Jeannie Mackenzie @scepticalhabbie
Author of ‘Family Learning’ & ‘ As if I was a Real Boy’. YA novel, ‘Adults and How to Survive Them’ due out soon. Scotland, United Kingdom Joined July 2022-
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Another great night with at the Ginger Cat! This time with Alex Gray @GingerCatBkshop
Many thanks to @pascalepoet for her sonnet for the #PeaceSonnetChain. As she suggests, collect (by which we only mean ‘read’) them all! #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (6/14)
Many thanks to @pascalepoet for her sonnet for the #PeaceSonnetChain. As she suggests, collect (by which we only mean ‘read’) them all! #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (6/14)
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On ANSAC day, I recall my mother telling me of the overwhelming grief and shock sweeping through Melbourne in 1915, as the news of Gallipoli broke. She was four years old. War affects us in every generation. Weep.
This is me, second from the right, in sixth year at Dunoon Grammar. If you’d asked me then what I wanted to do be, I’d have said, ‘An author’. I’m 73 now, and my first novel comes out later this week. It’s never too late.
I had a great time at my Paisley Book Fest events at Park Mains and Linwood High today. Lots of creative ideas and words flowing in the workshops ✍️ #PaisleyBookFest
I had a great time at my Paisley Book Fest events at Park Mains and Linwood High today. Lots of creative ideas and words flowing in the workshops ✍️ #PaisleyBookFest
I don’t think you normally do children’s books, but could this be one for Eye Lightning? @simonjedge
I don’t think you normally do children’s books, but could this be one for Eye Lightning? @simonjedge
I am proud of every woman I know, and some I’ve never heard of, who refused to look the other way in the face of years of relentless abuse. They fought for this, for children to be safe. They never backed down. They never will. #CassReport #CassReview theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
Where community land owners lead private land owners may wish to follow. With land rights go responsibilities.
Where community land owners lead private land owners may wish to follow. With land rights go responsibilities.
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I’m at the 55th SAW conference, new friends and old, inspiring speakers, not a lot of sleep, one too many chocolate cookies…and - oh yes, picking up the odd prize too! scottishassociationofwriters.com
Delighted to find my friend Jackie’s words within this poem! scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/address-t….
I’m so excited that the YA Book Club will be reading Overemotional in April. If you’ve read it, you could read the sequel Overthinking. It’s a fresh take on superpowers and packed with amazing characters, twists and turns and humour. Goodreads group: goodreads.com/topic/show/227…
Only 3 weeks to go…
WORDLE 100 WORDS CHALLENGE: 'PESKY' Pesky doesn’t derive from ‘pest’ as in mosquito, but from the French ‘peste’ meaning plague. Now, every time I feel frustrated by those pesky things like the dishwasher going on strike, the car needing an MOT, or the Hive not responding, I…
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Gender ideology has been the catalyst to the downfall of two First Ministers. How many more must fall until they realise that this is a danger to women and girls, is deeply opposed by the public, and a women is an adult human female?
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This is what our governments and mainstream media *doesn’t want you to see*… Thousands of Israelis calling for the immediate resignation and imprisonment of Netanyahu🇮🇱
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Dr David Bell on the Cass report and its reception theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In amidst all the politics, here's a picture of my wee pal who visits me a few times each day to steal the birds' nuts.
We don’t address racism by pretending white people can be black, nor is ableism solved by giving able-bodied people wheelchairs, so why are women and girls supposed to applaud their male imitators, centre them in language and hand over rights their foremothers fought for? 3/X
Many thanks to @pascalepoet for her sonnet for the #PeaceSonnetChain. As she suggests, collect (by which we only mean ‘read’) them all! #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (6/14)
My peace sonnet is #6 in the sonnet chain, thanks to @billherbert for asking me, to editors @jsaphra & @Azjackson we chase the thing with feathers that is hope, link below takes you to the first 5 peace sonnets, until we have a crown on @NEUboots24 New Boots & Pantisocracies
And imagine this official thuggery further weaponised by Trump . .
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Rogart: It looks a lot warmer than it is. Down the bottom of the croft where there's a good selection of large rocks left behind from when the strath was formed. They are islands covered with lichen & moss. They also provide shelter for sheep & make good podiums for birds...
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Only people who think female biology makes women inferior think they're being kind to women by ignoring it.
Rogart: I can hear the cuckoo! (Two days later than last year). I'll soon find it's incessant cuckooing annoying I'm sure. But I'm glad it's back...
My niece has been showing me her art book and i think she’s so brilliant (she’s 14) #proudaunty