Remembering a fierce friend to wolves and all wildlife. Thank you, Dr. Goodall. Photo: Dr. Jane Goodall, WCC Volunteer Sue, and Ambassador wolf Atka.

His genius was fully formed from the very get-go.

Also for #LincolnshireDay! My prose, non-fiction book, 'Village,' has unique photos. Here are more: a prize-winning Lincoln sheep,a century ago; my grandmother's grandmother's lost Lincolnshire farmhouse; my shepherd grandfather & dog Jim & a very young feeder of orphan lambs! LINK IN COMMENTS!

Exciting news coming soon! Roof & building restoration work has begun at the Library. We’re open as usual! You may notice some scaffolding, noise, or limited parking. Keep up to date via our social media and our website. Residential guests will receive relevant email updates.

Delighted to have my work & words featured in @obscuracraft.bsky.social October issue. If you are interested or work with historical processes they are open for submissions. You can hear more about their work on @llfpodcast.bsky.social too.

Cold-weather vegetables are witnesses to hard times, slower seasons, generations of survival through the winter. Katrina Vandenberg writes in praise of the lessons offered by their complexity.

So much to do. So many expenses. Holiday sales season just started. Read the blogpost. Share links. Buy gorgeous Native jewelry Wings creates of silver & stone. Join Aji's Patreon. Send Ko-fi in appreciation of their work. Creative & community. It all helps.

A tomb adorned with cymbal bashing apes may not be to everyone's taste, but even in death, it seems many of us retain our peculiarities. I heartily approve of such afterlife eccentricity. – Lucy Hay, architectural historian, 'Grave Concerns', BBC Two, 1980

Very timely and interesting statement from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Particularly interesting re my own work, but also to those who want to know just what the hell is going on. 'Engaging with the grief and anger of white working-class communities that this comment...' 1/3

'Holyday', St John's Wood (c.1876) by James Tissot (Tate)

Hopeless rascal Pardamat has found the perfect prop for his latest scheme. Whether he's planning to poke unsuspecting friends, use it as a back-scratcher, or simply wave it around to get everyone's attention, Pardamat's stick-wielding antics keep the Nursery herd amused. #NurseryLife

Reminder: Aji created #HelpFolksLive hashtag & her rules apply. No "respectability politics" here. Also if *you* found a "help" online, so did they. (Folks, *DON'T* @ or tag Aji. She's got *very* serious health & money issues of her own. Put links in *this* thread.)

October. Months change. Survival needs don't (food/water/shelter/meds). Indigenous, Black, POC, 2SLGBTQNBIA, Disabled folks & small business folks who need some help to make it, drop your cash links, GFMs, your Ko-fis & Patreons & etsy shops here. #HelpFolksLive2025

October 2nd. New month. #HelpFolksLive2025 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Things only get better with community action. *Now* is when folks need food, water, shelter, meds. *Now* is when we/the community needs to be there for each other. There's no one else. Just us.

"When We Are Old" #NativeWriter 40 new patrons at $25/month cover all Aji's household bills & get daily vignettes of life on the alpine desert (Taos) Reservation where Aji lives. Today is a good day to subscribe.

$739 TO GO RENT RN THREAT OF HOMELESSNESS URGENT $700 debt (keeps growing w/ late fees/interest) Tran. Currently unemployed. 74 ppl $10 ea - any combo ppl x $$ = $739 - keeps them safe while they look for work. + Anything toward the debt is good. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

found the last remaining pure place on the Internet and it seems to be a livestream of a waterhole in Namibia www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYD...

This is infuriating & flat-out vile. What sort of a humane country denies people who have proven, through rigorous review, their need for sanctuary the right to also be with (& provide safety for) their closest loved ones — spouses, children? With every single policy like this, PEOPLE WILL DIE.

Book post for #NationalPoetryDay.

I think it's the US Writers Guild that have created 'Human-Author' stickers for books. We'll see more of this, I'm sure.

When a parish church presents itself as a fortress, it's fair to ask what are those who pray inside it so afraid of? Every Englishman's home may be his castle, but why does an omnipotent God need battlements? In certain spots, I believe they shiver from fear of folklore. – #CLNolan

For the love of all that is good in the book world, please work with real-life illustrators, cover designers and other creatives. In the UK, they are absolutely the best in the world.

#CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝 #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #BringingBackTheNatureTable🌿 #Calendar2026 #2026Calendar #SmallBusiness

Agree. As I keep saying, the book world should hold fast and let others choose AI slop, if they must. No better way to continue to show our value.

Today's Flighty's plolt blog post is I rarely mention,... - flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/i... 🌱 #UKGardening

My Substack post for October is live! The usual soul-baring stuff from me, including what I did in the Moomin Museum... Also some book chat and details about my forthcoming workshops for the poetry-haters! open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

My September reads: The Spring Begins and A Pink Front Door were my bookish highlights. 💙📚

75 years young.

Oxfordshire 2025. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #woodland

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Let's hear it for the poets and poetry publishers who enrich our lives! Here are just a few to get us started ❤️ @serenbooks.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @emiliejelinek.bsky.social @niaandthepoems.bsky.social @courtneyconrad.bsky.social @alisonbinney.bsky.social

A ground-hugging monument from the Bronze Age in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston. #naturewriting #countrydiary

For #nationalpoetryday here's a selection of poetry books which I love. Any of your favourite poets here? #poetry

Bumpity-bump. They're emptying the bins.

1st October 2020 The Ship afloat.

2nd October 2018 In Cambridge, in October, a crop of new students gather at the cloisters at Emmanuel College. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.

And if you don’t have the time to engage with books like this @wendypratt.bsky.social you can always #FlannOBrien www.theguardian.com/books/2022/a...

Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...

And it’s #Arachtober! @britishspiders.bsky.social

After a speech critical of Reform, Starmer goes back to his nasty old ways.

After WW2, John Nash settled at Bottengoms Farm at Wormingford, Essex, a secluded village in the Stour Valley - John Constable walked past the house many times going to see his uncles and aunts, often sketching all the way. This work from 1954 shows the barn opposite the house.

This is "The Church at Cranham" by Lilian Leahy from 1934. Lilian married Elwin Hawthorne in 1937 & usually exhibited one or two paintings each year throughout their eight year exhibiting career. #LilianLeahy #EastLondonGroup

Notes from the Margin on ... notes in the margin and the power of a pastel highlighter. There's terrific, enquiring, connecting energy in this piece by @wendypratt.bsky.social.

Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...