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Writer | Finalist: Costa Short Story (2021), Bridport (2022), ChipLit (2023) | SL: Rhys Davies, Frome (2022), Exeter, Fic Factory, Oxford Flash Fic (2021)
Lewes, England
Joined January 2022
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Huge thanks to @CostaBookAwards, to the fantastic panel of judges (...I would say that) and to my fellow shortlistees for their brilliant short stories.
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Elizabeth I’s diamond and ruby ring, bearing her initial and taken from her body after her death in 1603, reveals more than meets the eye. A secret compartment opens to display two miniatures of Elizabeth and her mother, Anne Boleyn. The second of Henry VIII’s wives, Anne was executed on May 19, 1536 on charges of incest, adultery, and high treason. The future queen was only two years old at the time of her mother’s death.
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LADYBIRD LADYBIRD-One of my personal favourites from the voluminous and ever fragrant Ladybird Books library
While the series grows exponentially with each passing day, it's the classics which always calls the discerning reader home to those innocent far off days of yore
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"Tell your own story, and you will be interesting"
Louise Bourgeois (photo: M. Johansson) #womensart
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This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it late at nigh, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic.
#Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #Book
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India's Gulabi Gang, all female vigilante group created in response to a lack of state action against male violence, corruption & human rights violations. Aged 18-60 yrs, members are trained in self defence & are known for their #pink attire #WomensArt #PinkWeek
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While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended.
Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
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Georgia O'Keeffe took daily morning walks in the New Mexico desert to collect rocks, bones, and find inspiration for her art.
She first visited the state in 1929 and made it her permanent home in 1949
Thanks to America Masters PBS
youtu.be/UGpWPfVHjxE?si=Q16P…
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Sister Wendy Beckett, standing before a Mark Rothko BOTD understood the risk of seeing the work too quickly: as beautiful colour, and nothing more.
But Rothko was interested in “basic human emotions, tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on.”
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting, BBC, 1996
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Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"
No I hadn't forgotten..
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The number of independent bookshops in Britain and Ireland is at a 14-year high. This follows a mini-resurgence in book buying, which, some research suggests, is being driven by young people.
In these days of digital overload, this is a hugely encouraging development. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c95y…
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The Duddo Stones: five strange megaliths on a hilltop in Northumberland. Sometimes they even sing. #StandingStoneSunday
ALT Deep folds of stone
ALT Views far and wide
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Given Lance Armstrong is trending, it’s probably worth reminding people of this splendid bit of Australian humour.
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Why not treat the early modernist in your life to a plague doctor bath bomb
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Happy 130th Birthday to F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born #onthisday in 1896.
This is also your reminder that if editor Maxwell Perkins had not convinced Fitzgerald to change the title, The Great Gatsby was going to be called 'Trimalchio in West Egg.'
Which really isn't as good.
ALT The original cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ALT A black and white photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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During the early 20thc, artist Rowena Cade (1893–1983) started to create the open air Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, on the Cornish cliffs, UK, with the help of her gardener Billy and only hand tools. She continued to build into her last years #WomensArt
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Tolkien in his Oxford garden
Tolkien, the original Hobbit, writing in his garden.
Happy Hobbit Day!
“I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”
- Letter 213
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Delicate crocheted/embroidered leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #womensart #AutumnEquinox 🍃
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The Old English word for equinox is 'emniht', from 'efen' and 'niht', when night and day are evenly balanced. Today is the 'hærfestlice emniht', autumnal equinox; after this (says Byrhtferth of Ramsey) 'langað seo niht and wanað se dæg', 'the night lengthens and the day wanes'.
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The Autumn Equinox is nigh, when day and night will be roughly equal length. The days will get shorter, the nights will get longer, and all coffee will be pumpkin spiced.
This year, the equinox takes place at 1:06am BST on 23 September.
Farewell summer, hello spooky season...🍂🎃
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Yesssssss
Natural history GCSE finally gets go-ahead 💚💚💚
Landmark qualification to be made available in schools years after its initial target start date, with content to be decided after a 12-week consultation
Students WILL be able to take a new natural history GCSE qualification as part of curriculum reforms, the government has confirmed.
It is proposed that natural history GCSE students will spend a minimum of 20 hours learning outdoors, exploring “real habitats, from urban parks to coastal salt marshes”. The DfE said that a “deep understanding” of UK habitats and wildlife is “at the heart” of the new qualification.
More here: tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
