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@thecidershedpod.bsky.social patreons are reassuring Matthew that we love his TCS ads.

One commentator pointed it that they often highlight ridiculous moments on #TheArchers that we miss while listening.

‘Expensive, but totally worth it’: the best (and worst) supermarket dark chocolate, tasted and rated Our in-house chocolate aficionado struggles through luxury bars of high cocoa dark chocolate so you don’t have to

Chocolate meditation? Count me in!

“I run chocolate meditation workshops and tastings to explore the importance of terroir and biodiversity in single-origin chocolates…”.
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That should be @bookshop.org

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

The app lets you: Bookmark, highlight and annotate; Adjust font and typeface• Search text within the book; Sync your reading position between devices; Read in vertical scroll mode, or a standard paginated mode; and Share passages on social media.

Photo of new ebook app from bookshop.org - the independent bookshop collective

Delighted to hear that @bookshop_org_uk have launched an ebook service. exists to link readers with independent bookshops for purchasing print (and now e-) books. There are some free classics so suggest you use one to test out the platform.
uk.bookshop.org/ebooks

Shedunnit Caroline Crampton unravels the mysteries behind classic crime fiction. From Agatha Christie to Dorothy L. Sayers and beyond, this is the podcast for lovers of golden age detective fiction.

If you have any leisure time (I’m conscious you have a very full life), I can thoroughly recommend the Shedunnit podcast about Golden Age crime fiction www.shedunnitshow.com

I have spent a lifetime eating biscuits and reading DL Sayers….

Freddie Arbuthnot?

Paradise Slice Recipe Paradise Slice is our new favourite traybake, fact. A beautiful combination of almonds, cherries and raspberry jam sat happily on a pastry base.

Recipe here scottishscran.com/paradise-sli...

While we’re talking about Scottish bakery specials, don’t forget the Paradise Slice.

A bit but still different somehow. Mind you, I do enjoy an Abernethy. I brought some Simmer’s Butter Biscuits back with me from my most recent trip to my homeland.

Jen - are you too young to have enjoyed McVitie’s Royal Scot biscuits? They were the best ever biscuits. (Plus you could make a cheat’s Empire Biscuit with them).

Don't forget the Call for Papers for the 10th Academic Archers Conference!
Join us at the University of Warwick from March 28-29, 2026, to celebrate 10 years of this amazing community.

#TheArchers #AcademicArchers #CallForPapers #Ambridge
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Lonesome spines: buyer sought for over 150,000 books and the one-time Yorkshire Dales youth hostel in which they’re housed Richard Axe is celebrated in the bookselling trade for his vast collection of antiquarian and second-hand volumes. Since 2005, his stock has been arrayed on over a mile’s worth of shelving in a former...

One of Britain’s largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed can be found in the unlikeliest of locations: a vast former youth hostel in a pretty corner of the Yorkshire Dales. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar...

#TheArchers I’m inclined to say “anywhere but The Bull”. I’m sure Fallon’s food is fabulous but mine just is not and I’d rather have a special “we’ve just made up” meal away from The Bull’s regulars.

Didn’t it close? #TheArchers

He has no-one in the Farm Office to put a stamp on it (or frank it) for him…. #TheArchers

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The Men of Ambridge - Academic Archers Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode shares the three papers from the session The Men of Ambridg...

#AcademicArchers #TheArchers www.buzzsprout.com/979729/episo...
Starting from today new podcasts will be released every Wednesday at 11 am, from 29 August through to 17 December. On 18 December the full set of conference videos will be released on the Academic Archers YouTube channel.

A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose.

Recently, I shared a Lord of the Rings subway map, & I had a bunch of people asking me to do a Narnia version. Well...here you go!

It's covers all 7 books, so it's a lot more complicated the the LoTR ones. And if you like it, it's available to buy on my Etsy store:
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Plus George - and Eddie - bullying him into video / drone work which he didn’t want to do. Did he get paid? #TheArchers

WhatsApp Debbie #TheArchers

Or the church? #TheArchers

The cover of Reimagining the Public Library on a beige background.

Reimagining the Public Library by John Pateman is out now! Capturing major debates that influenced the LIS profession over the past 25 years, Pateman explores how these ideas can inform the future development of public libraries.

🔗Get your copy now: www.facetpublishing.co.uk/reimagining-...

Half the people on the new 8-person Intellectual Freedom Committee don't need to be CILIP members, we're looking for a range of experts across the profession & beyond

The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI Leading American engineer and scientist Vannevar Bush thought that the memex was the answer to information nightmare of the 1940s.

Vannevar Bush was not forgotten by those who studied aspects of information retrieval a few decades ago…
theconversation.com/the-forgotte...

I’m sure Eddie is using a pub ploy that Joe did back in the day…. #TheArchers

Programme Overview - CILIP Conference 2025 Programme Overview

Very best wishes to all those heading to #CILIPConf25 tomorrow cilipconference.org.uk/programme-ov...

Scientists Say That "Grandma Hobbies" Could Be a Secret Key to Happiness Time to pick up those knitting needles!

Why "Grandma Hobbies" Could Be the Secret to Better Mental Health.
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