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The Good Life opening title in soya perhaps? I bet that camera reel is a ready to go cook book. Do share!

💙📚 Star Trek jokes aside, this is a wonderful collection of ghost stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch (A Pair of Hands is particularly good). Every story read buoys up my belief that you can’t beat ghost story writers from the late Victorian period to 1920’s (ish). And I’m already pretty biased.

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Indeed. The last thing this country wants is an educated great unwashed. They might start thinking and stuff and that would never do.

I just knew you were the sort who makes xmas dinner with actual ingredients 🤓 That looks incredible! Admittedly I might see it in my nightmares now but it's incredible nonetheless.

She's promised Israel/US that when she gains power she'll privatise all of Venezuela's oil and industry. As a huge supporter of Israel she said ‘If we win, we will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem to support Israel.’

Congratulations Amy, that's wonderful news. I look forward to it coming out!

Is it dystopian science fiction or UK HE? Always hard to tell.

I’ve started the annual process of testing vegan dishes for Xmas dinner and I thought “You know who’d like this? JY!”
Anyway “This Isn’t roast chicken and stuffing” is currently top of the leader board.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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🔭 NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula

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I can't remember what she was studying (aside from it being within primatology). She may have been conducting research connected with her phd but I don't think she was a student at Cambridge. Either way, I hope the weather is slightly better when she visits!

Hi Rob, I’m happy now it’s Autumn! I can’t take the heat. Yes, I knew Boanna. Not very well but yes, I knew her.

Hi Rob, have you sent me a message? If so, i can’t see it as I don’t have access to DMs (I refuse to verify so it won’t let me access messages).

Who says you can’t combine turn of the century ghost stories and Star Trek!
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📚💙 October reads! If you’re squirrelling away books with a Halloween backdrop then I’d be chuffed if you’d consider my novel King Street Run. It’s a satire on the flogging of academia for profit but with gargoyles, time distortion, and lots of what the kids these days call “easter eggs”.
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The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

If we "stop the boats" it won't change a thing; energy will remain unaffordable, food will still be overpriced, & you'll still work crippling hours for peanut wages.

Your life isn't rubbish because of small boats. It's rubbish because of predatory capitalism and the societal termites who endorse it

There are nearly 3000 food banks in the UK.

Annie is incredibly talented. I'd happily have that hanging on my wall, how beautiful.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of Trump's criminality, his fascist policies, his support of Israel's genocide, his links with sex trafficking and his views that domestic violence isn't a crime, what were the standout looks of the state visit, BBC News?

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Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

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Replace "Magician" and "Magic" with "Politician" and "Politics".

(Excerpt from vintage 'how-to' magic book)

2/2 What made Brightwen’s work stand out is her personal and compassionate approach, treating animals as individuals rather than just a member of a particular species.

1/2 Eliza Brightwen (1830 –1906) was a self-taught Scottish naturalist, populariser of science, and wildlife advocate. The 19th century was awash (happily!) with books about natural history but they can be heavy going.
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Thank you Amy, much appreciated. Now and again I sit with a few of my elderly books and look up their origins. Usually it doesn't take much effort to find out about the author, illustrator, and the back story but now and again one comes across something more tight-lipped.

Thank you Danielle, very kind of you. Yes, I have seen this but alas they are as lost as I am over the book's origins. Still, it was nice to see that at least someone in the Inner Temple is aware of it.