This. Greenwich and Docklands Festival always used to be in June. What happened? www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/oth...

Just saying....Anyone caring to pre-order my and @lucille_clerc's latest collaboration, Literary Gardens, might like to do so by hitting the link below and using the code SUMMER25 before the end of the month for a 25% discount. #WPreorder www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...

After publication day on Thursday, the first sighting of The Psychedelic Garden in the wild, alongside its brothers and sisters at #RoyalBotanicGardensKew

Oh boy, Lost Gardens is in the window at #Hatchards. Okay, so it's smaller than the others and at the back but I'm A Contender! Thanks to @franceshardinge.bsky.social for the photo!

sunday vibes

Could probably articulate this better if I wasn't so tired but... no. Dance around using whatever A word you want to make you feel better, but nothing 'written' 'creatively' by AI has any value that wasn't stolen. It's inherently worthless, soulless communication. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Daffodils at #WarleyPlace coming into their prime...

Looking forward to chatting about Ellen Willmott next Wednesday at the Lindley Library! Lindley Late - Horticultural Heroes: Spotlight on Miss Ellen Willmott Tickets, Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

The 18th and early 20th century period celebrated romance, and especially St Valentine's Day...

This is terrifying and sounds suspiciously like rewriting history... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Absolutely inspirational.

Digital book burning

What I will say is that if you’re concerned by this news as a member, as a fan of any of EH’s properties, or simply as someone who likes to walk around ruins, country houses and prehistoric sites, please write to English Heritage to say so. Your voice matters the most.

Art at Canary Wharf's Winter Lights Festival this evening. Reminds me of the old RKO ident.

Greed, every time. Greed. Petition signed and will up my cinema going in protest.

A wet Sunday. What better project than taking the problem lantern to bits...

This is utterly disgraceful. As if what is happening to the poor people in LA isn't terrible enough.

This.

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

With a complex 24 hours ahead, wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a great 2025. Mine will be filled with rotting trunks, strange magic lantern slides and...well, who knows what...

Absolutely adoring The Dead of Winter R4 by Sarah Clegg; ordered the book for reading at Old Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

An archival post on the historic cribs of the Infant Jesus. hauntedohiobooks.com/news/lay-dow...

Bargains agogo at my local Asda

It has just taken me over an hour to respond to this, but it needs responses. Artists - musicians - writers - all creative people - respond to this, please....

Down with this kind of thing.

Yeah...

Well deserved indeed!

What a treat Conclave is - equal parts thrilling, pensive and camp. Fiennes is a shoe-in for Best Actor; Rossellini Best Supporting Actress. Best Supporting Actor more difficult to call but almost certainly from this film.

The mysterious, crumbling Murs a Peche at Montreuil, Paris.

An angel conducts the heavenly host.

Takes me ten minutes to open the door of the Mini.

An extraordinary, surreal production of the already surreal Tales of Hoffmann at @royaloperahouse.bsky.social. Wonderful cast but Olga Pudova as Olympia particularly stands out.

Gutted to discover that my favourite restored lost garden, #Dewstow in Wales, is now closed permanently. After being re-dug from underneath a pile of Motorway spoil, it's particularly upsetting to lose it again. Praying it will be maintained and opened at least occasionally.

Wonderful performances from Bryn Terfel, Natalya Romaniw - and the irrepressible Aled Hall in #Tosca this evening at Royal Opera House. An excellent production of an excellent opera...

Another of the dragons at #Waddesdon this Christmas, altogether scarier...

One of the dragons at #Waddesdon this Christmas

!!!! www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...

A good evening for a candlelit #magiclantern show...

My favourite #magiclantern kaleidoscopic chromotrope, as projected. The distant firework-like sounds are from the crank mechanism.

Trying to find old Twitter chums here is like a magical scavenger hunt but I'm finding all sorts of interesting new people. So Blue-skyers: starter packs, please, for gardening, garden history, film noir, folklore, archaeology, magic lanterns, Arthurian legend, mid-century fashion and music...

Oh Boy! Just discovered that #EllenWillmott first visited Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood 30th June 1892, with her friend Lady Fitzhardinge. She enjoys it so much she returns 20 days later 20th July 1892, this time alone. It's the first concrete proof they knew each other this early.

The tree fern, all tucked up with straw and fleece, and cosy for winter.

Remembrance Day poppies at #HRP Tower of London last night. Both beautiful and solemn.

About three months ago I was delighted to talk about #EllenWillmott for the Garden Masterclass Podcast. And now it's out! gmasterclass.substack.com/p/sandra-law...

This morning I just wanted to join Seta in this box but there wasn't room so I decided to do something positive and get the hell off X. I've followed as many of my old Twitter chums as I can find but I hardly have any, and must be missing loads. Please tell me who to follow here...

I still can't quite believe I've been invited to join this extraordinary project. Sharing this as there's a special offer of an opening subscription for £1 if you join before November 1st www.scribehound.com/member.

Absolutely loving Katherine Rundell's The Lion The Witch and The Wonder. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Latest blog post, about an afternoon in May 1894, when Ellen Willmott, her sister Rose, and particular friend Gian had their photos taken for posterity... misswillmottsghosts.com/2024/02/15/a...

A monster magic lantern (shown by a regular one for scale) working at the Magic Lantern Society AGM on Saturday.