Shelly Dennison

Facebook is awash with them - it's terrifying.

Starmer is zigging where Blair zagged Labour’s controversial plans to reform welfare illustrate the divide between the two

This one? www.ft.com/content/f235...

The Animals of Farthing Wood Saving nature with Colin Dann

In which I revisit ‘The Animals of Farthing Wood’ and wish I hadn’t. I have a feeling I may ruffle some feathers with this one.

open.substack.com/pub/shellyde...

Very true!

Shock as Mayor of Bedford scraps £340k projects fund Mayor Tom Wootton cancels the Member Ward Fund, which lets councillors choose projects to support.

This is, to put it mildly, not good. The Ward Councillors Fund is a really important way of funding local projects.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keighley (which only comes up because of its proximity to Haworth, which Americans also consistently mispronounce)

Keighley and Haworth make a good combination for catching people out.

Thank you x

Handed in my notice this morning so I'll be full time freelance from January. Simultaneously exciting and terrifying. Taking the afternoon off to recover my nerves 😂

A fine piece of writing there from Sam Leith

Not helped by the fact that my brain insists on putting the lyrics to What Child is This? to Greensleeves, so it's an unseasonal earworm to boot.

That's today's earworm sorted.

Which communications statistics should I be measuring? This post tackles one of the questions I get asked most often about communications monitoring. How do you choose what to measure when the possibilities seem overwhelming? For small organisations, k…

New blog post tackling one of the questions I get asked most often about communications monitoring. How do you choose what to measure when the possibilities seem overwhelming?

shellydennison.co.uk/2025/10/07/w...

#comms #charitycomms

😂

a woman is sitting at a table with her hand on her forehead and saying `` my brain is gone . '' Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with her hand on her forehead and saying `` my brain is gone . ''

I've been editing and proofreading stuff all day and my brain feels like it's dissolving.

An Ecology of Love and Ruin Michaelmas-tide

New post for An Ecology of Love & Ruin: a week left in the old house, & a home bookended by 2 farms, 2 estates, 2 birthdays & 2 books: all at the beginning & end of the farming year. #booksky #naturewriting nicolachester.com & nicolawriting.substack.com/p/an-ecology...

I read some of her books way younger than I should have done too! 😂 (I strongly suspect most of it flew over my head)

Operation Noah Seeks New Trustees - Operation Noah Operation Noah is looking for new trustees to help lead our mission to inspire and equip the Church to take action on climate change. In this voluntary position, you will play an active role in shapin...

Are you a Christian with a passion for addressing the climate & biodiversity crises? Do you believe the Church has a vital role to play in this work? Operation Noah is looking for new trustees to help inspire the Church to take action on the climate crisis. www.operationnoah.org/operation-no...

A lot, all at once! A lot of exciting things have happened, all at once! My new book, Ghosts of the Farm, Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land and Community is out now – and I’ve had the most wonderful and encouraging...

Hello all, a newsy round up, ahead of a new blog for An Ecology of Love and Ruin. Incs: TWO new nature reserves, a residency, the exciting future of nature writing, a house move, Climate Fiction Prize news & TWO new books. A lot, all at once! #booksky #naturewriting nicolachester.com/2025/10/05/a...

Cards on the table is properly bonkers.

YES

Stack of books. Dorothy L Sayers - Unnatural Death. Francis Brody - Death at the seaside. Gill Hornby - Godmersham Park. James Rebanks - The Place of Tides.

Today's second hand bookshop haul.

*sighs nostalgically* The number of hours I spent in the JBM...

(We'll gloss over the number of Danish pastries consumed in the cafe next door. Ahem.)

I feel Patricia Routledge needs incorporating here somewhere.

I do sometimes wonder if a lifetime of listening to sermons is responsible for my apparent addiction to writing three point blog posts.

Quite.

Arggghhh.

“So, I tapped her on the cleavage with my cake fork. That got her attention.”

RIP Kitty

I think they may have been clutching at straws for Bedfordshire.