I have managed to acquire a flu vaccination yay

🧪 Are you doing a PhD at a UK university and looking for a 3-month placement that makes a real impact? ✔ Open to PIPS and other externally funded placements ✔ Build new skills, expand your network, support world-class biodiversity work ✔ Apply: ow.ly/65wF50WLXa8 🗓️ Deadline: 31 October 2025 🌾

UK peeps! There is a similiar petition for you to sign regarding Visa/Mastercard and other payment processors trying to censor purchases! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Me, going Oh, I'll just finish A Sorceress Comes to Call, I've only got a bit left, and now my anxiety is gone it's all fine. Mmmm yeah, here's a huge great headless SPOILER running around and yeah dead SPOILERS being threatening and um frankly I should know better.

Today I practiced my alto recorder! I played scales, and then worked through exercises from my alto method book. #RecorderPlayer #Accountability

Dustpan and brush wielded. Bin liner(s) done. My reward is more housework, what fun. But after that is time to practice my alto recorder and then read :)

If only 10% of the people following me bought a £0.99 book from me, I would be able to buy a castle for my cat and if that doesn't motivate you I don't know what will. shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/jac...

Right 10 more minutes of messing about online and I need to go wield a dustpan and brush, and fill a bin liner with rubbish. (No autocorrect I do not mean "weird" a dustpan and brush. Honest.)

Oooh, I've just seen a trailer for a new documentary series where Ray Mears investigates the roots of at least Robin Hood and it looks like there may be more folk tales he is going to investigate the origins of :)

Reading my way through @poopraven.bsky.social Inheritance series, why yes I did read book 5 in less than 24 hours. I think it's safe to say my reading anxiety has gone for the moment and I couldn't have been reading a better series for it.

Good morning, everyone! Did you know that I've got a queer urban fantasy series heavily steeped in Welsh and British folklore and mythology? Book 11 was released yesterday, and book 1 is only 99p if you need a new obsession / binge read! shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/swo...

I have read an entire, new to me, book, with complex characters and risk of life and limb, since Monday. I am delighted and now I'm about to do it again:)

Wow, Feltham is on the TV for Good Reasons. As a former resident that is a nice surprise:)

Ooo better finish reading Reeve of Veils as well as the rest of the series as the latest has just arrived in my bookfunnel library, there's a nice Friday surprise! Good thing reading new books is a thing I can do right now:)

Wow. I made the mistake of sharing the original information, so important to share this, too.

If you want the whole sordid story in entertaining form: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIc...

I may even be able to start reading Tad Williams amazing Memory Sorrow and Thorn series, since he's written prequels and sequels for it since I last read it. That is also So Good.

On Monday at some point my book reading anxiety just... went. I don't know why, but I've managed to start reading chonky books again! So I'm half way through AK Faulkner's Reeve of Veils (Inheritance book 4), TJ Nichols Vanity and other Monsters (book 4 of the Mythos series) and finally progressing

When I join a kickstater campaign, and a reward is computer wallpapers, I really like it. Right now my work monitors are showing me a Paradox Girl wallpaper, a Sunless Land wallpaper, and... a map wallpaper which is truly the best.

We are doing a macmillans coffee morning tomorrow. Or rather, everyone is bringing home baked goods and we're selling them to our colleagues to raise money for Macmillans. I made rock cakes. Which contrary to certain authors depictions are not the consistency of rocks but are tasty and lovely.

Today was dexterity practice for my soprano recorder. #RecorderPlayer #Accountability

At some point my theatre going friend (who I don't think is here) is going to see a play that [someone I grew up with who is now pursuing an acting career] is performing in. And that will be a very odd thing to see on fb!

It's bisexual visibility month so let me break stealth for a moment to tell you about this pair of disaster bisexuals and their horrible trauma 😘😁

If you need a break, might I suggest watching my latest YouTube video about making two AI sewing patterns (so you don’t have to). DON'T BUY THESE! (AI Patterns Suck) youtu.be/rdXMAqAA3s0

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

Targeted practice of my tenor recorder and traverso flute, to try and consistently get the lowest notes. I have a very useful practice book which is essentially just variations on scales and arpeggios which I think is helping. #RecorderPlayer #Accountability #TraversoPlayer

Today, after a nice week off mostly not doing what I'd planned as the transport links were striking, I am going on a museum day! Natural History to see the dinosaurs (and fossils, and gemstones, and the glorious building, and all the things) 1/2

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Timeline cleanse! May you live in a world where your top concern is: will this hat I knitted fit my hedgehog?

Today was flute day. I got the wooden flute when I was ?20. Life happened and it got put aside. I started playing the recorder. Then Team Recorder talked about traverso flutes, so I tried one. The two are very similar and I have the same issues with the lower notes. #RecorderPlayer #Accountability

Any US horror readers here? I was excited to host a fun giveaway on IG today, but it’s been a flop. So if anyone wants an easy win, head over there and check it out!

Today was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Peter Sellers. Here is his wonderful parody of Olivier’s Richard III, with the lyrics of the Beatles. Enjoy! youtu.be/zLEMncv140s

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Today's earrings are tiny books :)

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Practiced my tenor recorder. I struggle to accurately play the bottom two notes on a consistent basis so really ought to do more practice. Finished by playing my favourite piece to play, which was a grade 3 exam piece. #recorderPlayer #Accountability

So I believe the theme for #ShowMeYourKnits this week is WIPs. So here is my very definitely wip blanket, one of two, this is my mitre square West Yorkshire Spinners blanket, knitted from leftover sock yarn, and I do expect this to take a long time to finish.

Today I collect my new glasses, only this time there has (hopefully) not been a typo with the prescription.

My anxiety is doing that thing where it goes "oh no, you can't read a book, because you'll make Bad Things happen" and it is making it very difficult to read a book for more than five minutes :(

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

Tragically I'm on the road when this is happening, it looks AMAZING! If anyone goes, let me know how it was? I was a terrible student at 18 but I love lectures now.

UK readers: this sale ends today! Do you need a monster girlfriend in your life?

My nibling made a cake for the grand parents joint birthday. It is very tasty.

Yesterday I went for a nice walk. The sweet chestnuts are nearly ready, and these geese like to pose for the camera!

Today I am wearing my tee which says, The Book was better, the book is always better.

Today was alto recorder again! #RecorderPlayer #accountability

"After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades, who burned its books and documents in the street."—Wikipedia entry on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

Bus strike on the buses that can get me to work, both direct and the best alternate route so today I am on the train. Really is a very different thing, but there are several bus people I've spotted!

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

Uk peeps - worth checking this out