Today’s post: winning at litter, inner city triffids, and a new salmon staircase. Now then, people of #TheOutdoorCity, #Sheffield, #PeakDistrict, we’d love it if you could forward today's 🦉🌳🏞️🗞️, or just tell anyone and everyone! Thanks. abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com/p/sunday-at-...

Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 11th October 2026

Winning at litter. Last day of the triffids. Commoner’s Muck and Playing Out.

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Time Out has named Crookes one of the 11 coolest neighbourhoods in the UK, the only one in Yorkshire. We are not surprised: Bole Hills sunsets, Crookes Social Club and a proper high street. What they picked, our take and what is on: https://sheff.events/crookes-time-out-coolest-neighbourhoods-uk/

A Very Trashy Christmas 🎄🧟 Trash Haus bring alt-drag horror cabaret to The Lughole, Sat 19 Dec. Binbag hosts Ash Bestos, Elytra, Neapolitan Vonschweets, Philli Mi Up, Pytr, Rangda, Strawberry Fatcake Erotica and Vomit On It. Tickets and line-up

Tonight in Sheffield, Saturday 10 October 🌙 Propa Sound takes over Abbeydale Ballroom (free), Phil Hartnoll and Goldie Lookin Chain at Sidney & Matilda, Raven's Nest, Steelers v Glasgow, No Bounds after parties, Cabaret Boom Boom at the Cemetery and more. sheff.events/whats-on-tonight/

Just Like Heaven 🖤 Alt 80s night at Corporation, Sat 17 Oct, 11:30pm to 3am The Cure, The Smiths, Joy Division, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, New Order, Depeche Mode and more. 18+, from £7. sheff.events/whats-on/just-like-heaven-alt-80s-night-sheffield-2026-10-17/

Tonight in Sheffield 🌙 Fri 9 Oct No Bounds kicks off with Max Cooper, The Last Laugh at City Hall, Avenue at Sidney & Matilda, Route 66 at The Harlequin, Ross From Friends, No Kidding's The Hunt and loads more. All of tonight: sheff.events/whats-on-tonight/

Goth Halloween in Sheffield 🦇🖤 Raven's Nest, Heads Will Roll, a gothic masquerade ceilidh, Aesthetic Perfection, Cabaret Gothique, synths in a cemetery chapel, Auntie Heroine, Cryptid Queers and more. All the dark nights: sheff.events/goth/

Shout out to Rocky Horrors 🖤 Kitting out Sheffield's goths, punks and metalheads since 1990, and still going strong on Division Street. Band tees, boots, badges, patches, Alchemy jewellery and the friendliest welcome in town. 36th birthday on Tuesday! sheff.events/directory/rocky-horrors

A winter one from my Sheffield archive: Endcliffe Park with snow on every branch and footprints through the middle. I can practically hear the cautious walking. unsplash.com/photos/snow-... #Sheffield #WinterPhotography

Shepherd Wheel pond in Porter Valley. One of my Sheffield shots for when I need less screen and more green. unsplash.com/photos/green... #Sheffield #NaturePhotography

Quindrie Press was meant to be at SCARF in Sheffield this weekend, but I've fallen ill so I won't make it down. Quindrie artists @toadlett.bsky.social (The Beechwood Helm) and @mortiscausa.bsky.social (cover artist for Tilt: Six Tales) will be tabling though so do check their work out!

Morning @nowthenmag.bsky.social 👋 Big fans of what you do for independent Sheffield. If you're ever updating your Sheffield starter pack, we'd love a spot: we share what's on across the city daily and always credit the people putting it on.

Hey @patternclubsheff.bsky.social 👋 We'd love to be part of your Sheffield culture starter pack if there's room. We share what's on across the city every day: gigs, theatre, markets, comedy, community events, and every listing links back to the organisers.

I'm excited to be exhibiting at SCARF (Sheffield Comic Arts Fair) this Saturday! I'll be at the Trafalgar Warehouse from 10am 'till 5pm. It's also FREE ENTRY! Info here: scarf.chrismole.co.uk See you there?

