Andrew Bibby
@andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social
I'm a writer and journalist based in the South Pennines, writing on landscapes and the outdoors, and with an interest as well in the co-operative movement. www.andrewbibby.com.
Hebden Bridge Town Hall getting ready for our Freedom to Roam conf on Sat week. 25 years since the last access legislation, time for a new Act! @righttoroam.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hebden Bridge Town Hall getting ready for our Freedom to Roam conf on Sat week. 25 years since the last access legislation, time for a new Act! @righttoroam.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
All set for our session on the Pennine Way! @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
All set for our session on the Pennine Way! @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
Not long to go now to this event, marking 25 years of access legislation in E&W and campaigning for further access rights. @ramblers.org.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social See you there!
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Not long to go now to this event, marking 25 years of access legislation in E&W and campaigning for further access rights. @ramblers.org.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @andymacnaemp.bsky.social See you there!
Well OK I will blow my own trumpet just a little and mention the accolade my book The Borders: The Lands We Share has just received. Runner-up in the Outdoor Book of the Year awards @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Well OK I will blow my own trumpet just a little and mention the accolade my book The Borders: The Lands We Share has just received. Runner-up in the Outdoor Book of the Year awards @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
A walk today in surprisingly ok weather to the independent hostel at the back of Skiddaw, Skiddaw House. The occasion? The annual get-together of authors and photographers in the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild.
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A walk today in surprisingly ok weather to the independent hostel at the back of Skiddaw, Skiddaw House. The occasion? The annual get-together of authors and photographers in the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild.
A good news story from #HebdenBridge. The heritage #signal box, empty and unloved for 8 years, has been saved for the community by Calder Valley Community Land Trust. In due course it'll become a heritage centre and quirky holiday accomm.
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A good news story from #HebdenBridge. The heritage #signal box, empty and unloved for 8 years, has been saved for the community by Calder Valley Community Land Trust. In due course it'll become a heritage centre and quirky holiday accomm.
Authors should _never_ look in bookshops for their titles. That way lies despair. But my eye was nevertheless caught in @waterstones.bsky.social in #York by my latest book peeping out at me. Books by my @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleagues also on the shelves. Nil desperandum.
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Authors should _never_ look in bookshops for their titles. That way lies despair. But my eye was nevertheless caught in @waterstones.bsky.social in #York by my latest book peeping out at me. Books by my @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleagues also on the shelves. Nil desperandum.
Just leaving #Leeds and an event I really wish hadn't had to happen. The local branch of my union @nujofficial.bsky.social were marking the deaths of so many #journalists and media workers trying to report what is happening in #Gaza. A sombre occasion.
September 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just leaving #Leeds and an event I really wish hadn't had to happen. The local branch of my union @nujofficial.bsky.social were marking the deaths of so many #journalists and media workers trying to report what is happening in #Gaza. A sombre occasion.
