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booksparrow.bsky.social
Stéise
@booksparrow.bsky.social
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Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️‍🌈 unapologetically femme
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It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are'
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
Illustration from where the wild things are showing fur horned and clawed monster like creatures dancing in the dark forest to the moonlight accompanied by a small child in a crown and suit mimicking the monsters features.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Don’t mind me… I’ll just be dreaming about the pink Pyrex I didn’t buy and am now regretting.
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
Photo showing three dishes on a shelf they are made of pink Pyrex and are decorated with a white floral motif.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Just stop it M&S:
Photo of a pack of 2 pecan and salted caramel blondies. These are square lightly coloured cake like things with a swirly pattern on the top. The pack is black and yellow and has the marmite logo on it. The text on the box says “pecan tiffin infused with marmite”
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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🐦Not sure what the bird intends to do with the funds… but I am here for it
Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions.
#Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds
Screenshot showing two photos of items for sale. one is of a pair of brown leather boots with a pigeon sat on one of them. The other photo is on a pair of headphones also with a pigeon perch on it. Screenshot showing two handmade keyrings for sale. They appear to be crocheted. There is a picture of a pigeon in each of the photos.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Excellent marshmallow ratio 👌#hotChocolate
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I think Vinted is trolling me:
Photograph of a listing on Vinted showing a white T-shirt on a green background with the text ‘hold on let me overthink this’
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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On my way to #York for a work thing. Times amended since I bought my train ticket & I have over an hour to kill. Would like #coffee & somewhere to sit with a table before 9am. Does bluesky/ #skybrarian have any independent suggestions?
Photo of a train platform showing the sign for a booking office and keyboard saying the café is open. There is a train on the platform.
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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#hotChocolate in Manchester. Doesn’t look fancy, but made with coconut milk, so it was yum!
Picture of a mug and saucer on the table the mug contains a milky drink topped with milk foam and chocolate powder. In the background, there is a glass of a purple smoothie and a cake on a plate.
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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These are arrows of direction on a stairwell I rarely use in the office…. but without spex, i had thought for a moment a raptor had entered the building. 🦖
Photo of a mismatched vinyl tile stairwell with the outline of an arroyo in it. The arrow is upside down…. And appears similar in shape to a dinosaur footprint.
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Pumpkin hat on this #TriPaw… my very own black shuck 🐺
#adoptDontShop #RescueDog #DogsOfBluesky
#Halloween #Spooktober
Photo of a black dog with a padded fabric pumpkin hat.
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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#Monday #GirlMoss #GirlBoss.
🎨 @awokenshit on insta.
Image of a graphic that looks like a woodcut or Lino print. flat brown colour against a buff background. The text reads “no more girl bossing, I want to girl rest. Girl sleep. Girl lay down on the forest floor and be absorbed by nature. I want to girl moss.” The image depicted is a simplifying line depiction of a long haired women lying down asleep.
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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May as well start a thread…. #HotChocolate in Hebden Bridge…
Photo of a table with a hot chocolate with whipped cream, in grey stoneware mug and saucer, next to a plate with a triangular shaped chocolate brownie.
October 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Hmm. Archive collection? But then you wouldn’t date stamp it?? Hmm unless it’s part of a reading room collection??
October 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Oh deer god, what a timely post. I best go check on my dad 🌳trimming down some 12foot monstrosities 🌲
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Well played Manchester libraries 👏
(For sale in central library if anyone wants one)
#Skybrarian
#LibrarySky #Library📚
Photo of a white T-shirt on a hanger. This is part of a display in the shop in Manchester library. The design of the T-shirt features the stamp page of a public library book complete with an assortment of date stamps. This is in black Ink.
October 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Autumn is well and truly here:
Photo showing if you looking down to the canal. There is a path covered with fallen leaves to the left red to stools can be seen in the distance canal sits though to the left and the bushes are bare of leaves.
October 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Still on a sugar high from this last night.
It’s how I would like all my hot drinks from now on; topped with a brownie.

Hurrah for Hot Chocolate season!
Close up Photo of a hot chocolate in a mug and saucer sitting on a table in a cafe. The mug has molten chocolate around the rim and the beverage is topped with with an entire brownie and a large peak of whipped cream dusted with chocolate powder.
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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This has lifted everyone’s mood. Defo recommend 🍰🧁 (macmillan coffee morning)
Also I think we’ve all been pretending it was still summer (ish) but the storm at the weekend put a pin in that.
October 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Perhaps a day late for #UKFungusDay, but enjoy this picture of fungus growing out of the window frame in my local 🍺
Close-up photo of a fungus against a white painted background Photograph showing the fungus in situ growing out of the window frame.
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Prezzie from a friend:

#GlutenFree
#PinBadge
Photo of a hand holding a pin badge in the shape of a piece of toast dating “I tolerate a lot of things but not gluten”
October 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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My dog has the right idea about WFH:
Photograph showing the paws of a black dog poking out from underneath a beige blanket.
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Trying my very hardest not to have this during a webinar right now.

Just had confirmation that the house I co-owned is now fully mine- all paperwork sorted. 🏠

When life gives you lemons, get your shit together and drink Prosecco 🥂
Photograph of a bottle of Prosecco next to a house plant. This is in front of a framed picture of a vintage marmalade advertisement.
September 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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New patch for my denim jacket:

#skybrarian
#librarysky
#library
#librarian
Photograph of an embroidered patch in the shape of an open book. The cover of the book is pink and the pages are beige with a red book mark in them.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Memory unlocked:
Photograph of six colourful small zipped purses. Each purse is in a different colour and features stuck on colourful beads that create a pattern.
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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50p for space raiders?! Oof. I’m old
Love the Vimto pic and this one, the dripping paint gives it a somewhat threatening aura. It’s pure art!
September 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM