@britishlibrary.bsky.social Will tickets for your online Fairy Tales event tonight include a replay option for those who can’t listen in live?

I had a look. It might be possible, but likely with more effort and purchase of suitable fabrics/elastic and use of more sewing-machine and time than I readily have available. If you know any teenagers with size 6.5 feet who would like them, LMK in case I decide to ditch rather than edit them!

I have some gorgeous gold glitter hi-tops from mini Boden which I bought second hand. Sadly although the shoe size is right for me, the ankle is way too tight on my big grownup legs :(

I recently saw an amazing official Lego-patterned duvet set at Dunelm. And it does come in a double! Sadly not a king-size, which my bed is :(

We have recently acquired some rainbow dinosaur bedding (a collaboration between the Natural History Museum and Dunelm) along with a giant bright meteorite pattern from the same source. Very happy that cool science patterns come with bright fun colours!

I mean don’t get too excited, like, I’m not in the habit and I’m not sure what I’d be talking about or anything. But it’s nice to see people, so to speak. I used to do this a lot, what /did/ I post back then? Will have to think.

An excellent thread of historical cases of dangerous info-slop, and how it contaminates through generations. I made similar points in my Gist piece from 2024, below.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

It’s been a long time since I posted anything in this sort of format so I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing here. But I am here.

Our washing machine just broke too! Some sort of new year curse? I’m sorry you’re cold on top of that :(