Reposted by Emma VardyHayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 16hTo live a meaningful life in the modern age we need to be able to understand and reckon with our most primal instincts. And then try to rise above them to something better. 167
Reposted by Emma VardyBluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 18hCongratulations to @sharonduggal.bsky.social Today we publish Light Across the Plains @waterstones.bsky.social Brighton. @thebookseller.com @theguardian.com @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 1337
Reposted by Emma VardyBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer! @emmavardy2.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck. Check Emma's attached post to see why. If you'd like to read this book, just get in touch. UK only 11210
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026@biggreenbooks.bsky.social I'd like to buy someone a copy of East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Read maybe 30 years ago now. Having watched the netflix series and rereading its even better than I remember. Brilliant descriptions of people and places. Interesting/complex characters. #buyastrangerabook 020
Reposted by Emma VardyBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...biggreenbookshop.comBuy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people 42423
Reposted by Emma VardyUK Hospital At Home Society @ukhahsoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026⏰ There’s still time to submit your ideas for the UK Hospital at Home Society Conference 2027 We’re currently gathering suggestions to help shape next year’s conference programme & would love to hear from you. 📅 Submission deadline: Weds 21 Oct 2026 👉 buff.ly/udf3w4f #HospitalAtHome #HaHConf2027 011
Reposted by Emma VardyDementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Funded PhD at Newcastle University (NIHR ARC NENC) using mixed methods to study whether Community Diagnostic Centres reduce health inequalities. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-equi...dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.ukPhD: Equity and Access in Community Diagnostic CentresFunded PhD at Newcastle University (NIHR ARC NENC) using mixed methods to study whether Community Diagnostic Centres reduce health inequalities. 022
Reposted by Emma VardyElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56119873560
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not a surprise at all. As a parent of a 13 year old girl. A lot to say but not for sharing here. 010
Reposted by Emma VardyAli Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My reading rate has decreased a lot over the last few years. However, since I moved to my lovely retirement village it's gone down even more. I'm so much busier, socialising more and it's wonderful. I'm the youngest resident at 58, the eldest is 93. Yet we all have fun together. Still, I'm happy. 4281
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It does sound a lot of fun. You're always busy from sounds of it. 110
Reposted by Emma VardyWe Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 13/05/2026"You Are What You Choose" Zoe Kazan’s 'East of Eden' premieres this Fall on Netflix. #EastOfEden 0125
Reposted by Emma VardyIan Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My aunt passed away earlier this year, and for a while it broke me. She always enthusiastically supported my art, from when I was a child to this year, she always insisted on buying art from me. She commissioned this Zelda art when I was 12, and she had kept it all that time. 141438189
Reposted by Emma VardyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Manchester, 1975, photo by Kemal Cengizkan. 210120
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Interesting www.bmj.com/content/394/...bmj.comJehovah’s Witness ban on accepting blood components in transfusions is liftedJehovah’s Witnesses can now decide themselves whether to accept or donate blood components, without risk of excommunication. New guidance issued to its members worldwide by the Governing Body of Jeho... 121
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Started watching East of Eden. Must have been 21/22 when I read the book by John Steinbeck. Was in India on a placement in a leprosy hospital. With fellow student and friend Louise Tebboth, sadly no longer around to reminisce with. Rest in peace Louise. I still have the book on my shelf. 031
Reposted by Emma VardyJess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every wednesday my husband cooks dinner for a group of pensioners, his dad and some of his parents pals. They are politically and financially mixed. All said they dont care about the triple lock but all want social care sorting. 3460455
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Johnny Marrs a much nicer person than Morrisey though. Or so it looks from outside. 000
Reposted by Emma VardyChain of Flowers @craigatcof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Johnny Marr’s Quiet Genius Comes Fully Into Focus On ‘The Age of Everything’ (ALBUM REVIEW)glidemagazine.comJohnny Marr’s Quiet Genius Comes Fully Into Focus On 'The Age of Everything' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide MagazineWhen The Smiths broke up in 1987, Morrissey was the obvious choice for a solo career. Johnny Marr's career wasn’t so obvious. As half of the iconic 241
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Had a fluorescein angiography today to look at blood vessels at back of my eyes. Not to bad. Though am one of few who vomits during dye injection. Eugh. Still bit queasy. Celebrity Traitors later should help. 140
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Have you listened to this David? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukSuperfans! - The Beatles! - BBC SoundsAmy Lamé tells the story of The Beatles through the words of their devoted fans. 000
Reposted by Emma VardyScottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's the start of October so that means we've launched our new Book of the Month giveaways! We have some great titles this month, so enter now for a chance to win. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-of-the-... 064
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...theguardian.com‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really workFrom finding love to becoming a better parent … Philippa Perry, Paul Dolan, Orna Guralnik and others reveal the books that will change your life 001
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Buffalo Beach, southwest Western Australia 🇦🇺❤️😊 044
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...academic.oup.comIncluding older people in health and social care research: best practice recommendations based on the INCLUDE frameworkAbstractBackground. Older people are often explicitly or implicitly excluded from research, in particular clinical trials. This means that study findings m 052
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comComplaining about healthcare can feel like an act of betrayal. But there is a real cost to silence | Ranjana SrivastavaThe demands on doctors are only intensifying. From dissatisfied patients, I would ask for a measure of grace, understanding and, where possible, forgiveness 021
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comA job that changed me: I cried nearly every day working in aged care, then realised I could bring joy insteadI once asked a resident what she would do if she could do anything. She replied: ‘I’d run in a field’ 011
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.com‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-lifeWe are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis 021
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.bgs.org.uk/electronic-f...bgs.org.ukElectronic Frailty Index 2 (eFI2) | British Geriatrics SocietyThe eFI2 is a tool used in UK primary care to identify older people living with frailty and predict their risk of adverse outcomes. It uses information already held in GP electronic health records and... 011
Reposted by Emma VardyAsan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBritons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi SridharAlthough we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S... 022
Reposted by Emma VardyGraphnet Health @graphnethealth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Victoria Betton, Director for Digital,Data & AI, Health Innovation Network Kent Surrey Sussex, made a compelling case at #HETT2026 for sitting alongside staff & observing their day-to-day work. That’s where teams can spot the workarounds, pressures & unmet needs that might never come up in a meeting 022
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You have outdone yourself @janicehallett.bsky.social thoroughly enjoyed the silent appeal. Especially loved the petty gripes aired by different characters via message/email. 151
Reposted by Emma VardyIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I just finished Frenchman's Creek, and I feel sad. 5362
Reposted by Emma VardyBluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes a book comes along, And you just know, know that it is storytelling at Its very, very best. A truly remarkable novel and a shadow history of the 20th century. Light Across the Plains by Sharon Duggal. Remarkable. 0438
Reposted by Emma VardyMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 30/09/2026youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...youtu.beMost TV is Just This NowYouTube video by Michael Spicer 12715
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Purchase made for the York city fan in my life....and football fanatic. 120
Reposted by Emma VardyBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026SIGNED BOOK NEWS! I'll be getting a VERY limited number of SIGNED copies of "Games of My Life" by Alex Ferguson. Widely regarded as the greatest football manager of all time. Out next week. ORDER HERE (quickly) www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie... 144