Benji W 🏳️🌈🇬🇧
@benjiw.bsky.social
Live/work in Birmingham, UK. Kent @ Canterbury & Goldsmiths Alum. Bright/Breezy. Books. Queer Christian. Living with cancer.🌹🏳️🌈
Drop a picture of yourself and turn it B&W
March 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Drop a picture of yourself and turn it B&W
Tea, toast, marmalade achieved. 🍞
March 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tea, toast, marmalade achieved. 🍞
Book series suggestion of the day: The Murderbot sequence by Martha Wells.
I’d heard good things about the sequence of books but wasn’t prepared for the levels of snarky fun in the books. It’s a lovely blend of humour, action and heart. It’s very good.
I’d heard good things about the sequence of books but wasn’t prepared for the levels of snarky fun in the books. It’s a lovely blend of humour, action and heart. It’s very good.
March 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Book series suggestion of the day: The Murderbot sequence by Martha Wells.
I’d heard good things about the sequence of books but wasn’t prepared for the levels of snarky fun in the books. It’s a lovely blend of humour, action and heart. It’s very good.
I’d heard good things about the sequence of books but wasn’t prepared for the levels of snarky fun in the books. It’s a lovely blend of humour, action and heart. It’s very good.
The papers called me a “tiddler who refused to die”. The photo of me looking very small is, I think, the first time I was out of the incubator after months and Mum & Dad could hold me.
March 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The papers called me a “tiddler who refused to die”. The photo of me looking very small is, I think, the first time I was out of the incubator after months and Mum & Dad could hold me.
Feeling much more human after a shower. One leg in the shower I notice the unkink your colon toilet step.. why hadn’t I noticed it until today? Step up, into shower: humanity restored.
Hoping the OT has something a bit more, er, sturdy.
Hoping the OT has something a bit more, er, sturdy.
March 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Feeling much more human after a shower. One leg in the shower I notice the unkink your colon toilet step.. why hadn’t I noticed it until today? Step up, into shower: humanity restored.
Hoping the OT has something a bit more, er, sturdy.
Hoping the OT has something a bit more, er, sturdy.
Today on the Gay Agenda: blood tests today to see if I can have treatment on Friday, viewing a possible venue for my life celebration event, then a financial planning appointment this afternoon.
Also carrying some marmalade made by my friend Rob.
Also carrying some marmalade made by my friend Rob.
March 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Today on the Gay Agenda: blood tests today to see if I can have treatment on Friday, viewing a possible venue for my life celebration event, then a financial planning appointment this afternoon.
Also carrying some marmalade made by my friend Rob.
Also carrying some marmalade made by my friend Rob.
My book suggestion of the day is: The Juryman's Tale by Trevor Grove. A first hand account of serving on a jury during a trial of kidnappers (no, it’s weirder than you’re expecting). It’s also a stirring defence of the trial by jury process.
Brilliant for a bookclub, fantastic to read alone.
Brilliant for a bookclub, fantastic to read alone.
March 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
My book suggestion of the day is: The Juryman's Tale by Trevor Grove. A first hand account of serving on a jury during a trial of kidnappers (no, it’s weirder than you’re expecting). It’s also a stirring defence of the trial by jury process.
Brilliant for a bookclub, fantastic to read alone.
Brilliant for a bookclub, fantastic to read alone.
Share some of the best eyes in movies:
March 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Share some of the best eyes in movies:
And if you’re ever in Brum you’ll be greeted with a hundred thousand welcomes.
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
And if you’re ever in Brum you’ll be greeted with a hundred thousand welcomes.
A hundred thousand thanks to @argentology.bsky.social for my lovely birthday gift of Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women by Hetta Howes. 📚 Bookish people are the best.
March 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A hundred thousand thanks to @argentology.bsky.social for my lovely birthday gift of Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women by Hetta Howes. 📚 Bookish people are the best.
Normal service resumed.
March 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Normal service resumed.
Rare sighting without green glasses. Not a drill. ;)
March 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Rare sighting without green glasses. Not a drill. ;)
First compliment of my glasses of the day from a nurse as she wanders past.
March 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
First compliment of my glasses of the day from a nurse as she wanders past.
#NowWatching Angels in America (miniseries).
March 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#NowWatching Angels in America (miniseries).
Got the door to the balcony open and had to pull the fan out. 🪭
March 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Got the door to the balcony open and had to pull the fan out. 🪭
I haven’t finished this on audiobook yet but it’s just too much fun to not share it sooner. 5⭐️ for @ghweldon.bsky.social’s The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture.
I’m so glad I got the audiobook read by the author, it’s wonderfully involving and the nerd voices made me laugh.
I’m so glad I got the audiobook read by the author, it’s wonderfully involving and the nerd voices made me laugh.
March 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I haven’t finished this on audiobook yet but it’s just too much fun to not share it sooner. 5⭐️ for @ghweldon.bsky.social’s The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture.
I’m so glad I got the audiobook read by the author, it’s wonderfully involving and the nerd voices made me laugh.
I’m so glad I got the audiobook read by the author, it’s wonderfully involving and the nerd voices made me laugh.
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend.
The Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis.
The Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis.
March 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend.
The Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis.
The Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis.
Was just thinking “ugh, I have to sit up and take my meds.. grumble grumble” meanwhile completely forgetting I have a wonderful adjustable bed that helps with that. One button and I turn into Angelica Houston in Towards Zero.
March 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Was just thinking “ugh, I have to sit up and take my meds.. grumble grumble” meanwhile completely forgetting I have a wonderful adjustable bed that helps with that. One button and I turn into Angelica Houston in Towards Zero.
Happy International Women’s Day!
It is a time to both celebrate progress, and to invigorate the work that still needs to be done.
It is a time to both celebrate progress, and to invigorate the work that still needs to be done.
March 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy International Women’s Day!
It is a time to both celebrate progress, and to invigorate the work that still needs to be done.
It is a time to both celebrate progress, and to invigorate the work that still needs to be done.
I’m also enjoying the view of a forsythia plant my parents bought me for my birthday. It’s started so well. Reminds me of where I grew up in Wiltshire. Would love some lavender but it just doesn’t seem to like being potted up on my balcony.
March 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I’m also enjoying the view of a forsythia plant my parents bought me for my birthday. It’s started so well. Reminds me of where I grew up in Wiltshire. Would love some lavender but it just doesn’t seem to like being potted up on my balcony.
March 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Clean up on aisle one, clean up on aisle one.
March 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Clean up on aisle one, clean up on aisle one.
If you know, you know.
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you know, you know.