Paddington and Pompoms! Have you noticed how much more sensible women and girls are about shoes these days? So much so that I wonder if chiropodists and podiatrists are going out of business, due to bunions and hammertoes…

A little piece to take our minds off the hell of current events.
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Dad, John Havelock Girling OBE, died 16 years ago today. He really was a charming man!

Two gooney birds who really are albatrosses around the world's neck!

This train station looks very different to the one Annie was on in 1941 - then it wasn't lads in jeans, it was boys and men in army fatigues, either going to or returning from the hell of war! #WarFiction #AwardWinningBook #HistoricalFiction #PacificWar #WarNurses

And the list just keeps growing - it's exhausting!

The business news, the world news, the war news, is unutterably depressing, and it's all down to three old white men #Trump #Netanyahu #Putin Ditch your paper and escape into a time when #war was a moral obligation #WWII and not the whim of crooks.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does! #CatholicChurch #papacy #Trump #Warmonger

Or perhaps hiding his head because he can't bear to read anymore headlines about the incumbent of the White House!

I've just finished #TheMeasure by Nikki Erlick - I'm still trying to decide whether I liked it. Certainly thought-provoking, disturbing, and raised a lot of questions.

Ceasefire - yet another word Trump and Netanyahu don't understand. Another word they seem to have confused is 'win'. Could someone, anyone, please explain to me how it is a win for the US and the world, if it now costs the world to use the Straits of Hormuz, when before Trump's War it was free?

Just finished reading #TheMeasure by Nikki Erlick - thought provoking indeed! #bookclub Raised a lot of questions around #death #euthanasia #choice

That face! 😍

Honestly, if I were him, I'd choose Have You Eaten Rice Today? It seems to appeal to men more, and has been picked up by men's #bookclubs #JungleWarfare #Malaya #1950s The war that wasn't a #war because of insurance companies #HistoricalFiction

Perhaps Vance should be in DC or Mar a Largo, wherever bloody Trump is, trying to drill some sense into his addled brain. But, oops, I forgot. JDV is another fuckwit trying to make a name for himself, instead of doing the right thing.

Nothing 'probably' about it. We should!

Oh, believe me, I'm alarmed. However, I think the world is becoming inured to the vitriol and threats issued by that bloody man, and that could be dangerous.

Every single post Trump has written must be saved so they can be used when he is brought up for war crimes!

I run a writers' group and sometimes give a #prompt, which I will also do. This week is was, "What inanimate object would you save from your burning house, and why?" It got me really thinking. What would you save? #WritingExercise #WritingGroup

Thank you, the world needs something to smile about today!

You too, Liz - and the sun is shining!

Me niether!

Yes!

Yippity do dah day! Silver Medal #HistoricalFiction @lindasbookbag.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social #BookClub #BookCompetitions #WarFiction #history Annie's preferred drink was whisky, she loved listening to #Metallica and #AndreaBocelli and I think #CateBlanchet should play Annie 🙄

Woohoo - Silver in #TheWishingShelfBookAwards for my latest historical novel #WorldWar2 #Singapore #NewGuinea #AustralianArmyNursingService Thanks @vineleavespress.bsky.social for believing in Annie! @histnovsoc.bsky.social @romanticnovelists.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk @bluebookclub.bsky.social

That's 'coz the baguette wouldn't fit in the box!

I make the same wish every day!

#ThomasDambo the Danish recycle artist got it right! I feel I need to cling to a tree to keep grounded as I try to figure out which way to jump in my next #novel! Perhaps I just need to start the damn thing #writing or not #ContemporaryFiction or not #AmLost

Tired of your commute? Join Amelia and her gondolaful of friends on a sometimes sad, sometimes joyful journey of self-discovery among Venetian canals#ContemporaryFiction #Widowhood #Daughters #hope #Italy #AustraliansAbroad Finalist #WishingShelfAwards

A Daughter's Courage (Linford Saga Book 1) Read it now

Many thanks to all who bought A DAUGHTER'S COURAGE, the first Linford saga, and who told me how much they'd enjoyed it. "A gripping first instalment" "Absorbing and hugely enjoyable" (Reader Reviews). mybook.to/ADaughtersCo... #histfic #LoveStory #HistoricalFiction
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Ickleton-based author Apple Gidley nominated in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Edward Trayer, aka Billy Bob Buttons, a successful children’s author, set up the Awards in 2013.

Thanks @cambridgeindy.bsky.social Apt to highlight 2 amazing women on #InternationalWomensDay My mum, an #Australian army nurse #WW2 and the 1st woman Australian #WarArtist #NoraHeyson @australianbooks.bsky.social
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