johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How certain are you it isn't actually Julian Casablancas? 010
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026isabel's interpretation of the account of "jurassic park" given to her by her sister 010
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 02/09/2026clockwise from top left, me, Isabel, Emily and Annick, by Isabel 120
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Port Meadow, outside Oxford. Chicken satay skewers and a pasta salad. Jam tarts. Tins of Kronenburg 1664 100
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 20/07/2026this is on the free books pile outside skoob. It was clogging up the shelves 010
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I saw a Ferrier Pollocks advert in an old magazine the other day and was delighted 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Gorgeous moorhen chicks at Canary Wharf 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 21/06/2026john leland history-hunting by the thames five hundred years ago 000
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I think there should be a UK sausage which you can only eat before 10.30am, like weißwurst in germany. Perhaps it could be based in kettering or corby 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I 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 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Overrated: vollkornbrot Underrated: bauernbrot 031
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Can anyone identify this caterpillar? The closest to eric carle's very hungry one I've ever seen 000
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Not a clue, sorry - I agree, there were plenty of very good bands on the roster! 000
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 17/05/2026skim-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" 010
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Emily has made a unicorn pinata for Isabel's birthday tomorrow 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Isabel's picture of her mother and sister. I adore this 000
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 11/04/2026What do you reckon to "Spanish Harlem"? 100
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 03/04/2026a strange thought that wordsworth could have drunk a bottle of evian 240
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I saw that picture of the Penguin bookshelf and was extremely jealous! 010
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I think it's to fit with "veiled", "seen of none" etc, and melancholy as cloud in the second stanza - it makes sense that her trophies would be as cloudy and vague as her 110
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Emily's illustration for shelley's *the witch of Atlas*. the giant cow seems at least in the spirit of the poem 030
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 19/03/2026keen on how minimalist they render their lovely slogan "eggs forever" 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 04/03/2026C.H. Sisson for the poetry, Dorothy L. Sayers for the notes & apparatus 110
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 20/02/2026this is the start of a genuine letter from W.H. Auden 010
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Frikadelle, Swedish mustard, gherkins, pickled red cabbage, Keen's cheddar and tomato slice on Irish potato bread, untoasted 071
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Farewell and adieu, to you fair Spanish lattes Farewell and adieu, to you lattes of Spain 040
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 22/01/2026No idea if this is widespread but my daughter's year 4 class is absolutely obsessed with D.B. Cooper - they are all big fans (and all certain he got away). Not sure where they have picked this up from 110
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 17/01/2026keen 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 170
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Emily's picture of the skeleton and its baby (a bird) in the supermarket, trying to decide between different jams 050
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 04/01/2026took Emily to the mummer's play. what a joy 050
Reposted by johnclegg37.bsky.socialLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 19/12/2025it'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-... 283
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I was completely convinced by this when I first read it, and now I can't read it any other way, even though I'm starting to think it's a bit unlikely. But surely, surely the sestina is meant to be bad?? 110
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 31/10/2025the best halloween poem of them all - william dunbar's "harry, harry, hobbillschowe" (there are many many more stanzas of this) 030
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 27/10/2025dominos. the home of low value pizza 050
Reposted by johnclegg37.bsky.socialJohn Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 26/10/2025The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray ‘Translations from the Natural World’. 0102
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 11/10/2025yes - he was in 2 Clarence Terrace from 1952 onwards, and Autumn Sequel is '53 030
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 11/10/2025What on earth was Laszlo Krasznahorkai doing in Acton Morrisons?? 100
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 07/10/2025there's one on the shelf in the bookshop I'm pretty sure - give us a shout tomorrow afternoon if nobody has answered before then? 020
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 01/10/2025this will almost certainly be quicker than taking the central line 030
Reposted by johnclegg37.bsky.socialLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 30/09/2025REQUEST 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. 8167
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 22/09/2025you'd think that would be the first thing they'd get the hang of 130
johnclegg37.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social · 31/08/20255.15 - 7pm is a baffling time to hold a pub quiz 080
