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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September reads 📚💙 Favourites were The Land of Green Plums and May We Feed the King.

A collage of book covers: Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie; Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee; The Maiden by Kate Foster; The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller; The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight; We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida; The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis; May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry; The Advanced Practitioner in Mental Health by Clare Allabyrne (Ed); We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My dad’s uncle and cousin 😢 So much needless tragedy during the Troubles

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been to see Omar El Akkad this evening. Slightly intense, very thought-provoking. An incredibly humble and eloquent man.

Photo of a theatre stage, a large screen stating “Southbank Cantre, literature and spoken word. Omar El Akkad in conversation”. 2 men standing in front of the screen, with some blue chairs. The stage is lit up with pink lights.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favourite books of the year or any year. Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a fantastically talented writer. She archives voices and losses and lives in a way that feels utterly authentic. I can’t recommend this book enough! #BookSky💙📚 app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b9ff...

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Review by chris_leathley - Said the Dead

I didn’t think she could equal ‘A Ghost in the Throat’.But she has.A miracle of a book and a v...

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yay, it did make the shortlist! 📚💙

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just finished this and thought it was brilliant! Engaging, original and well written. Hope it makes the Booker shortlist 📚💙

Book cover for May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry. White writing on a dark background, with photos of individual pears in the background.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dropped eldest to York Uni today for fresher’s week. When I asked him what he will miss from home, he answered “the cats”. If I ask again in a couple of weeks I suspect the answer will be having his laundry done for him. Anyway, saw a couple of fabulous rainbows on the journey 🌈

View from a car window, a rather industrial scene of a motorway services and an electricity pylon, in front of a large, glorious rainbow.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Halfway through this and it’s just fabulous… ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥

Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Written on the Body’

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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

World Hearing Voices Day ❤️

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just finished my first Herta Müller book, the writing was incredible! Any recommendations for more of her work? 💙📚🖊️

Book cover of The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller, translated by Michael Hofmann. A close up photo of half a woman’s face in sepia tones, she has dark eyeliner and a serious expression. At the top it says Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Lazy Caturday morning in bed with these two and enjoying a great book 📚💙

An aerial view of 2 cats lying on a bed with a grey sheet. One grey cat is yawning widely and the beige cat is looking in her direction.

Book cover for When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà. The cover is a picture in blues, greens and reds of plants and shrubs in the foreground and mountains and sky in the background.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I love my job but the surgery I working at today was like a furnace 🥵 I would much rather have been at home lazing around with the cats!

A large cream coloured cat tree by a large window, with a beige coloured cat sleeping near the top and a grey cat sleeping lower down.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Back from hols! We visited a cat cafe in Belfast on our last day which was great - but made us realise how much we missed these two little scamps 😻

Grey cat with green eyes, lying on her side with her paws raised and bent in a friendly way.

Light coloured cat with yellow eyes, sitting on a red patterned rug, one paw in front and looking up at the camera.

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Jen @sunnyflourbakes @sunnyflourbakes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Awwww the hedgehog caught on our garden camera…watch for the leg shake at the end🤣 #hedgehog #garden #wildlife #nature #cute #animal #video

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Meet Harry the cat who lives next door to my sister. Despite the resting bitch face, he is actually very friendly. Love him!

A fluffy ginger cat sitting on the pavement, staring at the camera with a grumpy look on his face.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Early Sunday morning walk along Belfast Lough with my wee sister. Happy days.

Some yellowing grass, foliage and rocks in the foreground, blue sea and a cloudy sky with some teasing blue between the clouds.

Another sea view with some darker green foliage and trees in the foreground.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

☀️ 🥵 for about the first time ever, I am looking forward to the cooler climate of N.Ireland!

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Had an amazing personal shopping experience at my local independent book shop today (thank you @rickymcmaster.bsky.social). Narrowed it down to 5 but plenty more for my TBR list!

View of a cute reading room, lots of books on shelves, tables, benches with colourful cushions, gabled ceiling and star lamps.

A wall of filled bookshelves in the background, in the foreground a table. On the table a wooden tray with a green teapot, cup and saucer, and a glass of water, some yellow roses in a vase and a pair of glasses.

A pile of purchased books: Mother Naked by Glen James Brown; On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia; She Who Remains by Rene Karabash; The Wolves of Staro Selvo by Zdravka Evtimova; The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.

A green tote bag with gold lettering which says Books on the Hill and a gold picture of a candle in a lantern.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This book messed with my head! Love it when a book takes you out of your comfort zone and stretches your brain…

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

June reads 💙📚 A mixed bag this month, includes my favourite and least favourite reads of the year so far!

