💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙

Crazy as it may sound I keep hoping against hope that someone has bought this paper in that colour way and gone “Nah! Not for me” and they try to sell it online. To say I’m a bit obsessed about this wallpaper is an understatement.

Right, I’ll return you to the real world problems.

Thanks Kate. Doesn’t sound ridiculous at all. Have tried EBay, even Etsy. Now there’s a thought! If all else fails it could make an interesting feature wall, albeit I was aiming for something that would do all walls with wood panelling beneath.

Yellow ochre wallpaper featuring a variety of trees, animals, including hares, stags, foxes and badgers. The subsequent two images show a close up of the wallpaper and how it might look on your wall.

Here’s what that wallpaper looked like. Have tried hunting it down, including a place that sells discontinued wallpapers. Would have looked wonderful in my home. Particularly in my sitting which doesn’t get any sunshine from mid November to end of January. 😢

You could even get matching curtains and cushions. Still can. Just no wallpaper. Bedding too but I wasn’t fussed about that. Features some of my favourite critters, including hares. Adore hares. Fascinating creatures. Have been learning so much about them over the past year or so. *deep sigh*

Spent ages trying to find the right wallpaper for my sitting room. When I say ages I mean a few years. Finally found one I fell in love with. Great! Treat to myself for getting through cancer. It’s been discontinued. I know. First world problems and all that, yet I’m still gutted.

Today I’m writing personalised messages for everyone who has bought a book through @foxlanebooks.bsky.social. There’s still time for you to order before Christmas

It’s heartbreaking.

As my late mum used to say: “They know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” Who wants to live in a soulless world like that? Not me. 😢

Obviously I would say I’m very much in the latter camp. Can’t be the only person who feels that our traditional formats of creativity are under attack. The only people who will truly benefit from AI are those who are already mega rich.

Must admit I’ve been questioning myself about this bloody AI thing. Is it just that anyone over 30 yrs young is being an “old fuddy-duddy,” not moving with the times etc etc. Can we genuinely still say that we’re standing up integrity, a belief that we need to protect writers, artists and musicians?

I’ll still watch the animated movies they’ve spent decades making. Anything remotely AI related will simply get a hard pass.

Deeply saddening. Have spent a lifetime adoring Disney movies and held the craftspeople behind them in high regard. You craft movies, support those who’ve helped make ‘em.

Disney was renowned for keeping a vice like grip on their characters and anything attached to them. God knows what’s happened to them of late but this is like selling your own blood to the highest bidder.

Sadly, they’ll live to regret it. #NeverAI

Cats are brilliant nurses and doctors when you’re sick. Hope you feel better soon. xx 😘

Try something radical, bankers. Like finding your balls. Stand up. Don’t sit down.

Imagine a world without corrupt governments, without corrupt business practices etc etc. That world cannot come soon enough.

Wow! That’s what people power looks like. Let’s see other countries *you know who are* follow their example.

Whoever is lucky enough to be Tom’s 13000th follower are in for a treat when they receive ‘Ring the Hill.’ Lovely book. Enjoy!

We’re being spoilt.

Precisely. You can laugh, mess about and be yourself with those who know you best. That in itself will capture more authentic images of the real person behind the craft. In a world filled with fakery that’s highly attractive to readers/audiences.

Good point. Wonder if today’s screenwriters, novelists and playwrights might feel much more at ease having their photo taken by their fellow scribes.

That’s a good point. Wonder if today’s screenwriters, novelists and playwrights might feel much more at ease having their photo taken by their fellow scribes.

They used to paint pictures of writers, artists and actors etc. Cannot see why writers couldn’t have at the very least be given a good photo shoot, albeit many are quite shy irl and prefer the privacy of their minds to high publicity. I’m saying this as someone who’s naturally camera shy myself.

I think poet William Blake may have had the right idea. He’s pictured here with pen in hand and looking off into the distance. He had daydreaming off to a fine art. Though he described it as being divine, as reaching into another world. For him it was real as the lived world.

Well I do need a new author photo... I wonder if I can borrow some cats.

They certainly knew how to do publicity shoots. Writers could be seen holding a pen nowadays. Not sure being seen sat at a pc has that same allure. 😂

My bad. Corrected.

Ooh! I stand corrected. That’s Edward Gorey, not Hemingway. My apologies.

Clearly they both had great taste in cats, books etc.

Aside from the stray typo here *cough* this photo is my idea of heaven. Hemingway looks like he may be fast asleep, just like his cats, but in reality he could be plotting his next novel, thinking through a difficult scene or piece of dialogue. Maybe simply daydreaming, which is highly underrated.

In its own way this photo of Hemingway pictured surrounded by books, newspapers and cats is pretty sexy.

But seriously, I agree with @sonicscrewup.bsky.social here. Bet they could and great photoshoots that really show off how great writers are.

“Just dangle that pen… Great. Now look wistful.”