To honor schools starting I have stories w/teachers/professors this week's 📚⏳TBT Time Machine(Back to #SchoolEdition2026)⏳📚 has my #review for 👨‍❤️‍👨 #MMRomance #mystery 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Jury of One by @charliecochrane.bsky.social #Lindenshawmysteries #Britishmystery padmeslibrarybooks4all.blogspot.com/2026/09/thro...

📚⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine(Back to School Edition)⏳📚: Jury of One by Charlie Cochrane

Summary: Lindenshaw Mysteries #2 Inspector Robin Bright is enjoying a quiet Saturday with his lover, Adam Matthews, when murder strikes in n...

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Been a while since I had one of these but...release day! Lessons in Tracing a Dangerous Scent When the normally reliable Mortimer Pollock goes missing, amateur sleuths Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith are called in to investigate. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZV9PVZX

This week's ⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine⏳has my #reivews for 👨‍❤️‍👨 #MMRomance #LGBT 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Lessons in Desire by @charliecochrane.bsky.social #CambridgeFellowsMystery #historical #JontyandOrlando #BritishMystery #amateurdetecting #cozymystery #cozy padmeslibrarybooks4all.blogspot.com/2026/02/thro...

⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine⏳: Lessons in Desire by Charlie Cochrane

Summary: Cambridge Fellows Mystery #2 Cambridge, 1906. With the recent series of college murders behind him, Cambridge Fellow Jonty Stewart ...

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💗💙💜 #ValentinesDay2026💚💛🧡 w/my #reviews for 5 👨‍❤️‍👨 #MMRomance 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨by @hanksbooks.bsky.social @elliethomas.bsky.social @charliecochrane.bsky.social @rjscott.bsky.social @jaimesamms.bsky.social #WilliamsvilleInn #SeasonOfJoy #HarmonyLake #FourLeggedCupid padmeslibrarybooks4all.blogspot.com/2026/02/vale...

I would pay good money to see him try.

Iceland Cricket@icelandcricket.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Joe Root has now scored no less than sixty centuries in international cricket. This is impressive, but he has none in Iceland. We remain the final frontier for so many greats. Can he do it on a lava bedded wicket in Reykjavík?

Here's a little about the site of the former New Forest D-Day WW2 airfield, RAF Lymington... and news

Time Capsule 2025 #BestoftheBest 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 #MMromance 👨‍❤️‍👨 #paranormal #historical #mystery #sports #shortstory @charliecochrane.bsky.social Vanora Lawless @elliethomas.bsky.social @rjscott.bsky.social & VL Locey padmeslibrarybooks4all.blogspot.com/2026/01/time...

🍾Sat Series Spotlight🍾 has #BestReads2025 👨‍❤️‍👨 #MMRomance 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Pt2 by @annabellamichaels.bsky.social Mary Calmes, Lorelei M Hart @rjscott.bsky.social @charliecochrane.bsky.social #xmas #mystery #historical #mpreg #paranormal #nonshifters #reviews2025 padmeslibrarybooks4all.blogspot.com/2026/01/satu...

Kopavogur, cos they have the coolest logo.

Iceland Cricket@icelandcricket.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Icelandic cricket is comprised of us, the governing body, and our five clubs sides. Who will you be supporting in 2026?

If you are the captain of an Icelandic trawler and decide to have a game of deck cricket, whatever you do, don't field first upon winning the toss. Your crew will likely mutiny and it is easy to make your fall look like an accident. It's cold down there.

Attention unpublished writers from underrepresented groups! Want a chance at three generous cash prizes (£750-£2500)? Enter the Mo Siewcharran prize, hosted by Bookouture. Contest opens 2 February 2026 and closes on 2 May. More info here: buff.ly/K5zd9jA

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our podcast returns this Thursday for our first ep of 2026! As this month marks our 75th anniversary, this time we're delving into the story of our founding, and the decisions taken in our earliest history. Catch up on previous episodes: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The talk I am giving on the RAF Lymington WW2 D-Day airfield sold out, so if of interest, a second date has been arranged. Book a seat on www.ticketsource.co.uk/nfhwa

I just got a comment on a fic I wrote two years ago, and it put a smile on my face. If you read something you like, let the author know, especially if they're indie—it can make their day (or night), and lord knows we all need a boost these days.

