The beauty of the changing colours of autumn leaves takes my breath away. Every single year.

A tourist stands at my local Tube station where the ticket office was. I remember the smiley lady there who'd have answered his questions.

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A woman on the Tube helps to adjust her mum's hair and her mum's smile speaks of the many times she has looked after her now adult daughter.

The estuary of the Afon Mawddach on the Machynlleth train

Early stroll. Lights on the old pit stack. I imagine that carpet of fallen leaves as a difficult jigsaw. A puddle the colour of printer ink. The horse and the cockerel as Vladimir and Estragon. Resting excavators.

#WindowsOnWednesday Portmeirion #aofoto

It's my birthday today! 😀 I can't stop myself telling you. I love birthdays. Big hugs to any birthday twins who read this ❤️

With a proud smile, a barista in a café says, ‘Yes’ to my request to photograph what she tells me is her first attempt at a snail in the foam of someone’s coffee.

Almost recreational step stile, St John’s in the Vale.

Every leaf, twig, branch, bough and tree are the same, but different Every single one Just like humans, each one is unique and recognisable from all the others

October journal pages📓 Playing with collage, drawing, painting and washi-tape and seeing how it feels to embrace mistakes in our art sometimes. 💯 human-made, out of my comfort zone as a writer, and such fun! ✨🎨

Woman on the Tube to her son: Careful of your loose shoelace. Her husband: Me? Woman: No darling. I expect you to look after your own laces.

I earn a little from my books but not my podcast or from sharing my work online. People say my posts make them feel calm, which is worth a lot to me. Surviving as a creative is increasingly hard. Only if you can, support me here: patreon.com/MirandaKeeling ✍️ 🙏 ❤️

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I earn a little from my books but not my podcast or from sharing my work online. People say my posts make them feel calm, which is worth a lot to me. Surviving as a creative is increasingly hard. Only if you can, support me here: patreon.com/MirandaKeeling ✍️ 🙏 ❤️

Miranda Keeling — Author and observer of everyday life.

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Teenager standing on the pavement: Sunshine! His friend: For a change. Teen: It's nice. His friend: Will it stay though? Teen: Just be with the moment bruv.

Woman in Mayfair: I fell over in my Prada heels, into a just arriving lift, inside of which were two absolutely gorgeous male twins.

I earn a little from my books but not my podcast or from sharing my work online. People say my posts make them feel calm, which is worth a lot to me. Surviving as a creative is increasingly hard. Only if you can, support me here: patreon.com/MirandaKeeling ✍️ 🙏 ❤️

Miranda Keeling — Author and observer of everyday life.

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I have a friend who is an A&E nurse and she told me once, 'The arts are so important. If you aren't out there making the world a better place then what are we patching people up in hospital for?' Whenever you doubt your (often difficult) choice to continue to be a creative person, remember that ❤️

Reflections of Autumn. ✨🍁

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🎉Whoop!! October’s spooky short story Colburn is on its way! Every month I write a new story, make it into a little hand-bound book and post it to members of my Short Story Club: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeling Missing human-made, analogue content in this digital world? Gift yourself membership! 🎁📚

🎉Whoop!! October’s spooky short story Colburn is on its way! Every month I write a new story, make it into a little book and post it to members of my Short Story Club: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeling Missing human-made, analogue content in this digital world? Gift yourself a short story in the post 📚

I know, it's early but if you like to plan, here's a Christmas gift ideas list from me 🎁 1. My new book: geni.us/ThePlaceImin 📚 2. My first book: tinyurl.com/MirandaKeeling 📚 3. Membership of my Patreon tiers: www.patreon.com/mirandakeeli... (you'll need to sign up as a free member first) 🎉

🎉Yay!! October’s spooky short story is on its way! Every month I write a new short story, make it into a little book and post it to members of my Short Story Club: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeling Missing human-made, analogue content in this digital world? Gift yourself a short story in the post 📚✨

Yay!! ✨New offer!✨Every month I interview brilliant ‘noticers’ from photographers and writers to musicians and architects and it’s free to trial. I’m SO excited by this month's interviewee, the fabulous collector of Ladybird book art @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social! Here: www.patreon.com/cw/MirandaKe...

✨💀This October, my brand new Halloween-themed short story is being posted to members of my short story club. Join: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeling ‘I received my story yesterday. I love it!’ J Mills ‘Handmade brilliance.’ Adam P ‘I loved this story. It kept me company on the Tube.’ E Curtis ✨

Man in Walthamstow: I pulled an all-nighter at uni once amd hallucinated through my statistics exam.

For years I have been posting little observations online and for years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵 Art in this first post by Steve May. Words by me.

Me in the park: Lovely dog, how old is he? Woman: Actually it's his birthday today. He's one. Me: Oh that's nice (to the dog) Happy Birthday (to the woman) did he get anything? Woman: Yes. A trip to the vets.