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#Teesside, music, football, books, theatre, and the coast

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great night with @stuhennigan.bsky.social at @drakebookshop.bsky.social. Stu's one of my favourite writers and I could listen to him talk for hours. Fascinating to hear about the process behind - and hear him read from - his novel #Keshed (which I finished on Monday - brutal but brilliant!).
Stu Hennigan reading from Keshed, with Richard from Drake the Bookshop alongside him.A copy of Keshed sits on a small, light oak table.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lovely moment of worlds colliding for me!
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#Sunday 🌳
A small lake in a park, lined by trees and bushes at the back, with pink flowers in the foreground, and the blue sky and white clouds reflected in the water.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Morning! 🐝
A bee on the flowers of a lime tree.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Morning! 🦆
Two (older) ducklings on the grassy bank of a small lake.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#Sunday 🦆
Ducks on a path by a bench in a park, with lots of greenery in the background
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Morning!
Blue sky and white cloud reflected in a small lake in a park, surrounded by trees and bushes of varying heights and shades of green.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
#Sunday
View across a grassed area of parkland, with trees to left in the foreground, and breaking up the shot in the middle distance. The sky is bright blue with a few thin white clouds.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Morning!
Three crows sitting on a wooden rail against the backdrop of trees in a park.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#Sunday 🌿
Trees, bushes and shrubs of varying heights and shades of green surround a small lake in a park.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Morning! 🦆
A male and female duck and their ducklings on a small lake in a park, seen through overhanging branches.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Morning!
A small lake in a park, surrounded by trees and bushes of varying heights and shades of green. The sky is blue with white clouds above.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Great to see the brilliant @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social performing #LaterLifeLetter again last night at rise at the Bluebird Café in Acomb. Loved it even more the second time around! Big thanksto @sayowt.bsky.social for bringing him to York ✨️🙏
Luke Wright performing at the Bluebird Café
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Morning!
Trees and bushes of varying heights and shades of green surround a small lake in a park on a sunny spring morning.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Morning!
Trees and bushes of varying heights and shades of green (and red!) reflected in a small lake in a park. The sky above is bright blue with white clouds.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Morning!
Close up of a white rhododendron bush.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Swapped one beautiful sensory experience for another after leaving the museum today and enjoyed the sunshine, bluebells, and wild garlic in the woods down by the river ☀️ Not a bad Friday, all round...
Bluebells and wild garlic in a shaded woodland setting.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Finally, I made it Preston Park Museum this morning to see Yann Nguema's stunning audiovisual installation, 'Perfume' (beautifully soundtracked by Zero Gr4vity) 🌸✨️ It finishes soon but there's still time to catch it - get yourselves along by 10 May, friends! 💛
Digital art showing flowers on screens on 3 sides of a black box room.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Morning!
Green and red leaves on tree branches form a canopy around the trunk.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
That's more like it 🙌 #UTB
View from high up in the North Stand, behind the goal Boro are defending, during Middlesbrough v Watford.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The wonderful LYR and Memphis Gerald at The Glasshouse last night ✨
Three piece band LYR (including Poet Laureate Simon Armitage) performing in Stage Two at The Glasshouse, Gateshead.Memphis Gerald performing in Stage Two at The Glasshouse, Gateshead.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Absolute treat to be at The Attic in Leeds tonight to hear Hope & Social play April in full 💙🌼 #HopeAndSocial #HopeAndSocialClub
Hope & Social performing (in the round) at The Attic
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Morning!
The sun falling on bluebells in a wooded area of a park on a sunny spring morning.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Saturday morning meander through the #NorthYorkMoors ☀️
View down a moorland valley, with bright green fields and bright blue sky with white clouds.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Brilliant night with Idlewild at The Fire Station #Sunderland 🙌 ✨️
Idlewild on stage at The Fire Station
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I love Sunday nights at The Waiting Room 👌 Brilliant show this evening with Boo Hewerdine and Memphis Gerald for Elaine Palmer's #WatermillSessions ✨️
Boo Hewerdine playing at The Waiting Room Memphis Gerald playing at The Waiting Room
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Morning! 🌸
Cherry blossom against a clear blue, spring morning sky.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Autumn tour news from the brilliant Simeon Walker, including a date at The Waiting Room in #Eaglescliffe! 🤩 🎹 Can't wait, it's going to be a gorgeous evening ✨️
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Not a bad view for a Wednesday... ☀️💙
View from the edge of the Cleveland Hills across to Roseberry Topping in the distance on a sunny spring morning.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm lucky enough to genuinely love my job, but regardless, it was an absolute delight to be walking underneath the Tees Flyover on a Monday morning instead of driving over it! 🙌🚶‍♀️ #EasterMonday #BankHoliday #Teesside
The River Tees underneath the A19 Tees Flyover on a sunny morning.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Seeing Tom Joshua is a rare treat these days, but hopefully there's more on the way 🤞 Old and new material sounded absolutely gorgeous at The Waiting Room tonight ✨️ And Rick is always superb - great way to open the show 😊👌
Tom Joshua (guitar, vocals) (with Hannah, vocals, accompanying him) at The Waiting RoomRick Dobbing (aka Cybill Ends) seated, playing guitar and singing at The Waiting Room
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Morning!
