Good morning! Another grey day of drizzle in the UK. So I suggest you curl up on the sofa and read a Pratchett. I recommend Discworld, my favourite is 'Guards! Guards!' it includes Vime's boots theory of social inequality, which at the moment is very topical.
#TerryPratchettDay

Thanks for mentioning my book, Paul Cheney. Hope you are enjoying WBoB. It was an epic journey of learning and enjoyment, trying to unearth the amazing 3-billion-year story from its crust of jargon.

Longbarrow Press was launched in Sheffield 18 years ago today. Over the next few hours, we'll post 18 loosely threaded tweets - anecdotal, aphoristic, archival - that reflect on the ethos and evolution of the press. What we do, how we do it, why we do it. In no particular order.

Weather officials urged residents in eastern Nebraska to seek shelter as tornadoes moved through the Lincoln and Omaha metro areas on Friday, April 26.

This is a stunning tornado intercept north of Lincoln.

[📹 NickGormanWX]

Now reading Walking the Bones of Britain by Christopher Somerville

For anyone who needs a Friday boost, 90 seconds of Nightingale song from Castor Hanglands near Peterborough, the loudest of four heard on a pre-breakfast stroll… #MindfulListening #Spring2024

NE West Anglia Team Langdyke Countryside Trust

After a great first two weeks of running our Carey Osprey Tours in partnership with Careys Secret Garden, we're excited to have released the next batch of dates, now available up until early June!

Find all available dates here: birdsofpooleharbourbookings.co.uk/ospreys

Dorset Bird Club

Book Review: Forgottenness neverimitate.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/boo… via Jackie Law

Whoop! We have 2 books in this weeks The Bookseller small publisher top 10! Out of the Past at 7 and London Particular at 9. How's that pop pickers? #TalesoftheWeird #CrimeClassics

Published today!
🟢A Japanese mid-century masterpiece
🟡Highlights from a famous, familiar name
🟠The best of Russia's literary queen
🟣A romantic adventure from a great of her time
🔵The only novel by the surrealist legend
Details (and covers 😍- pick your favourite) 👇

We are so proud that Alliance titles make up half of this year's Women's Prize for fiction shortlist!

Congratulations to the brilliant writers Claire Kilroy, Aube Rey Lescure and Kate Grenville and their publishers Faber Books, Duckworth Books and Canongate! #WomensPrize

Large coffee mugs in Ash & Ebony
Approx 480ml capacity

A glimpse of the beautiful hardback Dark Mountain: Issue 25, a book about the living land that underpins all land rights struggles. With contributions from over 60 writers, artists, thinkers and doers, it's an amazing body of work. On sale now! DarkMountainProject dark-mountain.net/introducing-ou…

Most of the way through this fascinating history of Ireland's food by Margaret Hickey and published by Unbound

It begins...
Wild Twin.
Soon...Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Well this caught us all off guard. Female Osprey CJ7 laid a 4th egg at 19:15 this evening. This is a brilliant result. A four egg clutch is a scarce occurrence in Ospreys. Will they all hatch? Let’s hope so as there’s plenty of food! Tim Mackrill Careys Secret Garden Dorset Bird Club

And here it is - the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist! 🤩 still pinching myself that it's my job to champion these books x

A picture says 1000 words, a map says…

#hillfortswednesday #dorset #map

Knowlton sunset last night

SWIFTS ARE ARRIVING HOME!
Celebrate your first swift sighting by posting on here and tagging me & Michael Gove - if he knows how many of us are DELIGHTED by their return, maybe he will act & greenlight the ready-and-waiting proposal to secure their essential nesting habitat!