Helen Smith

@wordsmith.bsky.social

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Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.

A flow chart titled 'What to call your Academic Event', poking fun at academic event titles.
Sign saying 'Sorry, je ne fonctionne plus'.
Inside of a mother's day card, with a drawing of a woman.
Photograph of some type, with a bodkin point pushing a piece of spacing into place.
A set of AI generated captions for a business selling ice.
A phone screen showing the words 'Wind Warning'.
Lines of wood text on a powered proofing text, with different names for blue.
A very large Christmas tree.
A stuffed toy on a bed.
A page from Margaret Cavendish's *Philosophical and Physical Opinions', with a printed marginal squiggle.
Picture of an award, with the recipient, Nick Gill, printing in the background.
A degu, sitting on my arm and contemplating its next move.