We have 3 copies of Jackie Morris & @tamsintheshed.bsky.social’s 'Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list for entry details!

Yesterday was our 30th wedding anniversary! Amazing! We got married on the Malvern Hills. I walked to church from the little cottage we rented at the time.

England’s wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’ Excellent report by @wildjustice.bsky.social on how Natural England has frozen its SSSI designation programme - covered by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For #worldcurlewday Curlews over Pentre Ifan. The haunting cry of this bird always feels to be a call from another land and when heard time always falls away and one is filled with melancholy and joy in equal measure. Do support @curlewaction who work tirelessly to save this bird.

So you can see that what I do is actually stained glass- here’s one that I didn’t sell. It hangs in our kitchen window and catches the morning sun. ‘Autumn Quaker’ 2012.

Rosanna Reade, Northern Irish contemporary printmaker and illustrator, living and working in Edinburgh #WomensArt

The #fox appears in the folklore of many cultures and is associated with cunning and tricks or as a familiar animal, possessed of magic powers #FolkloreThursday Artwork by Jackie Morris, artist, author, illustrator #WomensArt

Celebratory dance in Hungary

The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic. Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/... bsky.app/profile/nati...

The American regime has alienated us from the Pope. Let that sink in.

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds. See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

Whose going to be my 3000 follower? I’m on 2999! Here’s my spring panel, ‘Nesting’…

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

‘She brings the summer’. Seems appropriate to post this as I saw our first swallows returning yesterday having seen a hare the day before!

I’ve just signed Greenpeace’s petition calling on the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to stop selling arms to Israel. British arms are fuelling the killing - can you join me and call for a ban?

We are so excited about this little film.

Government: “We think maybe there ought to be some light-touch regulation and oversight of an industry that releases 50 million non-native birds for shooting every year.” Shooting estates: “THIS IS A DECLARATION OF WAR!”

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

'One of the finest rural affairs & nature writers out there' @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk? Thank you! Great interview with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social: 'this country belongs to everybody & this is about creating a greater sense of belonging in England. That’s what true patriotism... should be.'

This! @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social’s book Wildly Different is an incredible achievement. Chasing down the ghosts of these pioneering, forgotten women, it’s a wonderfully vivid account. Our ‘ghosts’ have much in common. Thrilled to be chatting with Sarah this Sunday! www.shaftesburybookfestival.com

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hey! Congratulations us! Me, Jackie Morris and @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social It’s publication day for Wild Folk!! Hurrah! We have a proper and fabulous publisher! Thank you also @mandascott.bsky.social and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for your amazing support.

Today is the 400th birthday of John Aubrey, a founding father of archaeology, folklore studies and more. Find out more about him in the brand new issue of Northern Earth, where he's our cover pin-up! northernearth.co.uk/subscribe

We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.

Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits

Really looking forward to my events at Barton Grange and Lingham's Books tomorrow. Both events are already sold out, but if you'd like to hear me talk about VIANNE and the magic of chocolate, please check out my remaining tour dates here... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/events/

Another March Hare. This is ‘The Hare Woman’s Cottage’. Available as a print and a reminder that the print shop will be taking a couple of months break from 19th March. Posting again with alt text.

Join us - Sat 21 March on the edge of Exmoor to celebrate Wild Folk and its reincarnation. Jackie Morris and I will be signing books at Seven Fables and there are stillsome tickets our Wild Reading Walk. Bless @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social for taking us in. www.sevenfables.co.uk/event-detail...

Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925) was a geographer and cartographer, a women's rights actvist and mountaineer. She was one of the very first women to climb the Himalayan mountains, and together with her husband, she cycled through Spain, Syria and Turkey for ten years. #CelebratingWomen

Upcoming book event! LOVE, LOSS AND LANDSCAPE with me and lovely @smpierce.bsky.social, hosted by @foldedorset.bsky.social who yesterday were named Best Indie Bookshop in the Southwest! Please join us on 22nd April, 7pm, The Grosvenor Arms Shaftesbury. Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/folde-dorset

In further event news, I'm so excited to be talking about MEGALITHS at Arundells, Salisbury, on Wed 15th April! (This historic house in Cathedral Close looks incredible, can't wait to see it.) If you are Wiltshire based and like your stones, would love to see you there! arundells.org/events/stone...

Another March Hare. This is ‘The Hare Woman’s Cottage’. Available as a print and a reminder that the print shop will be taking a couple of months break from 19th March.

Thirty-Two Words for Field by @manchanmagan.bsky.social is available now in paperback and ebook in North America and the long-awaited #audiobook has released globally today. #PublicationDay

Heartfelt thanks to @steverutt.bsky.social & @britishwildlife.bsky.social for an incredible review. ‘Nobody else writes with this degree of sensitivity, the big picture interspersed with telling detail, the perfect descriptive phrase that is her knack & the unhurried, farm-pace of her narrative.’1/2

Poems for Lent (Day 17) • Gerard Manley Hopkins •

Join me and Jackie Morris for a delicious lunch, stories and chat at this gorgeous place. grovenarberth.co.uk/events/ Spring will surround us and perhaps Black Fox, Owl Woman, Swan Maidens and White Raven. Wild Folk rises from slumber with our new, fabulous publisher @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

More hares coming for March! As it’s a full moon here’s a panel that I made a couple of years ago which combined many of my favourite things. This one is called Solstice Hare and a reminder of the colour and energy that is coming as we head into spring. Available as a print. See my linktree. 🥰🌿

Blodeuwedd always made the coffee on St David's Day . . .

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

We're recruiting for four new roles. 👇

March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

When a novelist starts writing poetry

The betting has the Greens at 1/2 and Labour at 5/1. If you actually want to keep Reform out, rather than making a rhetorical point, you can only rationally argue for Labour to step aside.

Nice to see you. Greetings from my wall to you!

Hello, sadly neglected Bluesky. I explain more about what’s going on in my life on Instagram but here’s a slightly late horse to welcome in my year- the Fire Horse. Engraved, painted glass.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

and further good morning. Not slept for some reason. Got some work done, though. I hope you find or make joys.