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Chris Limb
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Writer, Music, Dreams, Space

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13 November
Brighton, Hastings
A blank doorway in a cream building that backs onto a narrow pavement next to a road with double yellow lines Selfie of me lying down on the shingle of a beach with purple hair The rusty pillars of the West Pier next to the i360 tower, structures which are more than 150 years apart. Central Hastings at sunset viewed from the Whistler’s Steps path leading down from West Hill. Foliage in the foreground.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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It’s not a good look.
Map of countries where VPNs are illegal VPNs are illegal in: Belarus Iraq North Korea Turkmenistan VPN use is restricted in: China Iran Oman Russia Turkey United Arab Emirates (UAE)
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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12 November
Brighton, Hastings
Purple flower attached to a lightning conductor / earth strip. Ginger cat asleep on a white fleece Waste ground next to the railway full of large puddles of water and blown over hoardings. Now modern flats. The moon in a blue sky above a thick slab of cloud like a red and grey mountain range above actual West Hill in Hastings
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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11 November
Brighton, Hastings
Close up of a sleeping tabby’s face and front legs; her paws are near the camera Selfie of me with purple headband on and cat-based day of the dead style mask Ginger cat looking at the photographer while sitting loafed on a white fleece East Hill Hastings rises under a blue sky and behind the wide beach. Sea on the right of the picture.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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10 November
Hastings

If Bsky allowed 5 photos per post I’d have included it.
Two huge grey cloud figures loom over West Hill against a backdrop of lighter cloud illuminated by rising sun.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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10 November
Brighton, Hastings
View along the promenade in Hove - completely covered with pebbles flung up by the waves. Blue sky streaked with contrails above, railings disappearing with perfect perspective. Ginger cat asleep on pink rug. Neither loaf nor croissant pose – something in the middle. Selfie of me with purple headband, sunglasses and colourful day of the dead style mask in front of the waterline on Brighton beach Looking up at a pentagonal footprinted white wooden lighthouse tower with a sinister red light shining out through its small window.
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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9 November
Brighton, Hastings
On the pavement outside a fabric shop, a white bear mannequin is wearing a jacket with loads of buttons on the lapels. Top left quarters of my head with one eye visible. Hair is peroxide blonde to pink at the side and purple on top. Close up of a ginger cat’s face Picture of a white-faced clown with their arm on fire on the side of a purple and blue metal hut
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Unfeasibly warm weather at the unusually becliffed town centre.
Cliffs loom over the top floor of oldish buildings under a bright blue sky. People on the cliffs are too near the edge.
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Well you’re clearly not, so why do
I have to be? Hypocrite.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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8 November
Brighton, Guildford
Ginger cat outside a window shouting to be let inside Curve or modern buildings alongside a river / canal reflected in it as is the tree opposite which is reaching out over the water. Vaccination centre in Boots, Brighton. Two blue chairs next to a chart of the vaccination journey. Signs are in English and Welsh. Boots Vaccination Journey Y DAITH BRECHU Vaccination Centre CANOLFAN BRECHU Selfie of me with rainbow hair and new glasses. Sadly the glasses are now broken.
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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This family of Greater Black Backed Gulls has one Herring Gull chick.
Four gulls on the beach. Two adults are Greater Black Backed Gulls; of the two chicks one is a GBB Gull and the other a Herring Gull.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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7 November
Brighton, Hastings
Art deco building on the seafront road in Brighton. Road facing east, sky ahead is blue. A black windmill in a green field under a blue sky. A ginger cat lying on a grey blanket. One ear squashed under his head. Rising sun silhouettes the houses on West Hill
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Brain tree
Leafless tree in a car park that looks like the blood vessels or nerve fibres in a brain. Sky is blue mottled with high cloud.
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The thing I like best about this map is the use of the archaic word "shewn".
Framed line diagram/map from a Metropolitan Railway carriage, c1925 Diagrammatic map, as mounted in carriage, showing Metropolitan main line, the Inner Circle Railway, the East London Railway (with services direct from Whitechapel (St Mary's) to Shadwell and the Addison Road branch. Wembley Park is marked "Exhibition Grounds & Stadium" which is stuck over "Empire Exhibition". Information at bottom says "Exchange stations shewn thus" next to a diamond icon.
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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6 November
Brighton, Hastings
Illustration of a grey cat in a blue coat holding a Cherry Bakewell on a plate. Label reads: Cherry Bakewell Vodka Old Victorian signs on a grey brick wall reading: Albert Mews Grand Avenue, Albert Mansions 👈 Tradesmen’s Entrance Selfie of me on a train in a black mask with headphones on and rainbow hair Close up of a small tortoiseshell butterfly on a crap old window
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#Bookvember 6


