How is abolishing the original languages of these islands compatible with their “patriotic” values?

Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill

Wordsworth celebrated at launch of our new title gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... in Ambleside. @kirawelland.bsky.social reads The Massy Ways. Many thanks to Su from @fredsbookshop.bsky.social and Michael McGregor / Wordsworth Grasmere.

When one of your favourite writers comes a very long way for the launch of your new book. Overjoyed to be with @katharinenorbury.bsky.social today to celebrate William Wordsworth and Rydal Mount.

Something holy #oak #rowan

I’ve already been to pay my respects #RydalMount Congratulations 🥂 @cumbriapr.bsky.social

Four little ducks went swimming one day…

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

Now available from our online shop, the inside story of William Wordsworth’s house at Rydal Mount, where he lived for most of his life gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... @westwoodbooks.bsky.social @showcasecumbria.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

Welcome to my review of #DarkIsTheMorning by Rupert Thomson. Out now from Apollo @headofzeus.bsky.social 🖋💙📚 A compelling pick for this month's @squadpod2021.bsky.social #SquadPodBookClub from one of David Bowie's favourite authors! #SquadPodFeaturedBook brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2026/05/dark...

A Misummer Night

AI “optimized to be engaging and helpful, which can sometimes manifest as a subtle, structural urge to sound authoritative or morally definitive. Instead of just presenting the raw facts of a literary dispute, the system accidentally ends up adopting the tone of the loudest consensus found online.”

Our cracking guest in our podcast #MisadventuresinMusic #44 is the man who took over from Ian McCulloch as lead singer in Echo and the Bunnymen for 3 years in the early 90's, Noel Burke. What a story, what a storyteller. "Reverberation" relived. Enjoy the craic. misadventuresinmusic.co.uk

If youre in or near Buckingham this Friday, see you there! For tales of Sartre, lobsters, the perfect omelette, Colette and Katherine Mansfield, Maupassant, ethno-nationalism and pelicans! #france #books #bookfestivals bucklitfest.littleboxoffice.com/events/158826

“the modern economy screws over anyone who is not on the Forbes list” @economist.com

Met John Barleycorn on Clapham Common. The year slipping fast !

🥂 Huge congratulations to @julianhoffman.bsky.social who last night accepted the @anglohellenic.bsky.social Runciman Award 2026 for his life-affirming memoir, #Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece 🎊 Pre-order the paperback edition @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/49QNooM

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaking #womensart

“Slow the flow, get the habitat right and the species will come." An inspiring story of action and restoration when so much river news from the UK is grim. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gritstone book due out this summer now that @cumbriapr.bsky.social can write her final chapter. Well done Wordsworth Grasmere, the best outcome wordsworth.org.uk/rydalmount/?...

The senior engineer looked at me. The room went silent. 12 ppl sat around the table. “As far as I’m concerned,” he said, “women can’t be engineers.” No one challenged him. 30 yrs later, I was awarded an MBE for services to engineering. The system had already made its decision—and it was wrong.

There are places left on this one. Come and help us restore native woodland. Please share if possible. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/FWTW

This place is called Llain y Tylwyth Teg. Careful what we wish for!

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! The only thing this big profile couldn’t anticipate is how extraordinarily productive he’s been over the past seven years. An amazing, bounteous late flowering. Thank you David. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Congratulations to dear Rupert Thomson on the publication of #DarkIsTheMorning today! Hurrah! @headofzeus.bsky.social

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

Horse looking great today

Well, look what’s about to appear in the world! With work from the collectively and individually fab @katharinenorbury.bsky.social @anitasethi.bsky.social @pollyrowena.bsky.social Josie Giles @helenmort.bsky.social Kate Davis Beatrice Searle Anna Fleming Linda Cracknell and Gail Simmons

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Congratulations dear Peter! #enroute

Orchard with bluebells.

Dulwich! 6th May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-route-p...

Path to the beach #Shetland

Clapham Common bizarrely Hitchcock yesterday.

Wildlife solution to seagulls at the Alnwick tip

We take our most common, resident birds for granted, but look at the colours in this newly minted chaffinch! He's so beautiful, showing off there in the blackthorn. #birds

Bluebell wood

Perplexing that Vance embraces and extols a tradition that he fights against at every step. His relationship with Rome seems closer to that demonstrated by Henry VIII than that of a new convert. Are we missing something? #schism

Just in.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

O brave new world

I began my first long-distance walk 50 years ago today. #hiking www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2026/04/fift...

In 1849 Herman Melville left England from here with a copy of Frankenstein in his pocket; the result was a queer book about a monster of his own making

Entangled bank.

Hubris. Probably. It usually is.

"Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another." Thomas Merton, Circular Letter to Friends, Midsummer 1968