What a great piece - good advice for anyone, whether you write novels or just the occasional email ☺️

Wow, I saw this young hobby at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and it was so bold. It flew around onto different fence posts so I could get pics at various angles ✨ #nature #birds #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Thanks to Phil Hewitt, Arts Editor at @sussex_express @Sussex_World for the interview - and a shout-out for my Chichester Literary Society event in January 2026! ❤️🔥 www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/coastal...

Lovely conkers on an #EastSussex lane, including doubles and triples! When I was growing up in a seaside town, the local park had a couple of horse chestnut trees and the scary big boys always got to the best conkers first. These would have been unimaginable riches 🌱 #ukgardening #nature #autumn

Eddie aka Prince Chunk doesn’t really want to get up this morning #caturday #catsofbluesky

Evening sunflowers in a West Sussex field 🌱

Great crop of cucumbers this year even if they are a bit curly 🌱 #ukgardening

Message from the RSPCA ☀️

Happy publication day to Nicola Garrard for her stunning YA novel On the Edge! It's a heart-in-mouth read for young adults, old adults, or anyone in the middle 😊Congratulations @nmgarrard.bsky.social @oldbarnbooks.bsky.social 📚 #booksky #writingcommunity

This looks like an interesting #WritingCompetition 💜❤️😎 ... I wonder if I have a story without a home which fits this criteria 🤔😏 Anyone interested, take a look here: www.bournemouthwritingfestival.co.uk/2026-writing... Good luck everyone else taking part 🍀🤞😎 #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting

What a remarkable novel - As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray (seen here with sleeping cat). I had never heard of the 1919 Iolaire shipwreck. This book tells the story in beautiful, humane prose. Murray is a magnificent writer - now to seek out more of his novels📚 #writingcommunity #booksky

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*** PLR alert *** Don't forget to register your books for Public Lending Right before 30 June folks! #kidlitUK

Still laughing after seeing Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Bridge theatre today. It’s a riot! 🧚‍♀️✨💕

I went to this exhibition today. Wow. Breathtaking (huge) paintings! Definitely worth a visit if you’re in London. #modernart

This evening I walked a disused railway line near Fakenham, Norfolk, and heard a cuckoo calling #Springwatch #birds

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!" We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

Eddie was happily relaxed on my lap until these foxes came on #Springwatch #cats #catswatchingspringwatch

Bea surveying the parsley 🌱 #gardening #cats

Open gardens weekend in the village of Fittleworth, West Sussex. It was absolutely beautiful, even on a blustery Bank Holiday Monday 🌱 #gardening #ukgardening

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

What a beautiful poem for May 4th. From the anthology ‘A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year’ ed Liz Ison. #poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Here is Eddie (aka Prince Chunk) fast asleep on his back with tail covering his modesty #caturday #catsofbluesky

Possibly the best year ever for our wisteria. Bees are loving it too! 🌱🐝 #gardening #spring #wildlife #ukgardening

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Hello and happy Friday to all my new followers. Here’s a pic of a fox cub in the garden, spotted early morning with three siblings. Sadly I wasn’t quick enough to get a pic of the whole family 🦊 #foxoftheday #wildlife

Tomatoes now planted out in the greenhouse. There’s a yellow tomato, a cherry and a beefsteak. My sister grew them from seed but I don’t know which is which as I forgot to mark up the pots. We watch and wait 👀🌱 #gardening #spring

Damn.

Book lovers, I need your help! I'm trying to think of a modern novel that alternates chapters from present to past, with the same protagonist. Published in the last 5 years. Literary fiction. Any ideas? 💙📚 #booksky

Not an owl but a bee-fly that was hovering close to my face ☺️ 🐝 #InsectThursday #Nature

Look what just arrived in the post! Excited to read the new novel by @essiefox.bsky.social, seen here with coordinating tulips 🌷💙📚@orendabooks.bsky.social

‘Friday Night, The Girl in the Pink Silk Scarf (Jean)' by Christian Johnson, painting reflecting upbringing in a north-west mill town in the 1960s. #NorthernArt #FishandChipArt

Love this. I’m sure all cat owners with laptops will recognise the cat poem phenomenon #writingcommunity #poetry #cats

This book sounds like the perfect antidote to our troubled times. Happy publication day! 🎉📚

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"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

Books and Peanuts. This has to be the perfect post! 📚💙

You know what doesn't lose value like stocks lately? A good book. #BookSky

Where do you go for book recommendations 🤔

how can this exist in the same world as Donald Trump

Nice call-out for writers who also love growing things. Submit 50 seed-themed words for issue 60 of this micro-fiction journal 🌱 #writingcommunity #gardening

Lesser celandine in a wild patch of our garden. It’s very invasive - slowly creeping onto the lawn - but bees love it so I’m practising acceptance 🌱#SundayYellow

⚡Extended deadline!⚡ We have extended the deadline for our Poetry Prize by a week to give any last minute poets a chance to submit over the weekend. Entries close midnight on Monday April 7th. Submit here: thelondonmagazine.submittable.com/submit/31616...

We're wishing a very happy #SchoolLibrarianDay to all the brilliant people sparking a love of reading in children every single day 📚 Find out how #MyBookbuzz could help with that: www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

Snake’s head fritillary - hands down my favourite spring flower. That delicate curved stalk! So classy in comparison to the blowsy camellia that’s dropping like crazy in the background. Need to get sweeping 🌱#gardening

🌱 Bea looking pensive over primroses. Need to deadhead the sedum #gardening #spring #catsofbluesky

Sparrowhawk in our neighbour’s garden this afternoon. Stayed for ages and seemed to be enjoying the sun #birds