Looking forward to the British Book Awards judging meeting later today! 📚
Hannah Spencer’s victory speech in full.
Congrats to the first Northern Green MP 💚
#manchester #gortonanddenton #byelection @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzL...
Good news day 💚
Well done #Manchester for voting out fascism, hatred and division!
Everyone belongs here!
@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Feeling hopeful that Reform will lose Gorton & Denton and Greens will win it! 💚 @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social
#manchester #greatermanchester
The @ihr.bsky.social’s Dr @anitasethi.bsky.social was on BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live last weekend.
Tune in from 32 minutes to hear about her research on histories of access to the countryside and why “every single one of us, regardless of background, belongs in nature”. 🍃
https://bbc.in/46KA9nT
MMU deleted the page celebrating Mandelson’s appointment as Chancellor in 2016. 🤷♂️
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
It’s only 20th January and I’ve just spotted a daffodil on my daily walk! Unseasonably early…
Love a sunset train journey 🌅🌇
My first app download of 2026, thanks to @natashawalter.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app
This is lovely 🦅@natashawalter.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just started this book by @anitasethi.bsky.social
Heard on the podcast Ramblings from BBC 4.
Sunny Christmas Eve, between places…
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communicat...
It might look like we’re at bible class, but in fact we’re celebrating the 60th anniv of the #Pennineway by reading from our books to a packed audience as part of the Todmorden Book Festival. Great to share a platform with @anitasethi.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social & chair Pam Warhurst.
Excited to be speaking at Todmorden Book Festival in November celebrating 60 years of the Pennine Way. 👣🍃⛰️
Looking forward to this later today!
I'm off this afternoon to celebrate the story of the Pennine Way at #Todmorden Book Fest, with two other authors @anitasethi.bsky.social and @andrewmccloy.bsky.social. Ah, those northern hills! Should be a good session!
"As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us" - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Thought-provoking evening speaking at the British Academy as part of the “Living With Our Planet” series, on the Writing Wild Worlds panel - great to meet my fab fellow panellists! 🌍 @ambermb.bsky.social @lenasimic.bsky.social
RIP Prunella Scales, the great Fawlty Towers actress, who I was once lucky enough to interview for the Guardian over afternoon tea at her home in London - she was most welcoming, witty and entertaining.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
On air in one hour’s time… my @BBCRadio4 episode of Tweet of the Day…. 🦅🪶🐦⬛
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I've written and presented another episode for Tweet of the Day - BBC Radio 4's natural history programme devoted to birds.
My next episode is broadcast on Sunday 26th October and on the raven, just in time for halloween!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#Todmorden #BookFestival runs from 7th to 15th Nov.
If you're #Bookish, #Writerly or #Poetic check out the programme. todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on
#Rochdale #Oldham #Bacup #Burnley #Nelson #Ilkley #Haworth #Blackburn #HebdenBridge #Halifax
#TodBookFest2025
🥾 Celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way by joining @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social, @anitasethi.bsky.social & myself at Todmorden Book Festival on 9th November. We’ll be discussing what this remarkable trail means to use & reading extracts from our books. todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/
Excited to be speaking at Todmorden Book Festival in November celebrating 60 years of the Pennine Way. 👣🍃⛰️
I’ll be speaking at “Writing Wild Worlds” - part of the British Academy’s season on Living With the Planet 🌍
Come along! Thurs 30th Oct, 6.30pm at @britishacademy.bsky.social HQ
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin... 🍃✍🏽
Great to chat on Times Radio earlier about the importance of public rights of way & access to nature for all. 👣🍃
www.thetimes.com/radio
@thetimes
@listentotimesradio.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking at this British Academy event, ‘Writing Wild Worlds’, as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social ‘Living With the Planet’ Season
30th October, 18:30
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...
Looking forward to speaking at & chairing Day 2 of the THIRST symposium at Wellcome Collection @wellcometrust.bsky.social including interviewing Elif Shafak - come along!
wellcomecollection.org/events/the-t...
The excellent #Todmorden Book Festival has just published its 2025 programme. Pleased to be there sharing the stage with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague @andrewmccloy.bsky.social and @anitasethi.bsky.social. We'll be celebrating the 60th birthday of the Pennine Way.