Trees of varying heights and shades of green against a clear, bright blue sky, reflected in a small lake in a park.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Gorgeous evening with Kathryn Williams and Memphis Gerald at The Waiting Room ✨️
Memphis Gerald and Kathryn Williams, both playing guitar, performing at The Waiting Room.
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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A cheeky bluetit gets up close and personal with one of our Loch Arkaig nest cameras.🙂 The ospreycam page is now live for the season! 👉 buff.ly/Ac5qZJt Louis and Dorcha have returned between March 28th and April 11th in previous years - so keep your eyes peeled! 👀 #ospreycam #Arkaigospreys
A colourful bird appears large and blurry in front of a nest of sticks, with a hillside in the distance.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Morning!
White blossom - mostly in flower with some still in bud - on the branches of a tree in a park.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Morning!
The sun coming up through clouds and the still bare branches of a large tree in a park.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The final night of the #HopeAndSocial spring tour at the Milton Rooms in Malton 💙
Hope & Social on stage at the Milton Rooms.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Beautiful day at @thepiecehall.bsky.social ☀️❤️
Looking out across the plaza of The Piece Hall on a sunny morning.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Another amazing night with #HopeAndSocial 💙 #FridayNight #LiveMusic #Halifax
Hope & Social on stage in the Albany Arcade at Halifax Borough Market.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This band just makes me ridiculously happy. The always brilliant #HopeAndSocial at ARC tonight 💙✨️
Hope & Social (all wearing matching blue jackets with white trim) on stage at ARC.Simon, lead singer of Hope & Social, singing with one foot on his piano stool and the other on his keyboard.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Morning! ☀️
The sun sparkling on the water of a small lake in a park, with a tree on the bank with a trunk split in two different directions.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Lush night at TWOOMPH from Tees Women Poets with some class open mic'ers taking to the stage at Chapel, and a mint headline set from the always brilliant Rowan McCabe. Poetry in Boro on a Friday night - love it 👌
A room full of people seated at tables, watching poet Rowan McCabe on a small raised stage in the corner.
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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Happy birthday to Bluemoose Books, who I have now known for 15 years. They are 100% independent and published my novels Pig Iron (2012), Beastings (2014) and The Gallows Pole (2017) and continue on a path to literary glory.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Morning!
A grey squirrel peeking over the top of a   tall tree stump in a park.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Beautiful start to the day ☀️☕️ #SanSebCoffee #TeesBarrage
A takeaway coffee cup held up against the backdrop of the River Tees with the Infinity Bridge in the distance. It's a cold, sunny morning and the sky is a clear, cloudless blue.The Tees Barrage.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Morning! 🌸
Blossom on a tree in a park, with the sun coming through the trees in the background.
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Beautiful evening to be in Leeds for a magical @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social gig at City Varieties Music Hall ✨️ #Leeds #LeedsGigs
The auditorium of City Varieties Music Hall, looking towards the stage from the front row of the circle.City Varieties Music Hall sign spanning the width of the lane outside.Looking down The Headrow as dusk gives way to night.
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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Arts centres and libraries are trusted civic spaces, and that trust is what made these UK-wide conversations on what freedom means today possible. Read Annabel and Gavin's reflections on #OurFreedom: Then and Now 👇
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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Morning!
Sun coming up through trees in the distance, with light falling on the grassed area of parkland in the foreground. The sky is a pale blue with a few white, wispy clouds.
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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The journey continues. Photography exhibition Our Freedom: Then and Now will tour to 18 arts centres and libraries across the UK this year, sharing stories of people, place and belonging from communities nationwide. Also online from 18 March ourfreedom.org.uk/news/our-fre... #OurFreedom #ThenAndNow
A woman in a long, bright blue cape, with a small crown on her head, stands on a road.

Photo by Anneleen Lindsay with West Dunbartonshire Council, Clydebank.
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