Late afternoon but night falls like shutters. Down. Bang. That’s yer lot. Air has chill fingers of ageing, damp, deathly. Through what’s left of the clouds’ sallow grey-brown flesh, dark purple pours like worsening contusion, across which black voids then spread, tree & house-shaped, infinitely deep

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...

Thank you, Gita! I'm glad you enjoyed the episode. This one was particularly riotous (and as much fun as it sounded). And we're 100% with you on the points Nate raises about diversity. 📚

Really enjoyed the brilliant new #storyshaped @sineadohart.bsky.social & @susancahill.bsky.social with fab Nate Lessore! Amid the hilarity, Nate has a serious point-without diverse authors we limit readership-the opposite is needed right now. #ukkidlit #kidlituk podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... The current UK government under @thelabourparty does not care about our environment at all.

winter sky, too; the air and ground both quiet with the first snow #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt

Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚

Good night Photo by Petr Horalek

We had some lovely light this morning; the reason I'm posting so many.

The colour of a fallen #cedar leaf in #lichen. #November #forest

Metacampanella subdendrophora growing on scotch broom in Pacific County, Washington. #metacampanella #mycology #macrophotography #fungi #fungifriends

“The GDT version of Frankenstein isn’t close to the book!” Buddy we just had Nosferatu and Voyage of the Demeter, who cares about being close to the book, just tell a story and move on

"Like everyone who loves books, Carson felt at once awed and aggrieved that there was more to read than could ever be read, and that to choose to read one book was to forsake the chance to read a different one." Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred

Your afternoon weather: - heavy brain fog incoming - followed by a hailstorm of indecision - expect scattered showers of wistfulness & existential dread - 75% chance of heavy sighing and ennui will continue into tomorrow

#Glowvember photopoem shared 13th November 2025

comet wings slice through twilight leaving sparks behind like the feathers you left in my hand #Photography Jacek @nerwowy-homik.bsky.social

Be the reason your local independent bookstore stays in business.

empty fallow field but for the old shepherd wind with his flock of lost leaves #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

Meanwhile in the Northlands, preparations are underway for their journey south. Sleds are being loaded with cloud berries and pine needles and treats. They send whispers on the wind of their arrival. Those who are quiet of heart might catch a glimpse of song. Yule Collection Saturday 29th November

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

I’d propose letting people know that “reading” doesn’t just mean “fiction” and “novels”. That’d help.

We should have a system where all the perfectly good cardboard boxes we are supposed to flatten and recycle after one use and all this damn bubble wrap get redistributed. How hard can that be really... New boxes are expensive unless you bulk buy, people would make a little effort and even pay a bit.

Another beautiful leaf at the tail end of a beautiful Fall in Portland, Oregon - everyone’s favorite he’ll hole. #Photography #Flora #WashingtonPark #Portland 📷🐸💕

Like a stubborn bloom Living in cracks of concrete You cannot kill hope. #poetry #Haiku Photo by Stockcake

And this morning the Shed is a drawing-room, all furnished in sea-green satin…

American here. To everyone across the pond who doesn’t understand how the US got where we are, it’s because of policies listed under your Reform Party. Vote Green. Trust me. You don’t want reform.

What a poignant effect of habitat degradation and climate change—creatures like butterflies are slowly going monochrome. But as forests regenerate, color returns. A needed ray of hope. #SaveAllSpecies

Private companies operating #CareServices in just three regions of England have taken more than £250m in profits in three years, with more than a third going to providers owned by private equity firms or companies based in #TaxHavens #SocialCare #PrivateProfit www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The flash of the camera between pitch-black woodland floor and I But as my eyes move their focus upwards, the faint silhouettes of our ancient oaks towering above me make themselves known through the night sky Childhood fears of the darkness long gone. Only calmness now

& you take overwhelm downhill & leave it there inhale cool air & listen to the fields pop in drainage & watch the grey burn surge & hillside lights flicker through rusted trees the sky drains light from the land to glow & darken

I love this.

Cop30 live: ‘literally insane’ that we are letting global heating happen, says Al Gore

#Glowvember photopoem shared 12th November 2025

Remember calories don’t count if you’re eating it over the sink and crying

on the empty chairs old wind stretches his long legs through the lonely hours #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (patio)

My fellow library folk! I urge you to pick up Tyger if you have not already! 📜📚

each day you give a little more of yourself waning moon #Photography ⭐️Mel⭐️ @mel789.bsky.social

390) Buildabot. Create your own small robot using these parts and the image editing software of your choice! #SmallRobotsRemastered

The myths of winter are revealed slowly, emptiness, stillness, darkness, harshness, but skies fill and fall in the canon of snow. #vss365 #myth

fog borrows the bridge #haiku #poetry

Long-eared Owl - another painting framed ready for my exhibition www.jamesmccallum.co.uk A tired migrant roosting on the edge of the saltmarsh after crossing the North Sea, Warham Greens, Norfolk 16th October 2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 111: Treat the process of creating a character like that of getting to know a friend. Let them talk. See what you find out. Don't expect to know them fully the first time you meet them on the page. Tease out their past, their secrets. Allow them to surprise you.

Strong fiction across several @irishbookawards.bsky.social categories. Have you voted yet? Quick and simple, link below⬇️

Time to go and grab a coffee while I leave this little fellow on the easel to wash his whiskers, which are yet to be painted. I love the first pass on a new painting. I wonder where he will end up????

Can anyone recommend literary agents that operate at the 'literary fiction' end of the market?

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers