The bay windows are done. Just the black edges to finish.

This should have much more import. We are the first generation to see this. #Mars

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Chris@covertsandwich.bsky.social · 4d ago

Read this. The prose is a brain tickling delight, the setting gently magical, the story wonderous, the characters so very human, and the ending heartbreaking in that way that warms you. First book of Toms (@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social) that I've read, but it won't be the last.

Scadoxus multiflorus ‘Katherine Flame’ 😍

I bought a Begonia xanthini tuber at the Harrogate Flower Show nearly two years ago, I planted it but it has never done anything other than a few shoots which rapidly died off. I’ve increased the humidity with a kitchen bowl, and now have some real leaves. Exciting times 😀

Hannah coordinating her toys with the garden flowers.

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.

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I think this farmer must be a David Hockney fan, he’s arranging his bales in the field just like a Hockney painting 🖼️

The great wall of straw. #YorkshireWolds

We have potatoes 🥔 😃@profgdfoster.bsky.social

Hedychium ‘Tara’. Stunning 😍

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I’m currently reading this by Tom Cox (@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social), it’s a really captivating & enthralling read. Highly recommended.

There's a little guide to these here (and yes Blackwell's really WILL do free international delivery on all of them): www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-guid...

A Brief Guide To My Books

Villager is where I'd advise you to start if you wanted to read one of my novels. It's also the one people most frequently tell me they reread. It's set on a fictional moor which just happens to be in...

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Joanna Rial@joriro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Get in! Fruitful commuting no than scrolling. The last and most recent @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social paperback 'Everything will swallow you' just arrived to complete a birthday literary splurge. Well done @blackwellbooks for free p&p. Anticipating annoying fellow pax with involuntary sounds. Good!

Too hot to be outside, so finishing off the parquet floor in what will be my library, was planned as a work-from-home office, but didn’t get done before I retired; work got in the way! This is the last (4th) parquet floor, but now I have the hang of it, I can see a future renovation project ahead 😃

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

The bees were out in force this evening in the Sledmere House Walled Garden 🐝 🐝 🐝

Fabulous evening at the Sledmere House Soirée in the wonderful Walled Garden 🪴 🌺 🥂

It’s Hannah’s birthday, she’s 12 today 🎂, so an evening trip to the beach after the heat of the day.

Hygroamblystegium tenax (Fountain Feather-moss) growing on wet periodicaly irrigated slaby rocks on the edge of the Afon Gwyddyl 1.8.26 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

The old lantern that hangs over the front door is nearly ready to put back together.

Messages like this are always lovely to receive but they're especially lovely on a week when you've been into a few bookshops which don't stock any of your books, including the one that just came out. P.S. Free international delivery at Blackwell's; blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Everything Will Swallow You

Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live

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Shannon Leigh@ghostofdiscontent.bsky.social · 2w ago

I just finished “Everything Will Swallow You”. I have never written an author before, but I felt the need to praise you effusively! I loved it so so much! Staggeringly beautiful, full of humor, heart, laughs, and heartbreaking truths. Thank you for the best read of the year! 🙏🏽💜

A jar of stem ginger from 1996. 30 years old. Any offers?

For those who want to know what the Yorkshire Wolds look like, here they are. Nothing like the traffic & crowds of Leeds. Two very different places that each have their own attractions all of which I love.

Thornton’s Arcade, Leeds. A photo taken today, but evoking memories that take me back 58 years to when, as a four year old, I remember waiting for the hour to change & the characters to start to move. Incredible how such vivid memories persist amongst all the subsequent experiences & their memories.

The Corn Exchange Leeds today. A great afternoon revisiting old haunts. Bought some plants from the same stall I knew as a student in the early ‘80s, & had a pint of Timothy Taylor’s in Whitelocks, a pub I frequented as a student, & again 20y later, & somewhere my Dad, in his youth, enjoyed a pint.

The first of the Hedychium garderianum flowers is out 😍

THREAD/ORIGINAL ART GIVEAWAY This hare linoprint is by my mum, Jo. I'll be sending an original of this to one randomly chosen person who reposts this link to my recently updated website & pops a reply below. www.tom-cox.com The offer is open worldwide. I also have some more art to give away...

If anyone in the UK would like a signed (and personalised) paperback of this, with a free linocut bookmark made by my mum, Jo, do drop me an email at hello@tom-cox.com with your address & I'll let you know where to send the cover price of the book plus postage.

John Blackwillow@blackwillow1.bsky.social · last mo.

Just finished reading mine today(purchased at a lefty, indy bookstore, run by our friends Ruth and Tom) and I can say, without qualification, 'Everything Will Swallow You' is one of the best books I've ever read. N.B. I've never met, worked with, or for the author. It's just a very special book.

This Tom Cox book arrived in the post today, including a fabulous lino-cut printed bookmark 😊 Thank you @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social