelogue is up on Substack. Grab a cup of tea and watch out for feral goats!
While I'm on a bit of an editing roll, here's the first of my walks on the Isle of Skye with my dog Lucy. Oh how I long to be back amongst those hills!
youtu.be/zhzZy-kAhts
youtu.be/zhzZy-kAhts
Hiking with my dog on the Isle of Skye - April 2025 - Glenbrittle Bay Peninsula
YouTube video by Epic Trundles
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June 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
While I'm on a bit of an editing roll, here's the first of my walks on the Isle of Skye with my dog Lucy. Oh how I long to be back amongst those hills!
youtu.be/zhzZy-kAhts
youtu.be/zhzZy-kAhts
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June: in Old English, Ærra Līþa "Before Midsummer". Also a month for murders...
Read about the killing of young Wigstan, and the curious death of a later king...
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Read about the killing of young Wigstan, and the curious death of a later king...
anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/2025/05/mont...
Monthly Blog Post: June (and a bit of murder...)
June already! In Old English this month was called Ærra Līþa "Before Midsummer", or sometimes Brāh-mānod "First Summer". June is quite ...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
June: in Old English, Ærra Līþa "Before Midsummer". Also a month for murders...
Read about the killing of young Wigstan, and the curious death of a later king...
anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/2025/05/mont...
Read about the killing of young Wigstan, and the curious death of a later king...
anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/2025/05/mont...
Taking Mum's old Dutch barge back to her mooring after she's been on the slipway is always a fun experience. This time I filmed it!
youtu.be/lszzy_H_jHE?...
youtu.be/lszzy_H_jHE?...
Faring on the Dutch barge Vereeniging from the slipway back to her mooring
YouTube video by Epic Trundles
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June 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Taking Mum's old Dutch barge back to her mooring after she's been on the slipway is always a fun experience. This time I filmed it!
youtu.be/lszzy_H_jHE?...
youtu.be/lszzy_H_jHE?...
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We're all set up at #Wirksworth Farmers Market #Derbyshire DE4 4DS.
Here until 2pm!
#Art #photography #nature #wildlife #landscape #cards #coasters #canvas #prints #greetingcards
Here until 2pm!
#Art #photography #nature #wildlife #landscape #cards #coasters #canvas #prints #greetingcards
June 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We're all set up at #Wirksworth Farmers Market #Derbyshire DE4 4DS.
Here until 2pm!
#Art #photography #nature #wildlife #landscape #cards #coasters #canvas #prints #greetingcards
Here until 2pm!
#Art #photography #nature #wildlife #landscape #cards #coasters #canvas #prints #greetingcards
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This week's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is all about Landscapes to celebrate Armitt’s Alfred Wainwright exhibition Armitt Museum
We love this painting by Orcadian artist Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976) The Hall of Tankerness from the collection at Orkney Museum
We love this painting by Orcadian artist Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976) The Hall of Tankerness from the collection at Orkney Museum
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is all about Landscapes to celebrate Armitt’s Alfred Wainwright exhibition Armitt Museum
We love this painting by Orcadian artist Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976) The Hall of Tankerness from the collection at Orkney Museum
We love this painting by Orcadian artist Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976) The Hall of Tankerness from the collection at Orkney Museum