A handy, simple refresher for anyone tackling a Brontë novel this weekend 📚🧡

A lovely listen for anyone who might happen to be reading a Brontë novel at the moment:
From @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
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If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?

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If your business couldn't stay afloat if you had to clean up after yourself enough so you don't poison people's air + groundwater - then it's just possible you do not have a viable business model

It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email [email protected] & [email protected] who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏

💯 "AI is an environmental disaster being forced on a public who don't need or want it: Discuss"

Had a look yes that’s very satisfying!

a group of 10-yr-olds taken to see one of these in a friend’s dad’s office - must have been around 1971 and it looked just like this. everyone went home with a “picture” (black and white print variations on one of those long pieces of that paper with the green lines) - a picture of Concorde.

Same Hogweed still going for this week's #WildflowerHour - three umbels of flowers waving in the wet windy field, as Autumn Colour begins in the distant woods:

Love these types of structures - feel so at home in them

Weaver of Dreams
…and whilst I imagine it depicts one of the fantastical landscapes devised by the children in their shared storytelling, it’s possible to see the influence of the early industrial landscapes of the West Riding of Yorkshire

Weaver of Dreams by Elfrida Vipont - the childhood of Charlotte Brontë and her siblings. Written as a children‘s book, vivid and memorable, and still on my shelves.
Cover - a watercolour by Charlotte…
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Lots more of this, please: youtu.be/YsMyrhBFJoM

Can you actually believe this?

A swift brick costs £35

But this dire, anti-nature government, must make sure it does all it can to maximise house builders' profits

Totally inexcusable

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🚨 MUST-READ! Powerful piece on the urgent need to ban #BottomTrawling in protected waters, by @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & @hugotagholm.bsky.social: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti... @politicshome.bsky.social

This destruction has NO PLACE in ocean havens ✊

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Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

Copyediting some academic writing. Even my spellcheck doesn’t recognise the polycrisis

As a long, long time Green voter, this process is very interesting to watch (not currently a GP member but feel I should say 'welcome' anyway) 💚

100%. Also just popping back to say I'm totally in favour of audiobooks even though I don't read them myself – they are so, so brilliant for dyslexic people – and young dyslexic readers in particular, for whom they are enabling and inclusive.

Proper job!

Yes but hoping that’s only because last year was exceptional and this year’s been busy. Audio books don’t work for me, there’s nothing like settling down with a proper book! There is undoubtedly a noisy vortex out there as you say. Feel strongly we mustn’t let it deter us as Reading helps us manage!

Looks perfect to me. Mmmm! do you douse it in sherry? #ChristmasCake
(In other news, bought a new Christmas Pudding bowl recently…)

The fourth #AuthorInterview in our @womenwritersnet.bsky.social series takes place on Thur 23 Oct. Can’t wait to interview @brethertonwords.bsky.social about her new novel, The Fire In Their Eyes! Come and join us - you are welcome to ask the author your questions! @breakthroughbook.bsky.social