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Kate Gardner
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I love words, music, science, food, films, TV, cycling and dogs. 📚🚲

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The main act at the Jam Jar last night was Ustad Noor Bakhsh, who plays Balochi Benju. Much more lively than the support act - whole crowd was dancing despite insufficient air con. Not sure I got as much out of it as those familiar with most tunes played but still fun and impressive
#LiveMusic 🎶
Three men sat on a small stage with stringed instruments. The backdrop is abstract shapes in bright colours
August 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Dr Pete Yelding and Dhyan Singh playing classical courtly raga last night at the Jam Jar Bristol was an incredible experience. An hour of exceptional skill, chill atmosphere and beautiful music. Definitely recommend if they play a venue near you

#LiveMusic
Two musicians sat on a small stage: a man wearing a turban playing tabla drums and a man in glasses playing a version of a rabeb
August 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Some books pulled out from my TBR for #WomenInTranslationMonth

I doubt I will get through all of them in August but it's a pretty great selection to choose from. Authors from:
Palestine
Morocco/France
Germany
Korea (x2)
Belgium
Japan
Sweden

Happy #WITmonth 📚 #BookSky
8 paperback books lain on carpet. They are: The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, Sex and Lies by Leïla Slimani, Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski, DD's Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, Pétronille by Amélie Nothomb, Please Look After Mother by Kyung-sook Kim, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoki, The Singularity by Balsam Karam
August 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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It's taken me two days to recover but I'm still very happy to have joined the Pride parade in Bristol on Saturday. Smaller than last year due to the heat but still tens of thousands marched. Only saw 1 counter protester, thoroughly drowned out by a ring of dancing singing divas. Love you Bristol 🏳️‍🌈❤️
Two women - one wearing blue, pink and purple, one wearing a white T shirt with the slogan Namaste Bitches - taking a selfie in the middle of a Pride march through a city centre
July 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Just remembered that yesterday I made bread and butter pudding for the first time in years and it was delicious. Excited to eat the leftovers tonight. I should do this every time we have bread going stale

I made it dairy free with oat milk & oat cream. Real eggs tho. Almonds too

#HomeCooking
Oven dish full of irregular slices of bread that has turned golden brown and is sprinkled with flaked almonds
June 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Went to a launch event for Felicity Cloake's new book at @bookhaus.bsky.social last night & it was well worth breaking my "no going out on Mondays" rule. Fun chat about food, cycling and the US. Interesting to hear how much more varied and localised US food culture is than us Brits expect

#BookSky
Hardback book with illustration of a cyclist passing a factory, a mountain and a cactus. Title is Peach Street to Lobster Lane by Felicity Cloake
June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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To summarise our Friday night: dirty martini, sourdough pizza with - if this is possible - too much topping, Mission Impossible III and a dog who is very grateful for every scrap of pizza crust
White hand holding a full martini glass next to a pizza in an open pizza box.
May 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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I only have 20 pages left of this book and I don't want it to end. I have adored the two days I have spent devouring Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It is beautiful and geeky and generous, funny and heartbreaking, can't recommend enough

#BookSky
Paperback book with a digitized version of The Wave by Hokusai and the title in silver foil: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
May 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Coming home from holiday is rubbish but on the plus side I have all these #NewBooks to enjoy. Now I just need awake brain to do some reading
#bookstodon
Six paperback books on a multicoloured throw: East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Taz Rahman Matrix by Lauren Griff Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers Folklore on Dartmoor Today from the Museum of Dartmoor Life Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh
May 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Done a vote

#DogsAtPollingStations #UKPolitics
Black dog lying down on the road next to a green door and a large sign that says Polling Station
May 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Still buzzing from experiencing the joy of Joshua Idehen two nights ago at the Jam Jar. In that tiny too-hot room, beautiful poetry and dance beats came together to make magic happen. If you can see him live, do it. As he says, in these dark times we must make time for joy

#LiveMusic #LivePoetry
Two people on a small stage: a black man stood at a microphone holding two hand fans, and a white man stood at a mixing desk with headphones around his neck
April 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Doggo having a precarious snooze while I do my physio exercises

#DogSky #adorables 🐕
Small black dog lying on its side on an ottoman with its head hanging off one side and its tail dangling down another side
April 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I've read 1.5 books this weekend so it is totally acceptable that I just bought 2 more from East Bristol Books, right? A small radical shop a couple of miles from my house, not just dog friendly but enthusiastic about me bringing my dog. It was our first visit but won't be our last

