@cogenthippo
Writer and reader of fiction -- history, sff, romance, thrillers. Interested in sustainability, rewilding, growing things. Knitter, early tech adopter, parent, spouse, disabled. They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 🏳️🌈 ✒️ 🏳️⚧️
Hot pink filing cabinets behind a pile of crap, including a Henry hoover, stepladders and a roll of carpet. Is
I have spent £15 on a pair of hot pink filing cabinets and I could not be happier with myself.
Is the house still filled with chaos? Only if you didn't know what it looked like before.
#SmallJoys @thomasinapots.bsky.social @nickycolouritgreen.bsky.social
I am so sorry to hear this and I wish you both all the best. It was a blessing when I hit menopause. I didn't have it anywhere nearly as badly as you describe, but I empathise.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6230:
Writing is freedom. You are free to write whatever you like, in whatever way you like. You're free to take advice, or not. You're free to describe the real world, or to build it differently. Your successes, your mistakes, your decisions belong to you. Own them.
A felt pigeon watching me. It has felt boobs.
I will felt sensible pigeons today. There will be no other pigeons, just sensible ones.
🤣🤣🤣
Good old Dubai, resolutely fighting for the right to exploit imported slave labour to build luxury homes for the world's tax avoiders, and beautiful holiday hotels for the ethically deficient.
A short 🧵 of Good Things.
Cis dudes now is your time to shine: tell the me the most disgusting man things about your body so I can prove to my niece that being HUMAN sucks not just being a cis woman
Do I know anyone in the York, England, area (admittedly large) who might help me get in touch with the descendant of a pioneering printing technologist? The person in question has a very thin online presence, but I believe would welcome the contact about his family.
This, exactly
Really beautiful!
Some moss for yall
Oh yay you guys! We are so nearly done, everything is now painted and mostly the shelves are up and tomorrow I'm going to start pulling things out of The Pile and putting them up.
It’s 8pm & it’s Sunday, so it must be time for #wildflowerhour!🎉 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if they are #SignsofSpring, the focus of this week’s challenge! 😀
The scammers are relentless.
Please understand, no book club is EVER going to proactively seek you out. It is natural to hope so but that is not how the world works.
They are NOT looking through millions of new books searching for your novel when they haven't even read Northanger Abbey yet
A rough, rubbly looking terrain that looks like that weird lint crap that builds up in crawlspaces.
This photo was taken on the surface of an asteroid.
In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
me 🤝 Proton's comms person
explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
This is so good. Give it a listen. I miss Iain Banks
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if I see a "buy/read my book" post by someone I know, or by someone I don't know but reposted by someone whose opinion I trust, I will pretty much always reshare it and i think more people should do the same tbh
It’s the weekend and it’s so needed! So grab a cuppa, a biscuit and tuck into this week’s Wombling Along for reviews and other online articles I caught this hectic week www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...
Our English Bluebell Woodland
There is such a thing as Heaven on Earth
A black pen in crosshatch technique and black ink applied with a small roller on white paper illustration of a scene of Venice. A black Cat sits in a Gondola, Crows sit atop long poles that rise from the water. Water laps at the Gondola and a little wooden jetty, across the water hazy buildings, their lights just visible through a fog. Crows circle above. A dark figure of a man stands on the jetty by the Gondola on the left of the illustration. Mysterious.
Original handmade artwork.
£350 plus P&P
Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Vino the snake, bathing herself today. Isn’t she pretty? #smalljoys @cogenthippo.bsky.social
Pretty!
Always welcome!
@jackwallington.com know any places that could take 40-200 bare root fruit trees someone's rescuing from chipper in Kent end March .. please let me know if you do.. he thinks the agreement in my Oxford has fallen through
I still have room for nearly 100 indie #bookstores in my Starter Pack; if you're on here and not in a Pack, let me know. #BookSky 📚 💙 @bookshop.org @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
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Graphic showing the covers of all fourteen books that are available as part of the Magic Noir Story Bundle. The bundle is available March 5th to April 2nd. The list of books is as follows: Dexter & Sinister: Detecting Agents by Keith W. Dickinson The British Bureau For Arcane Crime by Phil Parker Resurrection Men by David Craig Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson Kalanon's Rising by Darian Smith Ducket & Dyer: Dicks For Hire by G.M. Nair The Hallows by H.L. Tinsley Legacy Of The Brightwash by Krystle Matar New York Minute by Stephen Aryan Kept From Cages by Phil Williams Madame Antie's Hotel Grotesque by Milo James Fowler The Eye Collectors by Simon Kewin Poison And Power by M. Patrick Duggan Shadow Of A Dead God by Patrick Samphire
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