You can tell I'm frazzled by the house-mobving process already as it's taken me five days to read The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell. Still, it was a lot of fun, can't wait to pick the next one up. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Just ordered a book from my local Waterstones. Click and collect so I’ll get it on way home tonight. As cheap as Amazon. Also bought an instant camera earlier this week from Argos, cheaper than on Amazon. It’s proving very easy not to use the evil billionaire’s website. More of you should try it.

Got our new house yesterday. My first bought house! It smells of the last owners wet dog. But it's mine, in all its smelly glory!

The world is a dark place. I am looking for joy, and being able to read an excerpt from the sequel to Black House and The Talisman. This brings me such joy. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Picked up the Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie yesterday, I was in one of my favourite lovely independent bookshops in the Lakes and they happened to have a signed copy. I couldn't resist. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

I'm a huge Manics fan and this really captured the essence of so many of their songs. I adore reading about music, the process of creating it & the meaning of encoded lyrics. Really loved this. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now: "Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"

Lovely wee potter up on the #LakeDistrict today

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Mad Max: Sausage Road

Honestly, the Lakes are the finest part of the country and it's not even close.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Had to take a gamble on sub-par garlic tonight, the (one) grocery shop in town is shut so only option was to hope for the best. A bit rubbery, still a bit of crunch but infinitely better than no garlic at all.

Oh look. Someone has written inside the 2nd hand Bernard Cornwell I bought today. It seems to be a list. No, no more like a diary. Of volumes. Liquid volumes. Going in. And... um... oh God. Out. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Happy Caturday.

First 2nd hand bookshop haul of the year. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

We made a lovely curry last night. Nothing special, even cheated on the rice but it was really nice. Now the entire house is marinated in the aroma. What's appetising at 7pm isn't quite the same at 7am!

Crap day topped off by the fact my weekend is now ruined as I need to make a 6 hour round-trip drive on Saturday. Am in a sulk. Send chocolate.

OK, I'll play. Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to: Bruce Springsteen Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Rolling Stones The Pogues GreenDay

Did I mention I had brunch out today? Yes, I asked for bacon on the side. I regret nothing.

First Kindle read of the year, I'm not buying any more, cos fuck Amazon, so rationing my TBR list to make it last. Really liked this, pretty hard to believe it was a first time novel. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Walking hand-in-hand down the street with my wife, we just got heckled by a white van driver. "A happy couple! Love to see it!" with a big grin and a thumbs up. Probably the nicest heckle I've ever had.

Just finished this, absolutely excellent. I knew almost nothing about the Great Leap Forward until now aside frm the basics. We could learn much from books like this about Big Ideas and personality cults #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

That feeling when the morning meeting is cancelled and you don't need to go into the office tomorrow after all, vs that feeling when you realise you left your laptop in the office cos you'd be there tomorrow anyway.

Finished the new Val McDermid today, brilliant as always. I prefer the Karen Pirie series as there's not so many gruesome killings and the key characters are so compellingly well conceived. Great stuff. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Guess what I've just seen for the first time ever (at the cinema, no less)?

Finished Ian McEwan's latest yesterday, once you get past his crushing middle-classness (everyone is university educated, cultured & brilliant) I honestly think he's one of our finest living novelists. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

The answer to this is a joke so obvious I'm not even going to say it

Proud to be a 4%er

Further to this, more evidence of the impact second-home owners (may they always have stones in their shoes) have on rural communities from Ambleside RFU

Lovely book by @tchesshyre.bsky.social, fascinating to see my lal' corner of the world from an off-comers perspective. Highly recommended for anyone considering buying a second home round here also... #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Managed to keep the weight mostly off over Christmas but the takeaway on New Year's Eve seems to have knackered it. Curse you Chili Beef. Curse you!

First book of the year read, it was good to go back to Aberdeen and see what horrible things Logan and co were put through this time round. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books #AmReading

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Watched the last episode tonight, we cried at the emotional parts cos that's what good storytelling does. Bloody enjoyable stuff. Crying aside.

I'll take it.

My 2025 Reading Wrap-Up from Storygraph #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

We went with Sinners. My goodness it's amazing.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Sinners or Wake Up Dead Man for tonight's movie? Hmm...

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

Rest in peace you absolute legend of an artist

Bloomin' gorgeous, isn't it? #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #Books #BookOfDust

In a little pond. A fear submitted by Anna to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks! You can pick up one of my books over here! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... #comics #deepdarkfears