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The world would be a better place if people read more books

Don't suppose any of my followers on here are involved with a London bookshop and would be interested in having me pop in to sign some copies of The Notwitches? I'm going to be in town towards the end of the month and would love to visit a few stores. My DMs are open if so!

Join us in store on SATURDAY 28TH MARCH for a signing with the lovely JOSEPH LIDSTER who will be signing copies of his new Doctor Who novelisation of ALIENS OF LONDON.

If you cannot make the signing in store, you can PRE-ORDER yourself a copy here: www.thewhoshop.com/books-magazi... #DoctorWho

A painting of Scottish bluebell flowers with a background of blue, purple and green patches with splashes of gold. Bluebells emerging in ancient woodlands to flower and leaf from April onwards. Millions of bulbs may exist in one bluebell wood, causing the blue carpets we so keenly associate with spring. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Watercolour and mixed media painting on acid free watercolour paper. Approximately 6x8"(15.24 by 20.32 cm) will fit an 8x6" standard frame.

Bluebells flower from April onwards. Millions of bulbs may exist in one bluebell wood, causing the blue carpets we so keenly associate with spring.
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#bluebells #flowers #spring #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #bsnm

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

A drawing in a very soft style of tall trees in an evening frosty landscape, the sun is quite low in the sky and there are frosty tones on the ground. The palette for this piece is subtle grey, violet and yellow tones. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil on blue pastel paper. 6 by 8 inches (15.24 by 20.32 cm).

A drawing in a very soft style of tall trees in an evening frosty landscape. This original artwork is available in my Folksy shop...
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#Landscape #Trees #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Happy all-of-those-day to you.

Ooooh nice!

We only have to wait til next weekend (15th) to find out. Fingers crossed it's worth it.

I'm thinking either audiodrama or animated film

All we should ask of politicians is that they should show skill and bravery at not going to war at the whim of other countries who do not have any of those skills. I am no fan of the current Lab gov, but they do seem to be trying to do that. Above the shrieking of the foreign non dom RW media

(singing) Spider-plant, Spider-plant, grows wherever a spider can't...

night. at a lake with trees around it.

A new *sleep safe* episode.

An empty place. Just the wild sea at a distance. Birds chattering. Then after half an hour, rain on water, getting heavier.

Episode 293 - Pools of Rye Harbour (sleep safe)
> www.podbean.com/ew/pb-arbyy-1a5e13f

Different editions of Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie against a themed background showing a steam train moving through a moonlit snowy landscape

We're always getting asked about new online jigsaws for our #OrkneyLibraryJigsaw collection so we've MADE A NEW ONE using our #AgathaChristie post from yesterday! 🧩

Take a break and make our latest FREE online #jigsaw at: jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=...

Wonder how much the tech bros have dropped into party coffers?
Really bad news.

Very welcome. Looks like a gorgeous book!

Last night to get this beautiful book. Over $22,000 raised, please share to find someone else who loves this as much as I do. Cheers #comics

A pedestrianised street with a branch of popular heated foodlike product purveyor Greggs, and a dragon.

Sometimes when I am having difficulty with the universe I remember that in Dundee there is a dragon guarding a branch of Greggs, and this cheers me up.

It’s national Hare day and so here is the book which started a whole, beautiful series for me. Through fact-inspired poetry and incredible art from Anastasia Izlesou, the books show children the wonder of biodiversity and adaptation

It's hormonal.

So far in 2026, America has launched a military strike on 22% of Saturdays

Ohhhhhh I’m sad

Many emojis look very similar and only those with exceptional eyesight can distinguish between them. We should require anyone shipping an emoji library to put the plain text description of the emoji below or next to it, in a readable font, like 14pt Courier.

*slow* blink and you miss it. Boss hope you all have a restful weekend.

G, definitely G today.

Sad news about Rob Grant. Red Dwarf meant a lot to me as a late-teen/early twenties chap. Especially in the post-Doctor Who wilderness. I read and re-read the novels too. Might be time for a re-watch.

Every salt-hag has her place of standing. Rocks upon which she sings to summon the winds. Choired by gull shriek and surf rasp, these are her tide temples. These are her places where waves whisper wonders. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Happy birthday and happy butterflies!

CONTENTS Contributors Editor’s Note Andrew Fleming – Catastrophe at St Kilda: Vulnerability and Resilience in an Island Community Peter Freshwater – Student Singing and Song Books in Scotland Donnchadh Sneddon – Portraid Dhonnchaidh Bhàin? Hamish McD. Telfer and Jonathan M. Thomas – Join together, Fight together, Die together: Scottish Sportsmen, the Great War and Enlistment Shelley Morwenna Williams – Why was Agnes Randolph ‘Black’? Grace Wright – ‘The Order of the Elephant’: Symbols and Power in the Policing of Land Agitation in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland REVIEWS Standing on the Edge of Being: Scotland 1850 to COP 26. Richard D. Oram Gun Sireadh, Gun Iarraidh: The Tolmie Collection. Edited by Kenna Campbell and Ainsley Hamill Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy. Edited by Simon McKerrell and Gary West Obituary: Ian Fraser (1941–2025)

The latest issue of SCOTTISH STUDIES, the Open Access journal of the School of Scottish Studies at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, is now online
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