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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Desperately Seeking the Return of the Jedi

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I asked some friends of mine to do a few lines of my poem ‘Ode To Square Chapel’ in support of my quest to help #SaveSquareChapelArts in Halifax. Without hesitation… they all chipped in. 🙌 It’s what friends are for. Please re-post if you enjoy! x

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@brenkubler.bsky.social Thanks for the recommendation, Bren. They are lovely. And on special offer at the moment in Intermarché!

A packet of Bret’s Gyozas au poulet crisps.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Archangel Gabriel blowing his horn on Judgement Day. Snakes under the bed. The back stairs at my convent school. Sister Agnes (of above convent). My teeth falling out. Sleeping with my back to a door or window.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Love the falafel ones. Our best selection is at a little Vival next to our local petrol station.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hello Bren, Nice to see you. I’ll give those a try. We discovered these this week. Mild but very good.

Photo of a packet of Bret’s Beurre

Persillé crisps (butter and parsley). The picture on the packet shows not only the butter and the parsley but also a garlic bulb.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That’s pretty small. Lots of not reaching a top shelf, then.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nah! I’m 5ft 4 and a bit, and another couple of inches would be so much better.

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh, and the lovely booksellers at Blackwells in the UK do FREE OVERSEAS DELIVERY, including to the US, Canada and Australia shorturl.at/vEHdq

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A Winter Wedding

Lisette Lynch is planning the wedding of the year. At least, that's what everyone else is calling it. What she's hoping for is a chance for her to step away fro

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still Lake Ontario on Apple Maps and Google Maps here in France.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dancing in the heart of Belfast IG: @manesh.shendkar

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Page and Plant and Sting - lucky you. I saw them in Birmingham, probably 1995. Did they have the wonderful Egyptian violinists when you saw them? We saw Cohen in Paris and yes, just perfect. And Sharon Robinson sang Alexander Leaving, solo. Left me ‘bouche bée’.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: 1. Joan Baez 2. Leonard Cohen 3. Mark Knopfler 4. Mike & the Mechanics 5. Brian Ferry 6. Fairport Convention 7. Zucchero 8. Taj Mahal 9. Eric Bibb 10. Page and Plant

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Same here, Lucy. I’m sick of getting up at dawn, doing everything I have to do outside before 10 o’clock, then living like a troglodyte until the evening. And, yes, thank heaven for the internet and a good book.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How are we ever going to plan what we do when, when we will never again have any certainty about conditions?

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Much the same here. Gardening has turned into ‘what shall I try to keep alive?’ . Today’s rain is just wonderful - but still not enough.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

12mm of rain here so far in Ariège and 19°. Wonderful. Sorry it’s still so hot with you.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Proper rain, not 2 or 3 mm. But no hail. Please 🙏

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Reposts appreciated 👍🙂✍️ #booksky #spéirgorm

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Whatever this plant is, it seems to close up in the middle of the day. #ZingiberPussimus #TheGingers

The ginger cat I posted earlier is now curled up asleep in the terracotta pot. The markings on his face look like a smile.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Well. I’ve never grown one of these before!

A ginger cat sitting in a terracotta pot on a shelf in the greenhouse.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A bit of both probably. And extremely rude.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In ‘Operation Wear Franglais Out’ Mac is enjoying himself enormously.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Do you know the @bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social account. It’s an account about their three dogs but they have a cat called Brix that they’ve built a cat wall for. Might be worth looking at.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks Cheryl. We are going to need them. There is now also a newer plane called a Dash, bigger and faster which can carry a fire-retardant. Those Canadairs on the videos were doing turnarounds of between 6 and 10 minutes. Such skill and courage.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

No, they are flown by French pilots - ex fighter pilots for the most part according to last night’s news. And I don’t think these are new planes, I saw them on practice runs near St Tropez over 20 years ago.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thank heaven you have nice, no trouble dogs!!!!

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m forced to give them lots of cat milk , which they love, just to make sure they drink something. Pillocks!

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One of mine only drinks from the container I soak plant pots in - the one with soil and dead leaves floating in it 🙄

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Last episodeof the season and I think it's the one I'm most proud of. Origin Story in its most distilled form: telling a tight, thrilling story of the past which equips us to understand the present.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Good for you. I wish I’d been more like it.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Actually no. I wasn’t annoyed - I was humiliated.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I was going to say the same thing (but with an even older brain!). Even more, I wish I had felt then that I had a right to be annoyed.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

« Dont worry dear, it might never happen”, just because I wasn’t walking around with an inane smile on my face.

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 04/07/2026

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And you get the Mistral, the Tramontane and wildfires. Fun times, eh?

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Gillian Elizabeth @gillyinariege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Morning Martin. I had a maggot incident this morning too, but yours sounds the more disgusting. Has your house cooled down yet? Ours is getting there slowly.

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