Scott Pack
@meandmybigmouth.bsky.social
Currently writing a book about dogs. Don't really like dogs.
Reading: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/meandmybigmouth
Writing: https://meandmybigmouth.medium.com/
Selling: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmybigmouth
Reading: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/meandmybigmouth
Writing: https://meandmybigmouth.medium.com/
Selling: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmybigmouth
If you are doing any shopping online this festive season, it's really worth signing up to Top Cashback. They basically grab affiliate fees on your behalf and pass them on to you.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you are doing any shopping online this festive season, it's really worth signing up to Top Cashback. They basically grab affiliate fees on your behalf and pass them on to you.
Don't have to use my referral code, but it gives you a £10 sign-up bonus if you do.
www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/wildsheep
Don't have to use my referral code, but it gives you a £10 sign-up bonus if you do.
www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/wildsheep
Reposting for those of you who may have just woken up from an excellent sleep.
I would welcome your recommendations for a great mattress please. Lots of brands out there to choose from and every article testing them seems to have different results. If you've had a good experience, please share.
Full disclosure: I do like mine on the firm side, matron.
Full disclosure: I do like mine on the firm side, matron.
a group of women in blue pajamas are running around a room
Alt: a group of women in blue pajamas are running around a room and jumping on mattresses
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposting for those of you who may have just woken up from an excellent sleep.
One Minute Park.
Rolling video footage of a different park every sixty seconds.
Rolling video footage of a different park every sixty seconds.
One Minute Park
available at a park near you
oneminutepark.tv
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
One Minute Park.
Rolling video footage of a different park every sixty seconds.
Rolling video footage of a different park every sixty seconds.
I would welcome your recommendations for a great mattress please. Lots of brands out there to choose from and every article testing them seems to have different results. If you've had a good experience, please share.
Full disclosure: I do like mine on the firm side, matron.
Full disclosure: I do like mine on the firm side, matron.
a group of women in blue pajamas are running around a room
Alt: a group of women in blue pajamas are running around a room and jumping on mattresses
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I would welcome your recommendations for a great mattress please. Lots of brands out there to choose from and every article testing them seems to have different results. If you've had a good experience, please share.
Full disclosure: I do like mine on the firm side, matron.
Full disclosure: I do like mine on the firm side, matron.
Well, this could be an interesting evening.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Well, this could be an interesting evening.
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The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Today they’re showing the same double bill they showed on 22-11-63, when Oswald was arrested here
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It's been a bit quiet lately when it should be picking up for Christmas.
If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do.
Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do.
Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It's been a bit quiet lately when it should be picking up for Christmas.
If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do.
Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do.
Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
I am very much here for this Babehoven and Squirrel Flower collaboration.
Babehoven & Squirrel Flower - My Life In Art [OFFICIAL AUDIO]
YouTube video by Squirrel Flower
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November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I am very much here for this Babehoven and Squirrel Flower collaboration.
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I've put together a song bundle fundraiser for Sudan & Palestine with money going to Doctors Without Borders, The Sameer Project, & The Gaza Project.
Pay as much or as little (0$ if you like, we'd just ask you to share the link) as you can afford for 21 tracks from artists around the world.
Pay as much or as little (0$ if you like, we'd just ask you to share the link) as you can afford for 21 tracks from artists around the world.
The Hear Something Do - suggested $15, by A Global Collection of Artists
21 track album
thesomethingdosomething.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've put together a song bundle fundraiser for Sudan & Palestine with money going to Doctors Without Borders, The Sameer Project, & The Gaza Project.
Pay as much or as little (0$ if you like, we'd just ask you to share the link) as you can afford for 21 tracks from artists around the world.
Pay as much or as little (0$ if you like, we'd just ask you to share the link) as you can afford for 21 tracks from artists around the world.
Spoiler: This is not even remotely an issue. Never was.
I have personally complained more about bad lighting in posh restaurant loos in the past year than the total of complaints about trans women using public toilets in the same period.
I have personally complained more about bad lighting in posh restaurant loos in the past year than the total of complaints about trans women using public toilets in the same period.
How Many Complaints About Trans Women Using Toilets? - TransLucent
Data from local authorities representing over 16.5 million people reveals that complaints about trans women using toilets are virtually non-existent
translucent.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Spoiler: This is not even remotely an issue. Never was.
I have personally complained more about bad lighting in posh restaurant loos in the past year than the total of complaints about trans women using public toilets in the same period.
I have personally complained more about bad lighting in posh restaurant loos in the past year than the total of complaints about trans women using public toilets in the same period.
