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Wee Chrissie B
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Writer, musician, crafty type. Refugee from that other place.
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Last year, we had four fruit trees: two apples, a pear and a plum. All were labelled.
Last year, the ‘plum’ tree gave a huge crop… of apples.
This year, the tree that I thought must be the mislabelled plum has given us…
Two cherries growing on a tree
June 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Pookie can fly!
Book illustration of Pookie the flying rabbit by Ivy Wallace. Pookie is flying over woodland while all the ordinary rabbits wave to him from the ground.
May 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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If you see this, post the most recent picture of you from your camera roll.

Note: this is the most recent me-photo on my camera roll but it is not the most recent photo of me. Obviously.
Me as a three-year-old child, holding my new baby sister.
May 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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He’ll never sell ice cream going at that speed 👓☀️
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Ooh! #The1percentclub
Screenshot of app showing all questions answered correctly, with the message “You’re in the 1% club!”
March 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Ye canny shove yer granny aff a bus.
Kier Starmer making a speech in the USA. The caption reads “There’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom”.
February 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.
(Yes, my first album was the same as yours, @saskiadanielceramics.com)
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
February 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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“Dr Litherland suspects this second site will hold the pharaoh's mummified body.” Someone should tell him they already found Thutmose II 200 years ago, and his mummy is in a museum.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A screenshot of an earlier BBC story showing a photo of Thutmose II’s mummy lying in a glass case in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
February 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Post an ad for your first car.

Mini 1000, cowpat green. Elastic sides - regularly squeezed 6 adults + picnic gear into it. Drove colleagues home in groups of 4 when their Ford Escorts couldn’t get up the hill in snow. No reverse gear for nearly a year, had to park facing uphill.
1976 Leyland Cars magazine advert with headline “Take our seats, ladies and gentlemen, for a look at the new, luxurious Minis” above photos of four Minis in different colours. From top, blue Mini 850, olive green 1000, gold 1100 Clubman, red 1275 GT.
February 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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If you see this, post a pic from your device without explanation.
A man standing to attention on the top rung of a ladder, higher than the roof of a nearby garage. The ladder is propped up against a lamppost. To his left is a tall tree and above him, the sky is very cloudy.
January 29, 2025 at 8:49 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 11: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Writers Library hardback edition of Great Expectation. The illustration is a realistic painting of two Victorian men arguing. They are standing near a statue of a man on a horse, possibly the Duke of Wellington. The older man is wearing an Inverness coat, which has caped sleeves, and a scarf and top hat. He is holding out his left hand, in which he is holding a coin. The younger man is wagging his right finger at the older man. He is wearing a beret-style hat and has a bright shawl or scarf over his shoulders, knotted at the front.
November 29, 2024 at 8:18 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 10: The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
Pan paperback edition illustrated with a fantasy-style painting of a snow-capped mountain range with sea in the foreground. On the shore is a giant skull with long, curved tusks that may be a mammoth. The skull is reflected in the water. Text overlaid on the blue sky at the top of the page includes the author’s name and the book title, and the subtitle Book One in the Saga of the Exiles. Under the title is the unattributed quote “… will eventually rival The Lord of the Rings and The Foundation Trilogy”
November 28, 2024 at 2:40 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 9: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Well-thumbed paperback of The Pillars of the Earth. The front cover is a realistic painting of a cathedral set among rolling hills during a storm. The spire is being struck by lightning. The author’s name and book title are set on top of the stormy sky on the top half of the page, forked lightning showing through the spaces in the letters. At the bottom is the description, ‘The epic saga of love, passion and revenge’.
November 27, 2024 at 7:52 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 8: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Faber hardback edition of Lord of the Flies, illustrated with a watercolour painting of a dense jungle. In a clearing are boys of different ages from tiny to teens. The boys are not fully dressed; most are wearing shorts, some have garlands of leaves on their heads and one of the older boys is wearing a school cap.
November 26, 2024 at 7:53 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 7: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson
Hardback edition of The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Illustration shows a fantasy landscape featuring a tall stone monolith which is being struck by lightning. In the background are snow-covered mountains and in the foreground is a white bird of prey.
November 25, 2024 at 7:48 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Penguin edition of Brighton rock, which has a plain background with the author’s name and title at the top. At the bottom right is a line drawing of a young man wearing a pinstripe suit and black shirt, and holding a tankard of beer. He is sitting with ankles crossed on a bar stool (though the bar stool is not drawn). Behind him is a waiter or barman wearing a white shirt, bow tie and dark waistcoat.
November 24, 2024 at 9:03 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5: Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard
Front cover, showing the title Cocaine Nights on two lines, with a line of cocaine replacing the letter ‘I’ in both words.In the bottom right corner, is a review that says: ‘A unique and profoundly original mind’ Guardian
November 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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*sigh*
A bottle of The Famous Grouse blended Scotch whisky in a Christmas cracker-shaped package that has the title Scotch Whiskey (spelled with an ‘e’). Whiskey with an e is Irish or American, Scotch whisky does not have an e.
November 22, 2024 at 4:42 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 4: The History of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
An 1870 edition of Don Quixote, open at the title page. Title page is on the right, opposite a drawing of the tall and thin Don Quixote and short, round Sancho Panza. Quixote is wearing medieval armour, carrying a lance and is mounted on a large, prancing horse. Panza is wearing a large-brimmed hat and is riding a small donkey.
November 22, 2024 at 7:43 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 3: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Penguin Classics edition of the Woman in White, which features an atmospheric painting of a shadowy figure of a woman watching a large house surrounded by trees. It is night time and the only light is from a window.
November 21, 2024 at 7:43 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💙📚

#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 2: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Folio Society edition of Jude the Obscure
November 20, 2024 at 7:36 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💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 1: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
1930s cover of Anne of Green Gables published by Harrap. Shows a painted portrait of a young girl gazing into the distance plus the book title and author’s name.
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,104,992!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #6,104,992, Wee Chrissie B ‪@weechrissieb.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 7, 2024"
September 21, 2024 at 6:54 AM