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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Welcome to Litfest's Autumn Season 2026! The (very welcome) return of the rain also brings the return of Litfest and our packed programme for the Autumn Season! Book tickets, browse the programme, apply to join a workshop and submit to our poetry mosaic here! geni.us/LFAutumn26

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Is there a German word for "having quite a nice week personally, but at the same time, quite melancholy due to the death of a beloved celebrity, with whom I had no great personal connection, but who objectively made a quite wonderful contribution to humanity"?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 15/07/2026

Remember to scream loudly out of the window at random moments to keep your iPlayer-watching neighbours on their toes.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Canopy appreciation post, courtesy of a weekend trip to Hawkshead/Coniston. If in doubt, look up 💚🌳🍃

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Don't be tempted to pity my sister for this - she's also turned 30 and got engaged this year, so she is 100% part of the problem.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Last week my sister asked with a tinge of desperation when I thought we might be able to take a break from being "thoughtful and creative". I do not know the answer. This is my life now. I am Etsy, and Etsy is me.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Am having a lovely 2026 so far, with many close family milestones/celebrations/birthdays/engagements/anniversaries occurring. It's delightful and wonderful, but dear GOD I have spent an *unbelievable* amount of time on Etsy.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The world is often bad, so here is a good tree appreciation post, because it's Spring and I can 🌳

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

View from my desk today 🦚 it's been over a decade and the novelty still hasn't worn off. (It's actually mating season and the boys are starting to get noisy, but we will forgive them for this because they are still a delight to look at.)

Peacock sitting on a wooden fence in the sunshine. He definitely knows he's beautiful.

Another peacock, this time with his tail feathers on full display.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Snapshots of a sunny Saturday with Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social . Off home for a sit down before we go again tomorrow!

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Have you ever tried to eat a custard-filled croissant the size of your hand on a train? I do not recommend you try to eat a custard-filled croissant the size of your hand on a train. (I do however recommend Tuck's croissants in all other circumstances, and with extreme gusto) 🥐

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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's time to reveal the programme cover for Litfest's 2026 Spring season, including our 47th Litfest (13th-22nd March)! Whilst you'll have to wait a little longer for the full release of our packed programme, you can grab early-bird in-person tickets for a selection of events! geni.us/LF26Spring

The cover for Litfest 2026's Spring Season programme.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In case the January darkness is getting to you too, here is your Wednesday reminder that we are now a mere 27 DAYS from Pancake Day. And (bonus factoid): you can actually make pancakes whenever you want!!

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Not saying I'm a wikipedia fangirl, but I went to Edinburgh Fringe this year, and the only time I got starstruck was finding out there was an Actual Photographer from Actual Wikipedia in the audience.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

All hail 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I have been solidly Christmas shopping either in-person or online since roughly 3pm today, pleased to announce I am ✨losing the plot✨

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Also! Sad that my favourite himbo Henry Clerval didn't make the cut.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Further thoughts: I like that it didn't shy away from melodrama, but it didn't quite nail the father-son-master / enemies who love each other / neither can live while the other survives dynamic that the book does so well. Am also devoting considerable brain space to why they made Walton Norwegian.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Other feelings: casting was great, liked the reimagining of Elizabeth, enjoyed the addition of Christoph Waltz, wish the rest had stuck a bit closer to the original plot. Favourite acting choice was Jacob Elordi's laudable but somewhat jarring choice to make the monster slightly northern.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Saw Del Toro's Frankenstein, and it has reaffirmed my absolute conviction that no film merits a 2.5h+ runtime. (Except, obviously, the first Wicked film, which whizzed by, and which I would still have watched if it was 500 hours long.)

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

‘The more local you are, the more global you are’: the ever-brilliant Sarah Hall on her new novel, ‘Helm’, place-writing, and the importance of positivity in environmental fictional writing at @litfest.bsky.social 📚🍃

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Reasons to be cheerful, September edition: - Dog sitting on a rainy Sunday - The yellowest-yellow flowers - Seeing beautiful places, doing beautiful things

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/07/2025

when driving on the highway it’s important to at all times have established an enemy

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.

