Daniel Aubrey
@SpacemanDan13
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Debut novel DARK ISLAND out now (Order in link). Shortlisted for Bloody Scotland Debut Prize & McDermid Debut Award ‘24 🥳 Agent: @elladkahn #AuDHD #VWG 🦮🐕🦺
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A day I’ve long dreamed about is finally here… I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR 🥳🥳🥳😱😱😱🔥🔥🔥 I’m allowing myself to feel a little proud today, and so grateful to everyone who’s helped me. And to these 2 dogs as well (who were actually some help 🤣). Happy
#DarkIsland
Day 🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Well, my news is finally out… 😱🤩🥳🙌 I’m so, so thrilled to be working with the incredible
@DaisyAWatt
at
@HarperNorthUK
to bring Freya Sinclair to the world!!
#DarkIsland
is coming in 2024!!! 😱🤪😭🥳🔥🍾🥂
#VWG
#AmWriting
#LondonBookFair2023
#Orkney
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#VWG
, I’ve got some news...
I’m absolutely thrilled and still a little gobsmacked to say I’ve signed with
@elladkahn
at
@DKWLitAgency
!!! I’ve not just got an agent - I’ve got the bloody best agent I could’ve wished for!! Loads of work to do now, but I’m so, so excited!! 🥳🥳🥳
... I have more NEW CLIENT NEWS! Delighted to welcome
@SpacemanDan13
to
@DKWLitAgency
with his fabulous speculative thriller about a cure for ageing that comes with a catch! I literally couldn't stop reading there are so many twists and cliffhangers - so excited about this one!
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This writing retreat just keeps getting better and better… 🤩✨😱
#Uist
#NorthernLights
#AuroraBorealis
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Sadly our week in
#Uist
has come to an end 😭 But we’ve had the most amazing trip, with wild ponies, northern lights, stunning beaches, and bacon and scallops sandwiches 😋 And… I FINISHED MY EDITS 🥳🥳 Best writing retreat ever! 🙌
#AmWriting
#OuterHebrides
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I’m going to need all your most positive thoughts today please, pals!! Just dropped Dylan off at the vets to have surgery on his leg. He’s mostly upset about missing breakfast, it’s going to take so many eggs to make up for this 😭😭😭😭🤞🤞🤞🤞🐶🐶
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#WritingCommunity
, lets do a follow Friday!
I’ve never done one before, but I’ve met a lot of great new writers this week & it seems like it could be fun.
Reply for a pet pic (if you have one) and follow everyone back!! Here’s Maggie and Dylan to get us started.
#FF
#AmWriting
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I think some of us are still struggling with that 3am start on Sunday… 🥴🐶🤣
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Things have been a bit shit for me personally of late, but I’m so grateful to be able to get out into nature with these 2 wee beasties! Even when things seem bleak they give me something to smile about! ☺️🐶🥾⛰🙌
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Today’s kinda sucked so we decided to take a 20 min drive out to the loch for a walk tonight. It did the trick 🌅😎🐶
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It’s been 77 days (11 weeks ago today!!) since I thought my whole world was falling in! It’s been great to prove to myself that it really isn’t!! 💪☀️😎🐶🚐
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Don’t believe those puppy eyes! This is the face of a dog who just dragged me across the floor at the vets and needed 3 people to hold her down. Never heard so many people say “Not like your brother, are you?” 🤦♂️😫🐶🤣
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So cool to visit the roundhouses at Cladh Hallan in
#SouthUist
and use the AR app developed at
@ThinkUHI
to see what they might have looked like! 🤓🤯🤩
#OuterHebrides
#Archaeology
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This weekend, I went to a book club even though I knew no one and was bricking it, I reserved a new van to take these dogs on new adventures, and I finished my edits ready for today’s deadline. Then we topped it off with this walk👇 Feels like good days are returning! ☺️🙌🚐🐶🌅
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I think I’m still too giddy to tweet about this!! 🤪 I’m beyond thrilled
#DarkIsland
is on such a stellar shortlist for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize!!😱🥳🔥😎🙌 It was always going to be hard to follow the week I’ve just had in
#Orkney
, but this definitely takes the edge off!
