Heather Holt

Apply to postpone payment of Inheritance Tax What to do if you’re unable to raise the funds to pay Inheritance Tax.

If the estate doesn't have liquid assets to pay the tax (i.e. just the family home) you can apply to HMRC to postpone paying the tax.

www.gov.uk/guidance/app...

I guess they didn't need to do this because they found the £93k ISA but baffled why the article doesn't mention this

Please could you spread this?

Flyer advertising Death in the Spires at 99p for a limited time

Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here!

(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)

www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...

It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!

#Booksky #Fridayreads So…not to put too fine a point on it, but our sales have dropped over 50% since August and our publisher is currently “between day jobs“ (3+ months) so if you’re thinking of buying any of our books or requesting them at your library, NOW would be great. queenofswordspress.com

Against a desert background, the UK cover for VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by Isabel Canas on an eReader. The white Solaris logo is in the top left corner. The bottom right corner has a blue circle with white text "99p".

Against a moor background, the cover of GORSE by Sam K. Horton on an eReader. The white Solaris logo is in the top left corner. The bottom right corner has a blue circle with white text "99p".

Snap up a bargain!

For a limited time, UK readers can grab two spooky Solaris books for only 99p each across all platforms!

Buy now:
@isabelcanas.bsky.social's VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE https://geni.us/VoEN
@samkhorton.bsky.social GORSE (#1 The Eythin Legacy) https://geni.us/gorse

You definitely want to read this, and now you can, for free!

2 panel cartoon. 1: When a non-disabled person says 'push through' to a disabled person.... Image: stickman in a green 'comfort zone' pushing through a red barrier to 'possible but difficult' zone that has a slightly uneven floor. They are saying "Just push through, you'll be fine! It's just a bit challenging!". At the end of that is a second red barrier - beyond which are spikes and a warning symbol labelled 'Actual harm zone'. 2: REMEMBER: the disabled person may be in a very different place to them! Image: identical to the 1, except barrier 1 is a small pile of rubble, and an exhausted stickman is at barrier two - saying "Um...really not a good idea".

I don't think this concept is understood - or talked about - nearly enough. Many disabled people spend very little time in our comfort zone, where things are easy. There are so many extra challenges to doing things, interacting, etc that if we are up and about, we are probably pushing ourselves. 1/3

Long Covid linked to heavier periods and risk of iron deficiency Survey of 12,000 women also revealed severity of long Covid symptoms rose and fell across menstrual cycle

Article by @iansample.bsky.social on new #longcovid research of 12K women showing:

👉 heavier, longer periods
👉 risk of iron deficiency
👉 worse when menstruating

Dr Male states this could be linked to inflammation of the uterus from Covid infection

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Em's bad year support fund Our dear Emma Newman is having a shite year. First she broke her ankle walking on flat pavement, now she's got breast cancer fucking up her life. The broken bone put her out of commission for almost t...

Okay, deep breath.
I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse.
www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG...

If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

@meactionuk.bsky.social @meactnet.bsky.social please boost on other platforms. We are scrambling for lawyers to get the sister out as the top priority. I am speaking with national print media this morning.

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#ChildrensLit #UK I know what I will be writing over the next decade, and I have full book cases, so I am purging the children's fiction lit crit. If you are interested in any book on this list, DM. Price: £5 per book + £2 p&p.
First come, first served. Pls Share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

i really love that riddle about the farmer with the fox, the hen and the sack of grain he has to take across the river because if you think about it a fox is a wild animal, that is absolutely not a pet, why are you keeping that, how did you even carry it here? in a box? no wonder it's mad at you

Heat intolerance card with striped border and a stickman keeled over in the sun, and another happy and upright with 3 snowflakes. "Severe heat intolerance. When too warm I may have difficulty speaking, become sleepy, confused, or panicky, or lose consciousness - even in temperatures most people find comfortable. If needed, please help me to cool down. See the back of this card for things that will help. Normal service will resume once I cool down. Copyright stickman communications 2024

As the weather shifts towards summer, please remember that #PoTS and #AutonomicDysfunction mean we don't just feel hot and sticky and meh during hot weather - we may stop being able to function. (card from www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/product-page... )

Disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts Exclusive: More than 100 people including Liz Carr and Rosie Jones sign letter criticising Pip and universal credit changes

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.

My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Things Can’t Only Get Better This week: I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party. Also: an early modern way of having too many browser tabs open; and some maps dropped on other maps.

"There’s a reason a relapse is more unnerving than the illness: because you start to worry you’ll never get better at all."

Why I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party.

small, thin black kitty roaming a drive

shiny, happy black kitty laying across my arm.

It's international cat day, so probably time to share on here the story behind my profile picture.

The cat in it is Napoleon. This is their journey from starving feral kitty to happy house floof. And this is why rescue kitties are wonderful. /1

YouTube video by Winter is Coming Alexander Skarsgård | Murderbot EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jfli...

A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph.

Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.

valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x

No one is more of a woman than trans women who have chosen to live their lives as their full selves in the face of immense societal and legal opposition.

Has anyone stopped to ask if I *want* to be defined? Well, in case anyone was wondering, no. I don't want to be defined. I don't want to be defined by my sex, my genes, or by my "large gametes" (wtf is wrong with people, jesus christ). I thought that was the whole point of feminisim.

This is me with the cast on the hopper set, in front of the viewport, with the green screen behind it. From left to right: Akshay Khanna as Ratthi, Tamara Podemski as Bharadwaj, David Dastmalchian as Gurathin, Noma Dumezweni as Mensah, Alexander Skarsgård as Murderbot, Sabrina Wu as Pin-Lee, Tattiawna Jones as Arada

Cast again, some not in their full costumes, right after they had done a run-through of a scene before filming. We got to sit in the hopper while they did the run-through and it was awesome.

Couple more photos from the #murderbot set visit. More info in the alt text:

Apple TV+ debuts trailer for “Murderbot,” premiering May 16 Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Murderbot,” the comedic thriller series starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.

And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot

Join Quakers on Thursday at a meeting for worship outside New Scotland Yard, 12-1pm 🪧

Join us in responding to police aggression with love and peace 🙏🕊️

Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-y...

📢 MEDIA OPPORTUNITY

Do we know anyone who has borrowed money, taken on debt or sacrificed basics to finance private care for ME or Long Covid - and who would be able to talk to media about it?

We can share more details by DM.

🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨

Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.

Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.

the more I read of Grass by Sheri S. Tepper, the more I can’t help wondering if she wrote it, at least in part, as a deliberate subversion and critique of Dune, because you can (I would argue) read it that way with tremendous ease, and to great effect

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