My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Loved learning all about the women of Lancaster today in the sunshine, brilliant guided walk by Eleanor Levin ☀️ @litfest.bsky.social

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/03/2025

obviously still looking forward to it hugely but turns out there really is an age at which "getting ready for a massive boozy party to be attended by dozens of pals" stops feeling fully "weeeyyyyy" and starts feeling a bit more "Theoden minutes before the battle of Helm's Deep"

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

So loved hearing Amy kick off Lancaster Litfest this evening 💕

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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What makes Litfest...is you! Lancaster Litfest wouldn't exist without our volunteers. If you're interesting in taking part, and would like to learn more, drop us a email to bethd@litfest.org and/or join us at our volunteers meeting this Saturday, 10:30am at the Café in The Storey!

The details for the meeting in black text in a white circle against the Litfest 2025 programme background.

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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

One month to go until Litfest comes back to Lancaster! You might have seen our programmes cropping up across the North West or popping through your letterbox if you're on our mailing list, but you can also browse the programme online and book your tickets here: geni.us/Litfest2025

A flatlaid copy of the Litfest 2025 programme against a background of elements of the Programme cover design.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

... anyway, I don't know why I started this, I don't know why I keep going, but I am now into the final episodes of DS9, so here's a long and pointless tweet thread to celebrate. 🚀✨👽

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The saving grace is that at some point Star Trek became the thing I put on at bed-time, so it is now a tried and tested method of falling asleep. The bad news is that because I'm usually half-asleep, I can't remember 90% of what I've watched, which makes the whole enterprise deeply pointless...

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

....so far I've watched 2034 hrs. That's 12 whole weeks of my life. I don't think I'm even halfway through yet. Since I started doing this they have added THIRTEEN new seasons across the franchise. I can't watch any of these new ones, because I'm going in order and I'm still stuck in the late 90s...

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A few years ago I had the unbelievably stupid idea of trying to watch every episode of Star Trek. I didn't really like Star Trek that much, and I had not looked up how many hours of Star Trek existed (I really, really wish I had)...

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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Welcome to Litfest 2025! Today, we’re delighted to launch the full programme for our 46th Lancaster Literature Festival —‘The World Into Words’. geni.us/Litfest2025 This year there are over 50 ways to get involved inc. activities, co-creation opportunities and workshops!

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 22/01/2025

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It's barely 4 years since the UK had a British-Pakistani chancellor in Downing Street, calling out to his mum in Punjabi at the Tory Party conference "mum, did you ever think we'd make it here?" And now Jenrick is smearing the whole community from the Tory front bench www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...

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Javid addresses his mum in Punjabi during speech

The chancellor noted that his family were the first Asians to move into Downing Street.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Relatedly or unrelatedly, I did also just impulse buy some unnecessarily expensive fancy salt that promises a "piney" flavour. Rumours that this purchase was intended as a 'screw you' to the Belgian authorities are entirely unfounded.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

God bless the Belgian food agency for providing me with one solitary news story this January that doesn't fill me with existential dread. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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A tree is just for Christmas, not for dinner, Belgian food agency warns

Message came after northern city of Ghent posted tips for recycling the conifer as a dish

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Listen, you simply cannot drop a well-executed Wicked film on an ex-theatre kid and expect her to be normal about it. You just can't.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We're one month into a new Spotify year, and I'm already very concerned that my Spotify 2025 is going to look like this:

Doctored version of Spotify Wrapped 2024. Top artists: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande AND Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ariana Grande again. Top songs: Defying Gravity, Defying Gravity, Defying Gravity (Original Broadway Cast), Good Luck Babe, Defying Gravity. Minutes Listened: More than is probably healthy.

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My 26-30 Railcard runs out next year. Vague sense of dread at the thought of going out into the wild west of the railways without it by my side.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

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Emma Crighton @emmacrighton.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

The betrayal of discovering someone you knew and trusted was actually a voicenote person the whole time

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