Tristram Shandy's birthday! - born, as the book says, #onthisday into ‘this scurvy and disasterous world of ours’ "the fifth day of November 1718" #OTD #TristramShandy www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/sterne/tristram-shandy/

"Tristram Shandy was one of two books that condemned me to living the life of the writer. . ." Jim Blaylock

I'm a big fan of the ts-dash, pioneered by Laurence Sterne:

#NowPlaying Michael Nyman - "The Kiss And Other Movements" A bit of a grab-bag, but there's some wonderful music on this album. "The Nose-List Song", from Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", is a particular favourite Very funny. "Water Dances" are great, too. Very energetic. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

AI, the dash, and "Tristram Shandy"

Last two days to visit or tour Shandy Hall this season! Lovely plants left, all half-price in this lovely planting weather. Sun is forecast this weekend for a garden visit. www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/what-is-shan... #gardens #ShandyHall @visitnorthyork @HelloYorkshire @York360 @Discover_Yorks

Autumnal garden in the last week of opening at Shandy Hall. Last house tours 21st, 27th and 28th September www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/what-is-shan...

Just two more days to see Glen Baxter's entertaining #exhibition at Shandy Hall. Well worth a visit! www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/an-out... @artreview.bsky.social @artukdotorg.bsky.social @cartoonart.bsky.social @yorkshiredays.bsky.social

Cannot recommend a visit to Shandy Hall enough.

Time's running out to see the Glen Baxter exhibition at Shandy Hall (ends 14th Sept) The orchard is full of fruit, the shop has lots of great books (Christmas presents!) The seasons are rolling on. Shandy Hall closes at end of September. Come and enjoy the sunshine while you can!

Toured the home of one of my literary heroes today - Laurence Sterne’s Shandy Hall in Coxwold, North Yorks. Hung with the man himself afterwards. Kinda. Thank you @lsternetrust.bsky.social, ‘Tristram is the fashion’ and always will be.

Old Green Gage, given by @NGSOpenGardens to Shandy Hall #Gardens in 2012 for opening 30 years - laden with fruit this year. We believe the #greengage had its first literary mention in #TristramShandy. #ShandyHall and Gardens open this weekend and Bank Holiday Monday. All welcome!

AI for ID - new tools for the moth spotter. (Here's one found recently in Shandy Hall gardens ;) Great blog again from Shandy Hall intern t.co/8QAJQTmOJc @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @gettoknownature.bsky.social‬ @nature.com #Moths #insects #AI

Most read in The Shandean this week 📚 'Black Page: Tristram Shandy after Conceptualism' by Amelia Dale Find it on the LUP website: bit.ly/Shandean-Dale @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @drwilliams.bsky.social

Climate change and the mothscape: another informative blog from Shandy Hall's intern from @upenn.edu bit.ly/45bNBRy #moths #climatechange #nature @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @haggewoods.bsky.social‬ @gettoknownature.bsky.social‬ @nature.com

New prints have arrived at Glen Baxter's Shandy Hall exhibition. Ends 14th Sept - not to be missed! @yorkshirepost.bsky.social @yorkshiredays.bsky.social‬ @gazetteherald.bsky.social‬ @yorkpress.bsky.social‬ @newyorker.com‬ @cartoonart.bsky.social‬ @artukdotorg.bsky.social @openculture.bsky.social

We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍 Deadline for registration: 1st September Deadline for proposals: 15th August Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25 @lsternetrust.bsky.social

Shandy Hall new flyer - do come and visit! www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk #ShandyHall #LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy

Our new UPenn intern meets two new and glamorous visitors to Shandy Hall #gardens #moths #wildlife #insects @haggewoods.bsky.social‬ @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social #ShandyHall www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/moth/glamour...

Glen Baxter signing books at Shandy Hall exhibition of his original drawings and prints. Exhibition continues today and till 14 Sept in Shandy Hall opening hours

Glen Baxter has arrived! Meet him tomorrow, 1pm at Shandy Hall for the opening of 'Glen Baxter - Prints and Drawings' Signed books to buy too @yorkshiredays.bsky.social @yorkgin.bsky.social @theartnewspaper.bsky.social‬ @stephenclift.bsky.social @tonyfoth.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk‬

Glen Baxter exhibition opens July 5th 1pm Shandy Hall. All welcome. @northyorkmoors.org.uk‬ @yorkshiredays.bsky.social @gazetteherald.bsky.social‬ @yorkpress.bsky.social‬ @newyorker.com ‬ @visitingnorthyorks.bsky.social @internationaltimes.bsky.social‬ www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/an-out...

