Thanks Jacqui, yes, will be interesting to read this…

The wisteria is out at Univ!! 💜💜💜

Couldn’t agree more!!

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New term, new mug!! 😄

Interesting!! Tbh it was the relationships that freaked me out?! We can discuss!!!

Oh god, that’s dreadful 😢 I am so, so sorry ❤️

Oooof, I nearly had to stop reading this one 😬 It was compelling but disturbing… Job done, I guess!! but I need something lighter after this one!!

Fingers crossed! Would be great to see you!

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Gorgeous!

It was AMAZING! Such a brilliant evening 💃🕺🪩

Our upcoming Guild events for the term! Including a workshop with yours truly & comics powerhouse @hellomizk.bsky.social 💥

I really need to read it again. Couldn’t bear it as an undergrad but I feel like I was wrong!!

Absolutely cracking evening meeting the magnificent Kate Butch & watching her Choose Your Own Cabaret show! Huge thanks to my friend for suggesting we go. I bloody loved it! Kate is incredibly talented & bloody hilarious 😂 Highly recommended!

So interesting to read this, Brian, and learn about the elk!

Return of the Thompson Elk, Portland’s Talisman • Oregon ArtsWatch Five years after its removal following damage from 2020 social protests, the Elk stands proudly in its reclaimed home. Is downtown ready for a similar renaissance?

Portland's Elk statue has held a lot of personal meaning for me since first visiting PDX in 1995; that meaning increased when I watched courageous protesters gather around it nightly in 2020. But it did incur damage & was removed.

Now the elk has returned & @brianlibby.bsky.social tells its story.

BRILLIANT 👏👏👏

This great blog post by librarian Kait Astrella about the book curses in the collections of the Morgan Library makes use of my little book ✨Book Curses✨, which is very gratifying.

This is the kind of content I come here for! 🦔

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Ooh thanks! Haven’t come across that one yet- thanks for putting it on my radar!

(Current state of mind entirely held together by well written crime novels 😆)

Novel by Tana French, Faithful Place

My fourth Tana French ✅ Third in the Dublin Murder Squad series. And I think it might be my favourite? I really enjoyed the deep dive into the narrator’s family background 💚

This looks great! I’ve taught The Waste Land for the last two years on my medievalism course and I’ve really come round to it!

Yes indeed! It’s speedway racing. They have teams of seven riders and then race 15 heats with two riders from each team in each heat. (Winner gets 3 points, second gets 2, then 1, last rider 0. Possible 90 points across a meeting). Goes back to the 1920s! Oh, and the bikes have no brakes!!

RESULT!!! 51-39! Brilliant work, Oxford!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Cheering on the Oxford Cheetahs at Sandy Lane! Let’s give the Poole Pirates hell!!! 🏍️💥

Excited to be speaking at this! Alongside fellow GuMMie @saracharles.bsky.social @guildmedmak.bsky.social (Woo! We finally get to meet in person!). Hope to see lots of medievalism-ists there!

Oh that’s really interesting, hope it helps @liber-ray.bsky.social 🙌 Thanks Allie!

Ooh I love the sound of that!!