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Simon Spanton

@simonguy.bsky.social

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Wandering. Wondering. Acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.


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Remains on the shore.

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How was the Amontillado?

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"He thinks about Giulio Camillo in Paris, pacing and fretting between the wooden walls of his memory machine, while knowledge grows unseen and of itself in its cavities and concealed inner spaces." Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

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Bone and feather.

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'ear, 'ear.

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Portal number 609.

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Cheers.

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He used to teach my wife politics at Strathclyde. When Thatcher went he wrote up on the board: "Lectures cancelled, Thatcher gone."

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We have cheese.

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Fin whale jaw bone.

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Excellent crazy hair, actually.

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Had to get a postal vote this year, so here's my #DogsAtPollingStations.

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Kylescu bridge. The furthest north I've been on the British mainland.

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LOL

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Lev.

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The Post Office.

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Portal number 27.

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Don't Dist Diss his Jubes Joy; it's just Cents Bantz.

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Oh for goodness' sake...

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You and Dickens again. Undying.

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I make garlands of them to hang off cupboards and bookshelves. I am very popular at parties.

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Four holed limpet shells.

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I've always loved the utility and attitude of small fishing boats. And when I see them now, especially up out of the water, I think of @ianmcque.bsky.social's Mile Ships.

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Spent four years as a bookseller at the beginning of my career in books. Learned more about the realities of publishing in those four years than I did in any other four year period.

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"I saw the seated figures of the grim Colossi, dipped in sand, night over them, waiting for the dawn..."

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One of the very best of trees.

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Portal number 89.

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LOL

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Good rocks.

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Oh God...

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Fleetwood BigMac

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"It would absorb and smother them if it could. And every wind that blew its thundering message over the huge sounding-board of the million, shaking trees conveyed the purpose that it had. They had angered its great soul. At its heart was this deep, incessant roaring."

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Morning dog walk.

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Good morning. Summer in the highlands.

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Good night. Last of the sun on the ridge over there.

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"going inside to Them" "taking the way of the water and the wind"

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Not today, no.

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Yup.

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Taking Switzerland (who Scotland at least managed to scrape a draw with) beating Italy as vindication for Scotland. That and the Irn Bru Mannschaft advert.

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The feel-good factor clearly very contagious...

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The good mountain.

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Snail on a kelp stalk.

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Shared info suggests from a european shag.

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Thank you for info!

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"stone exhales a mossy breath" Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

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Thank you for info. A gannet?

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Given how thin and light it is, this can only be a bone from a bird. No idea which one though. Incredibly beautiful and delicate structure.

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Great writer.

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Where we're at.

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