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Kerry Mead

Kerry Mead

Bristol based music, culture & creative writer

This is our Kofod Larsen coffee table, footstool, book store, and arts and crafts table, restored by my much-loved friend Tracy, who passed away on Tuesday from acute myeloid leukaemia.

It has been central to our everyday lives for the last five yea

Another day, another #beautifulbookcovers post. This time it's Homer's The Odyssey from @penguinukbooks clothbound classics.

There's a story to go with this one. This is a gift to my son for absolutely bossing his GCSEs.

He's a rare 16 year old bo

I love my campervan - she may be an ancient rust bucket but it's times like the last couple of days when I remember why I stubbornly keep her. I don't get much time off, but when I do, she makes it easy to do something which is very precious to me -

I’ve not been here much recently, so this is a photodump with a difference - not only is it from June AND July, but I also want to talk about how for me, disappearing is not so much an urge, but is more a form of demand avoidance.

One of my ki

I see you, bookstagrammers, sharing your carefully curated summer #tbr piles, and they all look perfectly lovely. But there will be no lazing by a pool with a blockbuster for me this summer, because I’ve got an Autumn deadline for a paper on au

The Everyday Magazine, the online writing community-with-a-capital-C started by Jess in 2019, has a special place in my heart. I cut my writing and editorial teeth there - it’s the first place I had anything published, then as it exploded in si

Let me introduce myself - I’m one of those midlife women you’ve been warned about - I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2021 in my mid-40s. I’m a part of the tsunami of ex-pixie-dreamgirls that began flooding every corner of the UK a few y

May photo dump 🌱🐝🍳💿📚

It’s been a heavy May of rain, revising & rest-when-we-can in our household, but there have been glimmers in between. May started with a 40th party which was so good I forgot to take photos, nature is going crazy,

It's six months today since The Curae Anthology was published 🧡. I'm still dead proud to have some of my writing included, and you can still buy a copy with all profits going to @carers_uk and @carers.trust.

👣➡️ @renardpress or the website of any

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