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Linda Daunter
@lindadaunter.bsky.social
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Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.

In the meantime, I write (mostly short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels), draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.

📍North West England
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We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
Variant Lit: 12 more days to submit poetry or prose. Variantlit.com/submit
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A bit chilly - and wet - in #Lytham today.

#Lancashire
Photo looking across a flat expanse of grass to a sunlit white-painted windmill in the distance with large, dark, rain clouds looming behind it.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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If only we could!
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Trying - and failing - to capture the magical moment on a stormy day when a brief burst of sunlight lit up the last of this silver birch tree's #bright yellow leaves before the wind blew them away.

#BlueSkyArtShow #watercolour #pencils
Painting on paper, using watercolours and Graphitint pencils, showing a windswept silver birch tree with autumnal yellow, green and brown leaves on an exposed moorland site beneath a dark, blue-grey sky.
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Oh, dear ...
Are my dots giving away my age?

#punctuation #WritingCommunity
grantamag.bsky.social Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 8d
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’

Madeline Cash decodes the Boomer ellipses.

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Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Yes, yes, yes!
Think I'm going to be quite busy for a while ...
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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It may technically be 24 hours long, but when you have to put the light on mid-afternoon because it's so dark outside, a #November day feels so short!
Looking through a raindrop covered window to a grey sky and blurred autumn foliage.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Free entry writing competitions - and other stuff
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Small and weird
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November 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Some tiny gems here 🔽
paragraphplanet.bsky.social Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 14d
Were you published on Paragraph Planet during October ? Or missed someone who was? The archive is now live, so all thirty one 75-word #stories are here. Feel free to share: paragraphplanet.com/oct25archive.php
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Grumpy but Happy sounds about right. 🙁🙂👍
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17d
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
A map of the new future regions of Britain, including 'Wolves' and Wild Golf'.
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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This month, we're launching our very first Lendwithcare Prize Draw to give you the chance to win an incredible hand-made item from an entrepreneur!

For details on the prize, the artist, and how to enter, click here: bit.ly/3JuhWmg

Good Luck!
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🪬🧿 My artist journey needs your support! Please check out my products and repost them with friends.
scottishwallart.com - Framable posters (Free shipping worldwide)
luxurywoodenpens.com - Wooden pens
epochofaodhan.com - My novel about Rosslyn Chapel

#scotland #photography #art #edinburgh #alttext
A collage of 18 images showcasing various Scottish landmarks and nature scenes. The top row features, from left to right, a canal with a boat, the Glasgow Tower, a pink rose, a tranquil lake with mountains, a cityscape, a red deer, and Edinburgh Castle under a bright sky, and the Scottish National Monument. The middle row includes the Kelpies, a castle on a small island, and a text overlay promoting "Prints: ScottishWallArt.com, Pens: LuxuryWoodenPens.com, Novel: EpochofAodhan.com". The bottom row displays swans, a hawk, a coastal town, a cityscape with bridges, a castle ruin on a cliff, a castle with turrets, and horses in a field. The images capture Scotland's diverse beauty, from its waterways and urban architecture to its wildlife and historic castles.
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Amazing how a #BookPost can brighten an otherwise cold, dark and very wet day.

Thank you, @uncertainstories.com 10 out of 10 for your packaging skills - and the freebies.
Love the design of your Broken Ground anthology. I think I'll be reading it very s-l-o-w-l-y to make it last!

#ShortStories
A shallow cardboard box on a wooden table opened to show its contents: a book-shaped parcel wrapped neatly in white tissue paper with a pink and black circular seal on it, and a printed card from Uncertain Stories.
November 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Today's very short #LunchtimeRead and much needed laugh.
fiveminutelit.bsky.social Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 25d
"The Search" by @anchalastudio.bskylsocial, editor and art director for the literary journal @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Anne lives in North Carolina.
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Any modern day poets out there with £2.5m to spare?
William Wordsworth's house for sale.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
7 bedroom detached house for sale in Rydal Mount, Rydal, Ambleside, LA22 9LU, LA22 for £2,500,000. Marketed by AshdownJones, The Lakes and Lune Valley
www.rightmove.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Now this is very interesting ...

