This afternoon’s reading 🙂 #booksky #lindywest #amreading

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A messy piece of cake tastes as good as a neat piece of cake 🙂 #cake

25 years ago today 💔

In memory Jeffrey Ross Hyman, better known as Joey Ramone, singer and songwriter of the punk rock band Ramones, who passed away far too soon at the age of 49 on April 15, 2001, at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

#punkrock #joeyramone #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Lye Valley Nature Reserve looking lovely this morning 😀 #oxford #trees

This evening’s reading 😀 #booksky #amreading #albadonati

The 75th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

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#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

#RIPPhilCampbell

The 73rd entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

The 72nd entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

The 64th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

This evening’s reading 🙂 #booksky #amreading #madeleinegray

The 59th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

This afternoon’s reading 🙂 #booksky #amreading #suziruffell

Four Mother’s Day cards featuring a designs featuring a brew, a vinyl record, a groovy floral and lighting.

Not every Mum wants a soppy card.
Some want a vinyl record. Some want a retro lamp. Some want a groovy floral. Some want a proper brew.
Four new Mother’s Day cards.
Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/mothers-day

black and white photo of the interior of a shop with goods behind the counter and a shopkeeper serving a woman, Reading Museum Collection

black and white photo of women crowded around a table in the clothes section of a department store. Reading Museum Collection

black and white photo from a high perspective showing crowds of people inside a department store with a sign saying 'clearance bargains here'. Reading Museum Collection

Take a peek inside these local Reading shops through the decades:
🖼️ Hawkes Ironmongers, High Street, 1945
🖼️ Heelas (now John Lewis), Broad street, Jan sales, 1956
🖼️ Reading department store, Jan sales, 1963

The final store isn't identified in our records - so if you recognise it, let us know!

The 57th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

Lunchtime reading 😀 #booksky #amreading #lousanders

I thought I’d try out some drawings pastiching the style of Smallfilms’ Noggin the Nog and the wonderful Peter Firmin. Here are two Doctors having tea together. (Imagine the missing episodes as animated by Small films!)

Index of Discarded First Lines   Also, I am bleeding profusely so please stay for a while……………   8 Carter called again today, enquiring of his ladder ………………….   22 For that was the winter we listened to Enya ……………………….. 31 her eyes were a question mark, her mouth a semi-colon ……………  36 I am a bowl, chipped at the rim ……………………………………..  43 I remembered Newport Pagnell and wept ………………………..       5 I see you forgot the fabric softener again …….……………………  25 In the vacuum between when and how, I squat ……………………..   3 Me and you in matching tank tops ………………………………....  39 Oi Oi! …………………………………….………………………...  78 Our love is a broken oatcake ………………………………………..  61 Please don’t do that, it’s disgusting. ………..………………………   27 She loved his unfinished similes like ……………………………….  52 That, my dear, is a diphthong ………………………………………. 73 The sky is darkening and yet the dove ……………………………..  11 Today, we shall make strudel ………………………………………..  4 Whither the hair tongs? I have seen them not ……………………...  19 Brian Bilston

Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

A collage of nine images featuring prints, a cushion, a mug, a T-shirt and a phone case.

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!

Reading a book about crisps does mean you’re sort of advertising crisps to yourself 😀 #amreading #crisps #booksky #nataliewhittle

The 53rd entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

This morning’s reading 🙂 #booksky #amreading #rabinakhan

The 48th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

The 47th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward

This evening’s reading 😀 #booksky #amreading #nataliewhittle #crisps

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The 45th entry in The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard 1997…

The whole book is available on Kindle here - www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D...

#1990s #diary #KindleUnlimited #MetalMusic #teenagediary #Booksky #CleoHoward #RedDwarf #Valentine

This evening’s reading 😀 #booksky #amreading #jodieharsh