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Author. Actor. Observer of everyday life. https://www.mirandakeeling.com Buy my book: https://tinyurl.com/ycwdfphn Come to my book launch! https://tinyurl.com/3c9tavdh Listen to my podcast: https://StoppingToNotice.lnk.to/podcastho
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It’s here too: bsky.app/profile/mira... 😊
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In Kenilworth in Warwickshire, there is an independent bookshop called Kenilworth Books. They just got in touch with me to say they have 3 copies of my book and can order more. I'd love to support them. Perhaps we could even find homes for more than 3? Here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo...
Yay! Thank you @stevemaythe1st.bsky.social for this wonderful illustration of my post! 👏 bsky.app/profile/mira...
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Do you have a spare 5 minutes to come on a walk with me? Then join me, as I stroll around New Hinksey in Oxford: stoppingtonotice.lnk.to/podcastho in 3D sound so listen with headphones if you can 😊 🎧 and please leave a review! It gives us the chance reach more listeners like you 🩷🙏
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Me: Can I pay by cats? Shop owner: Cats? Me: Card! Sorry card. My brain. Shop owner (laughing): No worries. To be fair I'd take cats too.
Here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo... The book is called The Place I'm In: What I see when I stop to notice and it's by me: Miranda Keeling. Indies matter 🙏🏻
Fair! Hope you enjoy it.
Here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo... The book is called The Place I'm In: What I see when I stop to notice and it's by me: Miranda Keeling. Indies matter 🙏🏻
My 7-year-old: Puppies can't get married. Me: Oh? Her: Because they wouldn't bring any people to the wedding. And they wouldn't know how to get there. Me: Ah. Pause. Her: I'm going to be a hamster whisperer when I grow up. Me: Wow. Those are some excellent thoughts.
They’ve sold one! 🥰 Anyone fancy being the second person to buy a copy of my book to support this lovely bookshop? Philip Pullman says about it ‘This book is lovely.’ 📚💕
Yay! Well if you fancy gifting it to someone, do support this shop :)
Kenilworth Books is a lovely shop. The team ran a very popular book stall at the Talking Maths in Public conference over the last couple of days, and were so nice. It was a real pleasure to work with them. #tmip25
Oh that’s so lovely.
Yes!!
Forgot ALT for one image: A double-page spread of chapter ‘ON THE STREET’. The pages are blue, the book is on a pink background. There are observations by me and illustrations by Adam Beer of: brollys in rain, a puddle, the top of a bus, the side of a building and peoples’ legs in a bus queue.
Are you thinking of getting my book? Or have you got it and think a friend would like it? May I ask that you support a small, independent bookshop in Warwickshire called Kenilworth Books? They've only got space for the 3 copies they have! Order one here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo... 📚
Oh my, I've just found out that wonderful indie bookseller Kenilworth Books has 3 copies of my book! And the sign outside the shop says 'Dragons, Bears, Sharks' so that's exciting. Want one? A copy of my book, not a shark 😉🦈 Order here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo... Support our indies ❤️
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In Kenilworth in Warwickshire, there is an independent bookshop called Kenilworth Books. They just got in touch with me to say they have 3 copies of my book and can order more. I'd love to support them. Perhaps we could even find homes for more than 3? Here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo...
Yes!
Totally agree.
I know! So lovely.
Wow!! Cancelleresca, a calligrapher based in Derry, N Ireland, sent me these today, just because they felt like it. Written with steel pens and gouache on watercolour paper. A delightful celebration of my words. Spontaneous collaborations like this make my heart sing 🖋️❤️
Ha! love this.
Ha! Great.
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Thank you for the excellent questions!
Check out my interview with @mirandakeeling.com about her observations: www.checkeredscissors.com?cat=blog-204 Maybe if more people "stop and smell the flowers" and appreciate the little things in life, they might be less stressed.
I wrote a book! And I promise you'll love it 🤩 Here's what Philip Pullman says about it: 'This book is lovely - Miranda's observations are as sharp as ever, and in a strange way they seem to sharpen my own.' Buy your copy here: geni.us/ThePlaceImin ❤️
I wrote a book! And I promise you'll love it 🤩 Here's what Philip Pullman says about it: 'This book is lovely - Miranda's observations are as sharp as ever, and in a strange way they seem to sharpen my own.' Buy your copy here: geni.us/ThePlaceImin ❤️
Thank you. No thats Adam Beer.
