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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well, this was a rather bloody nice autumnal wander along the South Downs this morning with my giant dog.

Looking through the ears of a Clydesdale horse on a concrete bridle path through autumn country lanes

Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Missing my sunset swims & hot tub at my family home already. A few days of tiny island life & excellent food to reset my brain a little, breathe, have a think & make a few mental lists of things I want to do. Quite a nice place to get your shit together, really.

Sunset and clouds over a blue swimming pool on the island of Jersey

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A loop pedal can replace a band, Ed. It can’t replace a spine.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This one hurt. Tim Curry was so much more than Rocky Horror, although Frank-N-Furter will always have a filthy little corner of my heart. Clue, Legend, IT, Muppet Treasure Island a gloriously weird lifetime of roles, with that unmistakable voice, wit and presence. Don’t dream it. Be it. ❤️

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Watching #TheGreatADHDMyth? as both a neurodiverse person & a TV production lawyer, I found the lack of balance really uncomfortable… #adhd

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Brighton sunsets driving across the South Downs hit differently.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tasting Gillian Anderson’s g spot

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I ordered myself a cameo pep talk from Miriam Margoyles and it’s bloody beautiful. Sweary of course, but sentimental and so lovely. Didn’t expect it to make me cry at 1am… love her.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Saw this loaf on the train. Made a difficult journey 100 x better.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is Mabel, she belongs to my friends, they said sure take Mabel on your run/hike this morning. Mabel had other ideas.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the pressure on women to look a certain way feels like it’s come full circle. So this is a short illustration…

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rescue dogs don’t hand out trust freely. Martha had a horrendous start in life and still struggles to trust people. This morning she decided I was safe enough to climb onto the bed for a big cuddle. Her owners were thrilled as she doesn’t even do that with them. What an enormous privilege, I melted.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I’m beginning to think, with this judgmental look, that Martha may just be my spirit animal.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I don’t think I realised quite how much I needed to step away from life for a bit. Since bereavement leave I’ve not really had any proper time off, just kept going. Quiet days, good food, countryside, and my most trusted people dropping by has done me the world of good. I could do with more of it.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Halfway through my stay here and I’m starting to think I was never really built for constant noise. Give me quiet countryside, dogs, horses, good food to cook, books to disappear into, music good movies and my favourite people coming to visit me. It’s been bloody lovely, honestly.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’m beginning to think my cause of death one day will be laughing so hard I keel over at a dog being scared by its own fart. How do I know this? Because it was touch and go just now especially when the other dog was also startled and barked at the first dogs flatulence…

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m in the countryside for a week with ponies and golden retrievers and an m&s food shop 10 minutes away. My soul is the closest to happy I’ve been since I was last at a gig.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Dyed my hair black again, oh she’s back. Or something similar. Either way I feel much more like I look myself again.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Damn it’s a lovely evening.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I appreciate scientific curiosity, but we’re drifting alarmingly close to necromancy with extra gluten. Imagine surviving 5,000 years, defeating time itself, only to end up as someone’s £8.50 sourdough toast.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

More recently I spent a lot more than I ever usually would on a haircut by a “celebrity” hairdresser to cheer myself up 100% was worth it - obsessed. I always find hair salons intimidating and not my style of people. Heavy metal hairdresser, Simon Tuckwell was exceptional and we had a right laugh.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Visited a friend earlier, I was a bit tired after a relentless day of work, casually glanced to the side as I waited for the door to open and promptly shit myself.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A culmination of world shittery, sheer disappointment in humans who should know better and humungous clouds of grief have put me in the worst mood today. Taking my furry friend Ziggy out for the biggest walk will hopefully help.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Staying with one of my closest friends this weekend and her 10-year-old nephew is starting his Tolkien journey with this beautiful old graphic novel edition of The Hobbit. An excellent introduction, I’d love to be reading this for the first time again.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Tempted to play lovely gentle Lego games all day with my friends wife rather than face up to adult realities of family politics and mums ashes interment. Being a grown up sucks