A collage of book covers: Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi; Departure(s) by Julian Barnes; Hooked by Asako Yuzuki; Theo of Golden by Allen Levi; None of This is True by Lisa Jewell; The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo; Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham; New Techniques of Grief Therapy by Robert A Neimeyer; The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think I may also spread myself out by the back door hoping for an occasional breeze 🥵😹

Grey cat lying spread out on a light carpet.

Beige cat lying spread out on a carpet that is a slightly darker shade of beige.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Wow. Just finished this stunningly beautiful book. Ní Ghríofa trawls through the archives of Cork Lunatic Asylum and through fact and fiction, brings to life its female psychiatrist and some of the female patients. This will be one of my favourite books of the year.

Book cover of Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Blue cover with an old fashioned photo of a woman in the background, it looks slightly faded, and the book title written across her face.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is the Belfast that I know and love ❤️

Placard showing the slogan ‘More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish’

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 05/06/2026

Seeing a ton of folks wondering where to get audiobooks these days 👀 We are an audiobook company that share profits with 4,000+ indie bookshops across the globe. Every time you buy an audiobook with us—there are over 600,000 to choose from—your indie benefits. (Which we think is pretty cool.)

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Apparently the French word for vegan cheese is fauxmage. This has made me unusually happy!

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Good news, the audio version of Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction is out now on Audible, Spotify, etc.! I also have three codes for free Spotify copies, so we can do a competition. Just share and like this and I'll pick three people at random to get the codes this weekend.

Yellow and green book stood up on a wooden desk next to a houseplant.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I finally did a top 100 novels (including Graphic Novels - a medium that is shamefully undervalued by literary snobs). Limited myself to 1 per writer in order to keep it diverse… #BookSky💙📚 No order of preference because that would be IMPOSSIBLE 🤣😬

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Miko @mikomayer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Happy #Caturday, everyone! A long time ago… Ponzu was smaller, but still a dignified little princess who liked sleeping on soft cushions 🥰🫶🐾 皆さん、ハッピー#Caturday！昔々は...ポンズちゃんはもっと小さかったものの、早くも柔らかなクッションで眠るのが好きな威厳ある小さな姫様でした 💗🐾 #PonzutheCat #catsofbluesky #cat #photography #Blueskyねこ部 #猫部 #ねこ部 #猫写真 #写真

A young tabby cat lies on a cushion looking towards the camera with a relaxed look on her cute little face.

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SANE | Changing mental health for good @sane.org.uk · 22/05/2026

Please make sure to read your medication leaflet and take extra care in the hot weather ☀️ By staying hydrated, cool, in the shade where possible, and wearing suncream, you can protect yourself. Share this post for someone who night need it. #heatwave #mentalhealth

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Nurses across England could carry out targeted strikes against “rogue” hospital trusts that try to avoid upgrading pay for band 5 nurses. Chief of @theRCN interview in Sunday Times: www.thetimes.com/article/86e1...

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Nurses threaten targeted strikes if hospitals block pay rises

The Royal College of Nursing warns that trusts which resist efforts to increase salaries could face walkouts

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audreym @audm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Welcome to Belfast #NornIron #Tayto

A photo of a Tayto Crisps vending machine

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Mochi recovering well from the ✂️ #caturday

A beige cat snoozing on the sofa with a clear plastic buster collar round his neck.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I really like the most popular cat names in china

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Nearly 2 months in and Sapphire is starting to get used to Mochi. We have gone from suspicion to annoyance to tolerance. Am hoping it will be friendship next! #cats #wishfulthinking

2 cats on a grey cat tree. A grey loaf cat on the left and slightly lower on the right, a light coloured cat sitting up and staring at the camera with his yellow eyes.

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

April reads 📚💙 Favourites were Drive Your Plow and London Falling

A collage of book covers: Family Matter by Claire Lynch; The Street Clinic by Dorcas Gwata; On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle; Heart the Lover by Lily King; There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm; The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke; The Master by Colm Tóibín; London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk; The Lost Girls of Autism by Gina Rippon.

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Ed Freshwater @edfreshwater.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

What is the culture like in your workplace? Be part of research to understand how team cultures are made and experienced by NHS staff working in the #mentalhealth sector. I am looking for participants employed in any role in NHS MH services in the UK to be interviewed.

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SANE | Changing mental health for good @sane.org.uk · 27/04/2026

Half of community mental health nurses say patients are frequently coming to harm because of overwhelming caseloads, as new analysis shows demand for services has grown more than twice as fast as staffing. Find out more here👇 www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Community mental health nursing overwhelmed by staffing and caseloads | News | Royal College of Nursing

Nursing staff say their workload feels "unmanageable and unsafe" on a daily basis

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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Took this wee man to the vet today, he was incredibly friendly with the lovely vet, even after she jabbed him! #caturday

Light coloured cat sitting on a windowsill looking majestic.

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