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MrsCReads

@mrscreads.bsky.social
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Teacher of English, Reading Lead, MA English Literature. (Very) amateur writer. 📚 🌱 🐝 🐓 🐶 🌈 ✊🏿 🏳️‍⚧️

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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Blanching and storing my first batch of nettles for the year! 🌱 #GardenSky #gardening #foraging #cooking
A batch of blanched nettles cooling in ice water.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It’s been a terrible week for writing. But an excellent week for getting assessments marked. And the greenhouse tidied. I’ll take the wins where I can. #WritingCommunity #GardenSky
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today was a Very Bad Teaching Day, so instead of moaning I’m going to share a picture of my dog with his current favourite toy. #dogs #EduSky
A dog holding a large stuffed capybara toy in his mouth.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Librarians and teachers - my students want more manga in our school library. What recommendations do you have for secondary appropriate texts (11-16) and where can I get them for a reasonable (cheap) price? #BookSky #MangaSky #EduSky #manga #librarians #recommendations
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I may need this recipe, looks so comforting!
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A short one but a fun one. You can trust a demon to be untrustworthy. They are very considerate in this way. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
“Have I ever given you reason not to trust me, Master?”



Other than being a Demon? No, Margot thought wryly. The Demon had never betrayed her or tricked her or deceived her into thinking it was anything else other than a Demon. It was probably the only reliable thing she had ever encountered.

“What must I do?”
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#writer #authors #indieauthor #writingtips #aspiringauthor #indiebook
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World Book Day UK @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
2 days to go! Join us on Thursday 5 March to celebrate reading for fun ✨ Looking for last- minute resources and celebration materials? Head to our website for everything you need. www.worldbookday.com
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Ooh I imagine they’d be delightful sautéed with some garlic! I tried them roasted tonight and that was a winner.
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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
💡NEW POST 💡 ‘What teachers think about disciplinary literacy’ “Teachers who experience teaching a young child to read with a phonics programme and early handwriting practice feels a world away from reading dense science texts or writing history essays.” alexquigley.co.uk/what-teacher...
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What teachers think about disciplinary literacy
It can sometimes feel like primary school and secondary school teachers inhabit different worlds. It is no surprise then that teachers at different phases have diverging views and beliefs given their ...
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This is a beautiful description.
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Michael ❌👑 Indivisible COLO @michaelindivisible.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Earthseed, including The Book of the Living, was created by Octavia E. Butler
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Margot has been lying about [SPOILER]. And now, everything is about to unravel. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips
Margot felt it snap. She almost heard it. Whatever it had been inside her keeping her going, whatever she had been holding on to.

Snap.

A roar, a blazing scream of pain and terror and fury, from the deepest pit of her stomach to her burning tongue.

She kicked a table, a chair. Sent them hurtling like skittles.

“Margot.” The sharp tone in Agatha’s voice made Margot freeze. “Stop. Please. Talk to me.”

“I can’t…” An excruciating lump had formed in Margot’s throat. She leaned forwards, staring at the whorls in the wood and taking her weight onto her hands, hiding her face. “I can’t. It’s all going wrong, it’s going wrong…”

“I think you’re lying with kind intentions. But you promised me: no more lies. Tell me what’s going on.”

“I’ve done something terrible, Agatha,” she whispered, her voice strangled by the lump. “Something terrible to another person. And I can’t take it back. And I can’t escape it.”
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today I learned that if you plant 6 Jerusalem Artichokes one year, you end up with 3,000 tubers the next year. Anyone got any recipes? 😂 #GardenSky #recipes #cooking #allotments
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Beautifully niche.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This properly made me chuckle!
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
From a quiet, slightly more personal WIP I keep returning to. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips
I had not stepped into the garden since she died. It sat behind the house like a room whose door I kept meaning to close properly, a place I couldn’t look at without feeling the tug of her hands somewhere deep in the soil. But, that afternoon, weeks after the funeral, weeks after returning to work, I walked out of the backdoor and out into the heat of a midsummer day. The doorstep wobbled beneath me, a familiar sound. Somewhere above my head, a blackbird's song melted into the sky. The air was thick, weighted, as though the weather itself wished for me to turn back.

Everything was in bloom.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Rescue chicken Sarah (Connor) would like to announce that it finally feels like spring! 🌸 #rescuechickens #spring
A chicken standing on a chair in the sun.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I love this series! I read it over and over as a child. I think there’s very little of what I write now that isn’t in some small way inspired by it.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Something… close enough…? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Something buried deep in Ingrid's gut desparately wanted to be right; something that had clawed and burrowed its way down, down, down until it could find no further darkness to delve into, and now it sat, cold, obstinate, unyielding to any bid to move it. In fact, the merest hint of opposition only seemed to harden it until it felt like a pebble she had swallowed when she was too young to recall. At the sight of Liora's defiant gaze, it seemed to rattle within her.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Ah, maybe that’s what I’m thinking of.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The title actually made me snort with laughter. This is such a fun idea.
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Heck Awaits @heckawaits.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Mozart teams up with Salieri to assassinate Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in modern-day San Antonio: THE DECOMPOSER #W #WSPitWIPs #WSPit #Hu #HI #A #L
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Tempted at “menacing food.” Sold with “professional competitive dishwashing.” 😂 And it’s always a yes to boring hobbies!
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don’t normally post about stuff I’m watching but this is delightful. Gentle comedy is such a win. #BBC #SmallProphets #comedy
An image of a man carrying two large, empty jars through his garden with the title ‘Small Prophets.’
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This sounds amazing. The Six Swans was one of my favourite childhood stories, although I think my version had seven…? 🤷‍♀️ I’d totally read this though.
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Suzy A. Win @suzyawin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
SIX CRIMSON CRANES X THE CRUEL PRINCE X SHREK 🪿 A fractured 'The Six Swans' Retelling (but with geese!) 🇲🇲 Burmese Kayin Inspired MC 👹 Belu's galore! (Burmese Ogre) 👊 MC prefers fists over swords 😈 The faes are cruel, but so are humans (and MC's fist) 💐 A lot of flowers #WSPIT #W #YA #F
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Cursed to move backward through time, Joric has fewer memories of Fion each time they meet. If she can’t find a way to change his past before their final encounter, she’ll become a stranger to a man driven only by his memories of the terrible act that cursed him. #WSPit #W #A #F #R
Alt: 19th century train car; Victoria ear ball with people dancing; old English street; gas lamp; woman in a ball gown; old clocks; god statue; apothecary shelf; 19th century seaside resort
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I’m such a sucker for romance and time travel… this sounds great!
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Laken Honeycutt @mycelialwriter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Desperate to outrun his isolation and a haunted past, Ætheren slips beyond the forbidden wall into West Ulli—and joins a mysterious night circus. Drawn into a world of hidden magic, intrigue, and secret agendas, he soon discovers the circus is not all that it appears to be. #WSPit WIPs #W #A #F
moodboard with tops of striped circus tents adorned with lights.
Two masquerade masques
a circus ringleader with a top hat pulled over his eyes, a red jacket, and leaning on a cane
a full mooon over a country road
a magic wall dividing two lands
a celestial sky
an aerial artist suspended in the air
an old looking map
a country field with circus tents in the middle of it
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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
LOVE IS BLIND x YELLOWFACE INCOGNITO MODE: In 2016, reality TV love rat Pete found love across the aisle then ditched his bride on their honeymoon. After years in hiding, he's found love again but a stray online post shoves him back in the spotlight as America's biggest villain. #WSPit #A #W #UP
A nine-panel photo collage arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top row: a red rose held against a gray background; a pile of red, white, and blue “VOTE” campaign buttons; a close-up of a groom placing a wedding ring on a bride’s finger. Middle row: a close-up of a U.S. visa with “ADMITTED NYC” stamped; a navy blue square with the title “Incognito Mode” in serif lettering; an abandoned, shadow-filled room with light streaming through a broken window. Bottom row: the U.S. Capitol building tinted half red and half blue; a person typing on a laptop while sitting cross-legged; and a television control room filled with monitors and production equipment.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It’s my first one too! But your pitch convinced me. ☺️
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thank you! ☺️ I just need to actually finish writing the thing now…
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Argh, I knew I’d forget something! 🤦‍♀️ Please forgive me and thank you for pointing it out.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
THE LIBRARIAN’S SECRET If the one you love has doomed your past, would you choose them for your future? 🕯️Demons, death, and dark academia 🕯️Time travel 🕯️Underdog rebels 🕯️LGBTQ+ lovers to enemies #WSPit #Q #YA #R #F #Dis
Collage: city at night; candles and books; clock; tarot cards; two women kissing; glowing hands.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
WHAT THE THORNS REMEMBER Remember what was lost, break what was bound, return what was stolen. 💫 An outcast raised by witches. 💫 A girl who sees visions of death. 💫 A priest who hungers for power. 💫 A farmer with who hears the secrets of the earth. #WSPit #Q #A #F #H #Dis #LGBT
Collage; veiled figure; woman by window; candles in snow; pumpkin patch; witches gathered by fire; blackberries.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
THE EIGHTH RULE THE TRAITORS X THE HUNGER GAMES X PIRANESI The rules are alive. And they are watching… 🎭 12 powerful magicians; 1 saboteur 🎭 Lies, secrets, and betrayal 🎭 Ancient castles, magical trials, and dark academia 🎭 Are we lovers or enemies…? #WSPit #WIP #A #F #R #Dis
Collage: eye in shadow; grand staircase; blood on hands; labyrinth; cloaked figure; stained glass window.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I am lucky enough to work for a wonderful Head. It reminds me of how important patience, acceptance, and inclusivity is towards staff as well as pupils. Teachers thrive when our needs are accommodated to where possible - which is only a positive thing for our pupils. #EduSky #educationUK
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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Happy Twin Peaks day to all who celebrate.
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Twin Peaks GIF
Alt: Twin Peaks GIF featuring Dale/Kyle McLaughlin, on the phone saying "Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th, Entering the town of Twin Peaks."
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is lovely and atmospheric.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
From the opening of my 2nd completed manuscript. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Today was a terrible writing day. It was a terrible writing day because I learned that rotten eggs can spontaneously combust. 🥚 All over the kitchen. 🤢 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Saturdays are for making fresh batches of kimchi while watching the rain. 🌧️
A close up of homemade kimchi.
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Christian @teachpaperless.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Make 45-minute meetings the norm in schools. Time is pedagogical capital. Shorter meetings sharpen focus, reduce overload, and give teachers more time for planning and student support. Use digital tools for pre-reading—keep meeting time for dialogue and decisions. #SchoolLeadership #EduSky
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If you care at all about the state of education in the UK, please sign this petition. If this is passed, it will be catastrophic. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... #EduSky #education #teaching
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Do Not Scrap the 1265 Directed Time Provision for Teachers
We are concerned about reports that the 1265 directed time policy for teachers may be scrapped. We feel teachers have faced real terms pay cuts, and view 1265 as the only thing protecting staff from e...
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
CW: Ghosts/death/mildly spooky. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Bram learned to read people from a young age. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This such a gorgeous idea.
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MrsCReads @mrscreads.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Value/worth being similar…? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips
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