Brigid Coady
@brigidcoady.bsky.social
Always the cautionary tale. Writes darkly funny fiction. Obsessed with boots. Will write for gig tickets. Boots Books Beats. Ex-country radio DJ. Drag king. Owned by Bella B, Abyssinian Cat Queen of Hampstead
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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This one makes me laugh every time.
January 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This one makes me laugh every time.
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The Wombles play Motörhead
January 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Wombles play Motörhead
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Also trying to learn what little Etruscan is known
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January 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Also trying to learn what little Etruscan is known
Also adding learning hieroglyphics to my current Latin Duolingo
January 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Also adding learning hieroglyphics to my current Latin Duolingo
The research books for my current project have just multiplied as I realised there was an Egyptian connection… now looking for new bookcases!
January 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The research books for my current project have just multiplied as I realised there was an Egyptian connection… now looking for new bookcases!
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Every day not reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by a crackling fire in an ominous château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm is a day wasted.
January 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Every day not reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by a crackling fire in an ominous château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm is a day wasted.
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My New Year’s resolution was to give up performing stunts from cowboy movies but today I fell off the wagon.
January 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My New Year’s resolution was to give up performing stunts from cowboy movies but today I fell off the wagon.
Happy Traitors Day!! I will be watching!!
Never mind about Happy New Year, it’s Happy New #Traitors Day here in the UK!
Who will be watching tonight?
Who will be watching tonight?
January 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Happy Traitors Day!! I will be watching!!
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Today's unpopular take: not all fantasy worlds need extensive world-building. Some books are just fine without maps.
December 30, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Today's unpopular take: not all fantasy worlds need extensive world-building. Some books are just fine without maps.
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I rank this alongside the time 5Live took a philosophy professor to see The Matrix and his review was IIRC: “Too much philosophy, not enough Kung Fu.”
December 30, 2024 at 1:40 PM
I rank this alongside the time 5Live took a philosophy professor to see The Matrix and his review was IIRC: “Too much philosophy, not enough Kung Fu.”
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I went on Radio Five once with the Bishop of London to talk about CS Lewis and was delighted that his take was broadly “these books would be absolutely wonderful if he’d ease up on all the Christian nonsense…” We had a lovely chat.
December 30, 2024 at 1:26 PM
I went on Radio Five once with the Bishop of London to talk about CS Lewis and was delighted that his take was broadly “these books would be absolutely wonderful if he’d ease up on all the Christian nonsense…” We had a lovely chat.
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You will be visited by three spirits…
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
you will be visited by three spirits
December 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
You will be visited by three spirits…
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
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Pratchett. Obvs.
we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
December 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Pratchett. Obvs.
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Not sure what it says about me, but Robert Louis Stevenson. As a small, asthmatic girl who longed to be a writer, he inspired me. His poetry is woven through my childhood. His novels transported me. And his words about writing remind me it’s okay to write what I do, in the way that I do. #Hero
December 24, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Not sure what it says about me, but Robert Louis Stevenson. As a small, asthmatic girl who longed to be a writer, he inspired me. His poetry is woven through my childhood. His novels transported me. And his words about writing remind me it’s okay to write what I do, in the way that I do. #Hero
Saki. His short stories filled my teen years. I think I might write what I do because of him.
we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
December 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Saki. His short stories filled my teen years. I think I might write what I do because of him.
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Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
Cornbread stuffing made! The mushroom, bacon and rosemary stuffing is a step too far today. That is tomorrow’s task…
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December 22, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Cornbread stuffing made! The mushroom, bacon and rosemary stuffing is a step too far today. That is tomorrow’s task…
Currently baking corn muffins so I can make cornbread stuffing. Who am I??
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December 22, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Currently baking corn muffins so I can make cornbread stuffing. Who am I??
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"If you don't donate your hair to me right here, right now, for me to have a wig made, I'll see they lock you in the tower and throw away the key..."
December 22, 2024 at 1:29 PM
"If you don't donate your hair to me right here, right now, for me to have a wig made, I'll see they lock you in the tower and throw away the key..."