Natasja Giezen-Smith

problem solver, book addict, do-er. mrs to @grant1s. mama to kiddo 1 and 2.

[Dutch Cycling Embassy @Cycling_Embassy]

This week @AmsterdamNL Central Station opened a new bike parking facility, which was not built on or underground but underwater.

As city's largest such facility, the Stationsplein bike garage was built under the Open Havenfront and can store 7,000 bikes.

https://t.co/CxOSk42UXO

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

@farhanlalji 😂🎧

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

@farhanlalji got me on here, yonks ago. Where do we go now, my friend?

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

my new hobby is helping to crowdfund bookhops in places I never go to.

[Bookbugsdragontales📚 @Bookbugsdragon1]

We've launched a crowd funder. We're so sorry that it's come to this but we just can't get ahead of ourselves & feel this is our best chance of getting ahead of the hurdles the last 3 years have put in front of us.
If you can't help, please share
❤️📚🐛🐉
https://t.co/PhdbyPOS6O

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

@binaryberry And supper! When is that? After or before dinner or tea or instead of? How posh do you have to be to have supper vs the other options?

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

@porridgebrain Can I recommend Bawn Textiles in Glasgow (and online), Bevan who runs it is lovely. Also New Craft House sell dead stock fabric, and often have good tips on pairing fabric with patterns on Insta. I’m getting into zero waste patterns, Birgitta Helmersson has interesting ones

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

@porridgebrain And such a lovely book too! One of my faves

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

When you have a non-English name and Siri interrupts you listening to music to announce you have a meeting with your name in the title and gets your own name wrong. For a split second I thought I had a meeting with a Natash-ja that I didn’t know 🧐😳🤯

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

Learned a new word today: ‘cluttercore’

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

I pitched in, because bookstores are happiness and consolation and joy. And we could all use some of that now. Go @tomjrowley!

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

I’ve found a shop! I’m going to have a bookshop. Seven year old me - I ran a stationery shop called ‘Pen & Paper’ from my bedroom - would be over the moon! And so am I, really… Now crowdfunding for a few bookcases. Could you chip in? I’d be SO grateful x https://t.co/zW1cTRSsTs

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

@tomjrowley Anything written by Claire Tomalin!

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

Parenting = love + logistics + repetition

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

3/3 I was gifted a subscription to @mrbsemporium monthly book service and it's been such a joy. I love the care and attention and it feels special and kind and I'm all here for it

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

2/3 just finished reading @porridgebrain "Still Life" and I'm in pieces and in awe and it's beautiful and tender and lovely and ... everything. prob the best book I've read this year https://t.co/j3e2A8YbmU

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

some things I'm really enjoying at the moment: @500SongsPodcast (working my way through from the start, about 50 episodes in, and it's awesome) 1/3

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

Celebrating #IndieBookshopWeek: wonderful finds from @Bookishcrick, @JuddBooks and @SkoobBooks this week. I ❤️ books and indie bookshops

[MUSE @reclaimthemuse]

Today is Stephen Lawrence Day; a day to mark a young life taken in a racist attack + to honour a legacy of change fought for by his mother, Doreen Lawrence. Portrayed by Chris Ofili in 'No Woman, No Cry', 1998, her tears are filled with immortalising images of Stephen

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

Read past my bedtime last night 😊

[Book-ish 📚 @Bookishcrick]

The @1totallylocally bookshop manifesto. Something I’m sure we can all get behind! 📚

[Natasja Giezen-Smith @divinemissn]

This —> “Sofie Hagen on the legacy of lockdown: I realised what the world feels like for thin people” https://t.co/rTQt0rgiG0