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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Looking forward to reading this. Thanks to @ianrankin1.bsky.social for such an entertaining and interesting discussion this lunchtime in Bramhall, Stockport.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Always good to see: Denise Dutton’s bronze statue of Mary Anning at Lyme Regis, Dorset. Crowdfunded, after a campaign begun by a local mother and daughter; @profaliceroberts.bsky.social was a patron. Beautiful fossil details - and Mary’s dog Tray. #WomenInSTEM #MaryAnning #LymeRegis #Dorset

Denise Dutton’s statue of Mary Anning and her dog, Tray, at Lyme Regis, Dorset. They stride purposefully towards Black Ven, where Mary discovered many of her fossils.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whoever wins the Nobel Prize in Literature this week will be in the very best company. Epic but intimate, brutal but heartwarming, realistic but mystical - it contains multitudes. #OlgaTokarczuk #AntoniaLloydJones #FitzcarraldoBooks #NobelPrizeInLiterature #BookSky📚 #LiteratureSky

Cover of ‘Primeval and Other Times’ by Olga Tokarczuk.’ UK paperback edition from those wonderful people at Fitzcarraldo Books.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you haven’t read anything by Fosse yet, English language readers, this might be a good place to start. Hypnotic, elliptical, unique; but also recognisable and universal. Recommended. #JonFosse #DamionSearls #FitzcarraldoEditions #BookSky📚 #LiterarySky

Cover of ‘Scenes From A Childhood’, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls. (UK paperback edition, by those wonderful people at Fitzcarraldo Editions.)

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, Mr Hansen, that’s a belter of an album. #Beck #RideLonesome #MusicSky

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ten thousand miles from Adelaide, in leafy Cheshire, but I’m rooting for the Crows in their AFL Elimination Final against the Bulldogs. Just six points in it at the major break. Thanks to ABC for the commentary. Forget last year, guys: let’s have a win today! #AFL #footy #AdelaideCrows

Claude the Crow and 2018 members’ scarf for the Adelaide Crows.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you know, you know. If you don’t, and you can, then find out. #NHS #BloodDonors

Photo of a Club biscuit, by quaint tradition, a reward for donating blood in the UK. And, no, they’re not what they used to be. But that’s not the point.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“I’d like a house, please.” “Certainly. What period?” “Jacobean. Very Jacobean. As Jacobean as Jacobean can be. One hundred per cent Jacobean. Twenty-four carat Jacobean. The Jacobean houses’s Jacobean house.” “I think we have the very thing.” #NationalTrust #BlicklingEstate #Norfolk

Photo of Blickling Hall, a National Trust property in Norfolk. It’s very, very Jacobean.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” ‘In Blackwater Woods’ by Mary Oliver. #MaryOliver #poetry #BookSky📚

Photo of ‘Selected Poems 1965-2005’ by Mary Oliver.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Those wonderful pre-Eagles days.

Cover of ‘You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind’ by Joe Walsh.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Great to hear Susie Dent in Bramhall last night, talking about her new novel, ‘Death Writ Large’, her work as a lexicographer and her love of words. Looking forward to a hugely enjoyable read! #SusieDent #DeathWritLarge #BookSky📚

Photo of the UK hardback edition of ‘Death Writ Large’ by Susie Dent.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Late September … “ Far be it from me to argue with Seamus Heaney, but not this year, sir. #BlackberryPicking #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #Nature

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I can sew a button on a shirt - and there my skills end. But I do, for some reason, love this show. Welcome back. #BBC #GreatBritishSewingBee

Photo of Sophie Willan, Esme Young and Patrick Grant, hosts of the 2026 Great British Sewing Bee.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A wonderful read. It leaves two deep impressions: the tragedy of its subject’s life; and the skill of the biographer in balancing sympathy with honesty. If you like Mansfield’s work, this is essential reading. #KatherineMansfield #ClaireTomalin #BookSky📚

Copy of ‘Katherine Mansfield: A Secrrt Life’ by Claire Tomalin. Cover photograph is of KM.

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Neill Roberts @robbo59.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Haven’t read one of hers in years - but picked this one up the other day. But then I bought it at this place, Greenway, her home in Devon. So I guess it’s a book and a souvenir. The nice woman in the shop even put a special stamp inside. #AgathaChristie #BookSky📚

Cover of ‘The Murder at the Vicarage’ by Agatha Christie.

Photo of the front of Greenway, Agatha Christie’s home in Devon, owned by the National Trust.

Inside page of the book, with the NT stamp for Greenway.

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