lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/04/2025So I (Cumbrian) have always heard it as “ootch” up but perhaps that just an additional working class h-dropping. But it was and still is used in my house. Also for pulling up rights/trousers that have slipped! 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025My car was hit while parked and the bounder drove off. So now this is classed as my fault and I’m classed as a high risk driver for five years according to my insurers. 😭😭😭😭 000
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Lovely to see you. And all the congratulations on a brilliant set of poems! 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 15/03/2025It was such a brilliant day @litfest and I’ve come home laden with new books and pamphlets… can’t have too many books, right?! @almostasif.bsky.social 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 15/03/2025A fabulous day @litfest.bsky.social - all the poetry you can eat with @katiescribbles.bsky.social followed by the world’s greatest hotpot at The Merchants. Lancaster is great. 052
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Great evening thanks to @litfest.bsky.social - always so grateful to have a brilliant festival so close. And after watching the Elizabeth Burns Memorial Prize event - the kids really are alright! 032
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025She’s brilliant in everything she’s in. 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I find it utterly insufferable. The Joy actor sounded bemused. Though I actually enjoyed CC (Brian) leaning fully into it. 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I’m so sorry some cyclists are such nobs 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Obligatory picture of the insta-grotto, but from the outside 010
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialNine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 25/02/2025These beautiful #poetry books are all on SALE at just £7.99 each until the end of February, along with FREE UK postage across our shop. Don't miss out on big book savings📚 ninearchespress.com/shop 0106
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 19/02/2025It’s fair to say I am very inexperienced when it comes to DIY of any kind. And now I realise why you don’t decorate in Februarymedia.tenor.coma statue of a man with a beard is covered in iceALT: a statue of a man with a beard is covered in ice 000
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Book number seven of 2025 is Elizabeth Gifford’s The Lost Lights of St Kilda. I read it because of our upcoming Hebrides trip, but I really wanted a happy ending! A lovely last few chapters in front of the fire. #AmReading 000
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Just back from “Ten Things to do in Small Cumbrian Town” - great theatre, very funny and a superb night out. Some of it so well observed I’m still laughing/cringing at my own life. 011
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialAnge Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I've worked on creating the north west section of this #NationalTrail with @naturalengland.bsky.social since 2015, alongside writing this guide - so it benefits from behind-the-scenes insight, and where short lengths of trail may not yet be open, link routes are mapped so there's no need to wait!media.tenor.coma penguin wearing a red shirt is standing in front of a sand castle and a shovelAlt: A cartoon penguin making a 'yay!' gesture by a sandcastle on the beach 032
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialAnge Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you can, please support indie bookshops like Cumbria’s amazing @samreadbookseller.bsky.social over the big chains ☺️ www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...samreadbooks.co.ukPRE ORDER - Ange Harker, Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West: NATIONAL TRAIL - Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside Coast | Sam Read Bookseller Online Shop*Please note this title is not published until the 30th September 2025*A guidebook to walking the northwest section of the King Charles III England Coast Path between Gretna and Chester. Covering 590k... 195
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialAnge Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025COVER REVEAL 🎉 Been a long time in the making but thank you #CiceronePress for commissioning me back in 2018 to write a guide to the brand new #KingCharlesIIIEnglandCoastPath in the north west: 367 miles from Scotland to Wales. It's out on 30th September and you can pre-order now! ☺️ 3186
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialAnge Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Really enjoyed meeting loads of other #Cicerone authors & publishing team this weekend - more news on my contribution to the portfolio soon but in the meantime was supercool to be able to present a little about how we use #GIS software at #NaturalEngland to create the #EnglandCoastPath #KCIIIECP 😊 083
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialAnge Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A little teaser of that thing that took over most of my 2024. #Cicerone #BeenWriting 011