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We are.
Lovely!
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Do you have a spare 5 minutes to come on a walk with me? Then you're in luck 😉 Have a listen, as I stroll around Barnes: stoppingtonotice.lnk.to/podcastho in 3D sound so listen with headphones if you can 😊 🎧 and please leave a review! It gives us the chance reach more listeners like you 🩷🙏
Yay!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I only went into the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social today and discovered my book in a display!! 🥰 Link to book here: geni.us/ThePlaceImin @quartobooksuk.bsky.social
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A woman busks in the park. She sits and plays guitar to her words - her voice as warm and soft as the afternoon sun.
oh that's so weird. Why?
Little girl at a food stall in the park: Last time I was here, you gave me a lemonade. Stall owner. I did? Little girl: Definitely. Long pause. Little girl: Well can I have another one? Owner (puts a lemonade in front of her): Sure. You got hutzpah.
I did but my daughter was in it. You'll have to imagine it x
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Thank you.
My breath is briefly taken away as I stop to notice the tiny diamond pattern on the trunk of a White Poplar tree in Hyde Park, and for the first time see in it the almost-echo of its leaves.
Thank you!
Nice.
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Man in Walthamstow reading a recipe on his phone: Grind the spices? I ain’t got a morsel and peccer mate.
Can’t remember the name. It was a Wetherspoon on the way between Chancery Lane and Holborn.
Ha!
Ha! Yes.
A woman on the train wears black sandals - the straps dividing her feet territorially. Pearl earrings climb her ears. She wears red lipstick. She looks mildly surprised. An oddly inconsistent alarm sounds somewhere on this train as we continue to hurtle through the tunnels.
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In a pub in Chancery Lane, eight men dressed as Snow White and the seven dwarves, already look like the fairytale is coming to an end.
A lone black feather floats across the pavement as a man who spends a lot of his week at the gym barks into his phone: Hello, hello, hello! Yes it’s me, Flossy.
Inside a party shop in Holborn that has closed for the night, two helium balloons sway gently on their ribbons, like the last guests to leave, full of tired conversation and too much rosé.
This is the online social media platform where my feed doesn't just make me feel tired. Thank you x
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Lovely.
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I thought so too.
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Yes.
How interesting! I wonder why.
True. Perhaps he doesn't know.
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On a campsite near Woodbridge in Suffolk a grey-haired couple are playing Rummikub. As night falls gently around them the solar lights come on that are strung around their camper van. I pass them later, still playing - hoodies on and blankets on their laps, glasses of white wine catching the light.
Man on his phone in Lowestoft in Suffolk (he is wearing only one flip-flop): Yes I lost a flip-flop. I'm at the beach mate, I'm at the beach.
A man sits outside The Galley Pub in Lowestoft. He has a deep tan and wears a flat-cap. He stares out at the horizon - the meeting place twixt North Sea and sky is subtle today.
On the beach at Lowestoft, a mum plays Scatch with her little girl. The sea talks with the pebbles behind them and the afternoon sun makes a shadow of the girl inside her yellow dress, as it appears to float like mist around her.
Thank you!
I wrote a book! And I absolutely promise you'll love it 🤩 Here it is: geni.us/ThePlaceImin ❤️
Mum to her son as they head into a playground in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk: Remember the most important rule in life - no bikes on the slide.
Man in a café in Suffolk: Watch out for the jaspers. Woman: Sorry? Man: Jaspers. Wasps. Oh, it's a West Country thing.
This week my podcast is recorded in Durham! Come for a stroll across Kingsgate Bridge with me: stoppingtonotice.lnk.to/podcastho Recorded in 3D sound so listen with headphones if you can 😊 🎧 and please leave a review! It gives us the chance reach more listeners and I love reading every single one 🩷🙏
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Yes I’ve found folks here to be both engaging and engaged. It reminds me of old-days Twitter. I’ve sold quite a few books and not just to people I knew from the other place! 📚