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Helen Brooks

@hellsbells.bsky.social
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Comedy writer: Naked Week and The Skewer BBC Radio 4, Breaking the News BBC iplayer, Noising Up BBC Radio Scotland

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 12h
'Spiritual pussy energy' is the best thing I've read all week
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21h
Just one day I'd like to *not* be aware
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21h
Every month is OCD Awareness Month in my house
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21h
I told my daughter who has crippling OCD, and she said 'no you're OCD month'
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tag yourself! I'm worn out
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Autumn equinox (ish) sunrise
A beautiful sky in shade of dusky blue, with a blanket of pink and purple clouds and yellow sunlight on the horizon
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Autumn equinox (ish) sunrise
A beautiful sky in shade of dusky blue, with a blanket of pink and purple clouds and yellow sunlight on the horizon
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sounds cool! Let Sara know!
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SORRY I really want to go on the course!
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would be super interested in both! Ideally the longer course with a piece of work at the end. (For one sec I read this as owl-voices sitcom and I would also be interested in that)
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: our headteacher was a very strait laced school marm. EXCEPT for when Freddie Mercury died. She called a special assembly, played his music, explained what AIDS and HIV was, even cried. I was 6 and had never heard of FM or Queen. What a woman
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: our headteacher was a very strait laced school marm. EXCEPT for when Freddie Mercury died. She called a special assembly, played his music, explained what AIDS and HIV was, even cried. I was 6 and had never heard of FM or Queen. What a woman
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pervy little duolingo owl says I have an epic chest
A message from duolingo saying 'you got an epic chest!'
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pervy little duolingo owl says I have an epic chest
A message from duolingo saying 'you got an epic chest!'
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me when Chop Suey comes on in the club
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me when Chop Suey comes on in the club
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's this one I am afraid because I always include all details :)
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My MP is Jonathan Reynolds and I have written to him several times over the last few years and had ZERO response from him to any of them :( I'll have another go now on this subject. That's why it's worth sharing these, because it motivates other people to do similar
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What makes you believe that it is (sadly) unavoidable that men will sexually assault women
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It feels EMPTY in the most glorious way
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The world tour
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah I am perimenopause age and I am finding I get extreme fatigue too which suuucks, I keep needing to sleep in the day. But yes medical needs change all the time so things have to suit you :) I also do pole dance and that's a real laugh and has fully brought me out of myself when I've been bad
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I get that. My main suggestion is something physically demanding because while walks and meditations are nice and do lots of good, they don't remove the physical feeling of anxiety for me. It needs to be sort of 'knocked out' by exertion
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
...Also I drive in the car with music really loud so I can fully shout along to it and that helps a lot, for me I think it's about relieving the insane pressure in my chest. Similarly going dancing in a club and singing along and moving my body wildly has the same effect
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have this basically all the time if I am not on medication. For me Sertraline works, though some anxiety gets through now and then at bad or hard times. I can also recommend running or swimming, these work better than a walk for me because they are physically hard which drowns out the anxiety....
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wish they would sexualise RA
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Would you believe me if I told you this was a bat flying above the borlotti beans
A grainy blur above a vine of beans
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey guess what michael deacon, no women are ever in or out of fashion, all women are people not handbags or lampshades
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So non-white people now have to show proof that they're 'acceptable' or they'll get violently mobbed?
screenshot from the article which says a councillor collected proof that the people were there to play cricket
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Went to Anglesey and this red squirrel was mad with me
Little squirrel nutkin kind of guy poking its head around a tree branch and looking pissed off
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Went to Anglesey and this red squirrel was mad with me
Little squirrel nutkin kind of guy poking its head around a tree branch and looking pissed off
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My daughter loves all of these! She also likes @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social (particularly Frost Hollow Hall) and is currently devouring Loki by @louiestowell.bsky.social. And the Montgomery Bonbon series by @misterabk.bsky.social!
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't know you but whenever I see your posts or reposts I always think 'oh there's chris with a full stop, this will be weird and funny and good.' I hope you are ok and if you want to chat I can chat! Today only has three hours left and then it will be tomorrow and everything will be different xx
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Slow Sunday
A little snail slowly sliming along an iris leaf in the rain
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Slow Sunday
A little snail slowly sliming along an iris leaf in the rain
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Derek Jarman’s “Stu” @stuartgipp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
reposting my Reacher fanart because there's a new season
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I went to Plas Newydd in Anglesey as a child and saw a whole exhibition about the Marquess and I was OBSESSED
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just went for a walk wearing a hoodie and I was a little chilly!
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ok it IS me!
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I don't know if it's me because HE HASN'T TEXT ME BACK YET
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Living innit...since I got on sertraline it has made an incredible difference, do recommend if you don't already have any meds (I am not sponsored by Big SSRI, it has just changed my life)
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Stew that causes blindness for one day
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yeah I looked
Photo of the hazy sun glow and the reflection of the eclipse
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yeah I looked
Photo of the hazy sun glow and the reflection of the eclipse
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
OBSESSED with this account, you are doing amazing work
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I also have hypermobility and am slowly moving from running to swimming. I just don't find it as simple to get out the house and do it, need to work on my motivation for it
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Granny's Garden on my dad's PC when I was a kid. When that witch appeared on screen I would lose my tiny little 9 yr old mind
80s pc style image of a witch saying 'Ha! Now i've got you!'
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am just hopefully on the way up out of a dip like this and I can offer you advice on walks and nature and so forth but the thing is time, this will pass and you can exist through it to lighter times xx (Also can recommend prescribed meds)
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A male gynaecology consultant told me "if you want to talk about that 'girly stuff' I'll have to get a woman in here"
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I wish I'd done or said something at the time but tbh I was embarrassed and I just sort of nervously laughed and then left and didn't pursue a diagnosis for my pain for ages
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