Laura Davis

@lcdavis.bsky.social

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Journalist, podcaster, art & theatre lover and book addict. Writer of @www.stored-honey.com North West arts newsletter among many things

Giant beetle sculpture outside a grand looking building with a sign reading Rural Arts
Photo of Theatr Clwyd, a red and grey 70s-style building of different heights, on the opposite side of the road
Image of an art work in which a corner shop is depicted in pink, red, blue and green neon. Above the door is the word ‘Burmans’ and above the windows are the words ‘Silk Cut’. In one window is a sign that says ‘Open’.
Photograph of a book. The cover is white with a simple drawing of mountains in pale blue, and the outline of waves in navy. There are also the silhouettes of seabirds in navy. Text reads: Christiane Ritter. The classic memoir of a year in the Arctic wilderness. A Woman in the Polar Night.
Trees with their bare branches covered in white frost
Book jacket for Fifty Words For Snow by Nancy Campbell. Navy blue with white text and frost like swirls
A Polaroid photo inside a white surround and brown wooden frame sits on a wooden mantlepiece decorated with red berries. The Polaroid shows a pine tree that has a bare trunk except for a few branches at the top that have been wind blown to grow all to the left hand side. There are clouds in the background and a tiny bit of blue sky. There’s a greenish tint to the photo.
Book cover that is white, mostly covered with an image of a tiny figure walking though woods. The tree trunks are towering over him. The text reads: The Stranger in the Woods. ‘A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival’ WALL STREET JOURNAL. Michael Finkel’
Black and white photo of a family party c.1940s/50s. There are 11 adults sitting in rows, many of them wearing party hats. At the front, a woman with brown curly hair, wearing a mid-length long-sleeved dress with buttons at the neck is holding a pig toy.
Screenshot of a Zoom call with the screen split into six sections. The three with their cameras on are a woman with bobbed, brown hair, a man wearing glasses and a women wearing glasses with her brown hair tied back.
Concert hall with a big screen that says: Northern Lights
Clip from David Hockey: Nearer & Bigger (not smaller & further away), showing one of his brightly-coloured paintings of a valley in Los Angeles
Gallery cafe with large screen showing art work by David Hockney
A real Christmas tree with colourful lights, covered in baubles and decorations
Bunloaves - rectangular fruit cakes - in their baking tins, on a metal cooling tray with a tea towel underneath
Text reading: RICK ASTLEY. I know, like a cheese dream. He’s written an autobiography and his own massive queue had temporarily abated, so he came to visit everyone else and bought copies of all their books. I said ‘you really don’t need a beauty book for middle-aged women,’ but he just said ‘Can you put ‘to Rick and Lene’ please, love’?’ and went on his way. Talk about charming. Also, magnificent, lustrous quiff.
Section of a wall made of red sandstone blocks, covered in bright green moss
Book cover that is mainly white with the photograph of people standing in the street. A woman wearing a blue dress, a sunhat and sunglasses is looking upwards, a man dressed in a suit, tie and a hat holds a walking stick, and an elderly woman with white hair has her coat over one arm and is standing next to an old-fashioned suitcase. The text says The Long-Winded Lady. Maeve Brennan. With an introduction by Sinead Gleeson
A white card with a pencil drawing of a cockerel and the word enter