This weekend in Sheffield 🗓️ Last Laugh at City Hall, No Kidding at Sidney & Matilda, Steelers v Glasgow Clan, a free Propa Sound night at the Ballroom, plus SCARF, Eddi Reader, Steeldogs and Sunday markets. sheff.events/whats-on-this-weekend

Want Sheffield news from every side, not just one paper? Talk Fuse pulls stories from across the spectrum with plain-English summaries, bias context, and a community to talk it through 📰

Did you know Sheffield has been twinned with Bochum since 1950? 🇬🇧🇩🇪 Two steel and coal cities, both on rivers that end up in the North Sea. We're also twinned with Anshan, Donetsk and Estelí, with friendship links to Pittsburgh and Kawasaki. See what Sheffield and Bochum share 👇

I beat Sebulba in Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Naturally, I gave this sporting achievement the dignified clip title ‘feck’ 🏁 www.twitch.tv/shanerounce/...

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Watch ShaneRounce's STAR WARS: Galactic Racer clip titled "feck" on Twitch.

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I'm live with Star Wars: Galactic Racer again. A perfectly sensible way to lose another evening. Come and heckle 🏁 twitch.tv/shanerounce

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Star Wars Racer | Streaming star wars: galactic racer.

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Propa Sound x Ballroom Takeover 🔊 New Sheffield sound system Propa Sound launch their monthly at the Abbeydale Ballroom this Sat 10 Oct, 9pm till 3am, FREE entry. DnB and jungle in the Cocktail Bar, house and garage in the Pool Room. sheff.events/whats-on/propa-sound

Sheffield streamer @shanerounce.com is live on Twitch right now 🏁 Racing through Star Wars: Galactic Racer, so pop in, say hi and back a local creator. twitch.tv/shanerounce

THE HUNT is on 🔦 No Kidding launch their label at Sidney & Matilda this Friday 9 Oct, 11pm till 4am. Kid Lib (DJ Mindhunter) headlines, plus Inbassive, Freestyle and the No Kidding crew. Jungle, jungle techno, hardcore. £5 on Skiddle with code labellaunch. sheff.events/whats-on/no-kidding-the-hunt

Sheffield Theatres' first Open Works festival is on until Saturday 🎭 New theatre at the very start of its journey: The Hunger, Tuesdays at Tesco's, David Byrne in conversation, Joe Carnall Jnr's How Could I Forget? and more. All 11 remaining shows are on sheff.events

Y'all #Sheffield folks like Ghosts? Go say hi to one this Halloween! sheff.events/ghosts/

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Sheffield ghost stories, haunted locations, reported sightings and community findings, shown with their sources and the limits of the evidence.

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Sheffield Halloween meet up We are going to watch a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture at the Light Cinema in Sheffield at 6pm if you dont want to watch it you cand arive before the move end and after go for food at a LGBTQ+ pub. Join the discord for more info

'Edges, ruins, wasteland, perhaps they call to us, like the changing seasons, to remember endings are beginnings, are transformations.' Coco Lone Neal walks the ruins of the Sheffield Ski Village www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/autu...

Sheffield creators making our day 🎨 🐸 Max Machen's new shop at 43 Chesterfield Road 🖤 Jason Plews documenting club nights in black and white 🌈 Fresh shutter art on London Road via Street Art Sheffield 💉 Tenacious Tattoo's fundraiser flash days in Kelham Who else should we be shouting about?

Good news for students 🚋 After campaigning by Hallam SU and Sheffield SU through the Sheffield Students' Assembly, there's a new 7-day student tram pass for £16, £4 cheaper than the adult fare. Live trams, term dates and student events are all on our students page: sheff.events/students

London Road keeps getting brighter 🎨 New shutter art by Creativast Studio for Learn for Life Enterprise, spotted by the brilliant Street Art Sheffield. Worth a detour next time you're heading for a curry

Tenacious Tattoo on Hicks Street in Kelham are running fundraiser flash days today and tomorrow (Thu 8 Oct), raising money for specialist treatment for one of the team's family. Get some ink and help a Sheffield family at the same time 🖤