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Boop
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Dog enjoyer, roller derby attempter, hill jogger, potter of small cylinders, neglecter of plants, botherer of insects and fungi.

Pootling about with a beautiful human and some daft animals in Todmorden.
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Bruisey smash wheels ahoy! In this the darkest of timelines, it is your moral imperative to have more fun. Come play 🛼 Manchester #rollerderby new intake form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...?
January 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover art for Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb, showing a waving red flag with a black raven with wings outstretched
December 8, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover art for Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo showing a silhouetted figure in profile with a colourful patterned turban or headwrap
December 5, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover art for ‘the long way to a small angry planet’ by Becky Chambers. Showing a silhouette of a figure on a mound against a galactic skyscape.
December 4, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Some mornings this view is altogether too much. #Todmorden
View from my bedroom window showing a hillside shrouded in mist with silhouettes of bare-branched trees and the winter sun peeking through.
December 3, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover art for Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
December 1, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Roller Derby is fucking rad. I never thought I could be in a sport team. But having the chance to play together with these glorious humans has improved my life massively. Queer people belong in sports, without exception, at every level.
Manchester Roller Derby’s team Chaos Engine celebrating after a winning game. Shiny happy people.
December 1, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover art for Demon Copperhead, a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Illustrated border in engraving style with lots of small elements of snakes, books, silhouettes - various ephemera from the life of the title character.
November 29, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover art for Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
November 28, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover of ‘Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire’ by Akala. Shows a magenta-washed Nelson’s Column against a cyan background.
November 27, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚 🌈📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Cover image of The Hours by Michael Cunningham showing a greyscale rose with fallen petals and a gold stamp reading “winner of the Pulitzer Prize”
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Book cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett with illustration by Josh Kirby
November 24, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Book cover art for The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
November 24, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
Book cover for “Beyond Black” by Hilary Mantel. It shows a woodcut style illustration of a woman hoovering in medieval clothes.
November 23, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books
November 22, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Today we decided we do like snow, after all.
Errol, a Lurcher, in a teal coat and striped scarf, running gleefully in a snowy field with a bare-branched oak tree
November 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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This one sometimes just plonks his butt down and refuses to go another step.
A fawn coloured Lurcher in a teal coat and striped scarf sits in the snow, stubbornly refusing to be walked
November 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM