Oh my! Have not thought of this book in decades but I remember it fondly!

Long weekend means an excess of baking. Clockwise from 1pm, cinnamon & brown sugar torte, thyme foccacia, walnut & treacle soda bread, traditional brown soda bread, spinach & pine nut jalousies.

Cinnamon roll baked as a cake. Recipe from Nadiya Hussain’s Everyday Baking. #bread

How has no one noted this is a great case of Applied Physics? 🤪

Back from a karate clinic. Great session but would welcome thoughts on why I bruise so bloody easily!

Loved this book!

This is great but misses one obvious point. A minute (minn-uhtt) is minute (my-newt).

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: (The ones I got most excited about) Dugite (venomous snake) Giraffe Orangutan Smooth Newt Wobbegong shark

I adore this series. First book going cheap. Warning: you will buy the rest.

Dorothy Dunnett’s Game of Kings. Friends advised persistence and so I persevered reluctantly. Then came that plot twist and the whole book changed for me.

Flowering artichokes are otherworldly.

Immediate flashbacks! And I would devour every last word of this truly outrageous piece of scholarship!

This quote always shook me. Reminds me of The Princess Bride: who says life is fair, where is that written? But Terry adds the rider - unfairness doesn’t excuse inaction.

Good to know others also bang on about how deceptive the Mercator projection is.

Homemade elderflower cordial after a walk in the woods.

Do you believe in the power of the bay leaf? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

This is a stellar podcast. Every episode is golden.

It’s FREE! Go out and get the book that kicks off the Walker Papers series.

Youngest child wished for a chocolate and mango birthday cake. I do love a challenge. Behold, my response:

I happen to be listening to Carpe Jugulum today as I scrolled past this excellent article: The Essential Terry Pratchett www.nytimes.com/article/terr...

In honour of World Goth Day (and my goth daughter), that time I dressed as Death.

Book of Gold highlighted this day on the @ilfdublin.bsky.social #romantasy panel by the wonderful @bookaneer808.bsky.social #readirishwomenchallenge25

Love the intertextual and meta-interpretation of my favourite heroine: mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/l...

Gỏi tôm thịt inspired salad - my dad’s go to order at the Phuong Hoang restaurant. Homemade because Vietnamese restaurants aren’t exactly close by. Tastes like summer and birthdays!

Prescient about the US President.

Movie seen more than 6 times: hard version.

Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones predates HP and has magic kids as social pariahs.

My morning included this delightful read from @stephanieburgis.bsky.social A story as lovely as its cover!

The biggest man in that oval room was the one who didn’t raise his voice, but kept calm, and stuck to the facts. The care and concern for his people was written in every tired line on his face.

Feeling this. 650+ books here. Must’ve downloaded about 50% before I called quits.

Happy birthday, me! This beauty came today from a friend and it’s soooo pretty!

Accurate. Books also smell good (thanks vanillin) and don’t typically cause hay fever.

A dear friend’s debut out today. Perfect for those of us who love Ali Hazelwood and Penny Reid: www.amazon.com/Things-We-Do...

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How to gift wrap a book… my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

So, what's The Book of Gold about? A desperate thief. A magical book. And a heist for the ages. The Book of Gold, Book one of The Feral Gods, comes out on Thursday from Hodderscape Pre order here lnk.to/thebookofgold

Enjoyed the State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake with the MIL in Dublin today. Really fabulous costumes, a solid Corp de Ballet and a super Von Rothbart. The Spanish dancers were the biggest hit with the audience. A happy ending surprised me - not convinced it works!

Living large with a dear friend over from Oz. Where else but the Shelbourne for Afternoon Tea?