The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
#coop day at @foxandgoose.org coop pub in #hebdenbridge. And @gritstonebooks.bsky.social is here too. Britain's first author run coop. @coopnews.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#coop day at @foxandgoose.org coop pub in #hebdenbridge. And @gritstonebooks.bsky.social is here too. Britain's first author run coop. @coopnews.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
Remembering Jesse Gray, #coop pioneer & co-host of first ever ICA conf. #iyc @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @coopfutures.bsky.social His grave in #Hebdenbridge @coopnews.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Remembering Jesse Gray, #coop pioneer & co-host of first ever ICA conf. #iyc @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @coopsmark.bsky.social @coopstudiesjournal.bsky.social @coopfutures.bsky.social His grave in #Hebdenbridge @coopnews.bsky.social
The reviews are coming in now for my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share. Here's a nice one from Viewpoint mag @campaign4parks.bsky.social . "A compelling read" - ah, cockles of this author's heart warmed. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The reviews are coming in now for my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share. Here's a nice one from Viewpoint mag @campaign4parks.bsky.social . "A compelling read" - ah, cockles of this author's heart warmed. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social
Ah, it's enough to make any author well chuffed! Here's my new book in the window of The Reading Room, the #indybookshop in #Melrose in #scottishborders. A lovely well curated bookshop. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ah, it's enough to make any author well chuffed! Here's my new book in the window of The Reading Room, the #indybookshop in #Melrose in #scottishborders. A lovely well curated bookshop. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
Yes, properly launched into the world last night, my book The Borders: The Lands We Share. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yes, properly launched into the world last night, my book The Borders: The Lands We Share. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social
An early morning explore of the v northernmost section of the English Coast Path at #Berwick. My @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @christophergoddard.bsky.social is writing the definitive guidebooks. 2vols out, 2 to come. @ramblers.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
An early morning explore of the v northernmost section of the English Coast Path at #Berwick. My @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @christophergoddard.bsky.social is writing the definitive guidebooks. 2vols out, 2 to come. @ramblers.org.uk
I'm visiting indy #bookshops where you can get my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share. Haven't yet mentioned the three great bookshops in Northumberland, @forumbooks.bsky.social in #Corbridge, the bound in #WhitleyBay and Accidental Bookshop in #Alnwick. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm visiting indy #bookshops where you can get my new book The Borders: The Lands We Share. Haven't yet mentioned the three great bookshops in Northumberland, @forumbooks.bsky.social in #Corbridge, the bound in #WhitleyBay and Accidental Bookshop in #Alnwick. @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
This afternoon I've been in Edinburgh visiting indy #bookshops. Buy my newly published The Borders: The Lands We Share at Topping and Co (great to hear of their forthcoming new shop in York), or at @lighthousebooks.bsky.social or at @typewronger.bsky.social . @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This afternoon I've been in Edinburgh visiting indy #bookshops. Buy my newly published The Borders: The Lands We Share at Topping and Co (great to hear of their forthcoming new shop in York), or at @lighthousebooks.bsky.social or at @typewronger.bsky.social . @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
One way to help solve the #housing crisis... bottom-up community endeavour. Well done Calder Valley Community Land Trust who've been showing off this afternoon the latest empty property they've brought back to life. @communitylandsc.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One way to help solve the #housing crisis... bottom-up community endeavour. Well done Calder Valley Community Land Trust who've been showing off this afternoon the latest empty property they've brought back to life. @communitylandsc.bsky.social
House for £25m at St George's Hill Weybridge in weekend FT. This is where in 1649 Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers wanted to make the earth a common treasury for all. We're not yet there, are we?
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
House for £25m at St George's Hill Weybridge in weekend FT. This is where in 1649 Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers wanted to make the earth a common treasury for all. We're not yet there, are we?
Not yet published, but the proof copy has arrived today and (though I say it myself) I think it looks pretty good! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Not yet published, but the proof copy has arrived today and (though I say it myself) I think it looks pretty good! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social
So why have I posted a photo of this tatty footpath sign? (In #Swanage). Because it's a relic from the 1949 Act that helped open up the countryside to ordinary people. Now we need new legislation to progress access rights. @campaignerkate.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk
January 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So why have I posted a photo of this tatty footpath sign? (In #Swanage). Because it's a relic from the 1949 Act that helped open up the countryside to ordinary people. Now we need new legislation to progress access rights. @campaignerkate.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk
Oh, here come the Xmas Eve tractors now...
December 24, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Oh, here come the Xmas Eve tractors now...
So in our part of the South #Pennines, Xmas eve sees a noisy and colourful run through our towns and villages by local tractors. Absolutely nothing to do with a babe in a manger in a barn, I think
December 24, 2024 at 7:31 PM
So in our part of the South #Pennines, Xmas eve sees a noisy and colourful run through our towns and villages by local tractors. Absolutely nothing to do with a babe in a manger in a barn, I think