Can I get a pre-order in for this beauty please @bforbutterflybooks.bsky.social ?

Pastor of Muppets

Collagen is definitely the snake oil du jour for the middle-aged lady. According to approximately a million adverts all I need to do is spend all my money on powdered fish and/or cows 🤮 and I will suddenly be cured of being 52. I think I'll stick to spending it on wine and books thanks.

This Is How You Lose The Hundred Years' War

*youth pastor voice* I tell you someone else who got hammered on a Friday and didn’t get up until Sunday…

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility! Hello! I’m Disco, a British-Trinidadian, queer, trans, disabled author and bookish content creator. I love being trans! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Did you know you can sing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” whenever you feel like it? It’s literally a whim away.

Share a great female villain.

Looking for a bespoke Christmas gift? Look no further! Let me know your preferred book genre/theme and budget and I'll put together a book box for you. Perfect for hassle-free Christmas gifting! Postage within UK. #saletown #christmasbookgifts

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

Master wearing a skirt you say? I'm not sure I'm ready for that, I've only just learned how to put on socks. FFS!

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

British.

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

BTW I’m assuming you’ve come across this lovely open letter for cisgender woman who support trans people? We’d love it if you would sign and share if you haven’t already 🤗🤗🤗 @nionwomen.bsky.social notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Tbaqaok (verb): to cheat at Scrabble

The gay store called, they’re all out

Can’t even sleep anymore because woke

Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books (to my son): Julia Donaldson Maz Evans Sue Hendra Lynley Dodd Adam Blade (apparently several writers) Pamela Butchart Rev W Awdry Valerie Thomas Quentin Blake Katie & Kevin Tsang

A lot of the problem with our part of the world right now is that the press are treating trans people the way they ought to be treating billionaires and vice versa

Some of the offers you'll find in-store for Independent Bookshop Week #indiebookshopweek @booksaremybag.bsky.social

I’ve written books. And you can buy ‘em! All good bookstores etc, and if you want signed ones, you can get them direct from me… witchesofwoodville.com/the-village-...

Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

We get lots of amazing books donated in our charity bookshop and this is my current favourite. I would never have guessed in a million years that this was a thing.

Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

This is tomorrow Manchester and there's more coming

Helping my son revise for a geography test this morning and have been enjoying his utter bemusement when I started singing 🎶 Atmosphere, I love a party with a happy atmosphere 🎶 I've got nothing for biosphere or lithosphere though.

Apropos of nothing... a series of Pride and Prejudice memes.

DONATE A NEW BOOK! I'm delighted to support the WoodStreetMission Books Forever Appeal again this year and you can help! Simply pop into the shop or head to the website, purchase a kids book (this year we're looking for books ages 4-11) and we'll deliver them to Wood Street Mission on your behalf.

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Made my first soda bread today (with roasted garlic in -yum!) and am very happy to discover something that looks every bit as gorgeously rustic in a photo as sourdough but requires minimal effort. Lazy people can show off too!

Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!

So glad we chose this for our book club this month, it's the very definition of small but perfectly formed. I could easily read it in a day but I'm savouring its beauty.

Repost for a chance to win two tickets for our extra date with Helen O Hara and the RNCM Session Orchestra Tickets on sale this Thursday (9th Jan) at 10am - no more dates to be added after this, so jump in quick 😉 Winner picked at random at 9am Thursday morning

At the charity bookshop I run we did Secret Santa among the volunteers and we each picked a pre-loved book from the shop for someone else. I've been given this one which is exciting because I've never read it and might never have picked it up otherwise.

the correct way to pronounce "pantomime" is "panto" because the mime is silent

A Brief History of Music Today Is Just Noise 🧵

I'm not saying I got too excited and wasn't paying attention but I have just been very surprised by an email from The Lowry saying The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe that I've booked tickets for is on in Dec 2025! I've started reading it to my son very early in that case 🤦‍♀️

Re-post for a chance to win this brilliant prize: 2 x tickets to the show A room at Leven (liveleven.com) 2 x return train tickets from anywhere in the UK I’ll present you with a signed print after the concert Winner picked at random: THURSDAY 3pm Tickets on sale: THURSDAY 4pm

Every December 1st I recognise I'm truly living my best life because I never started Elf on the Shelf. The schadenfreude is delicious!

My son thinks it's weird that I've always got several books on the go at the same time. Surely that's normal? And yes I read children's books too because I'm not missing out on great books because I was born too long ago!

Do you need some inspiration for #Christmas gifts? There's loads of unique ideas in my shop. Have a look www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...

Before he wrote novels Charles Dickens worked as a journalist in the midlands, primarily in two local papers. It was the Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times

A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention

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Out last night seeing Kneecap with the husband and again this afternoon seeing the play Wonder Boy with the nearly 12yo. Both brilliant and both about the same level of sweariness.

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Totally judged this book by its cover when I picked it up and I'm pleased to say it's been a winning policy so far. Deliciously darkly funny and I'm only 1 chapter in. Can't wait to find out how it turns out.