The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦

A monoprint collage of a wren in a hedgerow

A small voice in winter.
This little wren is part of my new winter collection. #https://www.deborahvass.com/shop

What a hoot

Do come!
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26th March, 7pm GMT
Free and online - and an donation to my Curae for writer-carers, if you can! It'll pay for a writing bursary for someone.
This is for writers, but also industry professionals. Have a look.

#booksky

Animal rescue, fight fires, treat an injured buffalo - there is so much more to being an SWT ranger than you might think! From foot patrols to bushcraft and intelligence work, our teams use every skill they have to keep wildlife safe from a wide range of threats: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...

This isn't how society is supposed to work. You can't tit-for-tat things that are a public good. As someone else said, where does that attitude end? Why should we pay for others' healthcare, children, schools, etc etc. Because a decent country looks after all of its people.

Since #ICE doesn't follow any rules but the ones they make up on the fly as they're doing whatever terroristic thing they want to do, Dems had *better* get united behind #AbolishICE

Hoot!

Last chance to book tickets and join us in Bogs and Other Portal Spaces tonight...

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I decided to make this free to read but it's only £2 a month to read everything I post on my site (or £20 a year). You also get full access to my archive of writing, which goes back over 10 years.

And I'm definitely not just mentioning this as I have a fuckload of house moving costs on the horizon.

THIS! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Pls remember that for every guy who hit the beaches at Normandy June 6, 1944 there were 10 ppl who'd been doing all the work of making that massive landing possible. Same. For every person out in the streets there needs to be 10 working behind the scenes.

gulp

Remind when the collection is being published, please.

close up of white cow parsley flowers in spring

Today we will mostly be listening to this while trying to get some work done. 🎧

Episode 266 - On upland pastures

53 minutes of springtime birdsong in a quiet place.

Perfect if your mind needs a sunshine break.

> bit.ly/Len266

#Ukraine🇺🇦

The window cleaner arrived and I tried very hard to look like I was working. I don’t know why. The window cleaner isn’t my boss.

Oh, my dear hearts! That's really exciting.

BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, Ghosts of the Farm with Nicola Chester Clare joins writer Nicola Chester for a circular walk out of Inkpen, West Berkshire.

Listen to #BBCR4 #Ramblings with the wonderful Clare Balding today from 3pm! (I’ll be under a cushion) Such a delight to ramble with Clare & introduce her to the incredible Miss Julia White, & her extraordinary cohort of pioneering women. All in a very special spot 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

First bird of my day: a Song thrush singing his heart out on a markedly lighter morning and beneath him, the bank is bedecked with snowdrops. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

Good morning 🌞

The robin is singing. It's time to start my day ... 🕊️❤️

Daba may be our newest Nursery orphan, but he's already making friends – including our resident black rhino. Max is blind, but his other senses are sharp. He always knows when visitors come calling. Nanny Talek chaperones – until she spots a feast of her own. Meet Daba's unique family: swt.bio/daba

And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good...

Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.

The thread is very worth following ...

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Trump Gaza"
Not an Old Fox tale. But today is still a very good day to subscribe.

www.patreon.com/posts/trump-...

For those open to further soppiness about my dad (plus an actual photographic image of my sticklike pre-teen legs!), here's a brief thing I wrote about him back when the first Trump administration was ripping apart immigrant families at the US-Mexico border.

Heartbreaking for those trying to care for them

I like lichen and I can’t lie.

I remember this tragedy. It was really awful. Bless them all.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot since the latest tragedy from America. Just like the news from Minneapolis, the loss of the Challenger affected me with profound, savage sorrow.

😍

And breathe …