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Bookshop woman. Guttersnipe. Chrysalid. Crone. She/her.
Be kind, babies.
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Today’s five minute drawing, by Ben (11) and Mai (51)
An overlapping drawing of two flying crows, in posca pen and watercolour felt tip
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Today’s 50p charity shop treasure:
A vintage hardback book, ‘Undesirable Properties’, edited by Peter C. Smith, propped up between a kokeshi doll and a Victorian apothecary bottle.
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Very exciting book delivery 💀⚰️🪦
A large, lime green hardback book, resting on some cushions. The book is Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead by Roger Luckhurst. The cover features a debossed image of a shrouded skeletal body in a narrow grave. The cushions feature fruit, flowers and parrots (and obscured monkeys).
October 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Today’s exciting book post:
Three books on a table: the paperback edition of Bound in Blood (ed. by Johnny Mains), a proof copy of Bog People (ed. by Hollie Starling) and the forthcoming UK (Peninsula Press) edition of Thrilled to Death by Lynne Tillman.
August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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There’s also this on my TBR pile, came out in pbk this year:
A picture of a paperback book titled ‘Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence’ by Avril Horner
July 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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What’s your sign?
An additional sign beneath a brown heritage sign, saying ‘FAMOUS MOLES’
June 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Everywhere I go, the owls are watching
A wrought iron curlicue below a girder and arched beam. The design is abstract but distinctly owlish.
May 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Cave Woman
A woman (me) beachcombing, secretly observed from within the mouth of a cave. The landscape is bleak and chilly, the woman small and well-bundled. Photo by Olivia.
May 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”

The Owl Service
Alan Garner
A street cornice on a door pilaster. The design is ornate and foliate, maybe flowers and maybe owls. The whole feature is painted a buoyant buttercup yellow.
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM