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Lucy B

@lucybraithwaite.bsky.social

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Treacle Miner, Northern Shopkeeper @firstagecomics.bsky.social Shop: https://www.whatnot.com/en-GB/user/firstagecomics Small-business stupidity, exploring, spooky stuff, tea, weather, folklore, books, most stuff.

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 35m

Yeah - especially as purple paint has doubled in price!

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 1h

I hadn't realised just how bad these wooden frames had got. At this point I'm just sculpting my own comic shop out of filler.
#Small-business #icandoitmyselfshutup

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 14h

Mabel & Veronica 🖤

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, the ‘accessible counter’ has been repaired & now goes up and down Nobody told me or mentioned it would also double as a cat-powered fairground ride

Let’s just say I’ve experienced first-class vertical travel.

Treatos urgently required to calm my shaken dignity.

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 1d

Yes to all of this. All of the things that made me fall in love with Hammer in a nutshell.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 1d

Sending out trucks in tissue paper. Could be my favourite thing, next to the PERFECT boxes I get from the nice people at Shoezone. It's not what you know... #smallbusiness #tightarsery

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 2d

Relatively??

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 2d

I challenged myself to swim in 7 new places this year and here they are. Rivers,beaches, and a lake. (For every one of these I probably looked at 3 more that didn't feel safe, so think on).

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 4d

I agree. I had thought about announcing made-up stations but this is a better idea.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 4d

I never get a go. My accent's too common I think.

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 4d

I'm going to report Ian at Lancaster for misuse of the tannoy - he should know better than to pander to Mr B and his love of an audience!
Sent by my daughter. My mum happened to be on the opposite platform.
Ian:🎙"HELLO GRANDMA!"
I'm just glad to be at the shop.

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 5d

Reading this week...

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 6d

Autumn swim in Derwent Water, Keswick today. Apologies to any dog-walkers out, who may have thought there was a pale, bloated body floating in the water. You were right. Sorry for flashing you too.

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 6d

Look at these lightweights at the front.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 7d

Here we go! On the £12 Northwest Explorer - bus is already at Ambleside (lake and river levels high), 45 mins to Keswick.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 7d

Brand new shoes. Look at the girl in tartan admiring hers!

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 8d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 7d

I love this.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 7d

Looking at our pile of slabs. And the bare wall next to the till. Ordered some record-display fittings. I get there in the end.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 9d

Packaging day at the shop - 25 parcels to go out.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you.

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 9d

Planning a new bus adventure for whichever day the rain stops. It will take me from the top of my street to Keswick in about 3 hours. I will get in the lake, go to the pub, and doze on the way back. Separates the women from the girls, does the 555.

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Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 10d

Halloween stuff onto a good start, despite the weather. Had to spend this week's buying budget on comic supplies, bags, boards etc. Needed by just about everyone but boring.
#smallbusiness #childrenoftherain

Lucy B @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 12d

Good stuff in at the moment and the new students are finding us. A man came in yesterday and said he appreciated seeing a shop like ours, that it was calming, so enjoyable to visit etc. Until his wife stormed in, telling him he didn't need anything and to put the 50p postcard back. Lady!! 😢