Well, I wonder what this could be? 🧐

Only the very first glimpses of the hardback proof of my debut novel #TheWomanintheWallpaper ... out February and available to pre-order NOW! 💜

Could we bring back integrity in politics, GP appointments, well-funded schools and libraries and universities, our international standing, clean water, public transport, ease of voting, safe pensions, environmental protections, workers rights & benefits for those who need them?

Malvern Hills looking lovely tonight (and just a little crime-y)

people can’t swim in the sea or drink tap water or get an NHS appointment or afford heating and eating

The UK is getting wetter mainly due to more intense rainfall rather than more wet days.

When it rains, it rains harder.

Ordinary weather setups produce extraordinary amounts of rain.

Climate change in action.

And it will get worse.

Graph courtesy Ed Hawkins

I finished #CircusofMirrors by @julieowenmoylan this morning in the sunshine. What a brilliant tale of two sisters in Berlin. Atmospheric & the characters are flawed, complex & believable. Get it pre ordered, coming from @michaeljbooks September. Julie’s best novel yet.

A beautiful day on the riverbank with cuckoos, warblers, mayflies, brown trout, water voles & the mighty Feargal Sharkey, talking water politics.

Ended it feeling more optimistic about the future of England’s rivers than in years, with Feargal fighting full-on for them. ✊

You have one guaranteed opportunity every five years to exercise your explicit will over those who rule you. These are people who have placed multiple bad leaders in power without asking your approval. Now it can't be avoided, they scurry off in large numbers. Judge accordingly.

Tomorrow Rishi Sunak will visit a plumbing company called Down the Sewer, then make a speech at an aquarium but fall in a tank and be attacked by an octopus, then he'll be photographed at a hardware store with Grant Shapps in front of a sign that says 'Knobs'.

Vote Tory for more privatisation, potholes and corruption! Vote Tory for more patients in corridors, sewage in rivers, and potholes that will prang your car!

8 weeks till...

Don't listen to anybody who tells you not to vote. No matter what they present as, it's likely they'll be a right-wing bot.

Voter suppression is the right's biggest hope. In USA it's what they spend most money on. Do not fall for it.

Register to vote.
Get voter ID.
And #vote

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John Muir said ‘In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.’ 100% true ..

..but getting grumpy kids into the wild isn't always easy

Here i share some ideas for 'rewilding' your family this half-term 🌳 🏕️ 🪲rb.gy/3i7glx #Rewild David Fickling Books

‘I’ve called a general election by mistake’

As requested, the election in Ghosts.

#bbcghosts

Rishi’s next job could be in catering. (He just doesn’t know it yet)

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Get in! #GeneralElection2024

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Don't let somebody else make decisions for you.

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‘Things have STARTED to go wrong’???? 😳