Lizzie Ballantyne 🖋️

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Good. Well done France

I’m mildly shocked that it was as many as 23%

The épicerie on the left down there is my absolute favourite.

Dear @theguardian.com No, it’s not uncharteREd waters.

Definitely. Chucking it down again as I type.

Right now we need anchors. It’s blowing a royal hoolie.

And I am sooooo over it. The garden’s a quagmire and today we’ve had gusts of 140km/h. My poor hens.

Since November 1st, 654.5mm. On our 4000m2 garden, 2,618,00.00 litres of rain and it’s still raining.

Came here to say exactly that.

That’s the address of our notaire now!!

Spring is definitely on the way. Just saw eight toads cavorting in the pond. Amplexus incoming.

Isn’t that chocolate rocking horse a bit close to the fire?

Ah, I see you’ve moved to my city. Good choice. I promise the weather will pick up. Honest. And apologies.

Now fully reflecting goings on from last night's episode 7... play.grafana.org/d/siqtdwm/th...

Oh lordy. Enough already.

He’s had rain installed.

This is well worth reading.

Carla Bruni looks delighted that Sarkozy is going into clink.

'If garden tools really count as weaponry, I’m in command... Since when were secateurs ‘a bladed weapon in a public space’?

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Definitely D. All the choices one could possibly want. Australia alone has a massive range of influences. And then there are all the rest.

This pleases me enormously.

Ah yes! My first computer, in the 80s, had to be connected to the home tv screen. I didn’t have an actual monitor until about 1988.

Computer monitors didn’t look like that until at least the mid 90s. You could barely lift them in the 80s.

Yes, sound. Although it took a while for them to get the orientation right.

@charlottemendelson.bsky.social 😉

Tomatoes are sexy, difficult plants. But I love them Our columnist is wooed by the joy of growing tomatoes, the more challenging the variety, the better

Thank heavens I grow them in the heat of the south of France. Never-ending blight would probably stop me gardening altogether.

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Exactly.

If you’re about to say simplistic, you probably mean simple.

It’s a wasp beetle - Clytus arietis. Great find!

That’s a very beautiful grass snake.