Fabulous <3

23rd and 24th February!

Do the crossword to get the details or scan the QR code!

This is me having the time of my life at Wolves Litfest.

There will be EVEN MORE silly hats, shenanigans and cardigans at THE CROWN INN, OXTED, SURREY on MONDAY 23rd FEB and TUESDAY 24th FEB.

Book soon to avoid disappointment!
threadbare-theatre-company.sumupstore.com

A mine. Text over photo reads: Arson, via an ex. Ore. A ravine. Title reads: Anorexia Nervosa. Bottom text reads: Melanie Branton (c)

Melanie Branton's 'Anorexia Nervosa' is a sonically accomplished compilation of energy and destruction. @melaniebranton.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/melanie-bran...

#InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem

I am very proud to have a poem up on I, S & T today. Thank you so much, Helen!

First up will be @melaniebranton.bsky.social with her fantastic show 'The Full English'. It's so good we booked it for last summer's #MidlandsFringe *and* asked her to bring it back now! Where does our language come from? Melanie's here to explain. wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

FUN FACT! The Italian for SIGNATURE is FIRMA (from Latin FIRMARE - to make firm, to secure, to finalise), because SIGNING a contract makes a FIRM agreement.

That's why, when a group of people SIGN a contract agreeing to go into business together, they create a FIRM

Can't wait for Saturday 7th Feb when I'm appearing at Wolves Lit Fest @pandemonialists.bsky.social

Please do come!

An image of three books stacked on top of one another. The covers are hidden, so the identity of these three incredible literary works remains a secret.

They're here! The finalists in Saturday's #WolvesLitFest poetry slam each receive an *incredible* literary work salvaged from a local charity shop. Join us this weekend to find out just how toe-curlingly bad these books are! 😎 wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

I thought the free fruit was over now for this winter. I was wrong #urbanforaging #foodwastesucks

Absolutely delighted to be returning to Wolverhampton, but do check out the whole Literature Festival, which is going to be SUPERB!

CROSSWORD CLUE: Peacekeepers bend over backwards with Keir Starmer's country to make a city not American (4)

CROSSWORD CLUE: Spooner's spare thousand for country to which the US has no right (9)

Fabulous customer service skills, guys

Found this lying on the Bristol to Bath Cycle Path and did what it told me to!

If all of us picked up plastic pollution when we saw it, there'd be less of it in our oceans.

But, then again, if manufacturers stopped swathing their products in it we wouldn't have to, would we, @bahlsen.bsky.social ?

Thank you so much, Pascal. It was wonderful to see you, and I hope you have written something fabulous xxx <3

Because I am a disorganised klutz, I have only just seen this lovely, lovely post. Thank you, Pascal, <3

@susiedent.com
Hi, Susie,
I am doing my show, The Full English, in London from 16th-20th September, and I would love you to see it. Let me know if you would like to come, and I will happily put you and a plus one on the guest list. You're fabulous!

@richardosman1.bsky.social
Hi, Richard,
I am doing my show The Full English in London from 16th to 20th September, and I would love you to see it. Just get in touch, and I will happily put you and a plus one on the guest list

Going Back for Seconds 1 Tom second to get Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical (4); Leave out second to return to the computer department (4); Seconds Twist's request (4); Make beer the wrong way in St Werburgh's (4); Haircare device...

CROSSWORD DU JOUR:
crosshare.org/crosswords/L...

Watch some of the Cryptic Mystic's videos! You'll be smashing cryptic puzzles in no time!

How to solve a Cryptic Crossword - Walkthrough for beginners - No.122 Cockney Rhyming Slang edition YouTube video by The Cryptic Mystic

I am hugely excited that The Cryptic Mystic YouTube channel has done a feature on one of my puzzles! Do check out this fantastic crossword tutorial channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hgg...

The Global Plastics Treaty must include strong provisions for a just transition to safer and more sustainable livelihoods for workers and communities across the plastics supply chain, including those in the informal waste sector.

#BreakFreeFromPlastic #WastePickersDay

According to @unep.org, 60% of the plastic recycled across the world is collected by waste pickers. While their contribution to the community is vital, they are often unrecognised, unprotected and discriminated against.

#WastePickersDay

Whoa! That is GORGEOUS! <3

FUN FACT! I love the way that Latin medical words sound all grown-up and stuffy and serious, but actually aren't...like if you move the MUSCLE attached to your PATELLA, you are literally moving the MOUSE on your FRYING PAN.

PATELLA is cognate with PAN and PATINA and PAELLA.

THE FULL ENGLISH

PEOPLE IN THE NEWCASTLE AREA! I have a show on at the Hearth Arts Centre in Horsley, Northumberland on 20th March!

I need all the help I can get with publicising this, so I'd really appreciate your sharing it with those who might be interested:

www.thehearth.co.uk/whatson/the-...

My show about the English language is playing at the Hearth Arts Centre, Horsley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20th March

Early booking advised - this venue is teeny-weeny!

www.thehearth.co.uk/whatson/the-...

What I Like I like to wear odd-patterned socks: a stripe, a check or swirls. I like to wear my hair up high with lots of frizz and curls. I like to paint my toenails red, blue, pink and green. I like to wear gigantic shades, the biggest you have seen! I like long scarves, I like big boots I like badges: one, two, three! I like a hat: tall or flat cap, I just like being me! Attie Lime

A poem about being yourself, on The Dirigible Balloon, which might be useful for #EYFS #KS1 in #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
dirigibleballoon.org/poem/What-I-... #EduSky

This poem is fabulous!