Ally Lester

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

#Minneapolis #Booksky Quick fundraiser: buy a book by any of our #MNauthors (Catherine Lundoff, Michael Merriam, Jennie Goloboy or Emily Byrne) from our website today 2/28 and we’ll make a donation to our neighborhood’s rent emergency fund! queenofswordspress.com

Wild garlic season begins.

#wildgarlic #wildwood #foraging #foragedfood #smalljoys

Scones?

I learnt a new word of Hookland dialect today – wodwak. It's used to describe the sensation that a wood or even a specific tree is watching you. That moment when your psychic skin won't let you deny that bark-browed eyes are upon you. – #MattAdams

An image of the British cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst reads, 'Absolutely irresistible!' Above and beside the cover is this snippet from the book: Felix had never been more grateful for his concealing mask and cloak than when he'd emerged onto the tower roof to find Queen Saskia with her head thrown back, lips parted, a cloud of crows swirling around her and energy crackling so intensely through the air that it lifted the hair at the back of his neck. It should have been a terrifying sight: the wicked witch of Kitvaria no doubt summoning a terrible storm of magic to rain down upon her enemies. But it had stopped his breath for quite a different reason.

This week's Saturday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen on its final day as @waterstones.bsky.social Welsh Book of the Month. Thanks so, SO much to every bookseller who filled their front windows with crows this month! ❤️

stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#romancelandia

Spring, though. Morning coffee outside. Daffodils. Lambs. Less rain, maybe?

Look at all the good borbs

We've always been here. The colonial erasure of third-gender Ugandan Mudoko Dako community The Pre-Colonial Trans+ Identity of Lango's Mudoko Dakos: Effeminate Male, Forgotten, Third Gendered people

There's a common misconception that countries in the global majority have always rejected queerness - this is the reality 

Yeah, no, not just you.

Finds like these make me think about the person who lost it. When did they notice? Did they have another one to replace it? Was it a child who got scolded? Or an adult?

C18th pewter button, tiny, showing eight petal design. Shown posed in my black-gloved hand on the Thames Foreshore.

Tiny C18th pewter button found on the Thames Foreshore on one of this week’s two sunny days. Eight petalled flower design, so much pretty detail for such a small item. Always a treat to find haberdashery from the river #mudlark

That sounds like a lovely day.

Love this series, highly recommend!

The cover of The Summer Goddess by Joanne Hall, art by Ken Dawson The image shows the back view of a cloaked (but not hooded) warrior with her sword out. The is standing on the shore of a lake. There are mountains in the distance. Celtic knotwork decorates the corners of the cover.

Cover reveal! In April we are bringing back The Summer Goddess by Joanne Hall. The book was a finalist for Best Fantasy Novel (the Rob Holdstock Award) when it was first published.

I am helping a friend change the washer on her bathroom tap. So far it has taken us two hours to find the stopcock, and hour to find an adjustable spanner and another half hour to realise we are not yet at the point where we need an adjustable spanner. Distraction level: HIGH.

I am helping a friend change the washer on her bathroom tap. So far it has taken us two hours to find the stopcock, and hour to find an adjustable spanner and another half hour to realise we are not yet at the point where we need an adjustable spanner. Distraction level: HIGH.

This is so fabulous. Thanks, @eoinglackin.bsky.social ! ❤️

I increasingly feel like I live in a cyberpunk setting but I’m not one of the cool protagonists but just like some guy who has to deal with this bullshit.

Front cover of book - The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker - A History of the High St - by Annie Gray

Enjoyed this - fascinating and entertaining. It was like having a time-travelling tour guide, walking you along High Streets through time. Revealing how shops and shopping have changed and giving an insight into that aspect of my ancestors' lives #familyhistory @dranniegray.bsky.social

This is gorgeous and when I am rich I will be buying one.

Exactly! I crave it sometimes!

I actually really like liver. Is that so unusual?

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My autoimmune disease is progressive and terminal; it will make me blind, paralyze me completely, end my life. I have to constantly battle back against it, and I've been doing the bare minimum for years because of cost. I need more, and I need help.

Every single cent helps.

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My feet and legs in my new Ruby Slippers coloured red boots, and my green floral dungarees. I have reached the post-menopausal developmental stage of 'I give no fucks, I will wear all the things I like at once'.

New boots. #SmallJoys @thomasinapots.bsky.social

I know quite a few people who are being evicted now, before the 1st May deadline makes it harder. It'll be better after, but it's a bit shit now.

Thanks so much for taking time to do this, it makes a big difference.

I'm just waiting for her to defect to reform, tbh.

When we get our glamping pods up and running I am going to offer exactly this kind of thing!

I feel a tiny bit more hopeful today than I did yesterday.

I have been saying for years that we need more people in parliament who have had a proper job. Not necessarily blue collar, but something that means they understand how normal people's lives work. Representative democracy in action.