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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Continuing to soothe myself from the stresses of trying to buy a house by designing the inside of potential future house.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BBC television's Sherlock would make some pretty bad assumptions about me based on my front door lock.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Data centres make me want to apologise personally to William Blake for finding his 'dark satanic mills' line funny when I heard it as a kid. I'm sorry that 200 years later we're still finding ways to build things that destroy the environment, scar the landscape and exploit workers.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The creator crossover I didn't know I needed. Of course that's what Tove Jansson's Gollum looks like.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was primarily involved in the resources for our research reserve (aka. "The bit of the library which really smells properly like a library"), which gave me an exciting chance to become more familiar with various treasures which I didn't know were right under my feet every day!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is the fandom name for fans of EW Hornung's Raffles stories "The Pre-Raffles-ites", because it should be.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm going to apologise right now for all Beekeeper's Picnic players. In the game if you try to submit an entire beehive frame to the competition (rather than processed honey in a jar), it's treated like a very silly idea, but this show genuinely does have a whole category for that.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Malkin has this one, and ignored it utterly for two years before becoming obsessed. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09N... I think if I was buying one again, I'd look for one with slightly bigger platforms, or at least a bigger one at the top.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes I remember about the coquette aesthetic Hound of the Baskervilles (From Wordworth Editions) I don't need to own it, but it makes me happy knowing it exists. I hope it has made lots of Gen Alpha teens who love soft feminine aesthetics and gothic horror very happy.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This copy of The Picture of Dorian Grey just fell off the shelf in TKMaxx and hit me in the head. I think that means I have to buy it.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Watching Lindsay Ellis' Dolly Parton video (because y'know), and finding out that my Sawbones medical history podcast bandana which says "Pliny the Elder is my homeboy" is Appalachian humour that I was too British to understand. I've had it for over a decade!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Acquired some new work lanyard badges.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think I aspire to Too-Tickyness, but know in my heart I'm more of a Snufkin.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Obligatory eclipse pics from the Brum Riviera!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm playing the DLC for Melody of Moominvalley, and boy I wish this eccentric red-haired girl would give me this jam jar so that I can organise a picnic so that two famous literary characters can share their feelings.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Going to take a discussion work to the public forum of Blue Sky. This would be a poll, but polls don't exist here, so you'll just have to imagine. Butter Mintoes - Yes! - Ew no - What's a butter minto?!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When I was a teenager, Darlington railway station was basically my portal to the universe*, but I haven't been back since. It's so fancy now. There's a little cafe and everything. * York and Newcastle

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Pah! That's clearly Roquefort from the Aristocats, can't these people distinguish between different Disney b'deerstalkered rodents?

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Here are most of them, by the way... (I also realise I should link to it on Steam so people can wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/4577990/... )

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Jaws that bite, claws that catch, etc.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Webbox Snackibbles might be "sealed for freshness", but they're not sealed from Miss Malkin.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The scissors I look too youthful to buy, btw.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Spotted in a charity shop. All Sherlock Holmeses made without a matching Watson need to find one, very happy for this pair.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's ok, they gave us all room-temperature canned water.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I swear they're making some of these up.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

That was pretty inevitable, wasn't it? 😆 I'm very honoured for Beekeeper's Picnic to have even been considered in the same category!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Front loading this game with people talking to each other in the void of space and liquid paint working perfectly well out there, in the hope that it'll clue people into the fact that despite having robots and spaceships, 'tis not sci-fi, 'tis a gaslamp fantasy.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Facebook reminding me that time passes surprisingly quickly. What do you mean, four years?!!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Last but certainly not least, meet Miss Malkin, my cat.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I've also worked with educational charities and research groups to write webcomics, graphic novels, and other projects which blend visual culture and technology. You can see my work here: www.helengreetham.com/creative If you'd like to work with me, get in touch at: info@thewonderroom.uk

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Mona Lisa is missing! The Museum of Everything is an in-development alternative Edwardian-era sci-fi mystery. You can wishlist it: store.steampowered.com/app/4577990/...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Beekeeper's Picnic is my critically acclaimed and award-winning cozy mystery Sherlock Holmes game! You can buy it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Wonder Room (www.thewonderroom.uk) is my indie game studio. If I have a newsletter where I share what I'm up to (and share cat pictures, of course) www.thewonderroom.uk/blog-2 For enquiries, please contact info@thewonderroom.uk

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm a writer, illustrator and game developer from the UK who wears lots of hats, figuratively and literally. I often write stories that are gentle and comforting, but thematically deep and drenched in my love of history and literature. More about me and my projects!⬇️

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

When you're trying to run your medical practice but there's intense amounts of queer pining going on.

Screenshot of in-development game, with a sketch of a doctor's office.
A woman is in a bed, with another woman sat concerned by her bedside. They are looking at each other. On the other side of the room, a doctor in a severe dark suit watches. Caption reads 'Live Doctor Reaction'.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is a cat check point: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It's ok, I got there just in time to see the Doctor stumbling around in a shroud yelling "WHO. AM. I????" My inner 14 year old is very happy.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I think I found the grimmest hotel room in London. £40 a night in Kensington. No window, shared bathroom, breakfast not included. And yet... I mean I'd rather do that than a hostel, right?

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Not the least obeisance made she; not a minute stopped or stayed she; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a post of scratching just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It's May 4th, which means it's time to remember that time Sherlock Holmes threw a mathematics professor from a high place! In celebration, you can get Gayming Award-nominated cosy mystery Sherlock Holmes game The Beekeeper's Picnic half price! store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Me when I have to do important but boring admin tasks 🤝 Doctor Faustus

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's fun getting to raid the library with the excuse that it's for a new creative project.

Text - Determined to make a game with a references section
A pile of books

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There's a gag in Chaplian's The Gold Rush where someone gets so hungry they start seeing the Tramp as a giant chicken. My initial reaction to this was "ah, of course, that old gag" before I realised this is probably the originator of the trope.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Today some lovely Beekeeper's Picnic art prints arrived from the printers, and I've had a lot of fun making slip bands for them! I'll be selling them at the Sherlockian Showcase at Riverside Studios next month. riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/sc-...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Went with a bunch of gut feelings on this! You can make your own here: grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm so happy to find out that 19th century lolcow and "worst poet in British history" William McGonagall supported Women's Sufferage! And wrote a poem about it!

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