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Crappy Living

@crappyliving.bsky.social
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In the country but not Country Living Comedy, history, folklore, edgeland weirdness 👍🏻 Runs Dialect for rural writers with partner in crime @jlmmorton www.dialect.org.uk Admin for Stroud Association of Mythical Entities ✨ Universal Basic Income 💥

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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Here’s a headline to start a conversation :) Deep thanks to Roma Robinson and @amplifystroud.com for such a thoughtful and nuanced piece on my chat with Nick Hayes last month - going beyond trespass and into a discussion on home, housing, and the hard work of belonging in rural places xxx
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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 05/05/2025
Of course our very own Emma Kernahan @crappyliving.bsky.social popped up throughout the weekend, hosting an interview with Nick Hayes and performing as part of the Lost Mythos Mythical Entities crew with poet JLM Morton and all round incredible musician, sound tech and singer Mara Simpson
A photograph from a performance of LOST MYTHOS with performers dressed in blue suits and pointed fluorescent headgear to represent earthly avatars of the genius locii that make up the Gloucestershire Association of Mythical Entities - an otherworldly Parish Council concerned with gnomes, wizards and giant toad manifestations in the local Tesco Express
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Lol this feels like the exact energy
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My *favourite* thing is the level of contempt levelled at you by British charity shop staff when you come to donate and they’re not accepting donations that day. Why did you even think about going in there with a Tesco bag for life full of tops and board games, this is TUESDAY you fool
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The mythical entities have made the Ledbury Reporter - if you’re over 500 years old and want to join parish council then come along on July 12th ✨⭐️ www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/2509619...
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Council meeting with a twist play coming to Market Theatre in Ledbury
A THEATRE is set to host a parish council meeting with a twist.
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UBI Lab Network 🌍🌎🌏 @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Basic Income Movement hosted a briefing on basic income and regrowth to MPs in Westminster last week It was wonderful to have the chance to speak to MPs about why #UBI is good for the economy and society. We hope that MPs continue to explore the possibilities of basic income!
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I celebrated Valentine’s Day this year by writing about my most romantic act - never getting married. It’s my first ever post on Substack, and you can follow me there if you like ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/crappyli...
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Don't Get Married, Girls: A Valentine's Day letter to my daughters
On 25 years of co-habiting, and the under-rated romance of 'I Don't'
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Amplify Stroud @amplifystroud.com · 12/02/2025
DATELINE: Friday 7 February 2025 TOPIC: Sudan: Understanding the Crisis WRITER: DAVID DREW | Former MP for Stroud amplifystroud.com/2025-02-suda... #INTERNATIONALISM #SUDAN
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Sudan: Understanding the Crisis
Former Stroud MP David Drew explains the civil war unfolding in Sudan and remembers his experiences of the troubled country.
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Brilliant things happening in Manchester 👇
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Please help me! I’m on X because that’s where my paintings sell. I shift about 95% of my work there. If I could just get my followers up to the same level here, it would release me from the swamp. I live in the middle of nowhere so I rely on social media to share & show my work.
My profile on X The rewilding meadow in front of the cottageA lapwing iconThe yellow back door
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Dream trip!
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
GWR train from Gloucester to Penzance with stops along the way?
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Take my money
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Come and join me on Instagram if you want to witness my descent into insanity/attempt to flick the v’s to 2024 with daily bits of joy in real time
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Holy smokes(long)
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What what what what omg
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
THANK YOU Helen! Merry Radvent to yoooooooo
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
<cries in rural A road service station coffee dispenser>
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Ehhhh that’s a nice gut biome you got there, shame if somebody ‘unbalanced’ it for ya
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
U BETTA let the soft animal of your body love what it loves <points>
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In my head I read wellness influencer posts on Instagram in the voice of Tony Soprano and nobody can stop me
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
If you’d like to cosplay societal collapse I recommend the Christmas lights aisle
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Is everyone aware that it’s 90% off in Homebase, I’ve been in for a tree stand and come out with a trolley stacked so high I’ve had to fast push it to the car for momentum, it’s mayhem
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
What I like about 24 Hours In Police Custody is how many police officers have mugs on their desk that say things like ‘Adulting!’ and they say stuff like ‘you can’t die from harassment but you can die from other crimes that’s the main difference’ I genuinely can’t tell if it’s real
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Could have been anything!
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Wordle did us dirty today
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Went for a long walk, had to go through a few hedges too and afterwards felt a spider moving *under my top* so congrats to everyone in Tetbury Tesco who saw me rip off my jumper and rummage frantically in my own cleavage, only to find a rogue bit of tinsel 👌
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
TONIGHT at 7pm! Sarah Brooks, author of ‘The Cautious Traveller’s Guide To The Wastelands’ is joining me online for our last Dialect Dinner of the year! 3 imaginary courses served up with a side of literary discussion - £5 or payc. Come and pull up a virtual chair www.dialect.org.uk/events/diale...
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Well well well if it isn’t my exact cup of tea
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In this old graveyard, I’ll take the snakes over a hole for sure!
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
YES exactly <awaits millions>
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Personally affronted every time I remember I’m not a millionaire philanthropist
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Beware uneven ground holes
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’d like an app to give me memes but make them seventeenth century engravings ok thx!
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Dear algorithm, I have been here for a while and am still here to connect with writers, performers, publishing industry, theatre makers and venues, event hosts and other respectful people with big hearts. If you could restore my faith in algorithms and the human race more generally, that would be ❤️
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Finally
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My new goal in life is to stick out as unapologetically as this branch that they purpose built a little hole in the hoarding for
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Debi Alper @debialper.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Now would be a good time to remind people that applications for the bursary for January's course are now open. jerichowriters.com/jericho-writ... 55 courses since April 2011 and 645 alumni! Please apply if you're eligible.
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Self-Editing Course Bursary – Jericho Writers
With thanks to tutors Debi Alper and Emma Darwin, we’re able to offer one fully-funded place for an under-represented writer on our most popular tutored course – Self Editing Your Novel. This six-week...
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mentally I am here
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Love a mad big cat story 😆
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a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with papers taped to it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with papers taped to it .
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The dog and I had an encounter with a large black animal in the valley below Sapperton church about three years ago, when he was 9 months old. He was a long way away and whatever it was, it was the same size as him, it moved fast and it wasn’t a dog. He ran off and has been nervous there ever since
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ikr - very nervous dog 👀
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Found an only slightly chewed up deer leg on the canal path by Sapperton tunnel this morning, and the dog’s behaviour was bizarre (well, more than usual). All round a very relaxing stroll to Gloucestershire’s most cursèd abandoned portal, 10/10 (hell-hound friendly) 👍🏻
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I had no idea it was happening until i saw some Saxons coming past McDonald’s , thought I was having an episode :)
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
True! And I also mourn the Hubble bubble witch’s cafe there. The first time I visited I saw Aetheflaed’s funeral procession coming down the street, which as she died in the 10th century was unexpected (though I’m always prepared) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Gloucester funeral procession honours Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians - BBC News
Aethelflaed, who died 1,100 years ago, is believed to have been buried at St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester.
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Gloucester can build all the new shopping centre cafes it likes, I am here to eat a jacket potato in a 12th century crypt and I won’t be stopped
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Crappy Living @crappyliving.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wild to me that after just over 350 years all the romans in Britain got a letter from the emperor saying ‘everything’s gone tits up guys sorry and best of Romano-British to you’ and without a system of government it took about 5 minutes for the Cotswolds to go full Mad Max 🤘🏻
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
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