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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Which reminds me that I need to reread 'Holy Fools'. I love that book. I keep thinking, no, don't go back with him, he's trouble, but I just know she's going to go back with him, because he's trouble.....

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think my favourites are Men at Arms, Witches Abroad and The Fifth Elephant, but often my favourite is the last one I read! Jingo is brilliant too. Which ones would you choose?

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Discworld! Not Discoworld - although Sir Pterry would probably have found that typo funny......

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Back to Terry Pratchett's Discoworld - I revisit it every few years and always find it a joyful experience. 'The Light Fantastic' is this week's book. The Luggage is my hero.

Book cover of 'The Light Fantastic' by Terry Pratchett. Cartoon picture of a wizard in red robes, an elderly one-eyed warrior in a loincloth, a young woman in fantasy bikini-style 'armour' and several other figures flying through the air on a big wooden chest with lots of ittle legs.

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Blue Sky Group Hug. 🦋

A child in a hooded jacket kneeling on pavement and using chalk to draw a dashed line across a crack in the ground.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@emteepoetry.bsky.social here is my second contribution for your #Winged #PromptCombo call-out #Poetry

$Bat Among the Lights Once, weathered barns leaned with beams whispering to the wind. Fields were midnight seas, and trees stretched their arms to cradle the night. Now the earth is parcelled with concrete, hedgerows clipped into obedience. The dark fractured by streetlights, blooming too bright. The bat drifts through this geometry of glass and brick, its wings brushing halos, its hunger met by moths circling the false moons. It's plentifully fed, yet carries in its bones the taste of muted evenings, the weight of stars unchallenged, the vastness of the black before it was tamed. Its flight is a lament, an elegy for what is gone, a winged shadow threading progress, thriving, yet haunted, by simpler days. Dreaming of a world it cannot return to, even as it flourishes in the light we have made.$

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The news is pretty grim listening at the moment, isn't it?

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, beautiful. We're going to need a bigger pocket.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hope you feel better soon.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was the early Cybermen for me - something about those slit mouths - just so scary.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When the first apple tree looked skyward and wished for its own star to cherish, the orchard fairy promised one if it worked hard. The tree toiled all year, and in #autumn was rewarded with stars at the heart of its fruit, to cradle the seeds of future trees. #FolkloreThursday

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love that idea. Makes me realise how limited my reading sometimes gets.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Its 1985 in a small Irish town whose inhabitants try not to know about the treatment of young unmarried mothers in the nearby convent. Beautifully written, disturbing, moving and compassionate.

Book cover of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Green cover with white house roofs in falling snow.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley. Based on the true story of an accident at a nuclear research facility at Chelyabinsk in 1957. A novel about Soviet Russia in the 50s and 60s, a tender queer love story, dark, dry humour, some truly awful horrors - clever, disturbing and brilliant.

Cover of Natasha Pulley's novel, The Half Life of Valery K. Title in red and blue on a background of snowy woods. Dead bird lying on the snow in the foreground.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And yf they be a bit funny looking, alle the bettyr!

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sounds like you've had a long week. Take a duvet day!

Two cats tucked up in bed. Caption is 'Duvet day'.

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

one acorn falling through ten thousand years of oak into this moment #haiku

Photograph taken in central Virginia of the base of an oak tree in the woods with acorns scattered before it. Through the foliage in the distance, you can see the river. Sunlight is streaming down through the branches.

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Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

dailyhaikuprompt #waning #moon #wild #rose waning moon a wild rose weaves through silver beams

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tangled thorns setting a puzzle that fearless wrens solve by flying through

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Microplastics come from oil, so actually you are made of stardust and dead dinosaurs, which is pretty cool.

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

morning table a spread of sunshine on the bread #haiku

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hope all will be well and that you'll be up and about again very soon.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love her rant about doilies in The House of Good Bones too. And the demon chicken in Nettle and Bone.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The inspiration for Flash Gordon fashion?

Melody Anderson as Dale Arden in 1980 film Flash Gordon, wearing tall fan-shaped head dress that looks like a bird's crest.

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘The Prayer’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I believe Sherbert was also a famous German classical composer.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Paper maps and landmarks. I had A-Z maps of all the main cities I drove around regularly and I would pretty well memorise routes before I started out - or pull over to check again if I forgot. I've got very lazy since having a Satnav.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This film is an endless source of wonderful quotes. If I heard you saying that, I would immediately reply, 'Leave the puce'.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And sold off our utilities to private companies who are now making large profits while our bills keep rising and the service gets worse.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I agree, it was a big omission. But please, let's give him time. He's announcing some huge changes in how we look at government. Electoral reform is essential if the Greens are to get a louder voice in Parliament. Please let's work with him, not against him on this.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tell her the answer is 42. That should settle it.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now: Truly Madly Deeply The Innocents Black Narcissus The Ladykillers Hot Fuzz But tomorrow I will probably realise, ooh, I missed this one, ooh, and that one, ooh, and....

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My reading of 'The Bogwater Witches' to my 8-year-old daughter is still famous over a decade on for the truly atrocious and possibly actionable Scottish accents.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Blackberries in a Vase, Lilly Martin Spencer, 1897.

Blackberries in a silver vase on a red tablecloth, painting.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Innocents, The Babadook, Les Diaboliques - yes, yes and yes. I still occasionally have a fear of looking out of a window in the dark in case the face of Peter Quint suddenly appears there!

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