Sylvia Faff 📚🧵🪡

@shnedwards.bsky.social

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I live in Birmingham. I like books and comedy and podcasts. Also nature and that. Obsessed with rubbish. Learning to sew.

a lumpy black mass surrounded by wet brown leaf litter
A dress hanging on a coat hanger against a golden brown wall. The dress is in sage green linen-look cotton, has a v-neck with a collar, and short, rolled-up sleeves.
a marrow on a background of lawn and fallen autumn leaves. Someone or something has possibly chewed the end off.
A pile of books: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore, Clown Town by Mick Herron, and Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
a view of the stage and the audience at an arts venue. There are empty chairs on the stage and a backdrop showing the cover of the book Clown Town by Mick Herron
a little sleeveless top in a green floral fabric
A copy of A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. The quote from The Guardian on the cover says “A charming story of love and friendship”, which is correct.
A couple of pieces of dark red fabric sewn together along a curved seam
the aftermath of a violent altercation between a shopping trolley and an overflowing litter bin. The litter bin leans precariously, spilling dog poo bags on the ground. A woman in an advert on the side of the bus stop seems to think it’s hilarious.
A shit photo taken from a moving bus of an old fridge left on the pavement in Balsall Heath. Someone has helpfully sprayed “fridge <3” on the side of it. It has been there for weeks.
A copy of Welcome to the Heady Heights by David F. Ross, a crime novel set in 1970s Glasgow
A bright pink arrow-shaped sign attached to a lamppost. The sign says simply LUNCH.
A library copy of Wife by Charlotte Mendelson
an effigy of a man in olden times clothes with an anguished expression, behind chicken wire, mounted in some sort of box high up on a shopping centre wall
a pair of home-sewn trousers hanging from a rail
A copy of The Master Key by Masako Togawa
a paper copy of My Grandmother’s Braid by Alina Bronsky overlapping an ipad on which German text is visible. The German version is called Der Zopf meiner Großmutter.
A copy of Sweet Dress Book: 23 Stylish Outfits from Six Simple Patterns by Yoshiko Tsukiori
A bench that has collapsed in the middle as if something extremely heavy has sat on it, wrapped in red and white hazard tape
a view of the stage at Midlands Arts Centre. Screen shows Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back
a library copy of Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind
A copy of I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
A copy of The Camomile: An Invention by Catherine Carswell
chalked arrows by plants growing out of the pavement and writing that says: hairy bittercress + a native wilflower + first food for bees, edible + has a peppery taste, a rich source of vitamin C #notaweed
a copy of Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke
a copy of Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
a copy of Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
a copy of The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
a screenshot of the results of a search for Naomi Klein on Bluesky, showing two almost identical Naomi Kleins
A copy of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
A copy of Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham and an apple
a copy of Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn
a red object, possibly a fez, which has been dropped in the road
an Asda shopping trolley full of old Christmas decorations, abandoned by a fence