#BookSky 📚
Two paperback books on a light wood background. One is pale pink with white text: Tove Ditlevson | There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die. The second has a red background and then black text in white boxes, like a newspaper or magazine layout: The Transgender Issue | An Argument for Justice | Shon Faye
April 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A lot of Japanese and Korean recipes call for perilla or shiso leaves but it's nigh impossible to buy in the UK so we're growing our own. Seedlings are nearly big enough now to separate out into plant pots and window boxes. Just hope they get to reach full size as I am not the most green thumbed
Green plastic seed tray full of seedlings a couple of centimetres tall, plus a wooden stick marker hand labelled "perilla"
April 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I love a community book swap. Planning to take a couple of books up tomorrow. And wondering if it would be wrong to borrow Crazy Rich Asians when I have so many unread books at home.

(This is in Totterdown, Bristol, UK if anyone wants to race me to it 😁)

📚 #BookSky
A wooden bookcase painted bright pink outside a cafe. Signs say "[cut off] Choc [cut off] munity Bookcase" and "Please take a book ❤️"
April 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Currently switching between two ebooks: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler and Unsilencing Gaza by Sara Roy. Both excellent but hard work. Butler is academic philosophy, kinda dry. Roy is more readable but her essays show Gaza has faced the same awful treatment for decades. I need a 3rd lighter book

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Two book covers: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (sepia photo of two children whose clothing makes their genders ambiguous); and Unsilencing Gaza by Sara Roy (colour photo of a child holding a large red flower in front of their face)
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Another beautiful but strange dog walk enjoying peaceful sunshine while listening to the story of society falling apart in The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I'm in the last quarter of the novel now and feeling real dread at where it is going to end

#BookSky 📚
A small quay with several small boats and an old lightship moored. On the quayside is a row of townhouses in redbrick or painted pastel colours. The sky and the water are blue
March 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Went for my first run since November and it honestly wasn't awful. Taking doggo gave me lots of pauses (she was on lead about half the time so I have to stop whenever she finds an interesting smell, feels a need to add an interesting smell...). I guess no excuses now, time to get fit again

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Small black dog lying on a tarmac path in front of a pair of feet in running shoes with bright yellow laces
March 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Monday significantly cheered up by receiving a parcel from the Gay Pride Shop in Manchester. Thank you Past Me.

I had put off buying Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao as it's only out in hardback but decided I'd waited long enough for part 2 of Zetian's story.

#BookSky 📚🏳️‍🌈
A hardback book titled Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao, two paperback books (Significant Others by Armistead Maupin and Sure of You by Armistead Maupin) and two bi pride badges
March 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Right, espresso martinis and sugary snacks are ready to keep us awake until 4 a.m. Let's go Oscars

#FilmSky 🎬
Woman with brown hair wearing a pink cardigan and holding a cocktail in a martini glass
March 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Reading The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher and loving it. Gorgeous storytelling blends Middle Eastern myths and Palestinian family history with a modern tale of a 2nd gen US immigrant trying to articulate who she is. It's poetic, sad, happy and queer. Annoyingly hard to find tho

#BookSky 📚 🏳️‍🌈
Paperback book titled The Skin and its Girl by Sarah Cypher on a grey rug
February 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A year ago I was in Paris, exploring alone and happened on a secondhand bookshop with a teeny English language section. Found a copy of Passing by Nella Larsen, which I'm finally reading. And it is excellent. An elegant book deserves an elegant bookmark so here's one from the Musée Rodin

#BookSky 📚
Small black dog lying on a mustard coloured blanket next to a paperback book and a metallic foil bookmark
February 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Wondering if colleagues spotted the semi disguised doggo behind me in video calls today. She saved her little snores for after meetings finished

#DogSky #adorables
Small black dog curled up on a black blanket
February 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Walking is still painful but it is nice to get outside and away from the news and just appreciate the joy of a dog who likes frosty grass and chasing other dogs round in circles

#DogSky 🐕
Small black dog lying down on grass covered in frost
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Lego bookshop is complete! Need to dig around in the big Lego crate for more minifigs to populate it, as currently no-one is behind the counter or using the upstairs reading nook. This was a fun build

#Lego #SickLeave
Tall narrow Lego building labelled Birch Books. There is a tall tree in front with autumnal leaves and stonework details
January 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM