1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
The cover of my book : nature’s acre: an Irish garden memoir of making a place where life grows.
I wrote a book called Nature’s Acre — an Irish garden memoir about wildlife, community, and making a place where life can grow.
If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love you to read it. And if you’d share this, I’d be very grateful.
🌱 #climateaction #spéirgorm
gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre
This week's post took an unexpected direction. This painting of Lucie Aldridge , by her husband John, is not the picture it seems. #womenartists open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
In this week's post the thread of research did not follow the expected path. I would love to know what you think. #womensart #textileart #GreatBardfield
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And doesn't she make it sound divine!
Virginia Woolf podcast with Karina Jakubowicz. Excellent new podcast with Ann Kennedy Smith on women in 19th and 20thC Cambridge. Free on our website.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/podcasts
A map shows the locations of BTO satellite tagged Cuckoos in Africa. The headshots of four Cuckoos appear in circular frames around the map, alongside the wording: First Cuckoo Update for 2026.
1/ And they’re off! 📢 Our BTO satellite-tagged Cuckoos are on the move! 🌍
Follow their migrations via our interactive map ➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 🪶
It's insane that only 7000 people have signed this.
I do hope so...
Thank you very much, Tina! I didn't know of it and so pleased you let me know.
Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to read my blog and for all of your wonderful, engaging comments. I have really enjoyed it and am so grateful to you all.🖤
You will be very welcome!
The ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.
It might help if I added the link...
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This week I look at the women whose work was barely noticed and how Winifred Nicholson helped to change that. #ragrugs #womenartists
Watercolour drawing of dahlias in a blue jug with some small shells (sold)
Mostly dahlias, watercolour and indian ink
#floral #watercolour
Such a joyful, light filled watercolour.
Thank goodness, you weren't facing it when it happened. I do hope you are getting sorted out quickly.
Thank goodness you are okay. It must have been a terrible shock.
I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Just saved the recipe for tomorrow - thank you!
This week I look at the story behind a single painting: Farm at Watendlath by Dora Carrington open.substack.com/pub/stillske... #landscape #womensart
'It won’t, of course, do: as an account, I mean, of what took place. I tried, I tried for so long to reconcile, to find a style that would express it, to find a system that would excuse me, to construct a new meaning, having kicked the old one out..' #BookSky
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I love hellebores, they light up the darkest days.
Snowdrop sketches in pencil and watercolour.
Sketchbook drawings of snowdrops rescued from the rain.
Snowdrops on a soggy Sunday #imbolc
Hellebores after a rain shower
Here they come...
pair of red crested pochard ducks in the pond at Finsbury Park. Orange tufts and pink beaks.
Pair of red crested pochard at Finsbury Park, London today.
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How different it was! I remember it being broadcast and used to be so excited when Concorde flew over.
Monoprint and collage of blackbirds at dusk.
Where the blackbirds settle. Another monoprint and collage from my winter collection. www.deborahvass.com
