Pip Lincolne

Rosamunde Pilcher at home with a fluffy white dog

At this point in our Old Lady Books Club, we are all reading or soon to start reading. It’s a very loose sort of club. Drop any chatter re Rosamunde, the book, grandmother ‘nicknames’ like Dondie, fiction snobbery, having 100s & 100s of boyfriends etc. at meetmeatmikes.com/old-lady-boo... #PipsOLBC

A writing desk with a stack of books sitting on a doily. There’s a vase of cut flowed beside the book stack.

I’m running a book club, pals. We’re reading one book every two months in 2025. It’s called the Old Lady Books Club because all the books will feature older ladies. Those are the rules. Yep. You can find out more on my blog (meetmeatmikes.com) if this sounds like a you thing. #PipsOLBC

I KNEW it! Seemed off.

Bluesky, even! xxx

“The phone eats first.” - my niece Luci

‘Learning language is part of rebuilding our nation’: singing the world alive, one First Nations word at a time In a new book, 40 First Nations writers and thinkers share their favourite, or significant words from their own languages: words of belonging and connection.

In a new book, 40 First Nations writers and thinkers share their favourite, or significant words from their own languages: words of belonging and connection.

Yesss! Adore Mimi and Em. So real.

It’s you!! Gasp!! Hello, petal. Xx

Colourful cut flowers just picked from the garden. They’re laid out in a row on a pine tabletop

Colorful flowers wonkily arranged in a glass jar.

Just me over here. Picking flowers in the rain. Snipping stems on the dining room table. Tidying up stray leaves and raindrops. Returning kidnapped ladybugs to the garden again. Slowing things down. 🐞🍃✂️🌻

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

(The MMc tuna salad recipe is on TikTok, in case that matters to you.)

A dinner plate with a tuna salad sandwich, potato salad and roasted vegetables on it, as well as a yellow handled fork

Dinner was … a grainy Matthew McConaughey-inspired tuna salad sandwich with potato salad and roasted zucchini/tomato on the side. So pleasing. Picky dinners are the vibe at the moment!

Tinderbox beach as viewed from the boat ramp on a blue sky day.

Over and around the corner … on a less moody day!

It’s in first place currently, Deb! X 🌸

I’m honestly finding the trend of social media broadcast medical trauma -> personal brand development -> ongoing content strategy to be such a cynical and awful phenomenon. And the performance of empathy in response has become a competition sport. Just horrendous and dystopian the lot of it.

A ladybug scaling the whiskery green foliage of a poppy plant in the garden.

Ladybug of the day! What should we name it?

A folk-art flowery wooden tray holding a plate of grainy toast topped with potato salad, drizzled with sriracha

Potato salad on toast is too a perfect breakfast.

A stainless steel bowl of silver beet soaking in water, in a round stainless steel sink.

So much silverbeet/Swiss chard in the garden. The lady at the greengrocer told me she cuts hers back often and treats it like a perennial, eating from the same plants year ‘round, so I’m going to see if mine works like that.

‘A place of joy’: scientists decamp to Bluesky A wave of academics and researchers have defected from the social media platform Twitter/X, with many heading to upstart Twitter-lookalike Bluesky. Part of the attraction is the ease of gathering worthy connections through moderated lists such as the Science feed and ‘starter packs’ of scientists to follow. “I’d really like it to continue to be a place of joy for me,” says bioacoustics researcher Daryll Carlson. Others say that, despite a rise in pornography, spam, bots and abusive content on Twitter, the platform remains a valuable tool for science communication. “If good experts quit X, who will offer evidence-based input on X?” asks tuberculosis researcher Madhukar Pai.

In Friday’s Nature Briefing, we note that some scientists are rebuilding community in a little place called Bluesky… 🦋 eepurl.com/i4LHFQ

I wish the big food/garden sites had “search by season” or something similar in their nav because guess what? There’s a Southern Hemisphere!!

A jar full of haphazardly arranged, very colorful flowers

A jumble of freshly-picked, very colourful cottage garden flowers spread out on a wooden table top. A tabby cat is smelling them, his head poking into shot from top right.

Good morning from these guys and also the 9372 ladybugs in my garden.

That’s one way to halt the influx of celebs connected to Diddy/Epstein but claiming to be fleeing Trump, I guess. Did Prince Andrew pop by for a Ploughman’s?

I’m caught up now! I still think Niko’s days are numbered (“My days!”) as he’s being pretty insensitive to Mia & Krissy. I read the spoilers about Em & her final match so that’s kinda changed the viewing experience but I don’t hate it. Sophie’s a bit all over the place, I wonder what’s next for her.

These are some of my closest friends.

Up early watering the garden (and the bees) ahead of this scorching Melbourne day.

Took 18 months for my kids to receive their dad’s death payment. And lots and lots of phone calls, emails, social media queries. It’s an industry-wide issue. It’s the business model.

Same toots, same! 🧶

Mimi watching Hannah was v v funny. Hannah is an interesting character … she’s been through it I think. Protective, tough exterior. Hard to get to know. Also could Mimi’s freckles be any cuter?! I think Nico might be in trouble and out soon. (Haven’t watched tonight’s ep right through yet.)

I think he’s very manipulative and I’m so glad Em is smart enough to see it. His nice guy mask well and truly slipped last night, didn’t it?