My Family and Other Rock Stars by @tiffmurray.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/3MuuwTR

5 🌟 to Fever Beach by @carlhiaasen.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Old Filth by Jane Gardam is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/3ZzqfBH

The Glass Hotel by @emilymandel.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/405anXH

Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’.

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by @tomchivers.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4ktxncv

H r ‘ a o m all d ‘O t of hara t r’.

Translation State by @annleckie.com is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4cipyEh

Just Ignore Him by @alandaviescomic.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4qqPvot

Here’s a poem called ‘An Attempt to Write an Abecedarian Poem in Praise of the Dictionary’.

Here’s a poem called ‘Message to the 14-Year-Old Me’.

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you. @mrslscarles.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a book by the brilliant Olaf Falafel. Here's what I can get right now. If there's one that you'd like, get in touch.

Win books with @harpercollins.bsky.social #booksky wn.nr/MnBSVbj

Snowdrops are not indigenous to Britain, & likely introduced around the 1500s, but now fully naturalised They likely began their life here in monastery herb gardens, perhaps used medicinally They have long been linked to celebrating light's victory over darkness

Friends of Dorothy by Sandi Toksvig is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4tktevA

This took me fucking ages

5 🌟 to The Names by @florenceknapp.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Just saw this and thought it may be useful as sightings may be possible, will need better weather though I think #thegardenjungle #Butterfly #Moth #ButterflyConservation

Box Hillby Adam Mars-Jones is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/3O3VMsR

Thought of you Saturday night & had another vodka.

Domination by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is a bargain £1.99 on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4a32ZAQ

The Artist by Lucy Steeds is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4tdceqL

Caravan is awful.

SCHOOLS! Here are fifteen books. I'm giving them away. If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know. I'll pick one of you this evening. You can share it too, if you like. Ta.

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond.

5 kohl-lined 🌟to Cleopatra by Natasha Solomons www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 🌟 to And Away... by @bobmort.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

About half an hour after our #BigGardenBirdWatch ended, a blackcap showed up. Typical!

Disco Inferno 🔥🔥🔥 #BurnsNight

Fabulous #bookpost to brighten up a dreary day - thank you @biggreenbooks.bsky.social & @whyalice24.bsky.social #buyastrangerabook #booksky

The #BigGardenBirdWatch 2026 starts today (Artist: Clive Uptton)

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

Off and on it

Share a photo of mountains that you've taken

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "The angel wasn't tentative or impatient."

5 🌟 to Some Body Like Me by @ldlapinski.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

Mythic fantasy. Complex Relationships. A story that spans centuries and continents. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon will have you captivated from the first page to the last, craving for more stories told by Wole Talabi. buff.ly/fwUXE9F

The Future of Geography by @skytwitius.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/3LU1P2v

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

I thought 2026 might be the year I stopped writing reviews, but I've pulled my finger out and buckled down to it with my 1st read of the year, Domination. My family are church people and I am fascinated by anything that takes apart the things I was taught were fact, based on blind belief. #booksky

4 🌟 to Domination by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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And Away by @bobmort.bsky.social is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/49T9bwk

Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

Keep Laughing by Chris McCausland is a bargain £1.99 on Kindle today #affiliatelink amzn.to/4qRZ1lq

Weather as usual, any exposed flesh goes blue before falling off.

I sat in front of Dawn French at a Rob Brydon gig.