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Rob Walton

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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 1h
#NationalPoetryDay theme is Wonder.Golden Wonder crisps, now part of Tayto Group, were started by William Alexander, in an Edinburgh factory in 1947. They invented - if that’s the right word - ready salted crisps in the space race era. They had their priorities right.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Seems it was my 200th there. Think I’ve probably enjoyed about 198 of them. Another stunning coastal morning. #whitleybay #parkrun
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Top Poetry Post Day.I pop out for a fight in the crisp aisle,and find these 2 corkers on the mat when I return. Thanks to @attielime.bsky.social and @afharrold.com whose prompt posting panache is on a par with their wonderful wordy ways. @troikabooks.bsky.social @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
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Troika Books @troikabooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Win one of five copies of POEMS ON TOAST by @attielime.bsky.social, illustrations by Emily Ford. Write a poem that would fit on a piece of toast! Don't overthink it - it's just for fun. Post it in the comments, or attach a picture of it spread on toast. Tag, share and enjoy. Ends Friday 25th
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. The warmth and sunshine forced me to run along more of the coast, checking it was still as horrible as I thought. @parkrunandphotos.bsky.social #parkrun #whitleybay
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A box arrived - protective packaging - Reena Makwana’s lovely cover - my words & more of Reena’s lovely illustrations. Ten tiny illustrated food-related tales. Some serious. Some not. If you want one send £6 inc p&p and I’ll send you one. I’ll write more nonsense inside. If you want.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can’t wait to be part of this in September. I’ll be running a lovely event for local schools and then having fun with another writing workshop on Saturday 12th. Many thanks to the Imaginarium and National Trust and ACE.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Many thanks to Lottie at Lemon Jelly Press for choosing this collection of poems for children. Out in November. Between now and then I may bang on a little bit about it being the perfect Christmas present for the bairns. And the grown-ups. And the pets, sideboards, cheese boards, billboards, etc.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: The Ink Splats
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Humble Pie and Chips
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Whipped Cream
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Very R.E.M.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: SNOG
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Blink 183
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Happy Weeks
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Black Grapes
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make abandon bigger: Mid-twenties Fanclub
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Sugarbowls
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: The Beastie Men
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Lots of (deserved 😉) treats. #parkrun #whitleybay
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apparently August 18th is always National Bad Poetry Day, which is music and words to my ears. And eyes. And the other senses. #narionalbadpoetryday #poetry
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Always good to take flight with captain Jonathan Humble and the rest of the Dirigible Balloon crew. This one of mine and loads more free poems at dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Flight-...
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Home from a week of hard graft - with bonus family and friends socialising - to this treat from the fantastic @bardymum.bsky.social and @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social illustrated by Nia Haviliard WITH BONUS PENCIL! Can’t wait to dive in.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. A magazine morning. Also pre-parkrun, when I wasn’t quite so knackered. #parkrun #whitleybay
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Lovely mix of poetry, fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction - all to take my mind off Fraser‘s extreme photo-bombing. ;-) #parkrun #whitleybay @parkrunandphotos.bsky.social
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Post-Rising Sun parkrun. Crazy busy because Whitley, Blyth and town were all cancelled. Tad warm, so the woods were the best place to be. #parkrun
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Bit hot. Bit busy. Bit meh for me. So it goes. #whitleybay #parkrun @parkrunuk.bsky.social
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Delighted to get my contributor’s copy of Mudlarking, this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology. The lovely book, excellently edited by Karen Jones and Sharon Telfer, includes my Meet Me Halfway. @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @sharontelfer.bsky.social @karjon.bsky.social
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Some sort of normal service is resumed after parkruns in Krakow, Berlin and Stuttgart since my last home effort. Setting the finish up in the drizzle was fun and sociable, as volunteering always is. #whitleybay #parkrun
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Good to be back on board the Scaryness Express with a couple of historical horrors. Slightly scary poems for bairns and that. Lots of lovely poems from poetry friends on there. The rest of my two and all the others at scaryness.com/historical-h...
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Interrail Trip Day -1 (I go tomorrow). Ideal opportunity to read all the back issues of NME I’ve been saving from 1979, 1980 and 1981. It looks as though this means there’ll be no space for any clothes in my rucksack, but sod it. Adrian Thrills writing about Haircut 100 is more important. #NME
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Lovely Bank Holiday treat from the pens and imaginations of @reenamakwana.bsky.social and @margauxvlln.bsky.social . Final image is one of Reena’s fantastic illustrations from our @theemmapress.bsky.social book. Great to see more of her food-themed work.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Relaxing with bath and books. Refuelling with coffee and daughter’s rhubarb, orange and ginger cake. #hardlife #parkrun #whitleybay
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Over the next three days Brian Moses’s blog will feature “People Who Help Us” poems for younger children. My not altogether obvious one is in the first batch with some lovely poetry friends. brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Last day to enter. You know you want to. You’ve still got over twelve hours to go. Get cracking!
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. A cold one. A windy one. A grey and lovely one. #parkrun #whitleybay
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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
More stories behind the poems. Children’s poets reveal their inspirations. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social @stefankarlsson.bsky.social @kathrynbeevor.bsky.social @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social
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Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel
THE STORIES BEHIND THE POEMS - PART 2 (Copyright for each poem remains with their creators) Tea with a guest Set up a table as large as a ...
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
@candlestickpress.bsky.social publish beautiful things. Here is another, and they even let a poem of mine appear in its pages. Order from their website.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun bathtime reading. Grey and damp at the coast before, during and after. Dreich is the word, as Frankie Valli nearly sang. #parkrun #WhitleyBay
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Great to arrive home to this treat from @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social @chrisriddell.bsky.social and @fireflypress.bsky.social . Perfect weekend reading!
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Delighted to get post from Australia. A poem in Orbit, illustrated by Ross Morgan. A double-page spread - maybe I should start writing more longer poems! #kidlit #poetryforchildren
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Post-Windy Nook parkrun. Bit hilly for me. Whitley Bay cancelled for the Easter fair. I screamed because I wanted to go faster, but it didn’t work. #parkrun #windynook
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Delighted to be back on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social , the home for stories of exactly 75 words. www.paragraphplanet.com #flashfiction #microfiction
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
@thetoypress.bsky.social Word of the Week is POOTLE.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very chuffed to have been chosen as a winner for this @poetrysociety.org.uk members’ competition. Very chuffed to have made Clare Pollard snort-laugh. Whole thing and other winners and some Poetry News that isn’t about me me me at poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-bo...
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Cold and windy, but job done, and lots of good reading in store. #whitleybay #parkrun @parkrunuk.bsky.social
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
@thetoypress.bsky.social Word of the Week is MONSTER.
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Not necessarily what I expect to hear on Gardeners’ World. #bbc #gardenersworld
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Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun parkwalker duties. New role for me. Walking, smiling and chatting in the sunshine. Yuk. #WhitleyBay #parkrun
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