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Kizzia Mildmay
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Tomorrow I start a 12 week online writing course with proper assignments & concrit & I’m wildly nervous about it. So obviously I’ve been re-reading the amazing books by the author who’s running it, just to turn my imposter syndrome up to 11. Anyway, if I’m even quieter than normal that’ll be why!
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a room .
Alt: kermit the frog is frantically using a typewriter
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November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
kizzia.bsky.social
Autumn colours today for #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy all taken at Attingham Park. #Autumn #Birds 🪶
A path through the woods, completely carpeted in brown fallen leaves and overhung with trees with a mixture of yellow and green leaves. Close up of a dwarf orange flower, which looks rather like an orange poppy, with the rest of Attingham’s walled garden, out of focus, in the background. A wooden bench underneath a tree covered in vivid yellow leaves. The ground around the bench is thickly carpeted in orange fallen leaves and beyond both bench and tree are more yellowing trees with several still green shrubs. A crow sitting on a branch of an oak tree, head lifted and turned to meards the left side of the photo. The leaves behind the crow are still green whilst the ones in front of and below him are yellow-orange.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
kizzia.bsky.social
Tomorrow I start a 12 week online writing course with proper assignments & concrit & I’m wildly nervous about it. So obviously I’ve been re-reading the amazing books by the author who’s running it, just to turn my imposter syndrome up to 11. Anyway, if I’m even quieter than normal that’ll be why!
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a room .
Alt: kermit the frog is frantically using a typewriter
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023.
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
kizzia.bsky.social
All of this!
persiflage.bsky.social Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 2d
Never had the slightest interest in GenAI. Once I learned about its environmental impact, my disinterest became outright rage at its existence.
Honestly, why would you want to use the water-guzzling, planet-destroying plagiarism machine, when it's incapable of an original idea, & lies its head off?
clairesnonsense.bsky.social Claire Waller / Ellie Graves/ Claire Lunn @clairesnonsense.bsky.social · 2d
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋

(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
kizzia.bsky.social
I spent last weekend in Hereford for the celebration of Phil Rickman’s life and the posthumous release of his final book, The Echo of Crows, which is out today. Thus #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy are all photos taken whilst I was there:
Western facade of Hereford Cathedral, the stones all shades of beiges and reds, with a clear blue sky above. The black and white timbered gatehouse over the entrance to the Bishop’s palace in Hereford. It is framed by trees with leaves in shades of green, yellow and russet and a clear blue sky overhead. The statue of Elgar and his bike (who he named Mr Phoebus) in the courtyard of Hereford Cathedral. A very small yellow Labrador plushie (called Honey) is sitting on the seat of the bike. There are several old buildings in the background, a leafless tree and a clear blue sky above. View of Hereford Cathedral and the Bishop’s Palace, surrounded by trees, from across the River Wye. The sky is Mediterranean blue with a few bright white clouds and both buildings, river bank and sky are reflected clearly in the river water.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
This book was full of language which is so incredibly painful, especially if you've been a bullied kid, a kid who felt themselves judged by teachers as well as peers. But as I said at the time, everyone involved in the publication and prizing of it is part of the problem. This is a structural issue.
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 7d
Kate Clanchy doesn't deserve any apology. What she wrote was racist, Islamophobic, ableist, and fat shaming.
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snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 7d
I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Happy Birthday @murielcouzens.bsky.social! Hope you’re having a wonderful day.
a cartoon says boo happy birthday with a ghost holding gifts
Alt: a cartoon says boo happy birthday with a two ghost cats holding gifts
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October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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alysdragon.bsky.social
Blessed Samhain, my loves. May we leave the bad to rot, keep the seeds good to grow, and send soft greetings to our beloved dead.
October 31, 2025 at 10:09 AM
kizzia.bsky.social
Sending All Hallow’s Eve blessings to all who celebrate. May your evening be filled with joy, warmth, and comforting memories.
#AllHallowsEve #Samhain #Halloween
A view of the fireplace in my living room from behind the coffee table. Both table and hearth are decorated with lights, candles, pumpkins, conkers, pinecones and other autumnal items. The predominant colour is orange and everything is glowing.
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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persiflage.bsky.social
Hey Brits! International Day of Disabled People is on 3 December. 🗓️ Scope are running an event for MPs to learn more about disability. Please invite your MP to attend in just three clicks:
Get your MP to be an ally to disabled people ♿
3 December is International Day of Disabled People
campaigns.scope.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
I’ve doubtless posted this before, many times maybe, but it really is an incredible piece of documentary filmmaking, which captures those near-far, fingertip folk histories that feel of our own time & just out of reach yet somehow simultaneously deeply arcane & otherworldly
youtu.be/ic4qWguBYEM?...
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
kizzia.bsky.social
Ignoring the fact that I’ve missed two Mondays in a row I bring you #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy now because I do believe in better late than never. So we have my garden’s last rose of the year, many mushrooms, autumnal colours …
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A baby pink rose, fully open with many frilly edged petals, against an out of focus background of green trees and shrubs A tree stump in a wood, surrounded by honey fungus mushrooms and partially covered with moss. Leaf strewn grass and other tree trunks fill the background. Close up of a quartet of the vivid red fruit in my ornamental crab apple tree. The background, out of focus, is full of red spots, clearly showing just how laden with fruit the tree is. A dead tree, with bare bone coloured trunk split to the sky, has large mushrooms and much moss growing on the part of the trunk closes to the ground. Grass and living trees fill the background.
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
kizzia.bsky.social
I am VERY excited for this!
silvanhistorian.bsky.social Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 12d
It's World Fantasy so what better day for a title reveal?

Poetry, pining, grief and glory. A love that survives after death. Inspired by Britain's earliest literature, history & myth, THE LAST VERSE OF THE HARP LORD is the story of legendary bard, Aneirin.

Look out for more news next year!
QUOTE: Helpless in the grip of my sorrow, I reached out to them. ‘I will make a song of you. A song of Gododdin. A song of the north. And folk will sing it long after I am gone, and the stars have different names. This, I promise.’ You too have a life to live, my mother’s voice echoed as I fell to my knees. Don’t give it all to the dead.
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The witch's arts include an ability to listen. To find spaces where the voice of the land is loud enough to hear. Whether wood clearing, hollow in hill or turn in the stream, she should hearken to the genii locorum. In their words, a living wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I just want to clear something up about a comment I've seen in a few reviews of THE WOLF AND HIS KING. A couple of people have referred to the werewolf "as a representation for queer identity", but it's not. The central metaphor here is about chronic pain and disability.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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My current view is deeply pleasing. As is having a Friday all to myself. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
A sun drenched view across the River Severn from a bench on the path in Shrewsbury quarry. The grass is scattered with golden leaves, the sky is blue with a few fluffy clouds and the trees are still mostly green.
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
Abundance is never a justification for greed. The witch looks around the corner of the now and harvests the hedge for tomorrow's ailments. She has no temptation to take the birds' share, nor the Faery's tithe. The witch's way refuses rapacity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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"If a book told you something when you were 15, it will tell it to you again when you’re 50, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book."

Happy birthday to Ursula K. Le Guin, born 21st October 1929
October 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM