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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 17/08/2026

The cover art is...well, of its time. But I was excited to see Danish translations of Modesty Blaise in the boxes of old comics outside Faraos Cigarer in Copenhagen. I should collect more of those (in English, so I can actually read them). 📚 #BookSky

Plastic containers of vintage comics. At the front are two editions of "Agent X9" with 1960s painted artwork of a buxom blonde with a gun

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Spotted a grasshopper in our basil. Preferable to slugs, and much prettier.

Small brown and green grasshopper stood on a basil leaf in a bushy basil plant

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 08/08/2026

Train snack on this morning's DSB train from Copenhagen to Hamburg. I think this was given to us in lieu of the advertised vending machine? It's not a lot of food for a 6 hour journey but it was tasty at least #CarFreeHoliday 🚄

Table between two seats on a train with a Tetrapak labelled "postevand", a green packet labelled "sandwich", a small package of licorice and a hand cleaning wipe

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 02/08/2026

If you want to cycle in Copenhagen, I definitely recommend using a rental app rather than pay for hotel bikes. Our hotel charged £20 per day for badly maintained bikes with coaster brakes. Did not feel safe, returned them early. Donkey Republic bikes are heavy but safe. Cycling should be fun.

Orange city bike with the name Donkey Republic, a wire basket and a rear rack

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 17/06/2026

This timballo turned out of the pan beautifully (score one for outer layer of aubergine and courgette over breadcrumbs) but fell apart when sliced. The idea of a pastry crust seems like a lot of extra work but I can see how it would hold together better. More experiments needed 3/ #HomeCooking

Round cake-shaped mound lined with slices of aubergine and courgette on a wooden board

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 17/06/2026

The biggest test is whether it will hold its shape when you turn it out. It's a big moment of truth after hours of cooking. (I know you'd think "is it tasty?" was the big test but with the right ingredients it is definitely going to taste good.) 2/ #HomeCooking

Hands in heatproof gloves hold an earthenware casserole dish upside down on a chopping board

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 17/06/2026

Tim and I have been trialling making timballo. Not quite ready for a special occasion yet, but we're getting closer. There are so many variations to try before we create our own recipe. We're definitely fans of the midpoint mozzarella layer (scamorza also a great option here) 1/ #HomeCooking

Oven dish lined with slices of aubergine, containing pasta topped with mozzarella and basil

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 28/05/2026

Temp was cool enough this morning to enjoy dog cuddles with my reading time before work. I'm slowly making my way through The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, an epic saga set in Zambia from early 20th century into the future. Really enjoying it, but it's a hefty book with hefty themes. 📚

Small black dog on a person's lap, resting its head on a table next to an open book and a paper bookmark

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 27/04/2026

Back at work today after a wonderful long weekend in the Brecons. Gorgeous weather, loads of good walks on our doorstep, lovely people but not many of them. We should do that more often

Large expanse of moorland with a single small tree on the skyline under bright blue sky

Small black dog stood on wide gravel path through a pine forest under bright blue sky

Sparkling blue water in a lake surrounded by green hills and trees

Green hillside with rocks and small trees

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 03/04/2026

And so my annual Easter readathon begins. I have sweet treats and a shortlist of books from my TBR: The Water Book by Alok Jha Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif Imagine Breaking Everything by Lina Munar Guevara The Transgender Issue by Shona Faye 📚 #readathon

Five paperback books (titles in main post), an M&Ms Easter egg, a box of Zaytoun dates and a saucer of green and pink macarons

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 29/01/2026

Plus the dog in question is a schnauzer so bonus points 📚🐕

Photo of a passage from a book, beginning "That afternoon I took Asta for a walk, explained to two people that she was a schnauzer and not a cross between a Scottie and an Irish terrier..."

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 20/01/2026

Goodest dog is getting a deserved rest after an eventful weekend. She & my partner were in an accident. Human has broken bones, cuts & bruises. Doggo is remarkably unscathed & was good as gold in the chaos, being handled by strangers & riding in an ambulance. Now doing her best asst nurse/sleeping 🐕

Small black dog lying on three overlapping blankets on a sofa

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 14/01/2026

Frosty grass and pink skies this morning. Doggo loves a bit of frost 🐕🏃‍♀️

Small black dog stood in a large flat field of frosty grass, with one paw raised. In the background are rows of trees with no leaves silhouetted against a sky of pale blue, pink and fluffy clouds

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 29/08/2025

The main act at the Jam Jar last night was Ustad Noor Bakhsh, who plays Balochi Benju. Much more lively than the support act - whole crowd was dancing despite insufficient air con. Not sure I got as much out of it as those familiar with most tunes played but still fun and impressive #LiveMusic 🎶

Three men sat on a small stage with stringed instruments. The backdrop is abstract shapes in bright colours

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 29/08/2025

Dr Pete Yelding and Dhyan Singh playing classical courtly raga last night at the Jam Jar Bristol was an incredible experience. An hour of exceptional skill, chill atmosphere and beautiful music. Definitely recommend if they play a venue near you #LiveMusic

Two musicians sat on a small stage: a man wearing a turban playing tabla drums and a man in glasses playing a version of a rabeb

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 02/08/2025

Some books pulled out from my TBR for #WomenInTranslationMonth I doubt I will get through all of them in August but it's a pretty great selection to choose from. Authors from: Palestine Morocco/France Germany Korea (x2) Belgium Japan Sweden Happy #WITmonth 📚 #BookSky

8 paperback books lain on carpet. They are: The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, Sex and Lies by Leïla Slimani, Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski, DD's Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, Pétronille by Amélie Nothomb, Please Look After Mother by Kyung-sook Kim, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoki, The Singularity by Balsam Karam

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 14/07/2025

It's taken me two days to recover but I'm still very happy to have joined the Pride parade in Bristol on Saturday. Smaller than last year due to the heat but still tens of thousands marched. Only saw 1 counter protester, thoroughly drowned out by a ring of dancing singing divas. Love you Bristol 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Two women - one wearing blue, pink and purple, one wearing a white T shirt with the slogan Namaste Bitches - taking a selfie in the middle of a Pride march through a city centre

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 16/06/2025

Just remembered that yesterday I made bread and butter pudding for the first time in years and it was delicious. Excited to eat the leftovers tonight. I should do this every time we have bread going stale I made it dairy free with oat milk & oat cream. Real eggs tho. Almonds too #HomeCooking

Oven dish full of irregular slices of bread that has turned golden brown and is sprinkled with flaked almonds

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 03/06/2025

Went to a launch event for Felicity Cloake's new book at @bookhaus.bsky.social last night & it was well worth breaking my "no going out on Mondays" rule. Fun chat about food, cycling and the US. Interesting to hear how much more varied and localised US food culture is than us Brits expect #BookSky

Hardback book with illustration of a cyclist passing a factory, a mountain and a cactus. Title is Peach Street to Lobster Lane by Felicity Cloake

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 31/05/2025

To summarise our Friday night: dirty martini, sourdough pizza with - if this is possible - too much topping, Mission Impossible III and a dog who is very grateful for every scrap of pizza crust

White hand holding a full martini glass next to a pizza in an open pizza box.

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 26/05/2025

I only have 20 pages left of this book and I don't want it to end. I have adored the two days I have spent devouring Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It is beautiful and geeky and generous, funny and heartbreaking, can't recommend enough #BookSky

Paperback book with a digitized version of The Wave by Hokusai and the title in silver foil: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 12/05/2025

Coming home from holiday is rubbish but on the plus side I have all these #NewBooks to enjoy. Now I just need awake brain to do some reading #bookstodon

Six paperback books on a multicoloured throw:
East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Taz Rahman
Matrix by Lauren Griff
Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
Folklore on Dartmoor Today from the Museum of Dartmoor Life
Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 29/04/2025

Still buzzing from experiencing the joy of Joshua Idehen two nights ago at the Jam Jar. In that tiny too-hot room, beautiful poetry and dance beats came together to make magic happen. If you can see him live, do it. As he says, in these dark times we must make time for joy #LiveMusic #LivePoetry

Two people on a small stage: a black man stood at a microphone holding two hand fans, and a white man stood at a mixing desk with headphones around his neck

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 20/04/2025

Doggo having a precarious snooze while I do my physio exercises #DogSky #adorables 🐕

Small black dog lying on its side on an ottoman with its head hanging off one side and its tail dangling down another side

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 19/04/2025

I've read 1.5 books this weekend so it is totally acceptable that I just bought 2 more from East Bristol Books, right? A small radical shop a couple of miles from my house, not just dog friendly but enthusiastic about me bringing my dog. It was our first visit but won't be our last #BookSky 📚

Two paperback books on a light wood background. One is pale pink with white text: Tove Ditlevson | There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die. The second has a red background and then black text in white boxes, like a newspaper or magazine layout: The Transgender Issue | An Argument for Justice | Shon Faye

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 14/04/2025

A lot of Japanese and Korean recipes call for perilla or shiso leaves but it's nigh impossible to buy in the UK so we're growing our own. Seedlings are nearly big enough now to separate out into plant pots and window boxes. Just hope they get to reach full size as I am not the most green thumbed

Green plastic seed tray full of seedlings a couple of centimetres tall, plus a wooden stick marker hand labelled "perilla"

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 01/04/2025

I love a community book swap. Planning to take a couple of books up tomorrow. And wondering if it would be wrong to borrow Crazy Rich Asians when I have so many unread books at home. (This is in Totterdown, Bristol, UK if anyone wants to race me to it 😁) 📚 #BookSky

A wooden bookcase painted bright pink outside a cafe. Signs say "[cut off] Choc [cut off] munity Bookcase" and "Please take a book ❤️"

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 24/03/2025

Currently switching between two ebooks: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler and Unsilencing Gaza by Sara Roy. Both excellent but hard work. Butler is academic philosophy, kinda dry. Roy is more readable but her essays show Gaza has faced the same awful treatment for decades. I need a 3rd lighter book 📚

Two book covers: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (sepia photo of two children whose clothing makes their genders ambiguous); and Unsilencing Gaza by Sara Roy (colour photo of a child holding a large red flower in front of their face)

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 18/03/2025

Another beautiful but strange dog walk enjoying peaceful sunshine while listening to the story of society falling apart in The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I'm in the last quarter of the novel now and feeling real dread at where it is going to end #BookSky 📚

A small quay with several small boats and an old lightship moored. On the quayside is a row of townhouses in redbrick or painted pastel colours. The sky and the water are blue

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 12/03/2025

Went for my first run since November and it honestly wasn't awful. Taking doggo gave me lots of pauses (she was on lead about half the time so I have to stop whenever she finds an interesting smell, feels a need to add an interesting smell...). I guess no excuses now, time to get fit again 🐕👟

Small black dog lying on a tarmac path in front of a pair of feet in running shoes with bright yellow laces

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 10/03/2025

Monday significantly cheered up by receiving a parcel from the Gay Pride Shop in Manchester. Thank you Past Me. I had put off buying Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao as it's only out in hardback but decided I'd waited long enough for part 2 of Zetian's story. #BookSky 📚🏳️‍🌈

A hardback book titled Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao, two paperback books (Significant Others by Armistead Maupin and Sure of You by Armistead Maupin) and two bi pride badges

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 02/03/2025

Right, espresso martinis and sugary snacks are ready to keep us awake until 4 a.m. Let's go Oscars #FilmSky 🎬

Woman with brown hair wearing a pink cardigan and holding a cocktail in a martini glass

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 23/02/2025

Reading The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher and loving it. Gorgeous storytelling blends Middle Eastern myths and Palestinian family history with a modern tale of a 2nd gen US immigrant trying to articulate who she is. It's poetic, sad, happy and queer. Annoyingly hard to find tho #BookSky 📚 🏳️‍🌈

Paperback book titled The Skin and its Girl by Sarah Cypher on a grey rug

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 12/02/2025

A year ago I was in Paris, exploring alone and happened on a secondhand bookshop with a teeny English language section. Found a copy of Passing by Nella Larsen, which I'm finally reading. And it is excellent. An elegant book deserves an elegant bookmark so here's one from the Musée Rodin #BookSky 📚

Small black dog lying on a mustard coloured blanket next to a paperback book and a metallic foil bookmark

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 10/02/2025

Wondering if colleagues spotted the semi disguised doggo behind me in video calls today. She saved her little snores for after meetings finished #DogSky #adorables

Small black dog curled up on a black blanket

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 31/01/2025

Walking is still painful but it is nice to get outside and away from the news and just appreciate the joy of a dog who likes frosty grass and chasing other dogs round in circles #DogSky 🐕

Small black dog lying down on grass covered in frost

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 25/01/2025

Lego bookshop is complete! Need to dig around in the big Lego crate for more minifigs to populate it, as currently no-one is behind the counter or using the upstairs reading nook. This was a fun build #Lego #SickLeave

Tall narrow Lego building labelled Birch Books. There is a tall tree in front with autumnal leaves and stonework details

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 23/01/2025

Seemed like the right week to reread this, for multiple reasons 📚 #BookSky

Small paperback book titled Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr, lying on a soft green blanket

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 20/01/2025

Shoulder pain means I currently struggle to hold physical books open but I've discovered I can manage teeny tiny books. So I'm finally getting thru the Penguin Modern minis set I was given years ago. 50 books of 50 pages each, mix of short stories & essays. Some great, some less so. 📚 #BookSky

Three very small paperback books with identical cover design: pale green with titles and authors in thin black capital letters: The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino, Four Russian Short Stories by Gazdanov & Others, The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 20/01/2025

Here's my to-read books, which are pretty tightly packed in atm. But at least they look pretty 📚 #BookSky

White cubed IKEA shelves full of stacks of books organised by spine colour (mostly) plus some soft toys, framed art prints and a Boston fern

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 17/01/2025

Shoulder rehab project 2 is a Lego bookshop. It's a fair bit bigger than the roses set, and I can still only use my left arm for short periods, so it's going to take a while. But it's a lot more fun than the official physio exercises #SickLeave #Lego

Large Lego box, 15 small plastic bags of Lego pieces and a thick instruction booklet illustrated with a picture of the Lego bookshop

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 14/01/2025

Finished all 12 Lego roses plus bonus baby's breath. They look good and I think have helped my shoulder recovery along #SickLeave #Lego

Shot from above of 12 red roses and 3 sprigs of tiny white flowers, all made from Lego, arranged in a vase

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 09/01/2025

5 Lego roses done now, and I'm getting a little faster and feeling a little less sore after each one. Ain't rehab fun #SickLeave #Lego

Five long stem red roses made of Lego, in 2 designs, lying on a red tablecloth and Lego instruction booklets

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 06/01/2025

30 minutes and 1 complete rose later I'm all done for the morning. Surprising how hard it is on my shoulder just holding Lego pieces in my left hand while my right hand does all the work. Hopefully that means it's doing me some good. #SickLeave #Lego

Red rose made from Lego lying on a red tablecloth next to a Lego instruction booklets

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 06/01/2025

Shoulder rehab project 1 begins: Lego roses. Birthday present from Tim. Helpfully can be split into 12 small tasks as I'm pretty sure doing this all at once would be too much for me rn #SickLeave #Lego

Handful of birthday cards on a table next to a large Lego box, 6 numbered bags of Lego, 3 Lego instruction booklets and a small wooden tray

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 27/12/2024

Boxing Day chilling. Snacks, mulled wine and plenty of time to read. This is the best part of Christmas 🎄📚

Wooden tray holding a single mince pie, a mug decorated with a Moomin and a paperback book titled Woman on the Edge of Time

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Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk · 07/12/2024

Hello everybody on the sky app. This seems like as good a way as any to introduce myself. Here's One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One tv show 📺 Not necessarily my #1 fave of each, but definitely things I have enjoyed over and over too many times to count.

Cover images of: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Josie and the Pussycats 2001 film, Dirty Computer album by Janelle Monae and Spaced TV show

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