Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Very excited to announce that I am headlining OOH, BEEHIVE ONLINE THIS FRIDAY! www.facebook.com/events/18113...facebook.com 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bridport! I am coming! www.bridport-arts.com/event/the-fu...bridport-arts.comThe Full English - Bridport Arts“It’s a bish-bosh, wish-wash, car crash mishmash!” Ever wondered where the word ‘hoo-ha’ comes from? Why there ain’t no party like a double negative party? And why ‘bead’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘bread’, ... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It was an absolute honour and a pleasure to be featured in the lovely Black Nore Review this week 001
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026DORSET! Want to know when England passed an enormous vowel movement? Or why a nifty Chinese invention made English spelling go a bit Belgian? Then come to my show, The Full English, @bridportarts.bsky.social on 24th September! www.bridport-arts.com/event/the-fu... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Woohoo! Can't wait to make my Ventnor Fringe debut! @ventnorfringe.bsky.social @ventnorexchange.bsky.social 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I'm appearing in CLEVEDON tomorrow as part of the Bandstand Takeover with som fabulous poets! Please do come! www.clevedonlitfest.org.uk/2026-bandsta...clevedonlitfest.org.ukSummer Festival 2026 - Bandstand Takeover | Clevedon LitfestOur bandstand takeover will feature lots of great things to watch, including poetry from Bristol-based ensemble members Hi-Art & Mischief (with mystery guests!), a performance by young people from Cle... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 21/02/202623rd and 24th February! Do the crossword to get the details or scan the QR code! 010
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This is me having the time of my life at Wolves Litfest. There will be EVEN MORE silly hats, shenanigans and cardigans at THE CROWN INN, OXTED, SURREY on MONDAY 23rd FEB and TUESDAY 24th FEB. Book soon to avoid disappointment! threadbare-theatre-company.sumupstore.com 010
Reposted by Melanie BrantonInk Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 10/02/2026Melanie Branton's 'Anorexia Nervosa' is a sonically accomplished compilation of energy and destruction. @melaniebranton.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/melanie-bran... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem 011
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I am very proud to have a poem up on I, S & T today. Thank you so much, Helen! 021
Reposted by Melanie Brantonpoets and prattlers @pandemonialists.bsky.social · 06/02/2026First up will be @melaniebranton.bsky.social with her fantastic show 'The Full English'. It's so good we booked it for last summer's #MidlandsFringe *and* asked her to bring it back now! Where does our language come from? Melanie's here to explain. wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... 111
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026FUN FACT! The Italian for SIGNATURE is FIRMA (from Latin FIRMARE - to make firm, to secure, to finalise), because SIGNING a contract makes a FIRM agreement. That's why, when a group of people SIGN a contract agreeing to go into business together, they create a FIRM 010
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Can't wait for Saturday 7th Feb when I'm appearing at Wolves Lit Fest @pandemonialists.bsky.social Please do come! 030
Reposted by Melanie Brantonpoets and prattlers @pandemonialists.bsky.social · 29/01/2026They're here! The finalists in Saturday's #WolvesLitFest poetry slam each receive an *incredible* literary work salvaged from a local charity shop. Join us this weekend to find out just how toe-curlingly bad these books are! 😎 wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... 4536
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I thought the free fruit was over now for this winter. I was wrong #urbanforaging #foodwastesucks 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Absolutely delighted to be returning to Wolverhampton, but do check out the whole Literature Festival, which is going to be SUPERB! 021
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026CROSSWORD CLUE: Peacekeepers bend over backwards with Keir Starmer's country to make a city not American (4) 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026CROSSWORD CLUE: Spooner's spare thousand for country to which the US has no right (9) 010
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Found this lying on the Bristol to Bath Cycle Path and did what it told me to! If all of us picked up plastic pollution when we saw it, there'd be less of it in our oceans. But, then again, if manufacturers stopped swathing their products in it we wouldn't have to, would we, @bahlsen.bsky.social ? 100
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Thank you so much, Pascal. It was wonderful to see you, and I hope you have written something fabulous xxx <3 010
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Because I am a disorganised klutz, I have only just seen this lovely, lovely post. Thank you, Pascal, <3 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 12/08/2025@susiedent.com Hi, Susie, I am doing my show, The Full English, in London from 16th-20th September, and I would love you to see it. Let me know if you would like to come, and I will happily put you and a plus one on the guest list. You're fabulous! 020
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 12/08/2025@richardosman1.bsky.social Hi, Richard, I am doing my show The Full English in London from 16th to 20th September, and I would love you to see it. Just get in touch, and I will happily put you and a plus one on the guest list 010
