Nicola Miller

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics! Thugs attack Green Party supporters at Hannah Spencer speech!

"Get men out of women's spaces!" - screams the man violently invading a woman's personal space.

Transphobes attack Green Party supporters right in front of newly elected MP Hannah Spencer.

COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

The best thing about this method is that it won’t fill your kitchen with overpowering vinegar-horseradish fumes

I've found an alternative method:

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I'd love to hear about the books you reread, particularly if this is linked to a season, mood, or event.

This is so terrible.

Seasonal Rereads What books do you return to in Spring?

I have written about my seasonal rereads here.

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Through the Woods by H E Bates, Little Toller Books H E Bates returns to the Kentish trees of his youth to chart the changing character of a single woodland year, revealing how precious they are.

Other favourite books by H.E. Bates:

Through the Woods (I adore my copy from Little Toller Books)

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and his Darling Buds of May series (which I reread every spring)

I love his description of irises in the south of France 'clung to scree and rock and roadside with burnt white fists, spearing up dwarf lime-green leaves and flowers of orchid shapeliness.'

He writes beautifully about plane trees, which he believes look their best in the French countryside; whose 'leaves of large cool friendliness have a quality of dignity and refreshment given, I think, by no other tree.'

Lakes of mud 'like brown batter' & desolate bushes of blackthorn give way to sharp golden-green light as the train rushes towards the south where spring came 'at first hardly even in handfuls, only in fingerfuls..' then cowslips in their 'warm and golden millions', peach blossom & young plane leaves

It begins with a description of his journey to the south of France by train after 'the wettest winter Europe had known for eighty years', where 'ghostly bits of sunlight' ran swiftly away 'before raw chasing rollers of cloud black and then vicious white with spitting snow'.

Left: Shabana Mahmood gloats about Labour values

Right: Shabana Mahmood blocked an 18 year old Afghan girl from accepting an education at York or Reading, abandoning her to the Taliban

Hardback cover of the book with a close-up photo of white clover flowers

If you're looking for something gentle to read filled with beautiful descriptions of nature and country life, I recommend The Country of White Clover by H.E. Bates

Yes, otherwise it'd cost a fortune in fuel. My feeling is that flavour development happens after heating anyway; pour into sterile bottles and leave them for a few weeks.

This is a nightmare. Probably the most iconic building in Glasgow. Just devastating.

powerful hyper-religious men famously become peaceful when their mortal enemy kills their entire family

You could try? I just used an ordinary gas stove and cooked it slowly for two hours

That's lovely.

I'm good, how are you?

Christopher Lloyd referred to ' helle- bores' describing them as "the infallible sign of a highbrow gardener" which makes me laugh because I'm anything but, having once written an article for Amateur Gardening condemning plant snobbery.

Beth Chatto: How hellebores came in from the cold Garden expert Beth Chatto reveals how hellebores went from outsider to firm favourite

Beth Chatto on hellebores. Like Beth I once saw a host of H. argutifolius growing in Corsica shaded by chestnut trees. You sometimes see them in Sardinia too.

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A triumph

There are so many hyper regional baked goods and most of them seem to have virtually disappeared. It's a shame

Yeah, brutal

We had a roast lunch so it's probably going to be leftover roast potatoes dipped in horseradish cream!

I'm no bread maker but I love caraway. I'm tempted to try

It seems quite simple, to be made on Maundy Thursday for consumption the next day.

Also Shropshire

Has anyone ever made Good Friday Caraway Bread, traditionally popular in the West Country?