Hee hee.

Iceland Cricket@icelandcricket.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is an educational post. We use Icelandic parking standards to demonstrate the wide ball rules in different formats.

Tonight!!!!t The Ted Lewis Centre is proud to present "Get Carter Theme Revisited," an event that brings together the worlds of film, literature, and music in one unforgettable evening. Book your tickets at: buff.ly/hE6dvhH

Get Carter Theme Revisited

An celebration evening of Roy Budd's iconic theme from Get Carter

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There's nothing odd about loving an old airfield!

Marc H (New Forest Ramble)@newforestramble.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Tonight 100 people turned up to hear me talk about stuff. Well, old WW2 airfields, proving there are others out there just as odd as me. Thank you. #ww2 #brockenhurst #newforest

Worth signing up for.

The Crime Writers' Association@thecwa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

All the News from the world of Crime that's fit to print! Get The CWA Readers' News delivered to your inbox each month! Subscribe at: buff.ly/rmByYZE

🍾Monday Mysterious Mayhem & Memorial Moment🍾 has #Bestof2025 &links to #mostviewed 👨‍❤️‍👨 #MMRomance #StarWars 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 by Steve Perry, @frankwbutterfield.bsky.social @charliecochrane.bsky.social @jackienorth.bsky.social #StarWarsLegends #historical #mystery padmeslibrarybooks4all.blogspot.com/2026/01/mond...

Cricket at its glorious best. Only to be rivalled by the day my husband had someone caught off his bowling via a deflection from the (non-helmeted) wicketkeeper's head!

Iceland Cricket@icelandcricket.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Íslensk Premier League (ÍPL) 2026 is coming! We might not always have world class cricketing quality, but we do elite cricketing chaos.

Each Friday morning in the school term, our wholesomeness level goes off the charts as we welcome our under 5s group, Friday Fledglings. On our blog, hear from Fledglings leader Charlotte about what a typical Fledglings morning involves, and how to get involved. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Discover Friday Fledglings at The MERL

Hear from Charlotte Allchin, who plans and delivers Friday Fledglings: our weekly outdoor learning sessions for under 5s.

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In the next few days we'll be sharing more about our birthday and what's coming up in 2026. Before then (important): we'll be marking #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay tomorrow!

Some time ago I advertised a talk I was giving about RAF Beaulieu, a New Forest WW2 airfield. The tickets sold out and some asked if I could organise it again. The hall has kindly let me repeat the room booking... so, if you want to come along, you can book a seat for the second date.

A belated Happy New Year. Started my year as I intend to go on, God willing, poking about in interesting places. (Remains of an inert Upkeep bouncing bomb test run, New Forest.)

Is your New Year's Resolution to finish that book? Join the CWA Criminal Contenders, and receive newsletters, tips, competitions notices, and all sorts of useful things. Plus, it's free! Join here: buff.ly/GyfeTur

The BEAULIEU letters this morning. The letters were originally cut and filled with chalk circa 1910, when this land became the site of just the second flying school to open in England.

📖 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Cathy Pickens buff.ly/pzAZ5JI with ‘True Crime Stories of the South’!

Books & Reading #99 This applies whether you are a writer or a speaker and comes from a remarkable wordsmith #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #bookworm #booklover

Thanks for being part of another very good, normal and rural year here at The Museum of English Rural Life <3 We'd like to wish you a very happy holidays, and a Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Our socials will now enter hibernation until 5 Jan 2026. See you then!

Reminds me of dear old David Steele being sponsored in butchers' items.

Iceland Cricket@icelandcricket.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We will send England 435 items of free cod if they chase these runs in the Ashes.