Ruth
@ruthbushi.com
Freelance writer in Cumbria published in the Guardian, Independent etc. Covers film & fiction at thehaughtyculturist.com. Author, 'Decoding The Turn of the Screw.' Bridport winner, 2025!
Is this a thing now? Newspaper republishes story it ran a month ago, but changes the date to appear brand new. The pics meta data actually suggest they were uploaded in September, so who knows, maybe it comes round every few months.
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Is this a thing now? Newspaper republishes story it ran a month ago, but changes the date to appear brand new. The pics meta data actually suggest they were uploaded in September, so who knows, maybe it comes round every few months.
What we talk about when we talk about Burka. By u/ sister..crystal on TikTok.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
What we talk about when we talk about Burka. By u/ sister..crystal on TikTok.
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Gotta love a bit of Gothic terror. 📷 by me, at Castlerigg, Cumbria.
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Gotta love a bit of Gothic terror. 📷 by me, at Castlerigg, Cumbria.
Still laughing at this review for John Carpenter's The Thing
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Still laughing at this review for John Carpenter's The Thing
STOP what you're doing and listen to the angels sing. "Here the Deities Approve," Henry Purcell, via Brandon Acker and Reginald Mobley. Utterly magical. (You don't need Tiktok to view the link.)
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October 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
STOP what you're doing and listen to the angels sing. "Here the Deities Approve," Henry Purcell, via Brandon Acker and Reginald Mobley. Utterly magical. (You don't need Tiktok to view the link.)
seetiktok.com/ZNd7q89w7/
seetiktok.com/ZNd7q89w7/
I'm sorry but nothing is that interesting
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I'm sorry but nothing is that interesting
Me changing the bed by myself
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Me changing the bed by myself
Not that I'm obsessed with the 'nana but will you look at it
September 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Not that I'm obsessed with the 'nana but will you look at it
#mildlyinfuriating: Asda charged us for six bananas, but one of them looks like a 2-D drawing of a banana. Seriously, it looks like it wouldn't get out of bed for less than ten grand.
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#mildlyinfuriating: Asda charged us for six bananas, but one of them looks like a 2-D drawing of a banana. Seriously, it looks like it wouldn't get out of bed for less than ten grand.
An email from a bank tells me they'll never send me links in emails, because only criminals do that ... but the email is indeed full of links? I feel like I'm glitching because I really don't know how to interpret it.
May 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
An email from a bank tells me they'll never send me links in emails, because only criminals do that ... but the email is indeed full of links? I feel like I'm glitching because I really don't know how to interpret it.
This just nearly gave me a heart attack! A UK government emergency broadcast popped up on my phone with a red alert warning for the weather, though from the sound of it we thought it was about an imminent nuclear strike... #StormEowyn #Scotland
January 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This just nearly gave me a heart attack! A UK government emergency broadcast popped up on my phone with a red alert warning for the weather, though from the sound of it we thought it was about an imminent nuclear strike... #StormEowyn #Scotland
Captain Kirk said this on last night's episode of Star Trek and it made me gasp; it's just so elegantly beautiful. "Who Mourns for Adonais", #StarTrek 2.2, by Gilbert Ralston.
October 28, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Captain Kirk said this on last night's episode of Star Trek and it made me gasp; it's just so elegantly beautiful. "Who Mourns for Adonais", #StarTrek 2.2, by Gilbert Ralston.
Went to log one of the Mission: Impossible movies on Letterboxd and you get a retro easter egg "cut screen" before your review goes live. Love it, but forgot to screenshot it until it was over 😂
June 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Went to log one of the Mission: Impossible movies on Letterboxd and you get a retro easter egg "cut screen" before your review goes live. Love it, but forgot to screenshot it until it was over 😂
The MPs' register of interests stories have me thinking about the time Lee Anderson wrote a story for The Sun in 1 (one) hour and was paid £750. I guess when people imagine freelance writing, that's what they imagine. "Lol"
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/230807/anderson_lee.htm
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/230807/anderson_lee.htm
August 11, 2023 at 8:32 AM
The MPs' register of interests stories have me thinking about the time Lee Anderson wrote a story for The Sun in 1 (one) hour and was paid £750. I guess when people imagine freelance writing, that's what they imagine. "Lol"
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/230807/anderson_lee.htm
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/230807/anderson_lee.htm