Good for you! I asked my publisher not to use any Daily Mail quotes in my metadata or anywhere else and, for later books, got them not to send for a review at all. I'm glad they were respectful of my wishes.

Routine medical procedures can feel harder for women – here’s why theconversation.com/routine-medi...

The modern world in old Ladybird books. The mail train Artist: John Berry (The Postman, 1965)

Should we attempt a Eucryphia that white-and-gold glory of late July and August? If so, E. glutinous and E. x nymansensis are the safest varieties to order. #gardening

Morning all.

#Poetry #Painting #Umbria Umbria green with valleys, blue with a hundred hills. Rumours Rome, that of old spoke over earth, ``Thou art mine!'' 🎨 Paul Jorgensen

Yet another example showing that platforms/ecommerce sites should have had a no-AI rule from day one. There are only negative outcomes to allowing AI content onto any site. This applies to the book world, of course.

Is all the pre-chat/speculation taking place by BBC journalists talking to each other in Downing Street, 3 hours before Andy Burnham makes a speech really necessary?

Life is all about perspective…

#Poetry #Painting #Fireflies She knows where the blue flag grows wild and the grass is deep where the fireflies blinking their little lights, hurry toward one another. And the world continues, God willing. - Mary Oliver 🎨 Amanda Clark

Queen of Diamonds (1909) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, one of the defining artists of the "Glasgow Style" #womensart

“The privet bush in blossom” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

‘We noticed a login from a new device’: the message from fraudsters targeting your X account

Two ladies on a New York boulevard in 1908

July Fields, 1959 by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt #Summer

'Joyous' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt

A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.

Scenes form Tootles the Taxi - because this book makes everything just a bit better Artist: John Kenney

My ears keep popping.

'Sun salutation class, Galapagos Islands' by Photographer Sue Hollis #womensart #FridayFeeling

I have attended the excellent Canterbury Urgent Treatment Centre(UTC) on a number of occasions. It is the only UTC that has access to x-ray after 5.00pm when local ones stop. My local UTC sent me there for x-ray after 7.30pm. Without that I would have had to go to Ashford A&E which is overwhelmed.

Anyway else spending too much of their time navigating automated systems, & labyrinthine searches for telephone numbers to speak to a human to sort out things that aren't working? There seems to be a correlation of growing digital incompetence & communication failures as digital & AI expands?

Our NEW issue is here #BfK279 with interviews, features and children's book reviews. Includes Tom Palmer, Patrice Lawrence, John Agard, Britta Teckentrup, Melinda Salisbury, Letterbox Library recommends, new Beyond the Secret Garden & more! All free to read. #KidLit #summerreading😎 bit.ly/3TjoNU0

Let's talk about red flags, and now We're not talking about dating. We're talking about emojis. Emojis are fun, but every emoji is read aloud by screen readers. Too many, or using them within sentences, can make posts much harder to follow. Are your emoji habits are giving green or red flags?

This will entail begging a root cutting from a friend or an obliging nurseryman. You can then tip it out of its pot into a complaisant hole in the place where you want it to grow and hope that it will not notice. #gardening

#OTD in 1960, 34-year-old novelist Nelle Harper Lee published her masterpiece, her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. She won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for #Fiction & her novel became a foundational pillar of American literature, selling over 40 million copies worldwide. #litsky #booksky

The Milkman (Telling the Time, 1962) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Looking at the patterns in plants & the coloyrs pink & blue have been shown to alleviate stress & looking at something you find beautiful lifts mood by triggering dopamine release. These midsummer garden & farm shop flowers are for your brain in case you’re stressed out 🌿:

Womensart book! Reframing Women Printmakers .. 1 in #BestSeller lists #MostGifted 📚 Incudes beautiful images by & interviews with your favourite ARTISTS!! At a great price www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

Puffins in flight. Goodnight Blue Sky

"Starry Night Stroll" created by illustrator Jane Newland.

Great morning at the sea pool.

Hot & stuffy & looking forward to seeing you.

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it -Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Hello UK friends! I’m delighted to say that my novel Song of the Saltings is now out in your country at all good bookshops! Pubbed by the wonderful folk at Guppy Books. Please spread the word! If you liked The Grimmelings I hope you’ll like this. #ukkidlit #kidlituk guppybooks.co.uk/book/song-of...

The depth and breadth of art and human endeavour in two obituaries in today’s @theguardian.com

Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying theconversation.com/heatwaves-wh...

Well, that's good to know… #BookSky

Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy,1927 #womensart

Morning all, grab a cold drink and a good book and make a day of it. - Michael

And this morning the Shed is a fortress, built on the highest spur of a rocky spine of mountains…

#Delft #Delftholland

#Poetry #Painting #LateAfternoon "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 🎨 Hana Choi

#Poetry #Painting #Nightime A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place your sight can knock on, echoing; but here within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze will be absorbed and utterly disappear - Rainer Marie Rilke 🎨 Ayuko Tanaka

Congratulations to the wonderful @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social , who will make a fabulous Children’s Laureate….

Special mention to People Like Stars by @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social The launch in February this year was truly starry 🤩🤩🤩 Pics below. (People Like Stars 🦊 also inspired our 1st ever Insta reel) @scholasticuk.bsky.social

The Roadmakers (1967) Building the M1 Motorway Artist: John Berry

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.