If you've got time next Tuesday 7 July), 11 am BST, feel free to attend this online lecture. Here is the link. meeting.tencent.com/dm/cRAF9nhLz...

The excitement is building! 👀 🦇

Up early to make a pan of apricot preserve.

The clematis is beautiful this year.

Salted caramel and walnut tart. Not really suited to this heat, but I’ll serve it with a massive scoop of good vanilla ice cream on the side.

Brutal 5-km run and Hyrox simulation in the sun.

Big Radcliffe conference at Sheffield next June! Apply for one of the AHRC-funded PGR bursaries! 📣

Me trying to write in this heat.

🙌 💤 👍

Fan on tum-tum on full blast 🪭

Back at Whitby Abbey, to run a workshop and tour for the Visit North Yorkshire team on the supernatural lore and legend associated with the place, beyond the obvious case of ‘Dracula’. I’ve made my own Claude Glass to teach them about ruin and Picturesque tourism in the eighteenth century. 👻

More shots from this morning’s ride 🐎

Had a lovely canter up the field this morning before it got too hot.

Hyrox training in a heatwave. 💯 percent do not recommend.

. . . and torta della nonna for dessert (italian tart with a light lemon and vanilla-flavoured custard, topped with pine nuts).

Ottolenghi feast for Father’s Day lunch: spicy, slow-cooked Jerusalem lamb; warm green bean, spinach, cashew and crispy lentil salad; homemade labneh with sweet confit tomatoes; pickled cucumber with tahini, spring onions and black sesame; homemade flatbreads.

Just picked (with bonus cat appearance in the background).

Cosmos!

Dying.

Farmer’s Carry HYROX Training. I might be smiling, but inside I’m dying 💀

I think that @iheartsmarties.bsky.social will find this interesting!

Have a marvellous evening, Angela, Catherine and Rosie!

Max Bledstein’s volume on contemporary Iranian Horror Cinema has just been published in our Elements in the Gothic series. Open Access for the next 2 weeks! @angelawright1794.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Summer in the garden. 🌺

Remember Larry? I’ve just heard from my friend who runs the animal shelter that he’s been adopted, and is settling in really well. So happy. ❤️

Mister Gorgeous.

Cinnamon babka just out of the oven 👌

Sunny 6-km run and interval training with my HYROX training group. 🏃

The first sweet peas of the season. Such a beautiful scent.

Rode a new horse at the livery yard today: Dexter. A twenty-year-old hunter, he’s a sharp and venerable old man.

Growing up involves the acknowledgment and acceptance of three painful truths: 1. Father Christmas doesn’t exist; 2. The Tooth Fairy is a myth; 3. There’s no such thing as a British train that departs and arrives on time. #90minutesandcounting 😡

The word ‘brekkie’ makes me feel murderous 🔪

Brilliant day at St Albans, celebrating Radcliffe’s long, posthumously published poem and ending with a creative writing workshop run by Rosie Garland, Queen of Goths.

St Albans Cathedral ❤️

This is tomorrow! Book Now! Tickets going as fast as a Taylor Swift concert (not really) www.stalbanscathedral.org/event/ann-ra...

‘You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.’ (Jean-Paul Sartre) 👌

Whitby Abbey 🧛 👀 🪦

Fantastic hack in North Yorkshire on Brooke, my friend’s massive (18.2 hh) thoroughbred gelding.

Salute!

A real privilege to be launching Michael Gamer’s splendid edition of Radcliffe’s ‘The Italian’ in Italy 🥂 The first volume in the Cambridge edition of Radcliffe’s complete works @radcliffecup.bsky.social

Heads up, Gothic & Romantic folk: notification of a major Ann Radcliffe conference in Sheffield in June 2027. @radcliffecup.bsky.social @angelawright1794.bsky.social

La dolce vita: phenomenal mascarpone, honey and roasted fig gelato 🍧

Glimpses of Bologna.

Radcliffe symposium at University of Bologna @radcliffecup.bsky.social @angelawright1794.bsky.social

Just arrived in Bologna for a symposium, and staying in a hotel attached to a monastery. There are icons and other religious insignia on the walls and hung prominently above the (single) bed. Obviously there to discourage wanking.

Despite being on research leave, this week has involved dealing with people who think very much *INSIDE* the box. 📦 I’m exhausted. 😩

This creature is my world. ❤️

The perfect gift for someone like me, a big tea drinker: a glass tea cigar ☕️

It’s mid-May 🤷‍♂️