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Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner & veg grower, advocate for nature and the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile, indie book publisher. Social & environmental justice now! https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade
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Good to see this long saga written up, and well done Alan for persistence in nailing it.

This week’s write inspired by a #poem drnaturegirl.substack.com/p/star-stuff...

This Friday’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Stardust — fractured light, quiet gravity. 📅 Your words land Friday. 💬 Read and respond to 3+ poems. 🖼 Use alt-text if sharing images. #LeaveScars #PoemsAbout #TakeRisks

Morning poetry peeps and especially @alanparry83.bsky.social of @brokenspinearts.bsky.social What a lot of #PoemsAbout #Stardust there are! Here’s mine. Photo credit Gabriela Reyes Fuchs - it’s her Father’s ashes! I’ve written my blog on this topic this week too! ‘Star Stuff’ coined by Carl Sagan

Good morning, Bluesky. Another sunny day in the Scottish Highlands. Today’s photo is a sunset over the Cromarty Firth, 2013, when we lived on the hill above. I have hundreds of photos from this vantage point so might bore you with them next week! Happy Friday! #scotland #cromartyfirth #rigsatnigg

Hello @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social thanks for this week’s #PromptCombo theme of #architecture Nothing very inspired or poetic from me, but I had an idea and wanted to have a punt. Might have another stab at it, but doubt I’ll post again! Thanks for the indulgence. #poetry #blueskypoetry #poem

Good morning, Bluesky. A mackerel sky here this morning and the sunset last night was a stunner. However, I’m sharing some sunflowers with a view with you today. l hope you like them. Happy Thursday. Have a good one. #Scotland #sunflowers

Morning! Finally on my series of shots from a foggy sunrise at Colmer's Hill is a shot I've been trying to get for years! Finally I got the iconic shot of the fog almost covering the hill, with just the trees poking above the inversion - worth waiting five years for! 😂 #colmershill

I missed yesterday's #LiftToTheSky with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social , but, it's never too late to celebrate writers and publishers and artists, so for this week, I want to Lift to the Sky a supremely talented writer who radiates beauty, grace and light! @rhonagreene.bsky.social

Thanks for showing up for #LiftToTheSky — you lifted others and it mattered. Remember: it’s a Monday-only celebration. #PoemsAbout rolls from Friday through Thursday. Still time to post on last week’s theme — tag @alanparry83.bsky.social and we’ll respond. New theme begins each Friday.

So excited by this collection! A hardback collection of short festive fiction! #SootAndBoots

For the price of a coffee (£3), feature your open calls monthly—and help us fund our #BrokenSpineAward for poetry. 33% of your fee supports our £5000 goal! thebrokenspine.co.uk...

So yeah, I'm active on Substack now. Like, follow, all that jazz. substack.com/@alanparry83...

"Le Francis enchants with This Spell of Song, a collection brimming with lyrical magic and depth." 📖 Explore the review: thebrokenspine.co.uk... #PoetryMagic #LeFrancis

Romina Ramos writes with purpose, power, and a pen that doesn’t flinch. Poetry packed with memory, movement, and the fight to be heard. 📖 thebrokenspine.co.uk... #TheWhiskeyTree #TheWhiskeyShot #Wave2

This Friday #PoemsAbout #Stardust!!!

Thank you @alanparry83.bsky.social for this spotlight on my work, for @brokenspinearts.bsky.social.

This weekend if you’re Highlands based or visiting! I’ll be wearing both Highland Home Cook, Debhandmade and Ross Cottage Publishing hats and will have a stall full of goodies: bread, marmalade, cards, photos, prints, original art, cards, mugs, pens, notebooks and books. #communitymarket #creative

#thestarbeckorion Issue #9, Day 13 of 25 showcasing the work of @alanparry83.bsky.social features work from his collection 27, about Jim Morrison of The Doors: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

'I wasn’t trying to channel Morrison. I’d sat in a room with Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, and thousands of other fans, while Ian Astbury gave that a go. No... I was trying to question the myth of the man.'

What Israel has done – is doing – to Palestinians is a blood-soaked stain on Zionist Jews and on every person on Earth who bears witness yet does nothing. We will all, in the end, pay a very heavy price for allowing such an atrocity to play out.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good morning, Bluesky. A trip down memory lane today. We swam in Wick a few summers ago, here in the Trinkie - a sea pool set into rock side and then we swam in the North Baths - the most northerly in the mainland UK. A refreshing experience! Enjoy your Wednesday. #scotland #northsea #trinkie

Morning! This week I'm posting a series of drone shots from an amazing foggy sunrise at the iconic Colmer's Hill near Bridport. First is a shot of dawn as the fog began to swirl around the base of the hill and the sun began to rise.... #ColmersHill

Good Morning! Next on my series of drone shots from an amazing recent foggy sunrise at the iconic Colmer's Hill is a shot as the sun rose into the sky and the fog begins to thicken in the valleys around the hill... #colmershill

Good morning Bluesky. Got my bake on today, so a later post than usual and a photo I’ve before. Hope you don’t mind! Happy Tuesday. Sunset from the Skye Bridge #scotland #sunset #skye

Hoping for apples. Last year there were none! #apples #charlesross #gyo #fruittree

Your coffee read for today drnaturegirl.substack.com/p/the-green-... #blog #article #grass #green #insects #biodiversity

Today on #LiftToTheSky I’m boosting @stumcpherson.bsky.social who has 4 collections out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Obligate Carnovore is intense well worth your time and pennies. Check out the other titles from this supportive, creative indie press. www.stumcpherson.com/home-2-2 #poetry

Good morning, Bluesky. Happy Bank Holiday UK folks. Working here but hope to have some garden time too. Hope you enjoy your day. Posting local again this week. Today the lovely Loch Fleet a stone’s throw from my house. #Scotland #lochfleet #reflections