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Indeed. @katiescribbles.bsky.social and I did a library book talk event today. It’s incredible how much more real the characters and the events of Katie’s book have become since it was published - in JULY! 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I wasn’t sure who it was aimed at. As a long term (embarrassingly committed) listener I didn’t feel it added much to my knowledge or enjoyment. However, it was a nice reading diversion. Biggest shock - the cottages are THATCHED?! 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I’m really pleased. Let me know what you think. Xx 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 03/02/2025A good rule of thumb in Silverdale. Don’t go on the sands. App, map or anything else. 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025My favourite bit of the Lakes. I have the view from Chapel Stile up the valley above my fireplace. 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Oh SWs, I appreciate you putting us out of the misery of Harrison and Fallon’s marriage! 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Book number six of 2025; Julie Beckett’s The Archers Unseen. The fact I think I knew all but a couple of things in there makes me realise how much I like TA and how old I really am! I’ve been poorly all week so am under a blanket with my book and the cat. #TheArchers #AmReading 160
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Ooh, Google tells me it’s still the same name! Defo not the same pub though, it closed for ages! Just discovered you can’t post links on BSky! 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025It’s in Claughton. I can’t remember what it was called when GR objected to the square plates! 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I often think about the pub between my village and my parents’ village where GR smashed the crockery in the car park. Closed not long after. Though it is a pub again now…for now. 110
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The Joy actor sounded utterly bemused. I’ll stick with it for a bit longer…. 120
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I listen because I love The Archers. But the presenter insisting on calling the actors by their character names, and addressing them as if in role, grates on me far more than it should. Especially when, as in the case of Susie Riddell, the actor sounds nowt like the character. 140
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The sound effects made that first cheer imply the barn is the size of the Royal Albert Hall. 020
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 31/01/2025How many people are at this panto 😂😂😂😂 #TheArchers 120
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Oh god….. so much panto. #TheArchers 020
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 30/01/2025What the hell is going on with #TheArchers - after the brilliance of George, Joy, Tony we now have whole episodes of bloody panto and Vince apparently having nothing to do. 140
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Found myself with no work this evening. Catching up on The Mirror and the Light. This might be the best tv the BBC ever made. Every single scene is superlative. 020
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Book number five of 2025 is going to stay with me for a very long time. Samantha Harvey’s remarkable Orbital. The prose is out of this world (all puns intended.) #AmReading 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Had a lovely evening. We finally watched Wicked with a lap full of snacks and the cat. 020
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I’m at the point of tiredness where it’s tomorrow and I’m not sure I am going to sleep. Children and wind are a combo at the best of times. Hurricane force winds and children upped the ante. And it was the day of the week where I don’t leave the same room for seven hours. I hope I sleep. 000
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Mid-term Break. I’ve had kids just stare at me in silence for minutes. The final image is horrifically beautiful. 000
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It was the “what were you taking about?” In quick succession, requiring one or the other of them to say “beavers” that made me snort. However, as a side note, HOW does Stella put up with Pip!! 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Book number four is the remarkable Foster by Claire Keegan. She never ever disappoints. Still got a lump in my throat! #AmReading 010
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Book number three of 2025. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. A very different feel to Klara or Never Let Me Go but intriguing and beautifully written. Frustration set in at times. #AmReading 020
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 18/01/2025The Joy/Rochelle storyline in #TheArchers is written so well. To me the dialogue feels very realistic. Both central players know their own versions of whatever happened so they don’t need to articulate it. Hence the lack of clarity for the listeners. Making superb, tension inducing drama. 060
Reposted by @lorencafferty.bsky.socialKatie Hale - writer @katiescribbles.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Hey there writers! This week's Five Things Friday is out! Available to paid subscribers for now, then to free subscribers on Monday, so make sure you're signed up! (Also: a photo of our beautiful not-our-cat Penguin) halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...halekatie.substack.comFive Things Friday: issue 85 writing opportunities - each with a top prize of £1000 or more! 011
lorencafferty.bsky.social @lorencafferty.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Yeah, that eerie bark? There are Scottish folk I know who “talk” to them! 110