Celebrating #JaneAusten250 - and the Glen Baxter exhibition starting July 5th at Shandy Hall! www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/an-out... #cartoons

How I wish I could get to Shandy Hall for this outbreak of surrealism! Since it's Jane Austen's 250th birthday this year, let's not forget about this banger of Glenn Baxter's:

Opens July 5th 1pm Shandy Hall www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/an-out... @northyorkmoors.org.uk‬ @yorkshiredays.bsky.social‬ @gazetteherald.bsky.social‬ @yorkpress.bsky.social‬ @newyorker.com‬ @visitingnorthyorks.bsky.social@cartoonart.bsky.social‬ @internationaltimes.bsky.social‬ @bbc

Big new project on Sterne's marbled page: #books #marbling #laurencesterne #tristramshandy sites.rutgers.edu/motley-emble...

#Coxwold (and #ShandyHall) feature in 'Six of the best' Yorkshire villages here. Shandy Hall is open for tours today at 11.30am and 2.30pm. Garden open till 4.30pm yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/six-o...

📚 Most read in The Shandean this week: 'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean ‪‪ @drwilliams.bsky.social ‪ @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social‬ @llc-rhul.bsky.social‬

Shandy Hall open for tours this weekend@ £10 House and garden, Garden only, £4.

Shandy Hall Gardens open in the evening this Friday 13th June 6.30 - 8pm for @ngsopengardens.bsky.social www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/nation...

'Police investigate an outbreak of surrealism at Shandy Hall' Glen Baxter exhibition from July 5th. All welcome at the opening at 1pm (With apologies - I cannot get this picture to display correctly. Please follow the link for more details) www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/an-out...

Shandy Hall gardens welcomes visitors for the National Gardens Scheme this Friday evening. £5, children free @ngsopengardens.bsky.social #opengardens #moths www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/nation...

On Thurs 8th May Shandy Hall gardens are promoting Wildlife Gardening with @yorkswildlife.bsky.social. The total area covered by gardens in this country exceeds that of nature reserves. Even with a tiny plot it's easy to get started and apply for a YWT Award - we could achieve a lot!

We are awash with apple blossom and the lilac is about to burst - a great time to visit #ShandyHall #gardens and buy some lovely #plants, and #books in our big sale

Shandy Hall Gardens now have a Gold award for Wildlife gardening. We encourage everyone to apply for an award whatever the size of your garden. Gardens in the UK cover a greater area than that of all the nature reserves. Think what we could achieve! @yorkswildlife.bsky.social #wildlife #gardening

GLEN BAXTER exhibition opens Shandy Hall 5th July 2025 1 pm. Rare chance to meet #GlenBaxter, enjoy his unique #humour and buy his books and drawings. Save the date! @LBU_BA_graphics @cartoonnetwork #cartoons #ShandyHall #art #exhibitions #drawing

Shandy Hall reopens at 11am Thursday May 1st with a GRAND BOOK SALE. The Gallery and the Shandy Shop are filled with generous donations to raise funds. Includes books on art, literature, clocks, antiques, Folio Society volumes and many other subjects. www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/grand-...

"And having a frisky English spaniel on one side of my chair, and a French valet, with as much hilarity in his countenance as ever nature painted in one, on the other, I was satisfied to my heart's content with my empire."

Penny Boxall writes about the very beginnings of writing her debut novel while living and working at Shandy Hall. #ShandyHall #LaurenceSterne www.rlf.org.uk/posts/no-moo...

I'm very much enjoying the Lent book "A Sterne Lent" by @cswift1.bsky.social. A quote from today: "...in the scheme of the universe, we have but a few days. How we live sanely, faithfully and creatively with this truth is perhaps the greatest test of who we are." #CofEpeeps

A pioneering artist opens his sketchbook in Coxwold in 1717 and looks north towards Sutton Bank. gwallter.com/art/francis-...

The chancel of St. Michael’s Church, Coxwold, North Yorkshire…with its fantastically shaped communion rail, colourful reredos and stunning monuments - see below for photos of the monument visible here on the left, which is particularly impressive…

Last night in Coxwold

Eliza Draper, great love and muse of Laurence Sterne, was born #OnThisDay 5th April 1744 #OTD #LaurenceSterne #ElizaDraper legacy.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/wp/sterne-el...

Today, on Refreshment Sunday, my Lent book I offered a stencil of a marbled page @lsternetrust.bsky.social reflecting Sterne’s use of one in Shandy, unexpectedly, to show the limits of language. One reader took me up on the offer to colour her own page & this is the pleasing result.

Remembering Laurence Sterne at his gravestone at #Coxwold #church. Died #OnThisDay 18 March 1768 aged 54 #OTD #LaurenceSterne

By comparison other novels seem intolerably portly and platitudinous and remote from life. —Virginia Woolf, on Tristram Shandy

Congratulations to poet Penny Boxall (who used to work here) on her debut children's novel - Letty and the Mystery of the Golden Thread. Fun references to #LaurenceSterne! A great read. youtu.be/TfyZaOXsJlM @littleapplebkshop.bsky.social @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social

So Laurence Sterne was actually ChatGPT all along?