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spittingyarn.bsky.social
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Took my transport enthusiast autistic son to Battersea bus garage to contemplate some of his favourite units through the fence. Had a lovely chat with a driver who has an 8yo autistic son. I love that sense of “game recognises game” when parent/carers meet. A shortcut from stranger to friend.

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Excitingly, the winning & shortlisted (🙋‍♀️) entries for the #Curae Prize will be published in an anthology by lovely @renardpress.com later in the year. For an emerging (but wizened) writer, this feels like getting off the mark. And doing it with a cohort of fellow carer-writers is really meaningful.

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Congratulations to the #Curae Prize winners 2025! What a joy it has been to be a part of all this. Can’t wait to read all the winning and shortlisted entries.📚📚📚

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I’ve had a lot of correspondence today about the #Curae I had mentioned that it might not run again and had noted, first and foremost, that demands on me are high. It’s really worth explaining. I have done as much as it possibly can but I don’t think my position is clear so I thought I’d state it ❤️

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I’m coming to the end of a Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck & have hugely benefited from the structure and content of it. Funding for a carer to attend a Creative Writing course could be just what they need to keep writing. Please consider supporting @bookwormvaught.bsky.social’s #Curae scholarship.

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Quite proud of my ‘hood’s efforts (this is outside the Russian embassy in London), but Prague…👏👏👏

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Honoured, surprised and perplexed to find my name on the nonfiction category shortlist for the #Curae prize. Thank you, judges! Congratulations, fellow shortlistees!🎉

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We're giving away this VANISHING WORLD goodie bag to a lucky winner on both Bluesky and Instagram 🍎 To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is: - Follow @grantabooks.bsky.social - Repost - Leave a comment tagging a friend (more tags = more entries) - Enter by 2 May See below for T+Cs.

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Was feeling this grey Mondayish Monday in my bones but then suddenly thought about how it isn’t Christmas and won’t be for ages. Feel MUCH better now.

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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

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The library?

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More ✨glamorous✨ bus quests with the bigger boy this weekend.

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Thought this was a good and important article by @johnharris1969.bsky.social Hope it gets read. Where are the disabled adults in your groups / classes / nights’ out? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Don’t mean to be a curmudgeon but I’m glad that’s over.

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Thanks, @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for so generously ensuring we get our book chat! 💚

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New Year Socks: knitted. (Yarn = Trailing Cloud’s “Mind the Gap”. London Underground line colours ftw).

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It feels more important than ever to ensure that the stories of refugees are being heard. THE ENDLESS SEA is a very special story about a Vietnamese family’s search for sanctuary. Moving, lyrical and beautiful illustrated. Available to pre-order from the usual places. #kidlit

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How did you spend your #StormDarragh? I was mainly on an industrial estate in West Ham.

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One of my favourite pieces of boardgame research is a paper called 'Pig Data & Bayesian Inference on Multinomial Probabilities', published in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. I was shocked by some of its findings. Let's dive in. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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#bagsoflondon

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Still trying to find all the great comedy / train / mudlarking / writing / autistic / crafty / book-reading mother weirdos I followed on Twitter. I like my feed eclectic.

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