So, apparently, an author whose manuscript I edited earlier this year has just won a Portuguese literary award for unpublished novels. I cannot understand a word of the announcement, and I am still trying to work out if he had two versions, one English and one Portuguese, but great news nonetheless.
Hélder Teixeira Aguiar vence Prémio Revelação Agustina Bessa-Luís
www.noticiasaominuto.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So, apparently, an author whose manuscript I edited earlier this year has just won a Portuguese literary award for unpublished novels. I cannot understand a word of the announcement, and I am still trying to work out if he had two versions, one English and one Portuguese, but great news nonetheless.
I can confirm that I have just eaten the final slice of my birthday cake from last weekend, which means you may now all start preparing for, or celebrating, Christmas.
Any such activities before this date are null and void.
Any such activities before this date are null and void.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I can confirm that I have just eaten the final slice of my birthday cake from last weekend, which means you may now all start preparing for, or celebrating, Christmas.
Any such activities before this date are null and void.
Any such activities before this date are null and void.
FYI UK cricket fans, the Ashes are available to watch for free on Channel 7 in Australia via their 7plus streaming service. You just need to log with a VPN.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
FYI UK cricket fans, the Ashes are available to watch for free on Channel 7 in Australia via their 7plus streaming service. You just need to log with a VPN.
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looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
A fascinating and disappointing article here. As someone who did reissue a Gertrude Trevelyan novel, I can confirm it sold pretty well. It was never going to sell millions, but it's done nicely, thank you very much. We also had inquiries from international publishers wanting translation rights.
Writing in the latest Persephone Quarterly, founder Nicola Beauman has some venomous words for Gertrude Trevelyan and the young male critics who review her books (transcription in ALT). And for the stupid publishers who bother to reissue "the weird and depressed and faintly modernist."
![A recent note by Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books on two women writers mention in a 1939 Observer review by L. P. Hartley: Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan (recently reissued by Boiler House Press) and Hop, Step, and Jump by Winifred Watson (recently reissued by Persephone Books to mark its 25th anniversary).
"One of the novels he wrote about was Gertrude Trevelyan's France [it's Trance, m'am] by Appointment. In it 'hardly anything happens that the characters could possibly wish to happen, and such lucid intervals as there are serve only to depend the surrounding gloom.' Now, Trevelyan was recently the subject of long articles in the London Review of Books [David Trotter, "Hippopotamus charges train," June 29, 2023] and Prospect magazine [Oliver Soden, "Gertrude Trevelyan is a novelist for the 1930s—and now," July 16, 2025]. Yes, you can feel the editors thinking, we'll commission a long piece by a young man (tick), about a woman (tick), mostly out of print (tick), a modernist writer rather than (yuck) a romantic or domestic one (tick), who very few people actually read (tick again). And we'll make sure that the writer asks, 'How did the Women's Press, Virago or Persephone, between whose olive-green or dove-grey covers she should have found a natural home, manage to miss her?' We did not miss her! The fact is she would not sell. The fact is that the weird and depressed and faintly modernist is something young male critics want to write about, but it is not something most publishers want to publish."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/bafkreic6q75t5flktrklykczmfaame7s7lccu5lwlhdr6ywgdfp77k7wfy@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A fascinating and disappointing article here. As someone who did reissue a Gertrude Trevelyan novel, I can confirm it sold pretty well. It was never going to sell millions, but it's done nicely, thank you very much. We also had inquiries from international publishers wanting translation rights.
I read the Aotearoa New Zealand publication of this last year, and it's great fun. Gay uncles and their niece investigate crimes inspired by Nancy Drew. I'm delighted it's got a UK publisher because it was pretty tricky to get hold of over here until now.
It's time to meet #TheNancys!
The outstanding award-winning #Mystery #Debut from #RWRMcDonald is out TODAY and you NEED it on your TBR pile ASAP!
Warm, original and full of character!
Grab your copy today!
📖 bit.ly/4mHDbiE
#BookSky #LGBTQFiction #NewZealand
The outstanding award-winning #Mystery #Debut from #RWRMcDonald is out TODAY and you NEED it on your TBR pile ASAP!
Warm, original and full of character!
Grab your copy today!
📖 bit.ly/4mHDbiE
#BookSky #LGBTQFiction #NewZealand
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I read the Aotearoa New Zealand publication of this last year, and it's great fun. Gay uncles and their niece investigate crimes inspired by Nancy Drew. I'm delighted it's got a UK publisher because it was pretty tricky to get hold of over here until now.