I much prefer to read 'real' books - the ones with paper pages - but I do have some ebooks on my iPad which are useful when I'm away from home. Didn't know how they're priced though.

Just had a look at the ebook pages on bookshop.org
Making a shopping list!
bertsbooks.bsky.social Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 27d
Shall we talk about ebooks?

It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.

Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
a woman in a suit and tie is smiling with #schitts creek written on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a suit and tie is smiling with #schitts creek written on the bottom
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October 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The theme of today's #BlueSkyArtShow is #Inside so here's a sketch of the view from inside my house when the washing line in my back garden is full.
Plenty of wind to dry the washing today, but too cold to do any gardening out there! 🥶

#laundry #drawing #ink #ColouredPencil
A pen and ink sketch on brown paper with some coloured pencil added. Picture shows the view from a window looking out onto a small garden. There is a pot plant on the inside window sill with long, thin leaves. Outside, to the left, part of a rotary clothes line with washing on it can be seen. To the right, there is a small greenhouse, in the centre there is a bird feeder, and behind it a garage with trellis on its side wall and a flower bed at its base runs down to the end of the garden. In the background, the tops of a couple of trees and the roof of a neighbouring house can be seen.
October 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Love this!
fiveminutelit.bsky.social Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 29d
"The Cat Burglar" by Joel Bryant, a UK-based healthcare worker and occasional scribbler of flash fiction and short stories.
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Couldn't resist buying this Michaelmas daisy plant at the market last week. Love that shade of purple!

All I have to do now is find a space in the garden for it 🤔

#gardening #MichaelmasDaisy #AutumnColour
A healthy looking Michaelmas daisy plant - also known as an aster - covered in purple flowers. The plant is in a pot wrapped in a brown paper bag and standing on a wooden garden table.
October 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Experts warn of food shortages and civil unrest. Yet nearly half of Brits think climate change won’t affect them.

This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.

Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? 👇
www.nebriefing.org
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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A reminder that Gaza wasn't the only place attacked by Israel last year.

#Lebanon
careintuk.bsky.social CARE International UK @careintuk.bsky.social · Oct 14
A year ago, over 137,700 people were displaced in #Lebanon and living in 821 shelters set up in schools, gymnasiums and cultural centres.

Since then, CARE has been rebuilding.

Read more about our brilliant colleague Jinan El-Houmayra and her work leading the recovery process: careint.uk/4okzf85
Shelter in Lebanon: The first step towards dignity and recovery
Find out how Jinan, CARE's WASH and Shelter Manager at CARE Lebanon, is ensuring dignity and inclusion are at the heart of CARE's shelter response in Lebanon.
www.careinternational.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Butterflies need two things to thrive: good weather and a healthy environment ☀️🌱

Join us in asking UK retailers to remove synthetic pesticides from sale for a wilder, butterfly-filled future for generations to come 👉 https://butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-mission/
A hand wearing a white glove, spraying pesticides over a yellow flower and white butterfly, set against a black background. Large text overlay has the word 'weed' crossed out and 'Butterfly Killer' underneath. Smaller text below reads: 'Call on UK retailers to halt the sale of butterfly-harming chemicals. Sign our open letter.' Butterfly Conservation logo features at the top of the graphic.
September 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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And still the roses come!

My #DavidAustin roses - Roald Dahl and The Lady Gardener have bloomed all summer and are still producing new buds. Love them!

#roses #gardening
A bunch of roses in shades of yellow, apricot and pink in a ceramic jug decorated with fruits and flowers.
October 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Poor little Salvatore!
(But his story made me laugh.)
fiveminutelit.bsky.social Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · Oct 10
"Breakfast Fail" by Salvatore Difalco, who lives in Toronto, Canada
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Still a little bit of summer in the garden.

#gardening #flowers
A newly opened yellow rose. A bright pink cosmos flower with yellow centre. A fuchsia plant in a mock stone garden container, with lots of flowers that have pale pink outer petals and dark pink inner parts.
October 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM