Claire King
@claireking.bsky.social
#ckingwriter and also #ckingdayjob #ckinghiker and #ckingslavetotinycat Using my words.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust.
April 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust.
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Day five. Still in love.
a cartoon drawing of a fish with the name steve above it
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a fish with the name steve above it
media.tenor.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Day five. Still in love.
Tell me where you’re from without telling me where you’re from.
March 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Tell me where you’re from without telling me where you’re from.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a gig where the artist has shown such technical brilliance and consummate professionalism while at the same time connecting so genuinely with the audience. Wow @alisonmoyet.bsky.social thank you for fully bringing the fabulous, warm, impervious you. 🙌🩶
March 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a gig where the artist has shown such technical brilliance and consummate professionalism while at the same time connecting so genuinely with the audience. Wow @alisonmoyet.bsky.social thank you for fully bringing the fabulous, warm, impervious you. 🙌🩶
Couldn’t afford a ticket in 2017, Covid scuppered TFF tour 2022, now finally in Bath ready to see the splendid and iconic @alisonmoyet.bsky.social live 🤩
March 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Couldn’t afford a ticket in 2017, Covid scuppered TFF tour 2022, now finally in Bath ready to see the splendid and iconic @alisonmoyet.bsky.social live 🤩
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If you're in Oxford on Weds 29th January, I'm talking to the Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group - event is free and open to all!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
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An Evening of Science Fiction with Una McCormack
Join New York Times and USA today bestselling author Una McCormack to talk about science fiction writing, TV tie-ins.
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January 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If you're in Oxford on Weds 29th January, I'm talking to the Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group - event is free and open to all!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Great thread, and one of the reasons why I’m not writing at the moment, but instead in a full time professional role: you can only sustain financial risk for so long and at certain times of life.
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
January 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Great thread, and one of the reasons why I’m not writing at the moment, but instead in a full time professional role: you can only sustain financial risk for so long and at certain times of life.
Shout out to all the January babies who care not for 12th night and abstention, and to @charleshking.bsky.social and my daughters for wintery walks, pretty bracelets, books, fish pie, white wine and a ticket to play #taskmaster live next weekend
January 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Shout out to all the January babies who care not for 12th night and abstention, and to @charleshking.bsky.social and my daughters for wintery walks, pretty bracelets, books, fish pie, white wine and a ticket to play #taskmaster live next weekend
So much more than Drive
January 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
So much more than Drive
Three is such a weird looking word.
Especially all lower case.
three
Especially all lower case.
three
December 23, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Three is such a weird looking word.
Especially all lower case.
three
Especially all lower case.
three
Happy Winter Solstice. Please enjoy this Munch which I know nothing about but represents, for me, me enjoying December my way while certain others disapprove. I generally do it cloth-ed though.
December 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Happy Winter Solstice. Please enjoy this Munch which I know nothing about but represents, for me, me enjoying December my way while certain others disapprove. I generally do it cloth-ed though.
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Morning all
Coal mine and housing, Castleford, Yorkshire, 1976
Photographer Chris Killip.
Coal mine and housing, Castleford, Yorkshire, 1976
Photographer Chris Killip.
December 16, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Morning all
Coal mine and housing, Castleford, Yorkshire, 1976
Photographer Chris Killip.
Coal mine and housing, Castleford, Yorkshire, 1976
Photographer Chris Killip.
She’s checking it out,
That fiction you wrote,
Are there women who chat, or is it all blokes?
Alison Bechdel* is coming to town.
*And Liz Wallace
That fiction you wrote,
Are there women who chat, or is it all blokes?
Alison Bechdel* is coming to town.
*And Liz Wallace
December 16, 2024 at 6:23 AM
She’s checking it out,
That fiction you wrote,
Are there women who chat, or is it all blokes?
Alison Bechdel* is coming to town.
*And Liz Wallace
That fiction you wrote,
Are there women who chat, or is it all blokes?
Alison Bechdel* is coming to town.
*And Liz Wallace
Ratio of laundry baskets in house to laundry baskets available for doing laundry 5:0
December 7, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Ratio of laundry baskets in house to laundry baskets available for doing laundry 5:0
In a sauna.
A woman and a man are talking loudly about his (apparently awful) workplace.
Man: And then my boss said, “My wife’s only good for three things: cooking, shagging and ironing.”
Woman: “Ironing?! I mean who even irons these days?”
A woman and a man are talking loudly about his (apparently awful) workplace.
Man: And then my boss said, “My wife’s only good for three things: cooking, shagging and ironing.”
Woman: “Ironing?! I mean who even irons these days?”
November 30, 2024 at 5:28 PM
In a sauna.
A woman and a man are talking loudly about his (apparently awful) workplace.
Man: And then my boss said, “My wife’s only good for three things: cooking, shagging and ironing.”
Woman: “Ironing?! I mean who even irons these days?”
A woman and a man are talking loudly about his (apparently awful) workplace.
Man: And then my boss said, “My wife’s only good for three things: cooking, shagging and ironing.”
Woman: “Ironing?! I mean who even irons these days?”
Gisèle Pelicot for Time Person of the Year
November 26, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Gisèle Pelicot for Time Person of the Year
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Writing tip: Write a book you can sell to publishers for a lot of money. You can then use the money to buy the things you want.
November 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Writing tip: Write a book you can sell to publishers for a lot of money. You can then use the money to buy the things you want.
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The world we're living in. Captured by J.A.K. cartoons.
November 25, 2024 at 10:34 AM
The world we're living in. Captured by J.A.K. cartoons.
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Fox Mulder has been in that job so long now, his password is Trustno3976
November 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Fox Mulder has been in that job so long now, his password is Trustno3976
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A room is a place where you hide from the wolves outside and that's all any room is.
November 15, 2024 at 6:32 AM
A room is a place where you hide from the wolves outside and that's all any room is.
Having moved house, city and country a lot in 52 years, can I just say that you cannot oblige a new community to meet your hopes and expectations - all you can do is embody the community you’d like to be part of and hope you find your people.
November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Having moved house, city and country a lot in 52 years, can I just say that you cannot oblige a new community to meet your hopes and expectations - all you can do is embody the community you’d like to be part of and hope you find your people.
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November 14, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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