As winter approaches in the northern hemisphere, many of you may be asking this anguished question: Am I in a #NordicNoir? I've created a handy guide!
Piedwarbler
@piedwarbler.bsky.social
Reader 📚📕 I post about books, knitting, & nature 🦔🪴🐛
My next reading group read. I’ve had this on my shelves for years!
That’s my finished knitted tank top in yellow Einrum + 2 Icelandic wool with strand of mulberry silk 🧶 I’m happy with the way it’s turned out
Currently reading this - after reading Anne Glenconner’s Manners and Mischief, Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around the Queen (most marvellous fun) and Sean Song by Charles Spencer, in September
Blocking my knitted Icelandic yarn jumper and the colour is running 🧶🫶😳 I hope it will be okay! #knitting
Went to the Horrocks exhibition at the Harris in Preston. Highly recommend! Exquisite.
Finished knitting my tank top today. 🧶 I think it’s taken about a year. I didn’t knit through the summer. It was too hot! 😵💫💕🫶
If you’re watching Traitors I hope you’ve got a TV licence. Otherwise you’d better switch off and go watch Netflix
With generpus help and advice from @debbietknits.bsky.social I have finished knitting the neck of my tank top at last. Now just the armhole edgings and sewing up to complete 🧶
What an amazing day out as a pilgrim at Holy Island - ‘God is always greater than all of our troubles’
Penpal visit from the US. Five days in Lancaster, Burscough, Windermere, Liverpool and York - phew!
I can’t help wondering what percentage of the people who are anti the Assisted Dying Bill have actually watched someone they love die a slow painful death. 🤔
Having your penpal to stay from the USA for a week is the best thing 💕
The question writer on Only Connect tonight has a weird sense of connections
Questioning my pattern reading tonight. This doesn’t look right. I am sure I’ve gone very wrong. 🧶 I’m in the middle of trying to shape the front of this jumper. It doesn’t look like I think it should? Can any knitter help me please? 🙏
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: this wonderful example of experimental radio, part of Radio 4 Extra’s marvellous Hidden Treasures series @bbcsounds.bsky.social
August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury - BBC Sounds
One day in the life of a house where ghosts of previous occupants are gradually revealed
bbc.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... Well this is very sad
Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?
As R&L replace the BBC’s unsigned artists stage with one filled with rock scions and a Simon Cowell boyband, many are decrying disappearing opportunities for grassroots acts
theguardian.com
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
I’m so sad that we have lost Dolly Parton. She was a truly good person, who worked so hard to get young children reading. I based one of my interventions on her Imagination Library programme when I was teaching, albeit on a much, much smaller scale. RIP Dolly x
@bcky.bsky.social Been chatting to the Snork Maiden and we were thinking of a meet up - fancy it?
It’s raining! Proper rain! In my little corner of Lancashire!
I won this book in a giveaway by the Reading Paramedic on Instagram and it’s really lovely.
The Perseids did not disappoint. I lay in my hammock until 12.40am and I saw a dozen shooting stars.
Lovely day in Morecambe on the penny arcades, walking on the prom, eating ice cream, viewing the eclipse, and watching the RNLI put the lifeboat to bed.
Marvellously written, or too clever for its own good? I am three chapters in; finding the style a little bit tiresome. Shirley likes an adjective or several, as well as the past perfect. Hoping the story might carry me along.
What an absolutely wonderful evening on BBC4 this evening.
My US penpal is coming to stay in a couple of weeks, for five days. She is landing in Manchester, not London. We live in Lancashire. I’m collecting suggestions for places to take her, please and thank you! 🙏 She is 30 something, and likes old buildings and the sea. She’s from Iowa x