I handed in the manuscript for my first book this week. My dad, an author, just brought this round for me...🥰

In this stroller, there is now nothing but a bloody pulp. This is all that remains of the baby after today’s Russian shelling of a park in the Kharkiv region. #MadeByPutin #FinancedByTrump

What a voice! (And it was Wolfgang's birthday!) @WiperAndTrue

Ah, the joy of train travel. Spent an hour like this...

Was ancient India the world's forgotten superpower? | William Dalrymple ... youtu.be/z0l8Dm5f2pY?si=QKbP… via @YouTube

Forget Glastonbury tickets - the real test of patience is trying to download your pension documents from the Teachers’ Pensions website! Countless failed attempts before finally succeeding at 1am

My late wife Jo Cox was murdered in her constituency in 2016. The alleged attack on Helen Haines is a punch to the gut theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Beautiful Montenegro...

There are now novelists banned in Britain for their political opinions. And note the banned opinion is … opposing a genocide

On my way to Dubrovnik via the Left Handed Giant bar!!

I love these books - this is the third and, apparently, final one. 😢 The series came out of the friendship between writer Lucy Strange and artist Pam Smy, who both have a love of the gothic genre and all things spooky - an amazingly successful collaboration. @WalkerBooksUK

This is a seriously funny book! It's aimed at the 6-9 age group and that must be my humour level because I laughed out loud many times. 🙈 Readers are invited to help Buck and Ears solve the case and save them from a horrible fate... @WalkerBooksUK

Y2 boy’s first day, he’s never been to school before. At the end of the day, I see him. You ok, I ask. I had a great day, he beams. Excellent, I say, you can do it again tomorrow. He stops. I’m not coming back tomorrow, he says. I laugh out loud. Oh my lovely lad, I say, you are.

What a beautiful space Bretforton Theatrebarn is! Saw Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett) there last night, directed by Stockard Channing and starring David Westhead. Very powerful indeed. Had a chat with David as he was packing away at the end, what a lovely person.

Managed to badly strain a calf muscle jumping on a garden spade 🙈 and wasn't able to walk on it for a short while. Finally able to walk up a local hill and see the wild horses...🥰

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EXCL: Andy Burnham will take the first major step to putting Britain’s utility companies into public control - announcing a new government-backed body to invest in the electricity grid. PM will announce the creation of GB Grid, which will use money previously allocated to Great British Energy to compete with privately owned companies such as National Grid. theguardian.com/politics/202…

Fascinating discussion with Eleanor Anstruther about her book Fallout, which is apparently the only fiction book based on the Greenham Common protests. I actually visited the protests as a child with my mum! @herefordfest

Such a fascinating talk by @CharlieEnglish1 as part of @HerefordFest about the CIA scheme to infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc. It was emotional hearing a Ukrainian audience member describe the powerful impact of reading a smuggled copy of Animal Farm.

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #ColourBlueWeek