Probably because you and Chris Mason can't stop banging on about, Laura. @bbclaurak.bsky.social #PMQs

Jenrick's Brexit Scandal Robert Jenrick unlawfully approved a project to save Richard Desmond £45m in taxes. Just coincidentally, Desmond owned the Daily Express while it was spewing out a torrent of Brexit hate and lies. A reward for services to Brexit? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Finally taken the plunge and joined Instagram so please pop by and say hi @ jenjennyadams ... www.instagram.com/jenjennyadams

My search for Wendy Sewell is now available as an audioblog (9 min listen). #HerNameWasWendySewell #VAWG #NeverForget #CriminalSentences

✨ New year, new you, why not try an event at the library? We've got something for everyone be it pub quizzes, silent discos, creative writing, theatre, music, it's a great way to involve yourself in the community. #TryYourLibrary

Midweek Motivation ❤️

Friday 2nd to Monday 5th January, marks 45 years since the arrest, questioning and eventual confession of Peter Sutcliffe. For those who prefer to listen, here's an audioblog (11mins) in celebration of the two brilliant Bobbies who finally got the job done back in 1981.

‼️ People bereaved by suicide are 65% more likely to take their own life ‼️ Grief after suicide often comes with guilt, shame, and stigma. These feelings can isolate and silence people who most need support. We must break the silence, not add to it. #DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #Grief #Hope

Welcome to a new true crime blog: CRIMINAL SENTENCES. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me," is not true. Words can wreck lives. Words can kill. Criminal Sentences can prove it. Follow me, as I prepare to uncover some serious word crime. www.criminalsentences.co.uk

The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now reached 60k. Let's keep the pressure on. Please share the petition as often and as far and as widely as possible. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

💛💛💛 #DaddyBlackbird #MentalHealth #Hope 🐦‍⬛

A nice article in Devon’s best free magazine @ONEmagdevon 👏👏🙏

To my reader friends! Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social has set up a club, where we can all give just £1 a week and Simon will spend it on books for disadvantaged kids who need them. As membership grows, the more books he can send out - please join in! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

A wee sale on my Pennan, Aberdeenshire painting. £25 off of my website price, see link below & do let me know.☺️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎨 #localhero #scotland #art louisemcintoshartist.com/shop-1?pgid=ip…

Help! Amazon have taken almost all copies of my new indie book GIRLS TO THE FRONT as stock & it’s a fortune to re-print so we need to sell them! So if you fancy a 90’s found footage feminist revenge thriller w/a cover designed by Chris Bigg (4AD) pls stick a pre order in Out NEXT WEEK. Link below

Trick or treat? Kwik taster of our upcoming take on the Dusty classic.... ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.” Glenn Close A reminder today… even if someone’s carrying it well, it might still be heavy… You are not alone. 🧡 #kindness #MentalHealth #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD Image: @joyfulsmolthings

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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Everyone, get your claim in now.

🐟 The Girl With the Gills: Author Talk & Storytelling Workshop A magical event with Becca Rogers, where young readers can invent their own underwater creatures & worlds! Ages 8–12 (with colouring for young siblings). 📍 Exeter Library 📅 Mon 11 AUG 🕧 12:30–1:30pm 🎫 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

My latest artwork of the delectable Robert Smith is now available as a lush A4 art print via my Etsy shop! #robertsmith #thecure #art www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

After the Salt Path saga, I am reposting this again to say if anyone wants an excellent, true, historical, factual, and entertaining story about walking in Cornwall, this is it. A proper job. #kernow #cornwall #books #blueskybooks #nature #outdoors 💙📚 〓〓‬

“If we didn’t care quite so deeply, we wouldn’t notice the things we do. We wouldn’t connect in the way we can.” You may feel things in high definition. You also love,connect, and bring more care into the world. That’s not a flaw. It’s a gift. 🧡 #kindness #connection Art by @joyfulsmolthings

A polite request on behalf of our garden critters. In this hot spell, please consider popping little bowls of water around your garden. I’ve got half a dozen of these dotted about, and have seen my cat, birds, and wasps drinking from them so far. Kindness can just be a simple things ❤️

The queen of all queens @maryannehobbs.bsky.social back on @bbc6music.bsky.social right now ... my weekend made!!! x

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Thanks to Fairfield Books for such a great book launch for me & Scott Oliver also to Dan Norcross for a fabulous interview & to ALL of the huge number that came to support us & sent lovely messages. It was a wonderful if surreal experience & I greatly appreciate it.

SO excited to announce my new rom-com Sink or Swim is being published by HarperNorth next spring. #booksky #books #iamwriting @harpernorth.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...

It’s my book launch on Monday 28th April (5 days) and so I’ll be posting a bit about it for the next week or so! Nervous, excited, overwhelmed- I’m all of these things plus a few more. @FairfieldBooks_ thenightwatchman.net/buy/cricket-ch…

So this is my little elevator pitch about When Sally Killed Harry that my publisher asked me to do 😀 I’ll be at Waterstones Swindon with Katy Brent on 13/05 & @tim-burgess.bsky.social #MerchMarket with @davehaslam.bsky.social & @serenitybookshop.bsky.social 28/05 chatting about it and my music fic

Hundreds of US protesters demonstrated outside the Milwaukee courthouse in solidarity with Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested by the Trump regime for standing her ground against ethnic cleansing. #3E (‪ 📹@marcofoster.bsky.social )

New paintings!

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop Every single time we show kindness, it matters – more than we’ll ever fully know. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #ripple Picture by joyfulsmolthings

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🎶THIS SAT🎨 Our Crafts & Music #LibraryLates kicks off at 7pm this Sat. Enjoy Clay Model Making and Sweary Pebble Painting while listening to bands 🎶 KÊMBANG (folk) and 🎵 HIBISCUS (neo-soul). It's going to be a lovely chilled out evening in the foyer. 📆 22nd March 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk...#LibraryLates

New mini paintings. ‘The Bestselling Trilogy’. Postcard size. A6. Acrylics with a watercolour flavour on Khadi Handmade Cotton Rag paper, 150gsm. Unframed. To be sold as a three - £90 plus P&P. Available to buy worldwide. Spring is upon us. #art #spring #flowers #interior #decor

Friday , First coffee 🙃

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage during a raging storm?

Would you rather look at art in a museum or on Instagram? We know what we'd answer... 😉 #Dartmoor A Radical Landscape is on at RAMM until Sunday 23 Feb. If you haven't popped in yet, visit rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/dar... to book your tickets. 🎥 Josh Pratt