Christine Morgan
@bookwormchris.bsky.social
Reads a lot & writes too. Love all things literary. Interests include the sea, Art & Design, Education, Health & Disability issues.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 47: Here's an experiment to try: Take a paragraph of your WIP. Highlight the most important word in each sentence. Now try rewriting with the important words at the very end of the sentences. Look at the difference it makes each way, and the way it affects emphasis.
Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory
New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts
theguardian.com
Clean and regularly refilled water bowls and bee and butterfly baths are essential in this hot weather. Remember your garden friends as the drought continues. I've been out tonight to pour water on our smelly drain cover. Almost immediately bees and wasps were drinking at it, so things must be bad
@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Alan Smith (b.1941,Germany) Cornish Fishing Village. Acrylic on board.
We still think of wildfires as something that happen to other people, in other places. But the world is changing, and the wildfire in Suffolk is a symptom of that. This is how average annual temperature in Dunwich has changed since 1940, from here: era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=52.28&ln...
Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Northern Ireland’ Artist: SR Badmin
How do you do that with paint? The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. ‘Milk’ Third Picture Book (1973)
And this morning the Shed is a rowing-boat on a waterlily lake. Below the lilypads, the roofs and spires of a long-drowned city await...
When the Alba, Great Maiden’s, blushed a particularly deep pink, she was called Cuisse de Nymphe Émue. I will not insult the French language by attempting to translate this highly expressive name. #gardening
I wish I didn't have cause to re-post this. I immediately loved the version of 'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane McGowan's funeral. Sadly, Glen Hansard himself died in a motorcycle accident early this morning. Rest easy...
Adrian Littlejohn@yorksfella59.bsky.social · 8mo agoA wonderful variation on a Christmas theme... The joyous version of 'Fairytale of New York' played in honour of The Pogues' Shane McGowan at his funeral. The soloists are Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill. youtu.be/6s8lvnSmISc?...
Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
theguardian.com
Having a good time, the Youth Hostels quite good so far. May write again soon. Yours Robert. PS Fire at Hostel in Boiler Room. Nobody hurt. Mostly smoke.
We, allegedly, can't afford to look after vulnerable people. Now, it seems, we can't afford to 'do' science, or to teach our people about the universe we live in. Should we all just go and live in a cave? Or ask those who can afford it to contribute a bit more in tax? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Queen Victoria might still be on the throne. All is quiet in the #garden. The paths are pale; our silent satellite steals up the sky. There is no sound except the hoot of an owl; #gardening
Due to the excess of spiders currently living in our bookstore, all mail orders during the month of August will include two (2) complimentary spiders.
I notice that the Rosa alba known as Great Maiden's Blush holds her flowers longer than most. #gardening
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 7825: Even if you're hoping for publication, not everything you write has to be for others. Practice writing for yourself: it takes off the pressure, and may lead to unexpected discoveries...
Good for you! I asked my publisher not to use any Daily Mail quotes in my metadata or anywhere else and, for later books, got them not to send for a review at all. I'm glad they were respectful of my wishes.
Routine medical procedures can feel harder for women – here’s why theconversation.com/routine-medi...
Routine medical procedures can feel harder for women – here’s why
When medical procedures are designed around male anatomy, women often pay the price – in pain, difficulty and dismissal.
theconversation.com
The modern world in old Ladybird books. The mail train Artist: John Berry (The Postman, 1965)
Should we attempt a Eucryphia that white-and-gold glory of late July and August? If so, E. glutinous and E. x nymansensis are the safest varieties to order. #gardening