We’re thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut Prize! 📚⭐️
@writer_suzy
(
@OrendaBooks
);
@SpacemanDan13
(
@HarperNorthUK
);
@ResearchET
(SA Press);
@DougASinclair
(
@Stormbooks_co
); Martin Stewart (
@PolygonBooks
) - congrats to all! 🙌🏽
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My Twitter right now is all nice tweets about my book and cheering on all the amazing things my friends are doing too, and I’m so here for it! 🙌🥳 This site has gone way downhill since the rebrand but it’s always been the people (and the dogs) that make it a fun place to be ☺️🐶
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I’m stunned, thrilled, and honoured that
#DarkIsland
is on the
@HarrogateFest
#McDermidDebutAward
shortlist!! 😳🤯🥳 To be on this amazing list alone is huge, but to be here and on the
@BloodyScotland
debut shortlist is beyond my wildest dreams. Imma need a minute… 🤪
🚨
#TheakstonsAwards
shortlists announced!🚨
We reveal who made the shortlist for the Crime Novel of the Year, and the shortlisted six for the inaugural McDermid Debut Award 👉
@Theakston1827
@valmcdermid
#theakstonscrime
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How is this little scruff bucket who once got her head stuck in a toy now 7 years old?? 😱😭 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGGIE 🥰🙌🥳🔥🎂🐶🐾
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Because the news is depressing, here’s a photo of Dylan and Maggie. You’re welcome! 🐶👍
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Guess who’s 5 today... it MAGGIE!!!
Happy birthday Maggie!!! 🐶🥳🎉🎂🎁🎈🎊
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Them: “How’s the writing going so far?”
Me: “Erm…” 😎🌤️🌊🐶😬🤷♂️
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Absolutely thrilled to be a runner up for
#WriteCBC
this month!! Great way to kick off the
#FoW2018
weekend too!!!!! 🎉🎊😄
This month we've picked THREE runners-up to win a discount for one of our 6-week online
#NovelWriting
courses. Congratulations
@SpacemanDan13
@AmandaThow42
@Stewart_Martin
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First decent sunset of 2020 and it was worth the wait!! 🤩🌥🐶🙌
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There are so many milestones you dream about as a writer, right down to having an image of your actual book to put up on social media! Can’t tell you how excited this makes me 🤗 (though the dogs will be mad they’ve been demoted 😬🐶🤣)
#VWG
#AmWriting
#DarkIsland
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Everyone stay calm, but IT’S PUBLICATION WEEK FOR DARK ISLAND 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Dylan’s heard his face is on the back cover, I think he’s a little excited 🤣🙌🐶
#DarkIsland
#AmReading
#VWG
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Thanks everyone for all the lovely messages!! It’s done the trick as he’s home and he’s fine, but he’s still sad about that breakfast 😭🐶 The lump is nothing nasty and he’ll be okay (once he’s got all the eggs and sympathy he can out of this!! 😁)
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No big deal, just my FIRST SIGHTING OF DARK ISLAND IN ORKNEY!!! 😱😱😱🤩🤩🤩😭😭😭 I’ve stood outside that shop so many times and dreamed of one day having my own book in there, and now it is. I cannot wait to go there to see it and sign copies soon!!
#DarkIsland
#Orkney
@SpacemanDan13
look what I picked up for the Orcadian bookshop today! 👏🏻 I'll be along on the 1st of June to get it signed!
#DarkIsland
#Orkney
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Someone’s 4 today!!!! 😱😱 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGGIE!!!! 🥳🎂🙌🐶🎉🍰🎁🎊
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Last night, a winter halo. Tonight… the northern lights!! 🤩🙌
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My first radio interview as an author (can’t believe I’m typing those words!! 😱😱) is on
@bbcorkney
at 7.50 this morning!!! 📻😬🙉 Or you can listen afterwards. Or not at all because I’m scared I’ve said something daft 🤣🤣🤣
#VWG
#AmWriting
#DarkIsland
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Eeeeek it’s real!!
#DarkIsland
is coming in April 2024 and I can’t wait for you all to meet Freya!! 🌑🏝️🌊🔪💀🙌🥳🔥🤩
#VWG
#Orkney
#AmWriting
#CrimeFiction
We are so excited to share the cover reveal for DARK ISLAND by
@SpacemanDan13
! Get ready to immerse yourself in a thrilling reading experience, set against the atmospheric Orcadian landscape. Publishing on 25 April 2024.
