The Bertvent books
Giveaway!
Iβm giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and Iβll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
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One of my all time favourite books and it's never occurred to me to read it at Christmas
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Witch, hare and herbs linocut by my mum.
My book Help The Witch
I've TWO of these beautiful 'Witch & Hare' original linocuts by my mum, Jo, to give away to my Bluesky followers. The print is from my recently republished book, Help The Witch.
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
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They could have easily absorbed a slight reduction in profits in a way smaller media companies can't. They should have held the line.
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It's not really an accurate analogy though. In this case the parents (Disney) aren't powerless. They're a multi billion dollar corporation with some of the best lawyers in the world at their disposal. And the risk is to profits, not death of a child.
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... doesn't mean your point isn't vali
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Hate to be *that* person but Ramirez was Egyptian. (Sorry! Was obsessed with this film back in the day) which doesn
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