Lauren St John

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

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I've found research proving that arranging small lovely items like these👇 alleviates PTSD-will be part of my small museums
for mental health wshop Sat 4 Oct
Open to anyone,recorded in full in,3.5 hrs tuition,30% off my Etsy.Earlybird price expires in 4 days:
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Breakthrough Scholarship for Fantasy Writers with Low Income This scholarship will award one talented speculative writer with limited financial means a place on our new nine-week online Writing Fantasy course.

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social

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A cardboard box filled with shredded cardboard, used as packing material to protect the box's proper contents - copies of Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee, written by Sinéad O'Hart and illustrated by Úna Woods. Two copies are lying face-up on top of the box and contents.

Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee's first adventure, The New School, is out NOW and available wherever you get your books (inc @dubraybooks.bsky.social @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social and @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! If you've met Ellora and friends, PLEASE leave a review somewhere - it all helps! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

File photo shows fans attending a concert at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on July 25, 2017

AI companies have sucked up the world's entire music catalogue and are guilty of "wilful, commercial-scale copyright infringement", a major music industry group has told AFP ➡️ u.afp.com/SPXF

New funding for local groups to tackle nature recovery across UK | The Wildlife Trusts Grants of up to £25,000 now available to improve nature for communities thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery

The Green Community Grants Programme,will offer grants of up to £25,000 to small charities and not for profit groups contributing towards nature recovery and the climate emergency,also for proposals to improve places for nature and people’s access to them . www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/new-fun...

Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast In the second of a two part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Switzerland to find out how the country has transformed its rivers, from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots. She tells...

Even tertiary treatment can't remove PFAS. Swiss water authorities, like many around the world, are calling for a ban on PFAS. They say it's so incredibly hard to remove PFAS from water that the only way to prevent contamination is not to produce PFAS at all.
5/5

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Thank you so much for including #thelioncubssecret @hachettechildrens.bsky.social ❤️❤️🙏

Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Elton John among creatives arguing that Labour’s AI proposals could result in ‘an artist’s life work to be stolen’

‘High quality material’ - that’s all our life’s work is to this government: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Local wildlife sites are crucial for species to live, move and thrive. Yet most fall under the radar in planning. We must ensure animal welfare is built into every development strategy.

#NatureRecovery #AnimalWelfare

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#PostOfTheWeek (season 2):
Happy birthday..
Albert Barnett Facey (1894-1982), also known as A.B. Facey or Bert Facey, was an Australian author and a World War I veteran. He is best known for his autobiography, A Fortunate Life, published when he was 87.

A graphic showing concerns reported by library staff. 99% - overall decline in children's reading for enjoyment 98% - overall decline in UK reading attainment 95% - children's wellbeing and mental health concerns 93% - delays in speech, language and communication

99% of #BookTrustStorytime librarians we spoke to are worried about the decline in children reading for enjoyment.

And they also told us they worry about a range of issues facing families in their communities.

Find out how BookTrust Storytime could help:

https://bit.ly/4mUYUDM

An oak tree seemingly appearing out of the mist

Not all those who wander are lost

J.R.R. Tolkien

I’m posting this to over 35,000 brilliant people who care about the NHS. If everyone donated £1, we’d hit our goal in 5 mins. Can we do this? Please help us hold politicians to account! 💙🚨
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‘I’m proud of them going out into the world’: Young naturalists on their quest to save harvest mice Spurred into action by the species’ threatened future, two best friends embarked on a project to release 250 of the animals in Devon

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Bee buffets’: the pollinator pathways turning drab alleys into insect havens Corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time

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Books Reading GIF Alt: Books Reading GIF New title alert! We will shortly be announcing the first of our six new titles for 2026. Hint: it’s set in New York and involves the world of Broadway! Sign up to our newsletter over at manderleypress.com for early access to all our news (and events and special offers too) 👀

New book alert! We will shortly be announcing the first of our six new titles for 2026. Hint: it’s set in New York and involves the world of Broadway! Sign up to our newsletter over at manderleypress.com for early access to all our news (and events and special offers too) 👀 #booksky #newbook

Thank you so much for choosing #TheLionCubsSecret! Hope you enjoy it 🦁❤️

Blue sky with orange & pink sky. Background of trees & safari landscape. Purple & turquoise shadows. Cute buttery coloured lion 🦁 cub with green eyes watching reader from the top of a rock.

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days,in no particular order.No explanations,no expectations,just covers. Day 12: The Lion Cub’s Secret #WhiteGiraffe Pub in Oct.Thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social @laurenstjohn.bsky.social

‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Joy and relief as lotus flowers bloom again in Kashmiri lake after three decades Wular Lake once supported 5,000 people who harvested the plant’s edible roots, until the lake silted up after floods. Now the lotuses are back

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These days, make sure you're really buying what you want to buy online. Also, if you see news that a favourite author has written something unexpected, unless that comes verifiably direct from them or their publisher, double and triple check that it isn't one of these increasingly prevalent frauds.

Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

On this #PoisonedPlanet, so many threats to life.

Cocktail of #pesticides and important issue for many species

#NatureCrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Helen Garner praises ‘serious and sensitive’ Dua Lipa after musician adds Australian author to her book club Music superstar announces 2014 courtroom drama This House of Grief as first Australian pick for global monthly book club

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species

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A wonderful snap from Amy Arnold, headteacher at Barnham CEVC Primary. She’s getting familiar with the books her team will be using to teach literacy in the new school year, alongside our planning… all with a rather idyllic holiday backdrop! 📚☀️🌊

Covers of the anniversary edition of The White Giraffe and the sixth book in the series, The Lion Cub’s Secret. Waterstones are offering 25 % off

Wonderful @waterstones.bsky.social are offering an incredible 25% off on pre-orders of the anniversary edition of #thewhitegiraffe, out in 11 September, and the new #thelioncubssecret, published by @hachettechildrens.bsky.social on 9 October 2025 #wildlifeadventures #MGfiction