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‘Tis a grey day and I am full of cold but I have very seasonal and atmospheric #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy to share so that’s something!

If anyone else is suffering from the #cold that turns your nose into a leaking snot faucet, then may I offer, literally, a balm for your poor raw-from-wiping-it snooter. Namely Paula’s Choice lip and body treatment balm. A little goes a long way and it works like magic. No pain, barely any redness!

My essay "REWRITING THE OLD DISABILITY SCRIPT" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder (just in time for holiday gift giving!) now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

Today is the #AutumnEquinox so this week #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy I've picked to share are all especially autumnal: two types of fungi, a plethora of nuts, and some bright berries. Bright blessings to you all!

The geometry of nature: tiny spiral of leaves unfurling in the center of a sage plant. #sage #herbs #gardening #spiral

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky.

Another week, another #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy offering from me to you. This time we have moons, berries, and one of the garden frogs just after it jumped out of concealment, scaring me silly.

5 things that make you happy, quick! 🌈 Sparrows in the shrubbery 🌈 Candle light 🌈 Finding feathers on my walks 🌈 Texts from friends 🌈 Peach pots

This is an excellent article. It also has a link to my blog in it (re Terry Pratchett’s Truth, Justice, Freedom quote from Night Watch) so I must say thank you @doktorzoom.bsky.social for the traffic and the new followers.

Hello lovely people in my phone! Do any of you have a favourite #soup or #stew focused cookbook you’d recommend? I’m looking to up my soup & stew game this autumn. I have a slow cooker, a hand blender, and a hob and oven but nothing more fancy than that! #cooking

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

Another week, another selection of #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy photos from me; this time I bring the start of the autumnal colours from my garden and the woods behind my house.

Hello! I’m back …. Though not quite as dramatically as the accompanying gif would have you believe: wherekizzialives.com/2025/09/05/h...

One of the many small bits of writing I'm doing this month is academic essay on #NatureWriting and disability, but not working in academia now I feel out of the loop about new scholarly work in the area. I know @louisekenward.bsky.social is working on this area, but who else should I be aware of?

Happy Month, lovely people! I’m using this auspicious feeling new-month-Monday to restart my #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy project. From now on I’ll be postly weekly, not daily, but with a multitude of photos rather than just one. Enjoy! (also #Birds 🪶) 1/2

OMG, did I write a Taylor Swift/George Orwell essay yesterday?

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one and no one wants to wake up and see Nigel Farage's.

THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in the UK in 3 months today, so I'm giving away one paperback ARC! To enter: follow me and reskeet this. Bonus: add TWAHK on GR/Storygraph & drop a screenshot in the comments. Extra bonus: tell me your favourite medieval story. UK only (sorry). Closes midday 29/08.

I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.

I’ve just finished reading The Final Vow and, as well as saying thank you for another utterly brilliant book, I have to say that I don’t believe you meant “I hope I didn’t scare you” for a minute @mwcraven.bsky.social!

🦊🍂 As summer turns to autumn, why not join my Patreon for seasonal stories and old country recipes, such as Old Fox's Superb Cure-all Elderberry Syrup, which will keep the colds and the influenzas at bay throughout the colder months. patreon.com/posts/old-fo... 🍂🦊

Hello lovely people! I'm currently figuring out being back here more regularly without negatively impacting my brain & I have a question for everyone who liked my #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy posts: Daily is out but weekly feels doable, so which day would you like to see pics from the week before?

Hello lovely people! I'm currently figuring out being back here more regularly without negatively impacting my brain & I have a question for everyone who liked my #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy posts: Daily is out but weekly feels doable, so which day would you like to see pics from the week before?

J’adore! Très magnifique!

Happy Month, my lovelies, and Lughnasadh blessings to all who celebrate. And if you’re not sure how Lughnasadh might be celebrated then this old blog post of mine offers one version: wherekizzialives.com/2023/08/01/w...

Look what arrived while I was away @wcorklitfest.bsky.social! My edited ‘10 poems from the Lake District for @candlestickpress.bsky.social!

Love that @kizzia.bsky.social has made a @thestorygraph.com reading challenge based on this list - app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

Staying offline Happy Month, my lovelies. June was a month of both joy and sorrow, and quite a few unexpected glitches and changes of plans, yet even the darkest bits have been all the better for me not being battered by the daily storm of social media. So this is just a quick - scheduled, since…

Update ahead of a Wild (and social media free) June Hello lovely people who are kind enough to read my posts, this is me offering you a very small update on a) what’s been going on in my world since I went on hiatus, and b) what I’m going to be up to over the summer.  Best news first; the sale of…

It’s the last day of May and the last of my #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy for a bit, as I go off for a social media free June. Helpfully my Ferdinand Picard rose has bloomed in time to share the raspberry ripple fabulousness with you all. Have a wonderful month, my lovelies, and I’ll see you in July

My Darcy Bussell rose, which is such a deep velvety red it never looks on camera how it does in real life, has started to bloom. This is as good a photo as I could get! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #DavidAustinRoses

Update ahead of a Wild (and social media free) June Hello lovely people who are kind enough to read my posts, this is me offering you a very small update on a) what’s been going on in my world since I went on hiatus, and b) what I’m going to be up to over the summer.  Best news first; the sale of…

Calling all #crochet friends: I’m looking for a reasonably challenging fully circular (not half moon) shawl pattern and I’m happy to pay. Searching ravelry hasn’t turned up anything I fancy so I thought I’d ask for recommendations in the hopes someone can help me out! #Crafting #Crocheting

My Margaret Merril rose is blooming and it smells absolutely divine. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Roses #DavidAustinRoses

Part of witchcraft and witchgraft is a charting of spirits. Tutelary deities, genii locorum – the witch walks to make a map of where they can be found. The witch walks to make a connection with them. For all magic is rooted in relationships. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Today may be wet & miserable looking but my garden is currently the go-to crèche & snack spot for the local birds; so far I’ve spotted juvenile starlings, robins, blackbirds, blue tits, great tits & sparrows along with their adults plus this lovely Song Thrush. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Birds🪶

It has mostly been grey and wet today so I’ll return us all to last week’s sun and the figs in the walled garden at Attingham. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

It’s #TheGlorious25th when we #WearTheLilac and and sing #HowDoTheyRiseUp. Here are lilacs and proof both that I am wearing some and at the start of a fun day out in Oxford with @catthegeek.bsky.social Hope everyone else has a glorious Sunday too! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #GNUTerryPratchett

On the Glorious 25th May we remember John Keel, Dai Dickens, Ned Coates, Horace Nancyball, Billy Wiglet, Cecil Clapman, and (sort of) Reg Shoe. “They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it” #gnuterrypratchett #speakhisname #theglorious25may #HowDoTheyRiseUp

I do love alliums, they’re spiky spheres of beauty! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Lovely lupins for what is currently being an incredibly productive Friday. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

An Owl at Night

I can’t decided which photo of the patch of Dwarf Orange Avens in Attingham’s walled garden I prefer, so you get all three (and a bonus bee). #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

The witch walks ways of hawthorn. The witch walks ways of hemlock. She has no fear of the maples in the hedge despite the claims of folklore. Her footsteps are acts of ritual agency and intent. Her routes always taking her into a deeper relationship with the land. #£milyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Pools of light. on the mist below. Taken on Glastonbury Tor this morning.

Alt: Left panel: sketch of Mary Anning saying “My fossils bring all the boys to the yard” Right panel; scowling man. Caption: And they’re like: “You still can’t join the Geological Society of London”