Christmas on a stick!

Hi, if you have fake halloween cobweb outside, please take it down. It's nightmare for birds who get entangled and die. The cases even coming at the hedgehog rescues with hogs getting so entangled it's causing terrible wounds & in one case toe amputations. Please, please keep it indoors 🙏

🎄🎉 Out this Thursday 🎉🎄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "One of the best cosy series out there" It's 5 days to Christmas, 13 guests are trapped in Elderwick Hall... and one of them is a killer 💀 💙📚⚡

1st day back to work after blissful time in t' fells. May need coffee/cake/chocolate/music (*delete as appropriate). Have a good one, folks 🔆

Autumn is here 🍂

Hmm. Cake with extra nuts 😊 #Baking

What a tree!

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." 🥰

Let there be cake 😊

Morning 🔆 What a strange place for a leaf to land I thought... Then I got closer! #butterflies #insects

Ahh, look at that little face and hairy leg! #bees #bumblebee

Oh, go on then. Happy Saturday!

🎶 Oh what a sky, Morning pic tak-en by me, What a flower, What a sky 🎶

🎶 Oh what a sky, Morning pic tak-en by me, What a holyhock, What a sky 🎶

Fast but very welcome garden inhabitants!

This is Bird - he's basically trained me & is now my handler 😂 And he's back with chicks ❤️

Anyone else find their Amazon reviews for indie books don't post/take repeated attempts & reviews for trad/big books go straight away? 😡 Reviewed Liar (indie) days ago (then again) & disappeared. Did the big book yesterday! Wonder how many reviews for my books never got there 😭

Discovered this year's ant aphid farm! Fascinating 😊 #insects

Y'know I keep forgetting that if you sign up to my newsletter you get an exclusive free short story; Professor Schroedinger's Time Machine. ⏳😼☠ It's a good 'un. 👍

Probably the most distinguished gate post in the world!

1 chapter on the never ending WIP to edit & 1 chapter to write - in the dreaded middle. Determined to do it this weekend. Any positive encouragement / threats to pinch my caramel digestives upon failure will be greatly recieved...

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A very big & very wiggly wall (see comment 🧵) in the most stunning place! #WallsOnWednesday #LakeDistrict

Not the greatest photo, I know. But the only tree bumblebee that's stayed still long enough this year! #bumblebee

Hidden inside a poppy!

Beautiful day, beautiful place, beautiful walk 😊 #fingerpostfriday

Spot the face, folks!

*Seat now reserved* Cake to eat, stuff to write....

It is with great disappointment that I find my neighbour's flowers have breached the fence and filled a corner of my yard 😊 #flowers #yellow

Cutest gang of dunnocks in the yard today ❤️ #birds

Hi, any idea what's inside this little gathering outside the bedroom window? #insects #spiders

Surreal sunset over t'valley tonight ❤️

Monster caterpillar disguised as a path???

Just imagine how happy the bees would be if everyone let a few dandelions grow!

Fancied a change. Only regret is that I didn't have the next one to start reading straight away!

Probably the nicest wall I ever did see! #WallsOnWednesday

Just about 9 hours left. You don't want to be the only one who missed out, do you? 😅

The first carder bee of the year enjoying the violets in the 'lawn' ❤️ #GiveNatureaChance #bees

40 minutes well spent 😊

Such a good thing to see at last ❤️

Happy #thicktrunktuesday ❤️

Oops. So I might have accidentally started reading the book I was saving for the Easter break...

It's publication day for my third Elderwick book 😀🎉 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I'm always so happy to head back to Elderwick" 🫖🐓🍰 #cosymystery #cozymystery #Elderwick

This morning's 6am wake up call was bought to you by... 😊 #birdsong #spring

🎶Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away🎶 🎶Then today I felt lazy and swept the yard🎶 🎶And now I cannot stop coughing hard 🎶

Is it really only Tuesday? I'm Friday tired already... #thicktrunktuesday

540 days of Spanish and still enter panic mode if someone says hola 🤦

Derbyshire wall housing a Mount Everest of a stile ! (I'm on it below, for scale) #WallsOnWednesday

Time for a bit of reality - a thread. Sales in the shop are doing well, but we're reliant on sales on the website to help pay the bills. The website is reliant on social media, particularly twitter. Since September, we've seen a big decline in people seeing our tweets.