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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It’s this kind of day again, here.

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Rain-bedraggled babies in the veggie patch. #birds

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It’s a frosty morning in the veggie patch.

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

She’s setting off for a night of skittering along fence tops and tap-dancing on roofs.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

NB On Thursday, we’ll be closing early (at 5pm) so that we can all go to the HEAT party. Maybe we’ll see you there 💚

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just two weeks to go until we help to launch Josephine Rowe’s beautiful new novel, Little World. Josephine will be in conversation with Anna MacDonald. We’d love to see you there. When: 6pm Tuesday 29 April Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to paperbackbookshop.events@gmail.com 📚🍷📚

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Last night, such a lambent moon; and this morning a hot diggetty dog (as my dad would say).

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The last of summer’s tomatoes on their wizened vines.

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

There are balloons this morning. Also, flocks of corellas. Autumn :)

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

On my morning walk I met a baby currawong #birds

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This was fun! Buster Keaton accompanied by Blue Grassy Knoll at Melbourne’s Federation Square.

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A King Parrot’s eating tomatoes in the veggie patch. Oh for a cloak of invisibility and a telephoto lens.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New & recent delights 😍

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This home, with its fig tree and wonderfully messy garden, is doomed.

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So lovely to find George Szirtes here.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🍷 SALON NEWS 🍷 On Tuesday 4th March, we’ll kick off this year’s Salon Series with an evening of reading & conversation with Dani Netherclift. When: 6pm Tuesday 4th March Where: Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to paperbackbookshop.events@gmail.com We’d love to see you there 💙

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours. Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year

Historic newspaper headlines reading The Nome Nugget, Diphtheria Epidemic Threatens District, Nome Anxious While Dogs Race On with Antitoxin Situation Still Critical

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Our Autumn Subscription is now live 🍂 Check out our website for more info, or have a chat with us next time you’re in the shop. Numbers are strictly limited - we have 20 subscriptions left. Leaves are turning, botanical gardens are calling, good light, good weather & good books are on the way. 📚🧡

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The figs are ripening in the old Greek woman’s garden, which is bountiful. #smallbeautieshour

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Yup! We’re open tomorrow from 11am - 6pm for book browsing, recommendations & chats! 👍

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Things have run amok in the veggie patch.

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The wind brought a galah’s feather to the old pine tree #SmallBeautiesHour

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

To ring in the new year, Anna (the bookseller formerly known as Anna M.) read & loved Deborah Levy’s collection of essays, The Position of Spoons, which includes writing about other writers, artists, psychoanalysis, desire, suburbia, you name it, and all with her usual wit & characteristic pizzazz.

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GeoInsider @geoinsider.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Why is everyone from Trump to China obsessed with Greenland and the Arctic? It’s not just ice and polar bears. It’s about power, money, and the future of the world. Here’s why the Arctic is the new battleground 🧵👇 1/20

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A butcherbird likes the tomato stake!

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Jevon Carey @jevoncarey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I stumbled across this chap yesterday. I hope you can spare the quarter hour it takes to enjoy his skill and craft. A perfectly wonderous way to gain a little calm at time of year when calm can be in such short supply. #calm #mindfulness #art #woodcarving #sculpture www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW6J...

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Calm Carving | Spalted Walnut Whiskey Cup

YouTube video by Samuel Alexander

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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Time to rescue the gladioli someone planted long ago from this soon-to-be-demolished house and garden.

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