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Announcing our 2026 bursary for small presses and crowdfunder AND book that Heather and I have secretly been writing about @404ink.bsky.social over the last few months. Our way of saying farewell!
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink
404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.
www.404ink.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Announcing our 2026 bursary for small presses and crowdfunder AND book that Heather and I have secretly been writing about @404ink.bsky.social over the last few months. Our way of saying farewell!
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
This has been the one award in my publishing career that's recognised more of the authors I've worked with than any other, and it's wonderful to see Damien Wilkins and Tina Makereti on the list this year. I had nothing to do with their current books, but proud to have published them in the past.
It’s here! The 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominated Titles are out! ✨📚
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This has been the one award in my publishing career that's recognised more of the authors I've worked with than any other, and it's wonderful to see Damien Wilkins and Tina Makereti on the list this year. I had nothing to do with their current books, but proud to have published them in the past.
I would welcome your recommendations please for the best memberships to have in London.
I am now, or have been in the past, a member of the London Library, BFI, Garden Cinema, V&A, Barbican, and the Southbank Centre, so I know about those, but would love to hear your suggestions for others.
Ta!
I am now, or have been in the past, a member of the London Library, BFI, Garden Cinema, V&A, Barbican, and the Southbank Centre, so I know about those, but would love to hear your suggestions for others.
Ta!
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I would welcome your recommendations please for the best memberships to have in London.
I am now, or have been in the past, a member of the London Library, BFI, Garden Cinema, V&A, Barbican, and the Southbank Centre, so I know about those, but would love to hear your suggestions for others.
Ta!
I am now, or have been in the past, a member of the London Library, BFI, Garden Cinema, V&A, Barbican, and the Southbank Centre, so I know about those, but would love to hear your suggestions for others.
Ta!
Performative cruelty now seems to be government policy.
Fuck them. Fuck the lot of them.
Fuck them. Fuck the lot of them.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Performative cruelty now seems to be government policy.
Fuck them. Fuck the lot of them.
Fuck them. Fuck the lot of them.
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A Language of Limbs is a remarkable piece of work. Beautiful, poetic, visceral, devastating but with flashes of joy.
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
A Language of Limbs
Check out A Language of Limbs - <p><strong>A love story about the almost crossovers of our lives...</strong></p> <p>1972. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, Australia, two teenage girls must each m...
uk.bookshop.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A Language of Limbs is a remarkable piece of work. Beautiful, poetic, visceral, devastating but with flashes of joy.
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
I did watch this over the weekend.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
It's this weekend or never.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I did watch this over the weekend.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
A Language of Limbs is a remarkable piece of work. Beautiful, poetic, visceral, devastating but with flashes of joy.
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
A Language of Limbs
Check out A Language of Limbs - <p><strong>A love story about the almost crossovers of our lives...</strong></p> <p>1972. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, Australia, two teenage girls must each m...
uk.bookshop.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A Language of Limbs is a remarkable piece of work. Beautiful, poetic, visceral, devastating but with flashes of joy.
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
Parallel narratives chart the lives of two queer Australian women from the early 1970s for close to three decades. Their stories start similarly but flow in different directions...
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With (ahem) Christmas around the corner, may I divert your gaze to my lino prints. Lots of sea and food themed prints.
I carve the lino, and it’s all hand pressed by me. Prints are A4 or A5 size, so easy to frame and gift.
Thanks for supporting a small creative business 🩵
sundownerstudio.co.uk
I carve the lino, and it’s all hand pressed by me. Prints are A4 or A5 size, so easy to frame and gift.
Thanks for supporting a small creative business 🩵
sundownerstudio.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
With (ahem) Christmas around the corner, may I divert your gaze to my lino prints. Lots of sea and food themed prints.
I carve the lino, and it’s all hand pressed by me. Prints are A4 or A5 size, so easy to frame and gift.
Thanks for supporting a small creative business 🩵
sundownerstudio.co.uk
I carve the lino, and it’s all hand pressed by me. Prints are A4 or A5 size, so easy to frame and gift.
Thanks for supporting a small creative business 🩵
sundownerstudio.co.uk
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Okay cineastes please help. I saw it at the London Film Festival maybe twenty years ago, definitely French language I think a Belgian film and I thought it was called L'autre but all my searches under every variant of this title I can think of are coming up blank. It's about a woman who becomes
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Okay cineastes please help. I saw it at the London Film Festival maybe twenty years ago, definitely French language I think a Belgian film and I thought it was called L'autre but all my searches under every variant of this title I can think of are coming up blank. It's about a woman who becomes