Just putting this out there again...

I’d love someone to commission an exhibition and/or book of these Netherne artworks, if at all possible. #ArtSky #BookSky 💙📚

Isn’t it the foremost example of nominative determinism ever?

I read the novel it’s based on and unexpectedly enjoyed it.

It’s such a fun watch, and I get that Julia May Jones was making a point about Nabokov’s Lolita by choosing the name Vladimir, but it sure makes online search more tedious, on account of a certain villain of the same name.

Colour illustration of Mole and Rat sitting in a small wooden rowing boat on a green river, surrounded by foliage, with a dragonfly above the water. Overlaid text reads: “The story of Wind in the Willows began as a series of letters to a little boy called ‘Mouse’”.

The story of The Wind in the Willows began as a series of letters to a little boy called 'Mouse'. 🐭

#TheWindInTheWillows

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I went to see the Tate Britain’s Constable/Turner exhibition at the cinema this afternoon. It was wonderful to sit about 15 mins walk away from Salisbury Cathedral and see Constable’s depiction of it in close up on a big screen.

Book cover for "There’s a Reason for Everything" by E.R. Punshon. The design features a striking pattern of diagonal blue, black, and cream stripes. In the bottom right corner, there is a dark silhouette of a British police officer in a traditional custodian helmet, identified by text as "A Bobby Owen Mystery No. 21." A quote from Dorothy L. Sayers praising the author's work is printed across the middle.

To kick off the week, the Golden Age classic There’s a Reason for Everything by E.R. Punshon is FREE on Kindle! #freetillfriday
A "ghost hunt" at a haunted mansion turns deadly. Can Bobby Owen find the logic behind the phantom? 🕯️🔎 Links in comments below🔗

Good morning! #camellia #spring

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Rex Whistler's picture (1942) is a view of Daye House in Wiltshire with the novelist Edith Olivier; the house attracted many writers, artists and musicians including Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Siegfried Sassoon, William Walton, and Osbert Sitwell.

It was quite disappointing.

❤️

Fluffy chestnut Shetland pony with sunshine and fields and hills behind

A fluffy pony to brighten your Monday #Shetland

Are you watching Drops of God? (We love it) Chateau d’Yquem features prominently in the latest episode of S2.

Henry Lamb painted 'Bridge near Salisbury,' (1920) soon after returning from WW1, he won the Military Cross for his bravery in attending to wounded soldiers while under heavy enemy fire in Palestine in May 1918.

Fat Thursday This week, I have written about the Polish tradition involving doughnuts

My new post, all about Fat Thursday and Polish-style doughnuts, is live!
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A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.

Good morning!

The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter Letter: Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an article on the Taliban’s birth control ban

Gender genocide in Afghanistan: "after the demise of the present generation of female doctors, midwives, surgeons and nurses who are still permitted to work, women will receive no medical aid whatsoever."

Good morning!

The Courtauld Gallery has a new exhibition of landscape drawings and watercolours by women artists working in Britain between 1760 and 1860. 'Rainbow over Patterdale Churchyard, Cumbria,' (1849) is by Fanny Blake. The show closes on 20 May.

I love everything about this story, not least the care and interest shown by the lorry driver.

Burning galley and flames look like a dragon shape

When the flames form a dragon #Shetland #uphellyaa

Holocaust victim’s rescued artwork captures life in a Jewish ghetto The works of Peter Kien, a Jewish painter and writer who died in Auschwitz, have been reunited after more than 80 years thanks to a love passed down generations

For Holocaust Memorial Day, the extraordinary story of Peter Kien, the Jewish artist who depicted life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 55 year-long battle to retrieve them.

His artworks will now be held by the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

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Pencil drawing of two very rounded, stylized children’s characters, one as Miss Marple, the elderly amateur sleuth, and the other of Hercule Poirot with a giant nose and fancy mustache. Miss Marple is thinking “that reminds me of the greengrocer’s son…” and Poirot is thinking, “voilà! the little grey cells have solved the case again!” Sketch by Stardust.

Little Miss Marple and Mr. Poirot, from design by Adam Hargreaves.

London novels – another ten favourites from my shelves Back in July, I put together a list of ten favourite novels set in London. It seemed to strike a chord with many of you, so much so that I thought I’d pick another ten, including some of the books …

New on the blog today, I've written about more of my favourite London novels.

Including books by Anita Brookner, Elizabeth Bowen, Barbara Pym and many more! #BookSky #London 💙📚

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Good morning!

Did you know Robert Burns had a beloved border collie called Luath (it means “fast, swift, quick” in Gaelic), whom he immortalised in his verse?

Dill, being very “luath” this morning.

I feel seen.

Same.