Book #24 of 2026 finished.
Stone & Sky by Ben Aaronovitch
This is the 15th book in the Rivers Of London series. Peter Grant and family, ably supported by Abigail, Thomas and the foxes, get thrown into solving a murder case with several twists.
Brilliant story-telling 5🌟
#Booksky #Tsundoku
Prompted by Tom, a reminder to non-UK-based book lovers that they don't pay for delivery when ordering from Blackwell's. One of the wonders of the world.
Bristol 1-0 up. Stoke, sadly, 1-0 down.
A new delivery of A4 prints. All available from my shop or from various print fairs (I’m at Liverpool Print Fair this weekend)
jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
A painting of a bird beside the text "is this shit over or what"
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Two of drug lord Pablo Escobar's passions were hippos and football.
He bankrolled his own club Atlético Nacional.
Unlike Pablo, the hippos are still roaming free.
@talksport.com
Screenshot from the New York Times game, Spelling Bee, that shows the error BROCK does not appear in the games acceptable words list. This is an English Language outrage
BROCK? Not in your word list?
What fresh linguistic hell is this, NYT.
Many happy returns to #RobertSmith of #TheCure - born this day in 1959
Fake Daily mail headline. We blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires
“ — Then fly, false Thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with fear
[Enter a Servant]
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac’d loon!”
#Bardspotting
MACBETH
Macbeth; Act V, Scene 3
#Wordle 1,767 2/6*
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22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE Award-winning multiverse adventure where your parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to send, in your green bin, all at the same time - but never actually with you.
Based on a true story. About a dozen true stories in our experience...
Backlit white dogwood blossoms and dark branches stretch across a bright blue sky, with sunlight filtering through the petals and soft-focus foliage in the background
You are the music while the music lasts.
— T. S. Eliot
#BlueSkyMonday
#FlowerReport
#BloomScrolling
We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
Book #23 of 2026 finished.
The Testament Of Loki by Joanne Harris. Read by Alan Corduner
Not quite what I was expecting after The Gospel Of Loki but thoroughly enjoyable.
Follow the Trickster after the fall of Ásgarðr through a breathless adventure with humans & daemons.
#Booksky #Tsundoku
20-24 April.
For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of:
Season 16 “Lily of the Valley Blooms”
#Booksky
“The trees, through summer, yet forlorn and lean,
O’ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe;
Here never shines the sun, here nothing breeds
Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven.”
#Bardspotting
TAMORA
Titus Andronicus; Act II, Scene 2
#Wordle 1,766 3/6*
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FT #ITFC 2 (McAteer, J Clarke, pen) - 2 Middlesbrough
HT #ITFC 1 - 1 Middlesbrough
Starting XI for #ITFC for their home game against Middlesbrough, noon kick-off
Starting XI for #ITFC for their home game against Middlesbrough, noon kick-off
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
“Ah, what’s more dangerous than this fond alliance?
Seems he a dove? His feathers are but borrowed,
For he’s disposed as the hateful raven.”
#Bardspotting
QUEEN MARGARET
King Henry VI, Part Two; Act III, Scene 1
#Wordle 1,765 3/6*
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My new Achilles heel - a repeated word.
To save others from that, here's how Exeter City gave themselves a lifeline to avoid the League One drop after goalkeeper Jack Bycroft's 96th minute equaliser against Stockport County
“One thing i like about you Graeme is you’re not shallow. You don’t try and turn a fleeting moment of popularity into a marketing opportunity. You just move on” marswasrubbish.etsy.com
“Well Done, Commander!”
