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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

clockwise from top left, me, Isabel, Emily and Annick, by Isabel

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

this is on the free books pile outside skoob. It was clogging up the shelves

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Gorgeous moorhen chicks at Canary Wharf

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

john leland history-hunting by the thames five hundred years ago

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I love emily's picture of the bird family at the ice cream parlour, with both the bird parent and the bird teenager on their phones

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Can anyone identify this caterpillar? The closest to eric carle's very hungry one I've ever seen

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

skim-reading social media while waiting for the kettle to boil I thought Sarah Michelle Gellar was appearing in mother courage at the globe but scrolling back up, sadly, it said "see Michelle Terry"

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Emily has made a unicorn pinata for Isabel's birthday tomorrow

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Isabel's picture of her mother and sister. I adore this

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

a strange thought that wordsworth could have drunk a bottle of evian

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Emily's illustration for shelley's *the witch of Atlas*. the giant cow seems at least in the spirit of the poem

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

this is the start of a genuine letter from W.H. Auden

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Farewell and adieu, to you fair Spanish lattes Farewell and adieu, to you lattes of Spain

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

keen on this picture of Emily's - a beautiful lady leads a unicorn on a silver chain to two knights, who (unbeknownst to her) are secretly evil birds in disguise with painted-on mouths. above, Zeus intervenes crossly, to stop a thundercloud from striking a tree with lightning

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Emily's picture of the skeleton and its baby (a bird) in the supermarket, trying to decide between different jams

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

took Emily to the mummer's play. what a joy

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 19/12/2025

it's a Christmas miracle - new poems from the one & only J.H. Prynne, in full "Doric Plumage". Order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/doric-...

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

the best halloween poem of them all - william dunbar's "harry, harry, hobbillschowe" (there are many many more stanzas of this)

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray ‘Translations from the Natural World’.

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

this will almost certainly be quicker than taking the central line

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 30/09/2025

REQUEST FOR BLUESKY HELP i have put a couple of courgettes in the fridge and am very nervous that, when i get off work at half 6, i am going to forget to transfer them into my rucksack.

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

you'd think that would be the first thing they'd get the hang of

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

5.15 - 7pm is a baffling time to hold a pub quiz

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

very pleased that David Jones' *In Parenthesis* includes a bit part for a carpenter called Nat West

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Loki, pursued by the frost giantess Thiazi disguised as an eagle (and carrying the goddess Idun disguised as a walnut), approaches Asgard (mislabelled Midgard in picture) where the gods are building a bonfire

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Emily's illustration of Marie de France's lai of Guigemar - Guigemar, hunting in the forest, finds a talking deer, completely white with golden antlers, and shoots an arrow which deflects from the deer's hoof to lodge itself in Guigemar's thigh

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/06/2025

Our Book of the Week is *An Opinionated Guide to Literary London*, published by Hoxton Mini Press and written by our very own @johnclegg37.bsky.social - order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/an-opi...

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Isabel's first figurative drawing, a self-portrait

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

does anyone have any suggestions for "unnovercal"? A misprint presumably, but for what?

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

keen on this Easter poem from William Dunbar, especially the Devil as "the auld kene tegir with his teith on char" (on char = ajar)

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

isabel's picture of her sister (apparently in the form of some kind of flame goblin)

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 22/03/2025

lovely bloke just came in with a copy of a Sunday Times music supplement from 2003, to show us this interview with Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame. it was just after they'd released 'By the Way' - I really do think that we might have been the shop Kiedis is talking about. astonishing

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Emily's drawing of the parliament of fowls, presided over by the elephant hummingbird

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

joint picture by Emily and Isabel. a rainbow dinosaur approaches a rainbow tree furiously

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

weighing out 30g of spaghetti for Isabel's tea and got it in one

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

a happy valentine's day from mildmay fane

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Emily's drawing of the "donkey dog", a dog-donkey hybrid

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Excellent piece by the excellent Luke Roberts. From Tom: "As he writes in ‘Logbook’: ‘a form can be used only once’."

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I think this is one of my very favourites among Emily's pictures (it's an individual panel, going to be part of a school project). distinct edward lear energy in that facial expression

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

very keen on isabel's picture of a man-eating leopard

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johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

1960s dream date with Paul McCartney featuring eight hours of driving on the motorway

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 06/01/2025

request for information: does anyone know the name of the school in Acton where Dorothy L. Sayers was teaching in 1921?

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