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Lucy McCaul
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Librarian, fan of theatre, ballet, opera and certain television programmes. Creator of knitted people and eccentric fanfiction. Benton and Hawthorne Investigate coming soon https://www.candy-jar.co.uk/books/bentonandhawthorneinvestigate.html
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Evening. I'm on my way home from a lovely day in London with @clairemargaret.bsky.social and I've spent my birthday book tokens. #ConfinedCocktails
Three paperback books entitled: Murder's a swine, Inspector Imanishi investigates, and Death in white pyjamas
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Thank you @paulmagrs.bsky.social and @stevecolewriter.bsky.social for this wonderful book. Stories that show us the familiar from a new perspective, remind us to look at life through others' eyes, and that entertain and move, with fabulous illustrations. May there always be stories and storytellers!
A book with a dark grey cover entitled 1001 nights in time & space: folktales rescued from around the whoniverse, by Steve Coles and Paul Magrs. The cover is illustrated with pale grey drawings of villains from Doctor Who, Sutekh the dog, a Zygon, the Kandyman and the Morbius creature
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The gnome, holding her garland of lights.
A dimly lit photo of a gnome holding a garland of tiny lights, standing on a windowsill
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I've just put the laptop on to charge my phone...
A dimly lit photograph of a takeaway pizza and the corner of a laptop
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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And as for Sutekh on the TARDIS...
Sweep, a grey glove puppet dog, is clutching a model TARDIS
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Time to start my Bookshop Day purchase.
A paperback book with a bright blue and gold patterned cover entitled Hammajang Luck, by Makana Yamamoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Evening everyone! I'm having a tasty satsuma and watching Strictly. #ConfinedCocktails
A satsuma and peel on a white paper napkin on a pine tabletop
November 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The first part of my birthday voucher book bonanza has arrived! Azal can't wait to see if he wins this time... @paulmagrs.bsky.social
A knitted character with woolly hairy legs, a bare chest and a horned mask is standing next to a book with a blue cover. The book is entitled "Doctor Who, the adventures after"
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Leaves and berries at the bus stop this morning.
Plants tumbling over a grey wooden fence, with red and green leaves and a profusion of orange and black berries
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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#TinyPottedGarden fuchsia update; the first lot of flowers is over, but more buds have appeared!
A fuchsia plant in a pot. The plant has small, dark green leaves and dark pink buds.
October 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Arthur agrees!
A knitted yeti standing by a brick wall.
September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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It's me! With my book! In the brilliant #RedLionBooks! A thousand thanks to this fab independent bookshop @redlionbooks.bsky.social and for taking my picture. I'm screaming inside, I promise! @candyjarbooks.bsky.social
A middle-aged white woman who is on the plump side, wearing a flowery blouse and a pink and grey waterproof jacket, holding a book entitled "Benton and Hawthorne investigate." She is standing in front of a bookcase labelled "FANTASY & SCI-FI"
September 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Les Géants at the Palais des Beaux Artes. Carnival figures, and yes, they are giant!
Carnival figures with upper bodies resembling a giant woman with flowers and a sleeveless bodice, a man with a jacket and cap, holding a bag of grain, and a man with a blue shirt and a yellow hard hat. Carnival figures representing a man with a blue shirt and yellow hard hat, a bishop riding a donkey, and a man in a white shirt, playing an accordion Partially constructed carnival figures, a woman holding a spear, a frightening female head with long grey hair and glasses A frightening head of a man with long hair and beard and staring eyes
September 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Au Chat Bleu, for expensive and, I'm sure, delicious chocolate, Le Cloche D'Or for knives, and the facade of the church of St Maurice
Front of a shop with arched windows. Under the arch are painted signs with "Au chat bleu" and a cat painted in blue. An awning is folded above Window display of the choclatier Au Chat Bleu An art nouveau style shop front in green, yellow and gold, with the name Le Cloche D'Or. The shop has a green awning. Facade of a gothic church, with a central spire and narrow windows
September 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Panorama of Place Charles de Gaulle
September 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Une flaneuse à Lille! Opera and Vielle Bourse.
A building with three large doors in a cream coloured facade decorated with figures. An old building with two stories of windows above a ground level of shops The building is yellow and red and decorated ornately A vaulted ceiling over a cloister, with red ceiling and yellow walls and decoration. In the foreground is a stall selling pictures arranged in plastic boxes A large artwork in the form of a round cluster of stems with round mirrors on
September 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Try the knitted version!
A knitted man wearing a doublet, breeches, boots, and a cape, looking in horror at another knitted man who is lying down in front of him, wearing a long white robe. There is a cardboard backdrop of the exterior of a house with ivy on the walls.
September 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Sunday pottering in the #TinyPottedGarden
Five pots of different sizes standing in a group. All the pots have plants in. The two larger pots are at the back of the group, close to the wall of a house. There is a pottery hedgehog between the two large pots and a plastic gnome in the largest pot
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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And onwards:
Two people dressed as Elmo and Buzz Lightyear A person dressed as a dinosaur in a costume matching a velociraptor from Jurassic Park
September 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Out and about at #InvasionColchester2025
Two men dressed as Asterix and Obelix. Obelix is holding a cuddly Dogmatix and Asterix is in an action pose A giant inflatable evil Stay Puft marshmallow man A white and red Ghostbusters car with Slimer, a green ghost, sitting on the bonnet
September 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Last one in the shop!
A stuffed toy capybara with a stuffed toy yuzu on its head
September 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Miss Hawthorne's relative is on the bus and on her way to inspect the "Invasion" of cosplayers.
A blue and green patterned cloak next to the back of a bus seat
September 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Fuchsia intensifies in the #TinyPottedGarden
September 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Floral update from the #TinyPottedGarden
A fuchsia plant in a large pot. The pot is white with a brown edge. The plant has dark green leaves and is covered in dark pink buds, some of which have opened into flowers with pale pink inner petals. A dianthus plant in a terracotta pot. The plant has narrow green leaves and bright pink flowers with serrated petals
August 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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More of nature's bounty
A plastic tub, lined with kitchen paper and partly filled with blackberries
August 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM