Sometimes, despite everything *waves hands*, it feels like not only the dystopian SF has purchase in the world. #tinyjoys #wayfarers #stillmulticultural

Verbena and dewdrops 😍💚🌱 #TinyJoys

I had one big hope for my book and that was for it to be translated into Vietnamese (ancient Vietnam is the topic of one of the chapters) - today I have signed that deal! #tinyjoys

Yesterday I made apple mac & cheese, which is one of M’s absolute favorite things. And M doesn’t know it yet, but the next set of books in a series M is really into right now will arrive tomorrow. So we have a few #TinyJoys on top of today’s book surprise… 💗

Managed an extra walkies with my #CinnamonTrust walkees. #TinyJoys

Late summer/early autumn sun on a plastic greenhouse is ripening tomatoes well! #TinyJoys

#ZeroWaste broccoli and Stilton soup (made from broccoli and cauliflower stalks after the florets used for other things ). Satisfying #TinyJoys

Late September is apparently still summer eating this year here in the Great Lakes state of Michigan. Yesterday’s dinner. #tinyjoys #stunday #cookingsky #gardeningsky 🌱 #midwest

Oh no. Hope it turns out better than predicted. In case of bad week, sound on for sleepy Ogg snores #TinyJoys

Doomscrolling break. Especially for everyone facing deadlines and challenges, I offer you this small, persevering hedgehog by way of encouragement and inspiration. #TinyJoys

I absolutely want to steal this idea for a uni-wide fun facts campaign.

Prepping one of Horace's Letters for the Latin crew to read in a couple of weeks and having an absolute field day over the number of ablatives of comparison they're going to get to meet. (This is a good thing.)

grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy,

The repeated use of 'kinda' in this e-mail has real 'How do you do, fellow kids?' energy.

Oh. It's going to be another 'lunch? What lunch?' sort of week, isn't it.

Unbelieveably, it is going to be relevant for me to talk about James 'four ovens' Brokenshire in a Latin literature seminar, and I know already that I am going to get so many blank looks.

I wrote up the whole book club placement specialist weirdness on the blog - do feel free to pass on to other academics so more folks are aware that this is a thing. #academia #AcademicSky

Today's #TinyJoys is getting flea tablets into both cats at first attempt. Tbf they're usually pretty good but it still feels like a small victory.

The Scamocene turned out to be the most depressing epoch to live through yet.

I wrote up the whole book club placement specialist weirdness on the blog - do feel free to pass on to other academics so more folks are aware that this is a thing. #academia #AcademicSky

I haven't seen many people in the academic side of things talking about this, and I rather think we should be doing more of it, not least because 'hi, I can get your book selected for book clubs!' might actually look really attractive to those of us sitting under the REF impact hammer.

Jason links to this post by Victoria Strauss on Writer Beware which explains the economics of the scam (that is, why would you bother and what makes it financially viable to engage in this sort of thing with writers).

Academics! This book-club stuff is coming our way as well! Really helpful break-down of some of the Frankly Peculiar e-mails you may have been getting in your inboxes (as I have). Hat-tip to @courtneymilan.com for the link.

Got nowhere with this - so if you know of a (bio)med or health journal that has OA now but subscription-only archives - or that is somehow still entirely paywalled - please drop a reply. I’ll make me own list! ✍️

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

TAPIR.

Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison | Tony Harrison | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Love my local beach. The light today... #tinyjoys

Being allowed to give Moog the dog a biscuit at Cuddesdon this weekend 🥹 #CofEPeeps #TinyJoys

IF YOU SEE A BAT CRAWLING AROUND ON THE GROUND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, LEAVE IT ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL. DO NOT APPROACH THE BAT, DO NOT TRY TO AID THE BAT ON YOUR OWN, AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BREASTFEED THE BAT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.

#TinyJoys Brown cattle running joyfully towards the farmer as he enters their field with a bale of hay.

Academics! This book-club stuff is coming our way as well! Really helpful break-down of some of the Frankly Peculiar e-mails you may have been getting in your inboxes (as I have). Hat-tip to @courtneymilan.com for the link.

Writing thank you cards for ordination gifts. Both in gratitude, and to show #puer that writing thank you cards really is a thing you continue doing into adulthood.

#TinyJoys my dad Mick (left) and his best mate since school & best man (also Mick), having a Fine Day Out at the Womens Rugby World Cup Final yesterday #WholesomeBoomerContent

I have this one on my wall too! #TinyJoys

#TinyJoys stripped and REMADE the bed. I will thank myself later 😊

a good coffee +!drawing, writing, making a zine first thing this morning #tinyjoys an ecology of creative practices on a messy wild autumnal morning

I’m eating my Saturday brunch outdoors and am about to enjoy a few moments of peace to center myself before doing all the things. Recipe, such that it is, in Alt Text. #tinyjoys #outdoors #gardensky

#JustFinished the novelization of Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey by Robert Tine, and it was a most excellent read. I was unprepared for all the lingo in the narration, but it was not so heinous to adjust. I want to watch the movie again - it‘a been too long to compare. #BookSky 💙📚 #90s #TinyJoys

#TinyJoys (literally!)

A great poet and a great man who will be much missed. His Trackers and his Prometheus are two of the best works of imaginative classical reception of our time. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Starting the day with a hand-knitted tea cosy

A wonderful poet. One of the great experiences of my teaching career was having to take over a module on classical reception for literature students and being able to devote a class to his various reworkings of Greek plays and reflections on his own complex relationship with Classics.

Extremely sad that my much-loved friend and ally of over thirty-five years, the great poet, dramatist, socialist and acerbic wit Tony Harrison, died yesterday morning, peacefully, with his devoted partner, actress Sian Thomas, at his side. I'm so glad I visited them last week.

Please pray for our 12 #ChelmsdioNewPriests who will be ordained at services taking place across our Diocese today! Find out more www.chelmsford.anglican.org/new-priests.

Closing in on 1.5 million. Keep it going, folks! #PapersPlease petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

#ThreeThingsThursday #gratitude #TinyJoys 1) sunny autumn weather 🌞🍂 2) quiet time at home 🏡 3) the Christmas cards are made already 📮 4) catching up with jobs in the garden 🏡 5) reading a good book in the garden 🏡 📚 5) walking with Mr Intgarden 👣💕

New picture in the downstairs loo. #tinyjoys www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

It's been a rough week, but today I got to go out on a (brief but really lovely) date with @patricksamphire.bsky.social , and that made everything so much better. ❤️ #TinyJoys