Aw gee!!!

Oh boy, thank you so much!!!

Thank you Mike - sorry - things are a bit nutty at the moment!

Thank you so much!

Other months exist: A plea to stop cramming every festival into September London in September is suffering from a bad case of festivalitis, with the month being selected by an increasing number of organisations to run large festivals.

This. Greenwich and Docklands Festival always used to be in June. What happened?
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/oth...

Just saying....Anyone caring to pre-order my and @lucille_clerc's latest collaboration, Literary Gardens, might like to do so by hitting the link below and using the code SUMMER25 before the end of the month for a 25% discount. #WPreorder
www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...

After publication day on Thursday, the first sighting of The Psychedelic Garden in the wild, alongside its brothers and sisters at #RoyalBotanicGardensKew

Oh boy, Lost Gardens is in the window at #Hatchards. Okay, so it's smaller than the others and at the back but I'm A Contender! Thanks to
@franceshardinge.bsky.social
for the photo!

Dang! I'm away - good luck with this - if it's a roaring success, which I am sure it will be, I'll come to the next one...

sunday vibes

‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs

Could probably articulate this better if I wasn't so tired but... no. Dance around using whatever A word you want to make you feel better, but nothing 'written' 'creatively' by AI has any value that wasn't stolen. It's inherently worthless, soulless communication.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

I have never managed to grow them!

Daffodils at #WarleyPlace coming into their prime...

Looking forward to chatting about Ellen Willmott next Wednesday at the Lindley Library!

Lindley Late - Horticultural Heroes: Spotlight on Miss Ellen Willmott Tickets, Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

The 18th and early 20th century period celebrated romance, and especially St Valentine's Day...

Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records President Trump has fired the nation's top record keeper, Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan.

This is terrifying and sounds suspiciously like rewriting history...

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

I do love it!!! (And you!)

SO with you on this.

Absolutely inspirational.

Absolutely inspirational.

Brilliant. I particularly want to know which decks you're storing in the bottom drawer, the one with the intriguing handle. At first, without my specs, I thought it was a tap...

Digital book burning

What I will say is that if you’re concerned by this news as a member, as a fan of any of EH’s properties, or simply as someone who likes to walk around ruins, country houses and prehistoric sites, please write to English Heritage to say so.

Your voice matters the most.

Art at Canary Wharf's Winter Lights Festival this evening. Reminds me of the old RKO ident.

Greed, every time. Greed. Petition signed and will up my cinema going in protest.

To be honest I ran out of books. First time ever! I've ordered some more but much better to find it in the library for nuppence!

Hurray!

It was a fantastic afternoon. Everyone was SO engaged and I learned a lot from the audience too.

Hey there! Thanks for identifying me Mike! Actually, not boasting (yeah, ok, I am...) there were over 200 people there yesterday! I remember your wife as she told me all about you purchasing the MWG plant. Good luck with it on your allotment, I have never managed to grow it myself!!!