Alison Gibbs
@guineagibbs.bsky.social
Books, theatre, gardening, history, guinea pigs, running, yoga, comedy, folklore, wild places, South London stuff.
The problem is I will be too busy in December. They sent a reminder email saying ‘December is booking up fast’ and I thought ‘let’s do it now and get it out the way’ without thinking whether my hair actually needed it. Just a little trim, then…
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The problem is I will be too busy in December. They sent a reminder email saying ‘December is booking up fast’ and I thought ‘let’s do it now and get it out the way’ without thinking whether my hair actually needed it. Just a little trim, then…
Yes. I grew up on Little House on the Prairie (the books, not the show, and I’m British) but I bought Wounded Knee when I went to the museums in DC and it was going through the looking glass time.
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Yes. I grew up on Little House on the Prairie (the books, not the show, and I’m British) but I bought Wounded Knee when I went to the museums in DC and it was going through the looking glass time.
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One can’t help but suspect that the Telegraph is going to be disappointed by whoever is appointed if they are to the left of Attila the Hun.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I could have stared at it forever.
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I could have stared at it forever.
I feel like I read Great Expectations too young - I found it a struggle at the time - but Bleak House’s plot really is a tangled web. The other (Dickens adjacent) book I definitely read too young was the Moonstone: re-reading once more familiar with detective fiction as a genre, I tore through it!
September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I feel like I read Great Expectations too young - I found it a struggle at the time - but Bleak House’s plot really is a tangled web. The other (Dickens adjacent) book I definitely read too young was the Moonstone: re-reading once more familiar with detective fiction as a genre, I tore through it!