I cannot stop watching this ♥️♥️♥️

Some news I’m so happy to share. An exhibition to launch my new business www.marchlands.co.uk Excited and scared in equal measure to be going out on my own! #exhibition #london #allwelcome

2/2 Seeing my characters brought to life like this has reignited my hope and determination. Check Chloe de Silva out on Insta, she’s so super talented. Fellow writers, I’d love to hear how you keep going when the rejection feels overwhelming? X

1/2 With one book published I naively thought it wouldn’t be so hard finding an agent this time. Six agent rejections later, I put book two away, pretty dejected. Today, an artist friend sent me these beautiful illustrations after reading the manuscript…

Going through footage of #hawaii #mantarays for my upcoming exhibition at Fitzrovia Chapel. I'll be making acrylic boxes of some of the phenomenal wildlife I was lucky enough to spend time with #artmatters #protectwhatyoulove Music: Palladio by Sir Karl Jenkins.

The world feels so dangerous and frightening right now. Sunrise to sunset, savour every second of beauty you can x

I don’t know about you, but I needed this today x

No words left.

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system. Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

These stunning photos show us exactly what’s at stake if we don’t act faster to protect our natural world. There is only a tiny window of opportunity left. Don’t let it close x

Ways to celebrate and connect with World Ocean Day 🌊 Thank you @goldmanprize.bsky.social

Whales sing more when there is more food! Happy #worldoceanday Now let’s protect oceans as if our lives depend on it - because they do 🌊🐳💙

Are you unemployed and interested in joining a creative community where you can further your skills as a writer? There’s a FREE creative writing course run by industry professionals available in Liverpool. Link below. Please share :)

I’ve yet to find a companion as companionable as solitude #Thoreau ♥️

We were delighted to work with you! Such a fun event, great families taking part. #RCPhealingrecipes

I had the best time! Thank you for organising such a brilliant event @rcpmuseum.bsky.social #lovemyjob

Please see this film. Yes, at times it’s a hard watch, but it has to be. It’s also indescribably beautiful and compelling and filled with hope. Our oceans are our lungs, our life force, and they can recover much quicker than we think. The time to act is now! #Ocean #Conservation #DavidAttenborough

I passed my #freeding course, whoop whoop! Struggling to upload here, so here’s a few screenshots of my first under water video 🌊🦭🦭🦭 So excited for this new #ocean #conservation adventure!

In case you’re having a bad day ♥️

🎫 🎭 New Event! The Old Op is proud to present 'The City For Incurable Women'. International theatre-collective, @fishinadress, follows the thread of the history of hysteria as the audience becomes complicit in an outrageous tale of medical misogyny. 🔗 oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

I got to take some objects from #medhist to Guy’s Hospital today, for patients and staff to enjoy - if that’s the right word: they included a lithotomy probe!

I had a lovely walk around Clerkenwell this weekend, in preparation for my upcoming well-being walks with Barts Hospital staff. The walks are part of a wider #well-being programme for staff, patients and visitors, organised by @bartsheritage.bsky.social Can’t wait to get started!

Really looking forward to being part of this. Kids will love making their own herbal pomanders and playing ‘smelly bingo’ (yes, you heard me right!). #medhist #herbalmedicine #historykids

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

#Soil at #SomersetHouse is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring and celebrating the wondrous world beneath our feet. Life is soil. Soil is life. To protect life we must protect and nourish our soil, not strip in bare. Book while you can. ‘Incredible’ doesn’t cover it.

Skynet is coming and the Terminator has more than one form. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-co...

For all of you missing mums today, sending love 💕 It’s so bloody hard!

In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

I LOVED series one. So happy that series two has launched. A tantalising mixture of joy and beauty, truth and hope, for the future of our oceans and thus ourselves! #LifeUnderWater I’ve even booked a freediving course after listening to the very first episode ♥️

My favourite books of 2024 📚 Each year I list my top reads on my @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page It's a mix of clifi, scifi & nonfiction all with nature themes 🦑📘 Buy any books via my page and I donate the commission to the marine conservation charity Sea Changers uk.bookshop.org/lists/my-202...

On this #internationalwomensday I’m taking some time for me. Hope you can all do the same x

Hope comes with the agency to make change. We have that agency. Let’s make change.

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

#FairDo’s ‘Medieval Women: In Their Own Words’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social Exhibition open until 2nd March.

So much fun with this talented group of story tellers. I was blown away by their creativity and enthusiasm. Can’t wait to read their stories! And what better place for inspiration than the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social #middlegrade #writers #hooray!

A brilliant thread👇👇👇 #GreenEconomy

Really excited to be returning to the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social to give a talk on the female pioneers of neuroscience in the lead up to International Woman's day. Come and join for a fascinating history. oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/... #womeninstem #scicomms

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Still needs a few additions, but I’m so happy that my website is live!! Only took me six months 😂😂😂 Hope you like it (*insert nervous twitch) xx www.marchlands.co.uk

1/2 On opposite sides of the world and unbeknown to one another, the Tasmanian Aboriginal artist and the British artist and historian Dr Jane Wildgoose began focusing their research on two tiny objects that originated in Tasmania in the nineteenth century, which are now in a collection in the UK.

Oooooh!! #getwriting fellow #witches! ♥️

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

I’m thrilled to be leading this workshop at the fabulous #OldOpMuseum in London, where we’ll be using actual museum objects to drive our stories! Mon 23rd Feb, two sessions - 10 and 11.30am. Hope to see you there!

‘The public interest in authorities acting lawfully and the private interest of members of the public in climate change outweigh the private interest of the developers’.

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Been photographing some of the weird and wonderful items for sale in the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social shop. Museum open Thursday to Sunday, with a range of awesome evening and school hols events. A true hidden #Southwark gem www.oldoperatingtheatre.com Just visiting the shop is free. It’s online too!

#Writers! Can’t recommend Emma’s tool-kit enough! Any encounter with Emma makes you a better writer, whatever your genre. Enjoy!

There’s something at the end of the trail we’re all looking for. Love this ♥️ Rest in beauty #DavidLynch See you in my surreal dreams, mostly inspired by you xx

“Today, nature is declining before our eyes and climate change is threatening homes and habitats on a colossal scale. We will ramp up our work to restore nature, both on our own land and beyond our boundaries,” 🌱🪲🐝🐛🪺