Nicola Griffith

Two tabby cat brothers staring out of the picture window at an autumn-sad garden with one red flower

Bruvs furever against the coming of the dark…

Lovely! Plus a reminder: Alt-text is our friend…

Acknowledging from the realm of Relying on Rather Large Banana and Oat Muffins…

When this one goes it will be terrible. Worse than anything I've lived through. I dread it. But it's coming.

When this one goes it will be terrible. Worse than anything I've lived through. Much worse. I dread it.

Yep, that’s it. I’ll just have to figure out how to set those up. Just not today…

I am the web person :)

Every email I send from my domain-based email address to any Yahoo recipient is blocked (at least through Gmail—haven't tried it through Apple mail yet). I'm tired and sick so if anyone has a handy guide to fix this so I don't have to spent hours figuring it out, I'd be grateful.

Yesterday I turned 65. Despite being ill for the last 17 days with a vile virus, it was a day of unexpected gifts and small pleasures. Plus some close supervision by a certain scarred veteran of kitty covert ops.

Thank you! And the sun came out today just for me :)

It seems so much easier to air this kind of Russian influence in the UK than here. Gosh, I wonder why.

Wow, they must have looked amazing! We got them originally because of the colour and the nectar, to attract hummingbirds

If only I lived closer…

#medievalsky

I can’t wait to see a whole salmon cascade of them next year!

Salmon trumpet-shaped flowers on a green vine

OMG!!! The vine we planted 5 years ago (6?!) has finally—finally! right at the end of summer—flowered for the first time! An omen: summer 2026 is going to be brilliant and beautiful ✨

Real life monster battle. Wow.

Please do not tell small artists and nonprofits based in the US that you are thinking about abstaining from buying stuff from us because of the Trump administration. We also do not like that guy! You can just...not tell us! It feels like being kicked when we're already down, ya know?

It is!

Bright flowers in pots—orange, yellow, pink, white—on a kitchen deck

Well, the prissy little petunias might have got themselves Raptured but the begonia and geranium, the jasmine and more are still their blooming heathen selves, even as autumn runs its cool fingers through their leaves.

Having said that, mouse models, even humanized models, always make me a tad sceptical

I couldn’t get to the actual paper but the write up sounds as though this could be very, very good news! 🧪

These look like little bunny boars

The coyotes are baying and yipping, out in force. Soon they’ll come swarming out of the ravine on the hunt. Thankfully, Charlie and George are both in for the night. If you’re in Broadview, keep your pets close tonight.

Dashing looking tabby cat puts his head and shoulders through green velvet curtains

Orange sun sinks towards hazy mountains behind a stretch of golden shimmering Puget Sound

As autumn begins, George, International Cat of Mystery, offers his sitrep: together with asset, Tabby Pimpernel, endeavouring to keep neighbourhood clear of infiltrators. Charlie uncooperative. Flowers still drawing attention of aerial insurgents and small drones

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He and the Tabby Pimpernel (from Parts Unknown—but somewhere in the neighbourhood) have an ongoing mission to keep Broadview secure from infiltration

The equinox, and that rich, mellow moment where the world hangs between harvest-is-in-we-can-rest and winter-must-be-readied-for. Here's the state of the Griffith-Eskridge household—or some of it, including cats and flowers...

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Hi! Not a trained historian, more of an accidental Early Medievalist. But very interested in how history/story/culture/schools of thought begin, change, grow, and die.

I would love to follow more political theorists , historians of political thought, intellectual historians on here !

Please say hello 🗃️

Any legal specialists out there who know whether I’m correct in my suspicion that use of another’s signature—even if agreeing to these TOS—is illegal?