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Leigh Forbes

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Friendly book designer at blot.co.uk

Here to help indie authors/publishers with formatting issues (print or ebook). @ me if you're stuck.

Also: books, coffee, cats, mountains, birds, butterflies, environment.
Neurodiverse, she/her

Leigh Forbes's avatar Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social
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Then write, because I’m almost ready for the next one!

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Both?

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Who’d be a Tory, huh? 🙄

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🎶 Always look on the briiiight side of life – deedum deedumdeedumdeeum 🎶

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Merge two films Alien Barbie

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 An old English phrase about unintelligible or garbled speech is “that’s double Dutch” vs 🇳🇱 A Dutch phrase about something that’s incomprehensible is “I can't make any chocolate from that”

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I don’t get that reference. Is that supposed to refer to centrists/lefties?

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“And so, I become one of the 251 Conservative victims of Thursday’s general election.” “Victims” 🧐

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“Disincentivize permanent dependence” Huh, I never knew disability was a lifestyle choice 🤔

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Oh I am so sorry to hear this. I’ve lost a few parts of life to migraine-risk too, so I really understand what this means.

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That’s just an invitation to start tagging you in joke-skeets 😂

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What do you get when you cross angry sheep with a grumpy cow? A baaaaad mooooood

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Ugh ugh ugh. And I thought the "thank you for following me, and here's the link to my book-sales page" DM was bad.

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That's not the wool setting, that's for when you want to wash your sheep.

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If you read just one book this month, that's awesome because reading isn't a contest.

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Poor guy – he must have been flaking out

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Nothing would surprise me much now, though 😕

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Sadly, we failed to oust the Tories here (they still have a 12,000+ majority)😭 but I hope more and more of us will gain confidence to vote Green in the future.

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“I’m old, I’m alone, but I’m tough.” This will be my mantra in 30 years. Starting work on it now 😍

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Might seem counterintuitive, but I’ve now resigned my Labour membership, and joined the Greens. I am much heartened by their gains 😃

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Run a *hot* cycle with 500g soda crystals only (no clothes).

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Dead fish 😳 Given the chance though, I would still paint it over the back of my hand, just to peel it off.

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Tainted Love, by Soft Cell. And hell is 1981 at the boy’s grammar-school disco.

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I hear you! (I gave in to a jumbo bag of Skips) 😶

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It is – I’m still mourning last year’s loss, my “Fighting Temeraire”. Oh the irony 😩

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I fear I’ve lost my 12yo Acer this year, after taking my eye off the ball 😭

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Kew is also on my list of “Things to do for myself as soon as I get the chance”

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We have some catching up to do!! 🥳🥳🥳

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My daughter’s A-level Geography NEA looked like this 😁

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I sympathise. My 50th was during lockdown, and I still haven’t had the party 😕

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