Two handmade chocolate bars with various toppings & two small bags of handmade truffles.

My sister & I had a really lovely morning at the chocolate tasting workshop at the local, ethical chocolate shop Cocoa Amore UK.

We got to make a bar of chocolate & truffles each 🍫

A black and orange book cover, with the black outline of a figure on the front. Book is The Prisoner of Zaragoza by Daniel Ribot.

Happy Book Birthday 🎂 to our friend @danribotagain.bsky.social whose historical fantasy romance is out today.

#books #booksky #reading #historicalfantasy

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You know you've been reading way more ebooks on a touch device than print when...

You tap a printed page expecting to go on to the next page!

😂📖

Another fake disease AI thought was real was "Kyloren syndrome." It showed up in Google's AI Overview.

It was from a hoax paper that @neuroskeptic.bsky.social wrote to expose a predatory journal.

See "The garbage'll do", July 2017, in my hoax anthology, Stinging the Predators:

bit.ly/StingPred

Interesting piece.

Research librarians can't ignore AI tools, as they're popping up everywhere (& in existing products) & researchers want to use them. Need to know about them whether you're pro or anti (or in my case, pragmatic... when they could be used helpfully & when they shouldn't be used). 📚

I only got around to watching the first two episodes, so need to decide whether to go back and binge the rest...

I am at the stage of wedding prep where I'm wondering why we thought it was a good idea to have various celebrations.

Perhaps we dismissed the idea of us & two witnesses at the registry office too quickly 😂

I know I'll enjoy the day when it comes (with careful pacing!)

When you randomly pick a film that sounds good to stream... And it was a good film...

But you weren't expecting the bittersweet ending 😭

I'd agree it was on par or slightly more unsettling than Khemjira.

Couple of rest days so caught up with new #blseries - Contrast & Feel What You Feel.

Finished #kdrama The Practical Guide to Love.

Read The Hookup Duology by Jax Calder - low drama, feel good 🌶️ #mmromance novellas.

Just started reading urban fantasy Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Book cover for Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher. A black/purple background with a castle style tower illustration in the middle and leaves and brambles around the edges.

Finished Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher yesterday.

Recommended for those the enjoy interesting fairy-tale retellings from a different character point of view.

#booksky #reading #books #fairytales

Finished the latest seasons of Virgin River & XO Kitty!

So now back to my regular diet of #thaidrama #jdrama #kdrama #blseries

New ep of Duang With You later 💜

When you hear a local music venue (O2) will be closing later in the year, and you end up checking all the local venues for upcoming gigs...

I appear to have booked tickets to see The South at The International in Leicester in May. Oh dear, how sad, never mind 😉

Central image is of two Thai male characters embracing. In the top left is a female ghost and bottom right is two other male characters.

For anyone that fancies trying a Thai Supernatural drama, with a large side-order of mm romance, then Khemjira has dropped on Netflix UK.

I really enjoyed this series.

#mmromance #blseries

List of pizzas, e.g. Americana, BBQ Original, that are all listed as 1kcal (1 calorie)

Pretty sure this food order app is lying to me about how many calories are in these pizzas.... But, hey, we can pretend 😂

On Easter break from work until next Wednesday.

Exciting plans include the car MOT & visiting the opticians 😂

I've been eating quite a lot of potato salad this week (to use up potatoes).

It's giving me flashbacks to my go to student lunches of tin of tuna + potato salad or potato salad sandwiches.

I do still succumb to a potato salad sandwich occasionally 🥔🥪

A tabby cat with a white chest sitting on a step looking into a house through patio doors.

One of our 'not our cat' visitors was feeling bold today.

#cats

I really enjoyed it. Interesting to see Pride & Prejudice from Mary's pov & then see her story beyond that.

I've not read the book it's based on, so not sure how it compares.

This afternoon I am mainly watching The Other Bennett Sister.

Variable... There's some quite silly bits. Obvious that most of the characters have some past traumas (to variable degrees), but no major angst yet... 4/8 episodes in.

Autocorrect initially put "pasta traumas" 😂

I'm watching. Not stellar, but I'm enjoying enough to keep watching. Some nice scenery.

Amazed to see some actual medical ethics on display from one of the characters 😂

Happy ALCS distribution week to those getting payments.

I am continually surprised by getting payments for my small press publication contributions.

@alcs.co.uk do amazing work for authors.

It's Barnes & Noble preorder discount time again! If you preorder the paperback of The Heist Of Hollow London between 24th and 26th March, you can use the code PREORDER25 to get 25% off: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heist-...

I remember enjoying an evening of murder ballads, put on by some folk musician friends, some years ago.

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance or you're eliminated.

youtu.be/pOW5hcbnxzk?...

Current favourite #blseries watches:

- Duang with You
- Fourever You Part 2: The Sun from another Star
- Only Friends: Dream On
- My Romance Scammer
- Cat for Cash
- Love You Teacher

Watching quite a few others too, though have got behind on Yesterday.

Current #kdrama watches.

Binged Boyfriend on Demand - enjoyed how they played with some drama trips in the virtual scenarios.

Couple of episodes into The Practical Guide to Love

#jdrama - stalled on ep9 of My Housekeeper Nagisa-san. I should finish it, as it's only 10 eps.

Yes, turns out it's spelt differently on several different documents! As she can never remember how it's spelt 😂

We went to give our notice of marriage yesterday. You can add parental details for family tree purposes. Mum checked her birth certificate for the exact spelling of her middle name...

Merrylyne

My Grandad was drunk when he registered the birth & couldn't spell Marilyn😂

Mum prefers Merrylyne.