Remember to scream loudly out of the window at random moments to keep your iPlayer-watching neighbours on their toes.
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Canopy appreciation post, courtesy of a weekend trip to Hawkshead/Coniston. If in doubt, look up 💚🌳🍃
Am having a lovely 2026 so far, with many close family milestones/celebrations/birthdays/engagements/anniversaries occurring. It's delightful and wonderful, but dear GOD I have spent an *unbelievable* amount of time on Etsy.
Here’s your quick explainer on how to use both Martha and Jess’ Rules if you ever need. Free post. www.patreon.com/posts/jesss-...
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Nick Pearce@iprnickp.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is an astonishingly successful public policy reform, and so heartening. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The world is often bad, so here is a good tree appreciation post, because it's Spring and I can 🌳
View from my desk today 🦚 it's been over a decade and the novelty still hasn't worn off. (It's actually mating season and the boys are starting to get noisy, but we will forgive them for this because they are still a delight to look at.)
Snapshots of a sunny Saturday with Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social . Off home for a sit down before we go again tomorrow!
Have you ever tried to eat a custard-filled croissant the size of your hand on a train? I do not recommend you try to eat a custard-filled croissant the size of your hand on a train. (I do however recommend Tuck's croissants in all other circumstances, and with extreme gusto) 🥐
It's time to reveal the programme cover for Litfest's 2026 Spring season, including our 47th Litfest (13th-22nd March)! Whilst you'll have to wait a little longer for the full release of our packed programme, you can grab early-bird in-person tickets for a selection of events! geni.us/LF26Spring
In case the January darkness is getting to you too, here is your Wednesday reminder that we are now a mere 27 DAYS from Pancake Day. And (bonus factoid): you can actually make pancakes whenever you want!!
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ALT: a close up of a plate of food with a bowl of chocolate sauce in the background
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I have been solidly Christmas shopping either in-person or online since roughly 3pm today, pleased to announce I am ✨losing the plot✨
Saw Del Toro's Frankenstein, and it has reaffirmed my absolute conviction that no film merits a 2.5h+ runtime. (Except, obviously, the first Wicked film, which whizzed by, and which I would still have watched if it was 500 hours long.)
‘The more local you are, the more global you are’: the ever-brilliant Sarah Hall on her new novel, ‘Helm’, place-writing, and the importance of positivity in environmental fictional writing at @litfest.bsky.social 📚🍃
Reasons to be cheerful, September edition: - Dog sitting on a rainy Sunday - The yellowest-yellow flowers - Seeing beautiful places, doing beautiful things
when driving on the highway it’s important to at all times have established an enemy
Litfest, Lancaster@litfest.bsky.social · last yr.On Thursday night, join us in person and online for the Lancaster Environment Lecture 2025 delivered by Bella Lack! There's still time to book your free tickets: geni.us/LF25LE *Please note that there has been a change to the in-person venue which will now take place at Faraday Lecture Theatre.
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.
Loved learning all about the women of Lancaster today in the sunshine, brilliant guided walk by Eleanor Levin ☀️ @litfest.bsky.social
obviously still looking forward to it hugely but turns out there really is an age at which "getting ready for a massive boozy party to be attended by dozens of pals" stops feeling fully "weeeyyyyy" and starts feeling a bit more "Theoden minutes before the battle of Helm's Deep"
So loved hearing Amy kick off Lancaster Litfest this evening 💕
Susan Shaped@susanshaped.bsky.social · last yr.Lovely evening @litfest.bsky.social listening to @amyjanebeer.bsky.social talk about #TheFlow, rivers, the marvellous mysteryof dowsing and how we're all wild. 💚 The Flow is one of the best pieces of nature writing I've read, so informative and written with so much absolute joy.
What makes Litfest...is you! Lancaster Litfest wouldn't exist without our volunteers. If you're interesting in taking part, and would like to learn more, drop us a email to bethd@litfest.org and/or join us at our volunteers meeting this Saturday, 10:30am at the Café in The Storey!
One month to go until Litfest comes back to Lancaster! You might have seen our programmes cropping up across the North West or popping through your letterbox if you're on our mailing list, but you can also browse the programme online and book your tickets here: geni.us/Litfest2025
A few years ago I had the unbelievably stupid idea of trying to watch every episode of Star Trek. I didn't really like Star Trek that much, and I had not looked up how many hours of Star Trek existed (I really, really wish I had)...
Welcome to Litfest 2025! Today, we’re delighted to launch the full programme for our 46th Lancaster Literature Festival —‘The World Into Words’. geni.us/Litfest2025 This year there are over 50 ways to get involved inc. activities, co-creation opportunities and workshops!
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
It's barely 4 years since the UK had a British-Pakistani chancellor in Downing Street, calling out to his mum in Punjabi at the Tory Party conference "mum, did you ever think we'd make it here?" And now Jenrick is smearing the whole community from the Tory front bench www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...
Javid addresses his mum in Punjabi during speech
The chancellor noted that his family were the first Asians to move into Downing Street.
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Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2y agoJenrick will say literally anything for power which makes him extremely dangerous. Arguably more so than Farage who does have some actual beliefs buried under the cynicism and bluff.
God bless the Belgian food agency for providing me with one solitary news story this January that doesn't fill me with existential dread. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
A tree is just for Christmas, not for dinner, Belgian food agency warns
Message came after northern city of Ghent posted tips for recycling the conifer as a dish
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