A combination of flowers I grew and ones I found at a tiny roadside honesty florist in a series of jugs and jars on a wooden table and with a dark background. Light is coming from the left

It's been a v rough year for me with a full breakdown & trying to get back on my feet financially since then. If you come across this post it would help me *so much* if you could retweet my post above👆 about my Etsy shop-it will put the things I make in front of more eyes. Thankyou 🌿

Love this sign on Gardner Street in the West End of Glasgow.

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#glasgow #streetart #zombies #gardnerstreet #partick #glasgowtoday #humour #scotland #glasgowhunour #scottishhumour

Have you tried a search on the internet archive?

About time you got here. Not like me to beat you to something new(ish) in tech 😀

’Prepare them for the slump’: emergency planner Lucy Easthope shares the best ways to support a loved one in a crisis Lucy Easthope is an emergency planner whose job is to support survivors of major disasters, including earthquakes, fires and floods.

Because a lot of people are finding this week hard….

It's #InternationalCatDay today. So let's walk around pretending we're kings and queens. Oh wait, we do that every day anyway!
Jokes aside, it's a day to celebrate cats for all their awesomeness.

An except for access sign on a fence at the Botanics in Glasgow, except the picture depicts a constitution class starship and a Klingon bird of prey

A sign on the riverside opposite Finneston cran, warning No Godzillas 8am to 6pm except Sundays, with a graphic depicting the big kaiju fella menacing the cran and the horrible wee hotel next to it.

Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.

It’s my OH’s publication day. So proud of him.

A copy of the book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt by Kristie De Garis, propped upright on a drystone wall surrounded by bright yellow and green garden plants. The cover features five colourful stone shapes with the title text layered across them.

Today I held the finished copy of my book for the first time. Three years (or a lifetime?) in the making, and in just a month, it’ll be in readers’ hands.

'Drystone – A Life Rebuilt' is out 7 August.

#Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Scotland

Screenshot of a promotional webpage for the book Drystone: A Life Rebuilt by Kristie De Garis. The page features the book cover with bold, abstract stone shapes and a portrait of the author wearing a brown jumper against a muted green background. The text describes the memoir as an unflinchingly honest and unexpectedly funny account from one of the few professional female drystone wallers in the world. It outlines themes such as racism, trauma, ADHD, addiction, and motherhood. A competition box at the bottom offers 40 Times+ members the chance to win signed copies.

This week, The Times are doing a giveaway - 40 signed copies of my book! If you are a subscriber, you can enter.

I have a rubbish signature, so don't get excited about that part. The book is great though.

www.thetimes.com/timesplus/co...

#Scotland #Writing #Books #WritingCommunity

Just finished reading your book. It’s brilliant and thought provoking. Also very positive. Well done.

Just finished reading this one. Excellent insights and very positive.

Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads: "If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting." — Liana Brooks Illustration and lettering by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. A paintbrush lies across the page on a wooden surface.

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social

#WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit

Welcome 😀

I believe in hope.
I've written a book called 'Good Days: an A-Z of hope and happiness'. It's coming out in September published by
@PenguinUKBooks

@EburyPublishing

Meta Protest – The Society of Authors « All Events

📢Join us tomorrow at Granary Square 1pm for a protest Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More details below 👇

hear hear

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

Still trying to explain the difference to the English relatives between "cold" (Shorts weather) and "Baltic" (Not going out even with hat, gloves, coat, scarf and thermals).

Good news. According to the Met Office weather improves tomorrow. And according to my Irish ancestors spring started on St Brigid’s Day. I think she’s been a bit slow getting things going this year. 🙁

Love this mural on Govan Road in Glasgow. Created by the street artist Smug and painted in 2022, it was inspired by Govan-born Peter Barr.

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#glasgow #streetart #mural #glasgowmurals #daffodils #govan #glasgowstreetart #springflowers #spring

I have a lot to learn- not sure I’ll ever have the stamina to string sensible sentences together at 3 am.

Larry and his police officer partner going door to door to make enquiries

I love this picture from @imageplotter.bsky.social - makes it look like I've joined the police and my partner and I are going door to door making enquiries

I grew beans and peas in toilet roll tubes. By the time it was warm enough to plant them out their roots were coming through the sides of the tube as well as growing through the bottom.

#StormÉowyn

Reminder that the best thing you can do to support open and free information is to USE YOUR LIBRARY #booksky #librarysky #diversebooksky #supportyourlocallibrary #diversebooks #libraries

If you're confused about food, like:

➡️Seed oils
➡️Gluten
➡️Meat
➡️Carbohydrates
➡️Alcohol

Here's an enduring truth: if some of the evidence is for, and some against, it probably means it doesn't matter very much.

Eat a wide variety of whole-ish foods you enjoy, and stop worrying.