Christina Riley

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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Nobody asked for it. The Beach Today as @ChrisGPackham shirts.

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fully here now https://t.co/EJyFAseHFs 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 🪸

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

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]

As she looks back on the year her Nature Library found a permanent home, @cmarieriley celebrates libraries as places of limitless potential https://t.co/wTC1WwUJN9

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goodness me. water droplets on a window in the desert agate.

[Scottish Agates @ScottishAgates]

3rd January 2025 — Isle of Rùm

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@peediepuss Happy new year Martin! Interesting, had a look and yes apparently there are. It was right on the side of this path, which is frequented by lots of people and cars, but maybe they’re out and about here at night?

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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 https://t.co/dJtvpGQ29p

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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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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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Know anyone who loves the sea and pebbles and pebbles that look like the sea?

2025 calendars, and cards, available at https://t.co/izs77hKPUH 🪨

(Sunday evening push because I’m going to the post office tomorrow)

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

“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.
https://t.co/N2BqS9auqp

[colette @colettebrn]

Pages from a dance manual, 1700s

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

Moving, have moved, to the other blue place. https://t.co/BWq7actyR6 🔵

[The Nature Library @thenaturelib]

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 https://t.co/sPJVyXLxoJ

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

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 🪨

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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 https://t.co/1qzGQiRlBK (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!

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

The Beach Today calendars are here! If you like the sea and pebbles and making and remembering plans.

You can get one at https://t.co/1qzGQiRlBK (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!

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

@NoreenMasud doesn’t go deep into theory but it does get mentioned in the postcards episode of @ologies — from 20 minutes in and specifically 21:45 https://t.co/YdmKH2dpe1

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

good good good good good news

[Extra Teeth @extrateethmag]

We are so pleased to announce that after a year’s hiatus Extra Teeth is back and better than ever!

[Christina Riley @cmarieriley]

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!

https://t.co/SuFmY6JK2j

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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.