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Alex Heron

@heronalex.bsky.social
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Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.

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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 42m
Perhaps there will be an evolutionary effect ...
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KT Parker 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸🇺🇦🌻 @lunaperla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Common Ground ( @commongroundorguk.bsky.social ) is doing a #survey on attitudes to some of the hot topics of the day. Took me 30 seconds. Take a look: commongroundorg.co.uk/survey
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Common Ground - Survey
Answer a handful of yes / no / unsure questions about the issues that matter. No name, no email, just your postcode. It takes about a minute.
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
First bird of the day seen bimbling about outside my bedroom door this morning. Wrens always make me happy so I’m going to paint some tiny ones this week just to cheer myself up. 
A little bird stands on the stone it’s be open behind it gold leaf reflects the light at you 
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Alicia Alonso executing a pas de bourrée at the American Ballet Theatre, December 1943. Photo by Gjon Mili.
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think maybe some kind of bar-chart would have been more transparent. But anyway. Kind of gets the message across! (It looks and sounds as though you are comparing donations with a normal distribution, but that is not at all what the graph is.)
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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I will be joining a poetry-writing seminar series this autumn/spring given by the wonderful Stav Poleg. It starts this Saturday but there's still time to join: poetryschool.com/courses/stav...
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Stav Poleg Cambridge Seminar 2026/27 • Poetry School
Intimate monthly seminars with Stav Poleg in Cambridge.
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A bit of Dostoevsky obviously ..
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, that is pretty much how I remember it ...
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What is the x-axis?
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Ilya Repin @ilyarepin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tatyana Repina, the Artist's Mother www.wikiart.org/en/ilya-repin/tatya…
Tatyana Repina, the Artist's Mother
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whatever happened to freckles?
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Microscopic
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Titus Kaphar, Behind the Myth of Benevolence, 2014, oil on canvas
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stunning ...
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good everything last time I went, though some years ago. I agree it is too far from everywhere unless you happen to actually live there. The tragedy is the loss of the LRB bookshop cafe. They had good cakes (and good everything) (and books). There must be other good cakes though? In London??
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I see no-one has said anything about the cake question which is really disappointing. I recall good cakes/desserts at the Dulwich Picture Gallery cafe. If you get more tips, let us know.
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here is one for you ...
Red Brocade
Naomi Shihab Nye - 1952-

The Arabs used to say,
When a stranger appears at your door,
feed him for three days
before asking who he is,
where he’s come from,
where he’s headed.
That way, he’ll have strength
enough to answer.
Or, by then you’ll be
such good friends
you don’t care.
 
Let’s go back to that.
Rice? Pine nuts?
Here, take the red brocade pillow.
My child will serve water
to your horse.
 
No, I was not busy when you came!
I was not preparing to be busy.
That’s the armor everyone put on
to pretend they had a purpose
in the world.
 
I refuse to be claimed.
Your plate is waiting.
We will snip fresh mint
into your tea.
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my goodness! What a great choice, I love it!! Thanks!!!
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh - I have looked in my settings and everything seems to be set to 'everybody'. Perhaps it's because I've never verified my age?! I've just tried to do that and failed - nothing happened. :-(
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am in love with this.
Three Brittany ladies, in black dresses and tall white caps, sit finishing off a huge piece of white lace/crocheting, flowers and stars, bunches of grapes, etc
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A #Roman cheese press, found at Balmuildy fort on the #AntonineWall (Scotland). The cheese was put in the press & pressed down by a weight, forcing out any moisture through the holes. The resulting cheeses would have the concentric circle pattern from the press 🧀 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stunning
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Portal number 843.
A photo of a gap forced into some iron railings by a wooded river.
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The introduction by RB Cunninghame Graham (1933 edition) is a marvel in itself. You can see it (and download it) here: openbooks.is.ed.ac.uk/record/97439...
openbooks.is.ed.ac.uk
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to this!!
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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How do you pick just one? Rest well, Wendell Berry.
Our Real Work 
Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know what to do 
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go 
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oh look at that lemon yellow gorgeousness
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I must try this
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oh ... look at Toad! Look at Frog!!
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
yes it is ...
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Farage is tied to Russia as securely as Gulliver was tied to the ground by the people of Liliput. A hundred strings all binding him.
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Praṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 28/11/2024
Secondly, the UK is only major country that counts students as immigrants. It is ABSURD. International students pay 3-4x in fees what British students pay. Comes to £20K+ a year. It is completely ridiculous we treat them as some sort of scroungers when they are helping keep universities afloat.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pitta of the Day: Eared Pitta 📷 Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok
Photo of bird perched on ground. Description from ebird: ‘This handsome pitta is about the color of a chocolate chip cookie. Only the warmer-colored male is “eared”, possessing the speckled silvery tufts on either side of the head. The female is darker, with extensive black speckling on the underparts. Both sexes have an elegant black mask extending from the bill base to the nape. Forages unobtrusively on the floor of lowland rainforests and dry deciduous forests. Gives a long, drawn-out whistle with the second half being deflected upwards.’
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I am definitely going to this. I have always wanted to see his work - and with those artists too, irresistible.
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Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Odyssey was a pretty contrived adaptation, Dublin was totally unrecognisable??
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Beautiful poem ..
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Denise Bayes @deniseb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You think you know Jane Austen? Not till you have read this meta version by @sagreene1.bsky.social A deserving highly Commended in @freeflashfiction.bsky.social this time
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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Sorry if we’re becoming annoying, with our exhortations to subscribe to our little chapbooks. But hey, we need you. And besides, we’re relatively new here and it’s harder to make friends than it used to be on the old Twitter! Anyway, we’re a tiny Indy press, looking for short story lovers. #BookSky
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Hello Monday. 🖼️ Camilla Clutterbuck #OwlishMonday
A painting of a barn owl, sleeping or resting, set against a dark, possibly blue background.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The ghost is often a truth trying to be known. - Trad. Hookland maxim #Ghosts
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Well there are no pigs there, so somebody got them.
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S'Pammy Cassandra 🦩💥 @nafoffs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We've started our campaign.
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Celia @celiwool.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Nothing can tarnish Count Binface, he's galvanised the nation!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.
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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This decision is the most ridiculous, and btw wicked consequence.
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Jeffrey Ⓥ @liftforever67.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“When you lose, let that be a lesson to you. When you win - you don't learn anything.” #WeekendVibes 🎱 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
You'll feel so much better after! (OK, not necessarily right after.)
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
🖼 The Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, 1875.
Rain on canal, trees in background, canal path in foreground, painting.
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