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I’m so excited that I get to tweet the cover of
#DarkIsland
tomorrow!! But I don’t think I could ever be as excited as Maggie is about the toy she’s just found in the river. It’s a ball… ON A ROPE!! Are you seeing this?? 🤩😱🙌🥳🐶🎾
#VWG
#AmWriting
#Orkney
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So excited to be starting an MLitt in Orkney and Shetland Studies at
@NordicUHI
in September!! Been meaning to do this for ages (and it means more excuses to go to
#Orkney
and
#Shetland
!) 🙌🤩🤓
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Last night, the good people of Perth found out what happens when you get an autistic man talking about his favourite subject 🤣🤣 Thank you Richard for hosting, and all the lovely folk who turned up in the biblical rain to listen to me wax lyrical about
#Orkney
for an hour 🙌
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I’m so, so proud of my wife, Claire, who’s made this video with
@DGNHS
about her experience of
#autism
. She was super nervous but wanted to do it in the hope that it might help others, and it already is doing! 🙌🤩💪
#ActuallyAutistic
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Thank you so much everyone for all the lovely messages about
#DarkIsland
. I’ve tried to reply to and follow back as many people as I can. I’m just blown away by the response… THANK YOU! 😭😭 I can’t wait for you all to meet Freya next year 🌑🏝️
#VWG
#AmWriting
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That’s my edits sent away now, time to crack on with Book 2 🙌 Just need another week away somewhere nice to get me working. Where should we choose next…? 🤔✍️🐶🌊
#OuterHebrides
#AmWriting
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Find out how many novels I had to write, how many agents had to say no (and worse! 😱) to my face, and how many editors had to throw my manuscript across a room before I finally got a book published. The road to
#DarkIsland
has been a twisty one 🙈🤣
Have you listened to the latest episode of the Rejected Writers’ Club? 🤓
Daniel Aubrey chats about his experiences of rejection as a debut crime author, and his funny rejection story is genuinely jaw dropping 😲
The link to listen is in my bio 😘
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We’ve made it to
#Orkney
. It has snowed!! If photos of dogs in the snow in stunning scenery is not your thing, mute me now - you’re not going to like what’s coming!! 🙌🤩❄️🐶
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@elladkahn
@DKWLitAgency
I’M TOO EXCITED FOR WORDS!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Absolutely thrilled to be working with you Ella, and can’t wait to get cracking on this book and many, many more! I couldn’t have a better person in my corner - thanks for signing me up!! 🙌🥳
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The wee van’s all packed and we’re off for a week full of adventures!! 🙌🚐🐶🤩 The first stop is a very exciting one… we’re off to visit
#VWG
royalty!!! But who will it be?? 😱👑💫 Let’s go find out…
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I’m dogsitting this weekend!! Turns out adding one more dog to the pack causes 7000x more work 😰🐶🐶🐶 We still had fun though 🤣🥾😎
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I’ve dreamed of seeing my book for sale in Kirkwall and of doing an event at
@OrkneyLibrary
since I first had the idea for
#DarkIsland
. Today, both dreams came true. Thank you to all the lovely staff and readers who’ve made me feel like an adopted Orcadian 🥹📚🙌
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Well, it was close thanks to the weather, but I’m leaving Arran on the only boat to set sail from here today 🌊⛴ 6 months ago I thought trips like this were over for me, didn’t think they’d be as good on my own. I’ve never been happier to be proven wrong 🤣🙌🥳
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Dylan thought you might all benefit from a “Snose” photo today! 😁🐶❄️🐽🥰
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I’ll be doing my first ever book signing at the amazing Bookends Bookshop in Carlisle this Sunday. If anyone is in the area do come and say hi 👋☺️📚✍️
(You don’t even have to buy the book, I just don’t want to look like a no mates 🤣🤣)
#DarkIsland
#Cumbria
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I am sweating and bleeding but we’re packed in the van and ready to roll on our 1st solo trip!! I’ve had to cancel 3 separate trips that were booked for this week, and there’s a very good chance this one will go tits up too, but we’re trying our best! Wish us luck! 😬🚐🐶🤞😂
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Dogs, chicken and halloumi burgers, and a gorgeous beach pretty much to ourselves in perfect weather! Best day ever!!! 🤩🐶🚐🍔☀️🌊
#VanLife
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Dylan’s at the vet today for an operation to remove a lump from his leg. We hope he will be okay. 😢🐶🤕
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The 3 of us had a great day out today! Dylan got to paddle and Maggie chased a ball! 🙌🌊🎾 There is still a very tangible absence at times, but there are moments where I forget and simply enjoy being a 3. Today had lots of them! Hope that continues! 💪☺️🐶
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Dark Island is out THE WEEK AFTER NEXT 😱😱😱😱 And because of that, I may have been a little distracted and have neglected the reason for my twitter account - photos of Dylan and Maggie. So here you go! Happy Monday everyone! 🥳🙌🐶🦮🐕🦺
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What an incredible night we had at
@Ajes74
’s launch for
#TheLostOnes
!! Here’s some of the wonderful
#VWG
causing scenes in London! 🤩🤩 Now I need some coffee... ☕️☕️☕️☕️
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@cbcreative
@MarianKeyes
There’s a place beyond the trees the people here don’t talk about.
A place where the cold bites deeper, the snow lingers longer into the spring.
“Is it true, what they say about that place?” the stranger asks me.
We don’t usually tell. We’re not meant to.
But I will...
#WriteCBC
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Took the wee van wild camping this weekend! First time I’ve done that. Met a friend, toasted marshmallows on a fire, drank gin and chatted till the small hours! It was ace, and yet another thing I wouldn’t have done a couple of months ago! Things keep getting better! 🙌🔥🚐🐶
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Always a good feeling to write these words... even though they’re a total lie!! 😂🙈🙌
#VWG
#AmEditing
#NoWayThisIsFinished
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On our way down to Winchester, travelling the whole length of England to get to
@WinWritersFest
!! 🤓🌧
We rollin’ 🐶🐶🤣
#vwg
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
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@cbcreative
@AliceLutyens
And you
you
said something, but I can’t quite
I don’t
Your face before me dissipates into the dust and damp air. Still smiling as it’s lost to the white noise of morning light.
A man stands in the doorway.
‘Good to see you awake,’ he says.
White lies.
And you are gone.
#WriteCBC
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I miss my twitter pals… in fact, I miss twitter, this X thing is a bit shite 🤣 Got my head down trying to get book 2 written but I’m going to try and pop back and say hi and spam your TL’s with dog pics more often. Here’s 4 from yesterday’s walk to get started 🙌🐶
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@cbcreative
@felicityblunt
Once I‘m past the sprawl of cheap bars & sex-stained hotels in Lloret, the road opens out. Scent of pine trees & ocean air. A cloud blocks the sun & the temperature remembers it’s October & drops accordingly. It’s so beautiful I almost forget what I’m on my way to do...
#WriteCBC
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Now this is exciting… my first look at a foreign language version of
#DarkIsland
!!! 😱😱 I’m hoping the title of the next book sounds as cool in Czech as this does 🤣
#OstrovTemnoty
🙌🤩🇨🇿
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That feeling when it’s such a lush evening you decide to stay out and just keep walking cos you can! 🙌🐶☀️
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My work laptop makes no sound at all when I log off, and yet somehow they still know… 🐶🤣
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@theresa_may
12 years ago when I was 24 I used my red British passport to move to Spain and become a sports journalist. Sure, British people in their 20s won’t be able to do things like that anymore thanks to your nonsense, but their passports will be blue. So that’s something...
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Thank you everyone for all the lovely messages yesterday, you made a special day even more amazing!! I haven’t had time to get to them all yet but I will, as soon as I’ve polished off some more of this cake and beer (I’m not really day drinking, honest!) 🍻🍰🥳
#DarkIsland
#VWG
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Eeeeeek!! 😱😱😱 Well this isn’t entirely terrifying! Apparently if you’re on NetGalley you can now request to read
#DarkIsland
. Or you can be like me and ignore that it’s happening, I’m cool either way 🫣
#VWG
#AmReading
#WritingCommunity
#Orkney
DARK ISLAND by Daniel Aubrey (
@SpacemanDan13
) is now available to request on Netgalley!
It's the first novel in the new Orkney Mysteries crime series, a thrilling read that will have you gripped from the beginning - perfect for your weekend plans!
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I’ve written just north of 5000 words today! Definitely a personal best!! 💪💪 Now, I’m bloody knackered... so I’m having a coffee and some cake and I’m going again!! No sleep till this draft is done, who’s with me?! 🙌🥳☕️🤪
#VWG
#AmWriting
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I hope everyone has at least one thing in their lives they love as much as Maggie loves rolling in frost 😁🥰❄️🐶
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We had to wait until late in the day for it to be cool enough for today’s walk, but it was worth it! 🙌🐶🤩☀️🌓⛰
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I volunteered with the community woodland group again today. No chainsawing this month - we were hammering cones into the ground to help fallen saplings grow upright. Look how chuffed I am with my work! 🤣🤣 30 secs later I was screaming as a spider ran up my arm! 🤦♂️😂🕷🌳
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It’s
#followfriday
!!
#WritingCommunity
, let’s do another pet pic
#ff
thread, as the last one was such a hit!! Post a photo of your animal writing buddies and follow other
#writers
who love their pets! 🙌🐶🐱🐭🐹🐰
Here’s Maggie and Dylan to get us started!!
#amwriting
#vwg
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@cbcreative
@LisaODonnell72
I smile.
Nod.
Say, “Wow, how are you? How’s old what’s his...
Like I give a crap.
I say something hilarious because OMG that’s such a Tom thing to say, right?
I hide at Tom’s desk, behind Tom’s cry-for-help eyes, playing a part I don’t remember ever auditioning for.
#WriteCBC
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Eight years between these two photos but only the kitchen is different - Dylan looks EXACTLY THE SAME to me! 😂😍🐶
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN! 🙌🥳🎂🎁🎊🐶
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“Maggie” is trending apparently, good excuse to share some photos of the bestest Maggie there is 🥰🐶
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Worth braving the cold last night for views like this 🤩🥶 Orion, Taurus, and Mars above the snow ✨💫
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Glad I booked a window seat for this train journey!! What a view!! 🤩😂🤦♂️
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