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 13/03/2025CROSSWORD DU JOUR: crosshare.org/crosswords/L...crosshare.orgGoing Back for Seconds 1Tom second to get Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical (4); Leave out second to return to the computer department (4); Seconds Twist's request (4); Make beer the wrong way in St Werburgh's (4); Haircare device... 130
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Watch some of the Cryptic Mystic's videos! You'll be smashing cryptic puzzles in no time! 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I am hugely excited that The Cryptic Mystic YouTube channel has done a feature on one of my puzzles! Do check out this fantastic crossword tutorial channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hgg...youtube.comHow to solve a Cryptic Crossword - Walkthrough for beginners - No.122 Cockney Rhyming Slang editionYouTube video by The Cryptic Mystic 140
Reposted by Melanie BrantonBreak Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · 05/03/2025The Global Plastics Treaty must include strong provisions for a just transition to safer and more sustainable livelihoods for workers and communities across the plastics supply chain, including those in the informal waste sector. #BreakFreeFromPlastic #WastePickersDay 121
Reposted by Melanie BrantonBreak Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · 05/03/2025According to @unep.org, 60% of the plastic recycled across the world is collected by waste pickers. While their contribution to the community is vital, they are often unrecognised, unprotected and discriminated against. #WastePickersDay 1103
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025FUN FACT! I love the way that Latin medical words sound all grown-up and stuffy and serious, but actually aren't...like if you move the MUSCLE attached to your PATELLA, you are literally moving the MOUSE on your FRYING PAN. PATELLA is cognate with PAN and PATINA and PAELLA. 021
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025PEOPLE IN THE NEWCASTLE AREA! I have a show on at the Hearth Arts Centre in Horsley, Northumberland on 20th March! I need all the help I can get with publicising this, so I'd really appreciate your sharing it with those who might be interested: www.thehearth.co.uk/whatson/the-...thehearth.co.ukTHE FULL ENGLISH 010
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025My show about the English language is playing at the Hearth Arts Centre, Horsley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20th March Early booking advised - this venue is teeny-weeny! www.thehearth.co.uk/whatson/the-... 000
Reposted by Melanie BrantonAttie Lime @attielime.bsky.social · 02/02/2025A poem about being yourself, on The Dirigible Balloon, which might be useful for #EYFS #KS1 in #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek dirigibleballoon.org/poem/What-I-... #EduSky 2155
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025CROSSWORD DU JOUR: crosshare.org/crosswords/x...crosshare.orgHeart Cryptic 1Walter half-heartedly gets a drink (5); Heartless Dora has little stomach for piece of information (5); Half-hearted Haddon was wearing (3, 2); With taking old Penny to heart, gain breadth (5); Half-h... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025One of my great-great-grandfathers was called Arthur Stevens, but he was not the same one. 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025FUN FACT! The word GREGARIOUS means TENDING TO GATHER IN A FLOCK OR HERD, from Latin GREX (FLOCK or HERD). It's distantly related to the Germanic verb CRAM - apparently, GREGARIOUS types like to CRAM together in a tiny room. No, I don't see the attraction of that, either. 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025CROSSWORD DU JOUR: crosshare.org/crosswords/L...crosshare.orgBackwards 2Took exam again after revolution to get a shocking gun (5); After spinning round, Delia was ill (5); Brer Rabbit's uncle in a spin in old Mesopotamian civilisation (5); Sting travelling back in street... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 28/01/2025CROSSWORD DU JOUR crosshare.org/crosswords/e...crosshare.orgWorkers Working 1Worker going to church to get tree (5); Worker working for Chekhov, Mosimann, Lesser or du Beke (5); One of the Osmonds put on before New York (5); British Library taking headless worker is tasteless ... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 27/01/2025CROSSWORD DU JOUR: crosshare.org/crosswords/y...crosshare.orgNow and Then Cryptic 1Occasionally catch heels, causing pains (5); Occasional ball - a fiery one that used to be in 10 Downing Street! (5); Best shoots regularly - that's the moral code he lives by (5); Now and then, in Pa... 000
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025FUN FACT: In the 19th century, they didn't have Primark and shirts were expensive, so men tended to take them off before they had a punch-up, to avoid scuzzing them up. And that is probably the origin of GETTING SHIRTY. 000
Reposted by Melanie BrantonStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I’m done dating humans. I’ve got a better idea— 819222451603
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I'm out and about a lot this year with my show about the English language. Today, I am delighted to announce I will be in Street in September! www.strodetheatre.org.uk/event/melani...strodetheatre.org.ukMelanie Branton - THE FULL ENGLISH | Strode TheatreBook tickets online for Melanie Branton - THE FULL ENGLISH at Strode Theatre today! 000