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Christina Riley @cmarieriley

Putting books in a room @thenaturelib and spending a lot of time on the beach. The Beach Today (2021) @GuillemotPress. Agent @PortyLiterary

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Christina Riley@cmarieriley
6 Jul 2020
Nobody asked for it. The Beach Today as @ChrisGPackham shirts.
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fully here now bsky.app/profile/christinari… let me know if you are too especially if you like sea stuff and books because that’s mostly what there’ll be thank you 🪸
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A love letter to libraries, on @thenaturelib’s first year in Irvine and being stunned (but not speechless, apparently) by the great people walking through its doors. Another year of libraries facing cuts and also of them literally rising from the ashes. Thanks @tweetbytheriver!
Caught by the River@tweetbytheriver
10 Jan 2025
As she looks back on the year her Nature Library found a permanent home, @cmarieriley celebrates libraries as places of limitless potential buff.ly/4ak2vWH
Hands hold a bird's nest donated to the Nature Library. A selection of other donations are nearby in open Tupperwares, including other bird nests and a wasp's nest.

ALT Hands hold a bird's nest donated to the Nature Library. A selection of other donations are nearby in open Tupperwares, including other bird nests and a wasp's nest.
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goodness me. water droplets on a window in the desert agate.
Scottish Agates@ScottishAgates
3 Jan 2025
3rd January 2025 — Isle of Rùm
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the most beautiful crab carcass I’ve ever seen and that’s saying a lot
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Still obsessing over hearing Garth Greenwell talk about sentence muscularity at @PortyBooks and always quietly obsessing about ballet and less quietly about this cool planet we live on. New post on Substack about some of that thenaturelibrary.substack.co…
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Arran Library back on one of those isolated days of summer. Birds zig-zagged between the eaves and the trees like they were trying to stitch them together. Bookbug sessions look out onto Goatfell which makes me wonder if they tell stories about goats falling onto bugs.
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Senior Library Assistant Nickey (left) said “The library serves our community with not only books, but the use of our community room, a warm space … From the very young to the older generation, the library is a welcome hub, a place to gather, talk and share a moment in time.”
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The latest North Ayrshire budget consultation, which proposed cuts to a number of libraries, leisure centres and green spaces, received the council’s highest ever number of responses from the public.
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Know anyone who loves the sea and pebbles and pebbles that look like the sea? 2025 calendars, and cards, available at christinariley.bigcartel.com 🪨 (Sunday evening push because I’m going to the post office tomorrow)
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“That traditional model of book-lending is an out of date way of looking at libraries and if you just go on that data, you miss the point … It becomes so much more than just a transaction of our books.” Don’t cut libraries, don’t let them cut libraries. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30n…

Librarians in plea over 'never before seen cuts'

The Scottish government has been asked to step in after several councils proposed cuts to library services.

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colette@colettebrn
5 Dec 2024
Pages from a dance manual, 1700s
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Moving, have moved, to the other blue place. christinariley.bsky.social 🔵
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The Nature Library@thenaturelib
6 Dec 2024
Last chance to join us in Irvine tomorrow, 3-4pm, for @GGallerina’s feminist retelling of the true story behind a Scottish nature classic 🦦 And it’s free! But booking is essential, tickets here eventbrite.co.uk/e/remember-…

Remember the Rowan — Book Launch

Kirsten MacQuarrie visits The Nature Library to talk about her new novel, Remember the Rowan, with Ayrshire writer and poet Gerry Cambridge.

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The Nature Library@thenaturelib
1 Dec 2024
On Sat 7 Dec Kirsten MacQuarrie @GGallerina and Gerry Cambridge @thedarkhorsemag will be in conversation about her new book Remember the Rowan, inspired by the true story of Kathleen Raine and Gavin Maxwell’s ‘some-requited’ love. Free but ticketed eventbrite.co.uk/e/remember-…
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First bundle of these are going out today, thank you to anyone who’s picked one up for themselves or for a pebble loving loved one 🪨
Christina Riley@cmarieriley
2 Dec 2024
The Beach Today calendars are here! If you like the sea and pebbles and making and remembering plans. You can get one at christinariley.bigcartel.com… (if you’re local or I’ll see you soon message and I’ll give free shipping) With thanks to my assistant, the wind. Thank you!
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The Beach Today calendars are here! If you like the sea and pebbles and making and remembering plans. You can get one at christinariley.bigcartel.com… (if you’re local or I’ll see you soon message and I’ll give free shipping) With thanks to my assistant, the wind. Thank you!
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good good good good good news
Extra Teeth@extrateethmag
1 Dec 2024
We are so pleased to announce that after a year’s hiatus Extra Teeth is back and better than ever!
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The Beach Today calendar is back with 12 more of the ~365 pairings of sea, sky and stone made from Nov 2020 - Nov 2021. This site is different now but The Beach Today exists because of it/the people on it and for that I’ll always be grateful! Ok thanks! christinariley.bigcartel.com
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I see it’s #MobileLibrariesDay2024. I’ve been working on some photos from Arran this week, and the cosy knits of their mobile library.
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Then support libraries to engage with communities so they can run thriving hubs of knowledge and leisure and curiosity. Raise their user numbers. If your stomach is empty do you just have it removed because it’s “not being used”? Or something???
Aberdeen Live@aberdeenlive_
16 Nov 2024
13 libraries across Aberdeenshire to be shut down by end of year amid 'low user numbers' aberdeenlive.news/news/aberd…
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