Ruth Thomas

Cover of a 1970 puffin post magazine featuring a bouquet of colourful cartoon puffins as flowers tied in a pink pace wrapping with a red and yellow striped bow bearing a luggage tag that reads 1st prize best in show against a purply blue background with the magazine name in white cursive in the top left corner with daisies as majuscules

Today’s Puffin Post perfection

Melinda & I stroked the stingray.

This makes me feel exceedingly nostalgic for Puffin Post

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

Dublin, One City, Many Stories The Irish Writers Centre has proudly launched the first episode of its new six-part video series Dublin, One City, Many Stories.

Storyteller Joseph O'Connor raises literary ghosts - from Jennifer Johnston to Boland to Stoker to Synge - in this enthralling interview with MadeleineKeane.bluesky.social for IrishWritersCentre.bluesky.social DublinCitylibs.bluesky.social unioflimerick.bluesky.social www.writing.ie/interviews/d...

2569 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Fiction with Victoria MacKenzie - Moniack Mhor Join historical novelist Victoria Mackenzie for a lively 4-week online course exploring the art of writing compelling and vivid historical fiction. Aimed at anyone interested in writing a historical n...

Are you writing an historical novel? Want some guidance and support this September? Still places left on my online Historical Fiction course starting Tues 2nd Sep for 4 weeks! ✒️📚
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A road sign. The left turn at the roundabout leads to Monkey World and the Tank Museum.

Very possibly the most British road sign in Britain:

This was such an interesting event - really enjoyed all the readings

Cress had such a moment in the 70s

An art book titled Turner and the Elements

Hey have you heard that new song by

Blue squared background featuring rehearsal image of a ‘Louder’ director, with text “you should apply to Blueprint if you have…”.

Blue squared background featuring image of Framework’s Admin Producer smiling, with text: “recently graduated”, “been working in a different industry but looking for support to start a career in professional theatre-making” and “participated in some theatre projects & want to learn more about making your own work”

Blue squared background featuring production image of a ‘Louder’ actor showing peace signs, with text “if you’re an emerging artist (from any discipline) in Scotland who could benefit from the Blueprint Programme…we’d love to hear from you!”

Blueprint is our brand new programme for emerging theatre-makers in Scotland (& we’re really, REALLY excited about it) 🧱🎭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You may have just graduated, be considering a career change or enjoy being part of theatre projects & want to take your work to the next step 🪜

⏰ Deadline: Fri 25 July @ 10am

Very sorry to hear this, Jacqui - sending best wishes and I hope you receive some encouraging news soon

Samuel understands.

Ah, I love this cake, and am so pleased to know about the olive oil version!

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Natural History Museum to display rare dog-sized dinosaur The dinosaur was mislabelled and misunderstood - but scientists now realise how special it is.

Dog-sized dinosaurs that ran around the feet of bigger dinosaurs! 😍😍
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Definitely

The Ballad of Wallis Island review – funny, melancholy yarn of a folk duo reunited by oddball superfan Tim Key bring his trademark pleasant awkwardness to the island-owner who pays Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan to come and play for him

Seen this twice now it's such a gorgeous film. What a funny and moving story. Great songs too!
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

I've been in the entertainment industry for almost 30 years.
Everybody's so enamored at the idea that AI will make movies cost less.
The greed and bloat will come.
Someday, a filmmaker will struggle with the cost and realize it'd be cheaper to just go out and film the scene.
Trust me, it'll happen.

Ironic sloganeering in the Highlands.

Good plan - an example from The School of Melted Kitchenware...

I'm calling it Descending Pterodactyl

Ikr!

Bizarrely we appear to have welded a pair of scissors onto one of our oven racks

Here we have a senior golden living their best life and a young golden just trying to make it to the end of their shift. Both 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

Good evening! This week's theme is London Transport.
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'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power

It's like the opposite of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once...

Precisely my thoughts! 🤣