This illustration by Anthony Maitland for the story “The Hideous Face With Flaming Eyes” from Aidan Chambers’s book “Ghosts and Hauntings” simultaneously fascinated and terrified me. I think it was the sense of relentless inevitable approach it engendered.
Illustration of a wraith-like vampire approaching a Victorian window inside which a young woman in a nightgown sits on the bed. Illustration by Antony Maitland from the book Ghosts and Hauntings by Aidan Chambers.
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Irony.
The Poke listicle with funniest Bluesky posts of the week. The only one visible reads alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social kindness is free. for an ad-free kindness experience, upgrade to kindness+ starting at $15.99 a month The rest of the page is obscured by intrusive ads which make the page almost unusable.
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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5 November
Brighton, Hastings
White cat with black ears sitting loafed under a bed, eyes shining. Close up portrait of a beautiful tabby cat’s face. Those whiskers. Those eyes. A brick tunnel lit with orange lights. This is the interior of the West Hill Lift funicular in Hastings. Worm’s eye view of Bottle Alley in Hastings, with the red pillars against a pure blue sky reflected in a puddle as they disappear into the distance with perfect perspective.
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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4 November
Eastbourne, Brighton, Hastings
Bright double rainbow rises against a grey sky above a long cycle rack. White sun low in a clear sky above a calm Sea lapping against the sand at the water’s edge at very low tide in Brighton. Very baroque cloudscape behind the silhouette of a chimney in the skies above Hastings Castle. Looks as off the sun is about to poke its head out. Selfie of me looking surprised, in the act of removing an alien (grey) mask.
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Mostly doing QA and proofreading today.
Panel from Preacher comic showing Herr Starr shooting a sheaf of printout shouting “Improper Use Of Inverted Commas, Hoover! Improper Use Of Inverted Commas!!” while Hoover and Featherstone look on. Comic art by Steve Dillon. Written by Garth Ennis.
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Looks like a bad day for shepherds is ahead.
Mottled red clouds above West Hill Hastings as the sun prepares to rise
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Two normal windows and two ghost windows.
Side of a house with two windows. The light reflected off two other windows off camera throws patterns of light on the wall that look like two extra windows made of light.
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Just occurred to me to wonder whether Pauline Baynes's illustration for the cover of CS Lewis's The Last Battle was (subconsciously?) influenced by Picasso's Guernica.
Pauline Baynes's illustration for the cover of CS Lewis's The Last Battle featuring people and animals fighting bathed in orange firelight. Of particular note are a bull and a unicorn at the centre of the picture. Detail of Picasso's famous Guernica painting featuring a bull and a horse
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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3 November
Brighton, Eastbourne
The shingle of Brighton beach is coming up the steps from the beach, flowing through the green painted railings and into the promenade. Grey green sea in the background. Selfie of me with a black headband on Silhouettes of many lamp posts against the sun cracked landscape of grey and orange clouds. The sea shines in the hidden sun. Dimly lit archaic diagram of two human beings showing bones, nerves and circulatory systems. Labelled American Frohse Anatomical Charts
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Coming into land
Seagull in expanse of blue sky above the ranks of houses marching up the side of West Hill Hastings.
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM