Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Aw, how lovely to hear! Thank you so much for telling me and big waves to your girl. 010
Reposted by Polly FaberChildren's Books at The Agency @theagencybooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025"A lively, absorbing picture-book" ♻️ Delighted to see Recycling Day, written by @pollyfab.bsky.social and illustrated by #KlasFahlen, in @theguardian.com's roundup of the best new Children's and Teens books! @nosycrow.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...theguardian.comChildren’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novelsA gosling grows up; a campaign to save trees; the impact of partition; thorny dilemmas; wearing a hijab in Essex and more 021
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Any tadpole behaviourologists on Blue Sky @chrisgpackham.bsky.social ?! Why do the tadpoles in my pond come to burrow en masse in pebbles at edge of pond in the daytime? Temperature? Food source? (although not obviously different from other sections) 020
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Dear #NYTConnections setters - could you possibly limit yourself to one rather US-centric term category per puzzle? Ta v much 000
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025@candygourlay.bsky.social Just had a lovely lunch date with my 3 yr old great nephew who told me ALL about the funny author he met yesterday and her adventures in her grandmother's cupboard (hopefully I'm not conflating two of his stories). He'd clearly had a brilliant time listening to you. 110
Reposted by Polly FaberLaura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage 19270711973
Reposted by Polly FaberChildren's Books at The Agency @theagencybooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Happy Publication Day to Recycling Day: What Happens to the Things We Throw Away, written by @pollyfab.bsky.social! With illustrations from #KlasFahlen, discover all the people, processes and vehicles involved in recycling paper, glass, plastic, food and more. ♻️ Published by @nosycrow.bsky.social 121
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Lovely. Actually son's first school trip in Reception was to the tip and I don't think it got better than that for any subsequent trip. 010
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Publication Day for Recycling Day! Written by me and illustrated by #KlasFahlen. Thanks to all the team @nosycrow.bsky.social for making such a delightful book full of rubbish. 32611
Reposted by Polly FaberNicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 13/03/2025#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Beautiful picture of a dump by Klas Fahlen from Recycling Day: What Happens to the Things We Throw Away. An account by Polly Faber, with fascinating maps so the reader can follow a journey. Out 13 March from Nosy Crow. @pollyfab.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social #booksky 0308
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Anyone got any info on when @netflix.com will be adding more episodes of #TheFirstFrost ? I can see episodes 11 is already out but their listing stops at 10. Frustrating. 010
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I know. Sigh. Need more grizzled and careworn romance. 100
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025horrifying to know that Take That didn't lie when they sang someday this will all be someone else's dream. On the other hand Residents Thingy in April. 100
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025How are you this morning? Do you need an appointment with a hepatic surgeon because I know a great one...media.tenor.coma man wearing a black jacket and tie is covered in waterALT: a man wearing a black jacket and tie is covered in water 100
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025So good. No spoilers but a scene involving a very old movie... 010
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 16/02/2025It anyone needs a warm, funny and truthful about relationships binge watch, Taiwanese drama #IAmMarriedBut on Netflix is just 10/10 delightful. 330
Reposted by Polly FaberSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards. 12944271130
Reposted by Polly FaberTheGrantPerkins @thegrantperkins.bsky.social · 06/02/2025What's the stupidest animal in the jungle? The polar bear. 092
Reposted by Polly FaberKaren McCombie @karenmccombie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025My newbie WORLD OF WANDA is officially out tomorrow, but had an ace book launch lunch today with local author chums @helenpeters.bsky.social, @pollyfab.bsky.social & @nicolapenfold.bsky.social! #WhoopWhoopForWanda #AnyExcuseToGetTogether @uclanpublishing.bsky.social @theagencybooks.bsky.social 032
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025No worries- I'd love to have written it and definitely want a read now! 000
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Looks fabulous 😍 but very sad to admit not me that wrote it! Polly Owen... 100
Reposted by Polly FaberTracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Fucksake why is everything good in danger. Spend my life signing petitions. Please join in and sign, this place is fantastic and beloved 818051
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Middlemarch for the third time. Me, first quarter: "Why did I think this was the best book? So many characters and impenetrable politics and Dorothea is a prig" Me, final quarter: "This is the best book - so funny, so sad, so WISE." But Dorothea and Will are a bit silly - I'm all Team Garth now. 120
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025"Most Interesting"... *changes 50 something yr old glasses to better assess bamboo shower scene* I see no issue. 120
Reposted by Polly FaberKirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Seriously: this is absolutely extraordinary, do take a look. A truly DEEP dive 54919
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Somewhere more illicit to start with but now on Webtoon - and it's finally up to date with the point I'd got to. 100
Reposted by Polly Faberfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I took my dog out of an expensive, brilliant daycare because I was bitter he never appeared on their Instagram. 112164
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025No problem guvnor *tugs forelock as olde timee Englishe alternative* 000
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025It's definitely satisfying sign off and worth bringing back into wider use. I reckon it might allow a speedier exit of some meetings? 100
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I'm pretty good at my respectful fist round a hitching thumb bow from watching Flourished Peonies. Seems to get you a long way in China. Admittedly Olde Timee China. Hwaiting 💪 120
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I am 🔥 for them and their flapping stethoscopes around necks 110
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025"We must keep on running" Having read manhwa I am hyped for this dialed to 11 nonsense. Predicting they *will* keep on running. 330
Reposted by Polly FaberKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 19/01/2025UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments] 18337912390
Reposted by Polly FaberSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Part of the enduring appeal of the works of Jane Austen is that it reflects simpler times, when things like the truth could be universally acknowledged. 361024125
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Frank Skinner. Surprisingly large crowd and a lot of press there for him. There was no malice in his licking- he knew I'd take it in the spirit in which he offered it. 120
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Dreamt that Frank Skinner very carefully licked the exterior of my right nostril following a breakdancing display at the Children's Bookshop. 270
Reposted by Polly FaberUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 31/12/2024for the potato fears not death 589229853782
Reposted by Polly FaberSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024In Star Wars they should have made all the spaceships black with white dots to camouflage them from other space ships. Missed a trick there. 1731812
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Missing twins! Body swaps! Corrupt presidential candidates! An eye twitching psychopath who stitches eels to fish! Blue cocktails at the British embassy! Either M or FL ending up in hospital EVERY episode! Marvellous 120
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024If you're prepared to lean in hard to the nonsense the rewards are high. It's a ride and YYS is doing some tremendous emoting throughout. 110
Polly Faber @pollyfab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Could not be enjoying the utter utter nonsense of #WhenThePhoneRings more. Highly recommend if anyone needs a Betwixtmas melodrama binge dialled to 11. 130