Who'd a thunk it?

I need a t-shirt with this on.

@vincentfranklin.bsky.social #openourkimono

Hot cross buns, anyone? Artist: Harry Wingfield (1971)

Ok - I know there are many more important things to get rattled about in life but this is really wrong 😑

This year's Alban Bun batch is, I believe, the best yet stalbanstimes.co.uk/st-albans/en...

@jonathangibbs.bsky.social Just finished Spring Journal. Enjoyed it very much (especially the refreshed Larkin). Not actually read the MacNeice original so will try and have a bash at that soon.

Final few hours on this great #kindledeal: THE MOVIE LOVER'S QUIZ BOOK is only 99p in the UK! www.amazon.co.uk/Movie-Lovers... @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

‘Magnolia’ Garden Flowers, 1960 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

Excited to share I have curated Ink & Innovation, an exhibition of the @rialibrary.bsky.social earliest printed books for 2026! Check out the blog for more details on our fantastic incunabula on display as well as how to visit and my upcoming talk in April! 🤗📖🎉 www.ria.ie/blog/ink-inn...

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘March’ (Shell Guide, 1957) Artist: SR Badmin

Just back from my first pottery lesson. Tremendous. Haven't enjoyed anything so much for ages.

These are absolutely tremendous. Especially like the Jill Mcdonald one.

I don't often get to do my talk on Walking the Weirdstone: Alan Garner & Archaeology... but I'll be repeating it as a fundraiser for the Folklore Library and Archive on 18 April 🧙‍♂️🌳👹 Bookings and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklo...

Writing about Borges today. What a man.

Painting on old wallpaper rolls (1966) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Shed of the Year returns! And with a new sponsor! www.shedworking.co.uk/2026/03/shed...

World snooker championship confirmed to stay at the Crucible in Sheffield.

I have just noticed there are cheap early bird tickets available for my July 5th Movie Quiz (all new material!) at @oldwoollen.bsky.social When they’re gone they’re gone… @zenoagency.bsky.social @summersdalebooks.bsky.social www.seetickets.com/event/the-mo...

Here is @shedworking.bsky.social at the beautiful Books on the Hill in St Albans today. We popped in to present them with a copy of his new book ‘The Philosophy of Sheds’ (out in May). The perfect gift for Father’s Day!

Quite outstanding, to put it very, very mildly

⭐ 𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗! Ronnie O'Sullivan has created yet more snooker history, making the highest break in professional competition, ever, with a 16-red 153 total clearance in the opening frame of his World Open quarter-final match against Ryan Day. Mind-blowing, an absolute genius! #WeLoveSnooker

Very sorry to hear of the death of the tenor Robert White, aged 89. I remember him chiefly from his appearances on the Good Old Days. A lovely voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOc...

I've just disappeared into the new (forthcoming) Ann Patchett and it's quite a horror to re-emerge and re-engage. Truly, it amazes me that people don't read more.

Future of William Wordsworth's Rydal Mount Home Secured www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

I read Under the Net over New Year, this cover design by the multi-talented Len Deighton.

Antigone Journal maps Classics cuts across Canada: "Governments want universities to tailor offerings to immediate labour market needs." buff.ly/coWVbrN #SOSClassicsUO #uOttawa #Ottawa #classics

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

Deadline for submissions this year is July 1.

Jack Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Sold for Recordbreaking $12m www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

On this day 16th March 1906,one of my favourite Ladybird artists Ronald Lampitt was born in Worcester

My Year of Reading Welshly with Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social in conversation with @mikeparker.bsky.social. Date: Saturday 13th June 2026 Venue: Montgomery Town Hall Time: 3.30-4.15pm Tickets: £9.00 montylitfest.com?page_id=9077

This changes everything www.tintin.com/en/news/6554...

Liza Tarbuck's Saturday evening Radio 2 show was properly eclectic, a marvellous mix of Tony Blackburn and Desmond Carrington. With its passing, I suspect we'll hear even less light music and anything pre-1950 which will be a shame.

This was such an interesting and important read - do find it. NB I've just been torn off a strip by someone for expressing a "disobliging opinion". And yet, I'm not paid to be their PR.

Can we try and get British Library Publishing up to 1,000 followers by the end of the day, please? They are the VERY best, they published my discovery, POSSESSED. @blpublishing.bsky.social

PY Rare Books' Viktoria Malik on AI, Old Believers Manuscripts, and the first ABC Printed in Russia www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

We are at #LondonBookFair26 ! Find us at stand 2A71. We have many treasures in store…

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

I love amateur snooker. At the European Championships there were two matches ending just about 30 minutes apart. The score of the final frame of one of them was 87-84, the score of the decider of the other one was 35-4.

Rare Charles Dickens Clothing Goes on Show www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

I’m thinking about starting a British version of the NYT connections puzzle designed to be unsolvable by Americans. Sample row: England players who missed a penalty.

Working at my parents’ house today on the same bit of board I used to do my homework on 50 years ago.

@gpwigglesworth.bsky.social am in Chelmsford Waterstones

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West. I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down. I'd welcome help building a strong application. Thank you 💙🙏

This is perhaps not up to my normal Pulitzer level of cutting edge journalistic reporting, but a tea cosy really keeps a pot piping hot doesn't it?

Entries Open for Tenth and Final Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...