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Quite a glorious day in my neighbourhood today. Not too shabby at all.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

We watched Death Stalker (2025) and it absolutely went for it; brilliant creatures, gloriously over the top, gore and effects that felt lovingly, almost artistically unhinged. Proper feral energy. No restraint, no apologies, it’s very self aware. Sick. Made me giggle a lot, highly recommend.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Dogs make most things feel that bit better

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

There are some labradors that become guide dogs, detection dogs, insanely smart…then there’s Mabel who just threw a strop because she’s not allowed to steal the hot cross buns in the bakery or have any breakfast pastries..

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If you like Charlie Cox, don’t let that trick you into watching his canine rom-com ‘Merv’ with Zooey Deschanel (being Zooey Deschanel). It has no rom, no com, just relentless overt product placement and existential regret. Charlie is trying, as is this t-shirt. The film however, is not.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Watching sheep give birth, petting and bottle feeding lambs and giving scritches to calves on a Monday night is shamelessly wholesome and I’m goddamn here for it.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Spent a LOT of money on a haircut by one of my fav “celebrity” alternative hairstylists this weekend too, as you do…

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy Daredevil Born Again Season two day in the UK to all who celebrate…AND we get a Punisher special at the end of this run…excellent.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Grief is absolutely kicking the shit out of me at the moment in so many different ways.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It’s perfectly sensible that I’ve applied to adopt a 4 month old puppy and my application is currently being assessed.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Today I read my mums eulogy at her funeral. Both the most difficult and proudest thing I’ve ever done. We went a little extra for her funeral, piper, horses… I think she’d have told us off for doing so much. But she was worth it. Everyone deserves to have a mum like ours.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It’s very kind of people to message and say they know Mother’s Day might be difficult for me. I had actually been doing a reasonably good job of avoiding it, just not thinking about it… …until the kind reminders that it’s Mother’s Day landed. I really fucking miss her.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

International Women’s Day. Thinking today about the amazing formidable women in my life, the ones still beside me and the ones whose strength within me I will carry forward. Turns out a lifetime of strong women around you is quite the inheritance. Feeling very grateful for them all today.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Discovered a drawer full of bum wipes in mums house. Andrex moist toilet tissue to be exact. Cried because now every time I wipe my bum I’ll think of my mum. I know she’d find that absolutely hilarious. Fuck me grief is the strangest thing.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My lovely mum died last weekend. So far grief is incredibly strange, practical things to organise interrupted by moments where reality shifts and I remember she isn’t here anymore. I walked downstairs and asked if she wanted a coffee this morning… It all feels deeply fundamentally wrong.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Happy twin peaks day to all who celebrate

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I’m home as mum has entered end of life care in hospice, so Ziggy had to come too but she’s living up to her job as therapy dog. Although mum never allowed dogs on the bed, it feels like my last act of rebellion. You know I think she probably wouldn’t mind so much.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I have Ziggy looking after me for the next few days, she is VERY excited by this and takes her role incredibly seriously. Here she is showing you her foxy

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Made brown rice porridge with hemp protein green-grey substance that suggests both penance and moral fortitude. Influencers: creamy oat-cloud topped with figs and ethically sourced longing. Me: what can only be described as a Victorian medicinal paste. It tastes…fine. Still ate it. Still protein.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Also, I looked nice, which was nice.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

First gig of the year, man did I need that. Stygian Bough, the Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin collab. Funeral doom that doesn’t suffocate, it sanctifies. What a beautiful, enveloping wall of sound. Bloody Marvellous

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Best little coffee/bookshop find. My cousin and I are dealing with the anticipatory grief of my aunts terminal illness by eating patisserie, drinking coffee and reading books. The Norman-French roots are strong here.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

All hail my fluffy Monday overlord who thinks nothing of multiple breakfast and snack demands.

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