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Pollyaula
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Boardgames, dolls houses, writing, random stuff. Likes puns. I use a photo from a museum back room as my header as it's a bit like how my brain works. In the UK.
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Last week, precisely seven years after I recorded it in a studio in suburban Leicester, I received my first royalty cheque for this audiobook. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Help-the-...

£44.75

That's almost a full tank of petrol for a my (small) car.

I'm honestly chuffed. I thought it would never happen.
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Six year old Carrie Fisher watching her mom, Debbie Reynolds, from backstage in 1963

Still one of the sweetest pictures I've ever seen.

Happy birthday, Carrie. You are missed

📷: Lawrence Schiller, 1963
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Hans Christian Andersen, the master of fairytales, kept a diary most of his life. It's full of his hopes, worries, ideas and dreams.

Oh yeah. And any entry marked with a + is a day when he'd had a good wank.

(Lot of drama and angst on here rn so thought i'd put that bit of history in your feeds)
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I guess it saves us coming back and burning it again.
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
Here's the finished Macaw. Next week we are on to landscapes.
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*Looks around frantically*
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all my fellow fireflies
turning on and off
and on again

if they ask
say I’m writing verses
in another world

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#twohaiku
#haiku
#chinejo
#sokan
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We've had more Green Day songs at this wedding than Abba songs. Which is a fascinating glimpse at how the "one to get the oldies in the crowd up on the floor" scene has shifted.
I've been doing some painting, on a course at The Art House in Sheffield. I'm really enjoying it.
I hope you get him home quickly and he isn't too upset. They'll tell you to feed him small soft meals at first, but he'll probably ignore them and go fo the dry food!
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Just a quick post to say my calendars are here, £16 each all profits to Tavistock food bank. They are selling fast, so link in my profile or here, thanks. US shipping back on #Dartmoor #Devon #landscape #photography #calendar #charity
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River Meavy near Norsworthy bridge a couple of weeks ago. #Dartmoor #Devon #Autumn #photography #river
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Falling leaf in ancient trackway, Lydford, last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #holloway #nature
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New episode of BTC! I talk to @stuffbybez.bsky.social about the importance of building & embracing your brand as a game designer. We discuss tailoring games to resonate with an audience, defining a clear creative purpose, and leaning into that vision to strengthen your work.

Link in comments...
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One of the joys of being a board game designer is tapping into the global network of designers and meeting all kinds of new and interesting people.

Yesterday, I popped into Darmstadt, Germany and had a wonderful day playtesting. Tomorrow, Stuttgart to stay with a publisher friend.
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To steady herself on the train, a woman reaches out to the safety bar, her fingers curling round the cold, yellow metal. A man does the same, his hand placed so that their fingers align, like piano keys. A smile passes between them, strong as a current and I realise these strangers are anything but.
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Brands
1976
Artist: Harry Wingfield
(And the tin says ‘Cocoa’!)
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A leaf dancer in more of a Harry Clarke style

(Taking my mind off things)
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(1/2) Continuing to go through ~20 years of pictures archived on Flickr. Today I'm looking at:

Jam.

Pictures from rural England events and markets. Also - I shouldn't have to say this, but we live in ridiculous times - please note that the Swan Plum Jam is not made from swans.