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Tue, 12:19: RT @oxford_brookes: We’ve been creating user controlled 360° videos. Here’s a view from The Platform above the lecture theatre http://t.co/… Tue, 15:18: RT @brookes_hums: Professor Joanne Bailey talks about Eighteenth-Century Sexual Politics on @BBCRadio3 http://t.co/UkvSMYNXoo @JBHist Tue, 15:18:…
Continue readingOne Wish by Michelle Harrison Some people might think that stories about fairies are childish and silly and possibly inconsequential. Not so, the fey of Michelle Harrisons 13 Treasures books. They are dark and scary, tricksy and all too real….
Continue readingMon, 18:08: #100HappyDays Day 111: My broom is flowering the best that it ever has since I planted it four years… http://t.co/K2sASOwWCL Mon, 20:27: The #shelfie: the ultimate antidote to the selfie | @SebastianEPayne http://t.co/UGn59t9vjr Mon, 20:38: I’ll show you…
Continue readingSun, 14:02: Testing 1 2 3… Sun, 14:07: From escaping a violent attack on a burning bridge to brussel sprouts & baths: @MHarrison13‘s One Wish is a compelling read… #13Treasures Sun, 18:12: #100HappyDays Day 110: An afternoon wandering around a…
Continue readingSat, 13:37: Black Rat! @ Canalside Cafe http://t.co/0z9QffqJlF Sat, 15:15: In book heaven… @ Library of Birmingham http://t.co/InNP2oQkBh Sat, 17:04: Rainbow over yellow fields. http://t.co/2CbTQL2q4Z Sat, 17:47: #100HappyDays Day 109: Cultural day out in Birmingham to see Grayson Perry’s tapestry…
Continue readingFri, 12:03: RT @brookesoutburst: Why is it so important to save the Slow Loris? Find out through poems & stories at @Pegatweet 10 May 3pm, £1 Book now … Fri, 18:24: #100HappyDays Day 108: A hibernatory kind of day. The kind…
Continue readingThu, 21:14: #100HappyDays Day 107: A day out at Odds Farm Park with all the lickle animals and our neice…… http://t.co/dTfJg3YqmU Thu, 21:21: My wife just head-butted an Easter egg. #weird @EmmaEShepherd Fri, 10:37: If I had ONE WISH it…
Continue readingWed, 14:47: #100HappyDays Day 106: Panini and Fentiman’s ginger beer with @EmmaEShepherd #1HappyYear @ Throwing Buns http://t.co/HeLHJMgfvm Wed, 18:17: I’ve yearned to do woodcuts for ages, and the simplicity of this, Red Riding Hood, by Thomas Bewick… http://t.co/2rqf6JVVin Wed, 23:16:…
Continue readingTue, 12:43: ‘Nature & drawing worked together. With a pencil…you have to focus very closely: the more you draw, the more carefully you look.’ -J.Uglow Tue, 16:17: #100HappyDays Day 105: Tea and simnel cake with my family. Let the holiday…
Continue readingMon, 18:22: #100HappyDays Day 104b: An agreeable place for a spot of mid-afternoon #amreading. #1HappyYear @… http://t.co/L08v2JObGh
Continue readingSun, 15:48: #100HappyDays Day 103: Happy Easter everyone! 🙂 #1HappyYear @ Hazlemere http://t.co/ygjPn27rHP Mon, 08:53: #100HappyDays Day 104: Seven years okay, after a day playing with my new camera and riding my new… http://t.co/rkTzIatsea
Continue readingSat, 14:10: Lily and Auntie Emma enjoying a gingerbread Easter Bunny from Nash’s Bakery. @ Bicester http://t.co/FNjtuWieB7 Sat, 14:19: Kaleidoscopic garden! @ Southwold http://t.co/2WZCofGSsh Sat, 15:38: Simnel cake! @ Southwold http://t.co/0bLElAZX3h Sat, 21:39: #100HappyDays Day 102: Babysitting little Lily today,…
Continue readingFri, 20:43: #100HappyDays Day 101b: Jobs done, cat cuddled, Easter biscuits made, a lovely walk in the woods… http://t.co/g1C5SsqSMn Fri, 23:37: Four Weddings & A Funeral. Even after 20 years, such a great film… #20yearslater Sat, 00:12: I scored 3/10…
Continue readingThu, 16:19: That moment when you finish work, nit just for #Easter but for 10 days. What will my 100th #100HappyDays be…? 🙂 Thu, 16:41: #100HappyDays Day 100: If finishing work for Easter isn’t enough to make you smile, then…
Continue readingWed, 19:26: RT @brookes_hums: BBC Radio 4 now! @oxford_brookes Teaching fellow Patience Agbabi talks about reworking Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales http://… Wed, 21:02: Solveig has had weightloss and bloated belly, which means we have to fetch her in to give her……
Continue readingTue, 20:05: #100HappyDays Day 98: Sitting in the sun in the garden writing a new story. I’ve been editing The… http://t.co/CV8uyxMB8H Wed, 07:20: Just seen a driver empty the remains from a china coffee mug whilst navigating a motorway roundabout…?…
Continue readingTime was that I used to have lots of story dreams, some based on real events, some completely fantastical, usually episodic across consecutive nights. Of late though, I’ve been having fewer of these, and when I do, they haven’t been…
Continue readingTue, 07:09: To the lady sat next to me, the stink of cigarette fumes emanating from you makes me wretch… 🙁 #busstopstories Tue, 07:17: How curious. Why get on the bus at one side of Bicester to get off at…
Continue readingSun, 16:27: A dark tale, set in the dark, dark woods: #review of The Crowfield Demon by @PatWalsh777 http://t.co/4kQ2sUgzqa #books #amreading Sun, 17:25: 5 of 5 stars to Alphabetical by Michael Rosen http://t.co/bPIuOOj7X0 Sun, 17:31: Alphabetical by @MichaelRosenYes: the story…
Continue readingAlphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen I have enjoyed dipping in an out of this book a chapter – or should I say a letter – at a time since Christmas. The history of, and the…
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