The village WhatsApp is 31.9% enthusiastic demonstration of successful and knowledgeable integration into rural life, 63.3% Evri-gripe, 4.3% FTGH and a really delightful 0.5% - when the ice cream van is going to come. #letitbesoon

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Not only that, but Lulu @luluallison.bsky.social has sent me SIGNED copies of her novel "Salt Lick", which you can buy. For this, Lulu's made some amazing cow mono-prints to go with this one too! ORDER HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

A Big Green Exclusive! Beast, the latest novel by Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social is available to order from us! With each purchase you'll get a unique SIGNED mono-print (made by Lulu) of Rabbit, the divine familiar from the book. ORDER HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

There is a long list of things I can’t forgive Donald Trump for. Pete Hesgeth creaming his pants in public about ‘unleashed warriors’ is pretty high on that list.

The UK government is exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract, the FT reports. A big and absolutely correct step.

For a British person, is there anything more excruciatingly embarrassing than calling 999? I just called in a possible electrical fire at the building next door and I felt like saying “Hello, I am a time waster, this is probably nothing, I’d rather choke to death in fumes than disturb you unduly”

That’s apartheid in its most fatal, brutal form.

I dont look at this and think "what has become of our young men?". I think the immense social penalty of being a right wing teen is so pronounced that only terminally online fash-larping edgelords can be arsed. It's a sieve that filters out everyone but the most massive, psychotic dorks imaginable.

It’s the time of year when I start muttering irritably ‘what do they MEAN? obviously you can spring in EITHER direction. Obviously you can fall both ways. What the hell? It doesn’t make any SENSE..’

This was one of my favourites - tracing paper Tatlin’s Tower hat. An homage to something mysteriously poignant and beautiful- and it turns out, incredibly hard to work out and turn into a hat. But, given the restrictions of working within one Saturday, I am happy with it.

This was the final THANK YOU hat I made, the last one of making a hat from scratch every Saturday in lockdown and beyond, for an entire year, raising over £3.3k for a Brighton domestic violence charity. It was a really good project and I made some awesome hats.

I’m getting to the ‘total chaos sticking things to the wrong place, including myself’ level of working day disorder.

I love this man, and here, he beautifully captures what is so grimly inadequate about AI. Secret cigarettes, monkeys in classrooms, staring into the void: AI doesn’t know how. www.instagram.com/reel/DWTmY79...

Lulu, I gave my copy of Beast to a dear friend in the U.S. and ordered another copy for myself here where I live. I want to make sure it is always in my library.

NONCEGOGGLES

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

Bollocks to the World Cup.

Get Beast with some free, one-off art.

I've ordered this. You should too. 📗 🐇

Many thanks to all the booksellers at Waterstones Leeds. We have our very own bookshelf! Magic.

I have made possible a drawer in my kitchen for saucepan lids only. And whilst I’m not overly keen to reveal the paucity of my dream life, I also do not want to miss this chance to celebrate the achievement of a life-goal.

Come in, the water’s lovely

Too absurd for Joseph Heller …

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

A Big Green Exclusive! Beast, the latest novel by @luluallison.bsky.social is available to order from us! And with each purchase you'll get a unique SIGNED mono-print, by Lulu, of Rabbit, the divine familiar from the book. ORDER HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

These look good. 🐇 🐰

Today I did some mono-prints/water colours of Rabbit, the divine familiar in Beast. Free, exclusive one-off to go with any purchase of Beast, bought from the fabulous Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Forget Looksmaxxing. Try BOOKSMAXXING! I shaved forty-five minutes off my beauty* routine** and used it to read an extra book each week! Join the booksmaxxing revolution today and be the envy of your friends! [*very beholdery beauty] [**not an actual routine. More like random hygiene tics]

The website turns 7 years old today! To celebrate, you can get 7% off anything you buy on the website today by using code BERT7 at the checkout. Jeff would never.

In my experience this happens all the time and is thus ‘the process’ but it’s still fucking annoying when you have an idea that makes a book better, but necessitates going back over the whole damn thing for subtle flexes, adjustments and rewrites in places you can’t easily identify.

To be fair, the failure is mine not the ice cream carton, cheap as chips new wheel - I don’t know how to throw pots. Let alone bells.

Woohoo! @luluallison.bsky.social

First attempt at making a bell on this new tiny pottery wheel … I mean, it MIGHT live up to my excitement and change my life - just not for a while. #disappointing

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social Got it! Thank you so much!

My proudest achievement is building a book family that powers this prize In 10 years, Jhalak Prize has grown from a single prize to a portfolio of 3 awards: 1. Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize, 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize 3. Jhalak Prose Prize BEHOLD THIS EXCELLENCE! #jhalakprizeat10

Went to see EPiC tonight. I cried …

ticks all my visual boxes

In case you missed it. The awesome Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social has sent me SIGNED copies of Salt Lick! Lulu has also done some superb cow prints, which will be posted out with each book. More cows arrived today! ORDER HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Buy yourself a book, it comes as a present :-)

Happy 1st Birthday to my short story collection Saltburn! 🧂🔥🥳🍾🎊 @renardpress Reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Buy: renardpress.com/books/saltbu... Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Do I need a second copy of this excellent book 🤔

Isn't this fab. I love these cows.

If you buy a copy of Salt Lick by Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social, not only will I send you a SIGNED copy of the book, but you'll also get one of these incredible mono prints that Lulu has created as well. ORDER HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Mini watercolour mono prints of cows - just finished. An exclusive giveaway for anyone who buys a signed copy of my book Salt Lick from the Big Green Bookshop, a wonderful online independent book seller. I also did the cows (another lino cut) for the cover.) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social

This is a GREAT book. A surreal post-apocalyptic novel with a Greek Chorus like no other.

Very happy to be selling these signed copies of Salt Lick through Big Green Books. I also did some little cow prints to give away with each sale - get some original art work with your Women’s Prize nominated book.

Great book

I'm getting these copies directly from Lulu. Unbound get NOTHING. So (full disclosure), each copy you buy, Lulu gets £4, Paypal gets about 96p, Royal Mail gets £3.90, the packaging company gets 46p, & I get £2.17. And you get an amazing book! We all win! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...