My novels feature penguins, people, music & otters, not necessarily in that order. #1 bestseller, R&J & BBC R2 bookclub picks. Fan of wildlife & Celtic harps.
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Joined August 2014
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Just to let you know, this book comes highly recommended by the penguins 🐧 🐧🐧
(… and if you like it, there are two more in the series!)
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#BookTwitter #bookclubs #penguins
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"Hay una especie de tristeza que surge cuando se sabe demasiado, cuando se ve el mundo como realmente es. Es la tristeza de comprender que la vida no es una gran aventura, sino una serie de pequeños e insignificantes momentos, que el amor no es un cuento de hadas, sino una emoción frágil y fugaz, que la felicidad no es un estado permanente, sino un raro y fugaz atisbo de algo a lo que nunca podremos aferrarnos. Y en esa comprensión hay una profunda soledad".
Virginia Woolf
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Of course, we are not losing this war. But we are losing people. Because of the Russian attacks, we're losing people and time. It's such a pity, because our children don't have a real life and childhood. Not only children, but all people. That's why we need to end this war as quickly as possible. I hope that our partners, Americans and Europeans, will help us. God bless, our strong soldiers stay strong on the battlefield. It helps me stay strong during any kind of negotiations.
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Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian today.
Here is some of his humanitarian work:
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Lorna Sharkey, contemporary artist, known for her hand painted stained glass artworks #Womensart
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Lo más amable que hace la literatura es recordarte que tus pequeños sentimientos peculiares siempre han existido. Alguien, en algún siglo, se sintió igualmente confundido por el amor, aburrido por la sociedad, cansado de actuar y hambriento de significado.
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Out tomorrow and I'd be grateful for any sightings out there in the wild and even the odd shelfie! The Christmas Retreat Paperback is Out on October 22nd! #booktok #chris... youtube.com/shorts/MMkZHOPpG… via @YouTube
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Hazel nuts were an important part of the diet of the ancient Irish and were quite possibly amongst the first things eaten by our ancestors when they arrived on these shores. And like other Autumn foods, such as the apple, they became a special part of Autumn and Samhain celebrations 🌰🎃
Gathered around a fire unmarried folk would give each of the nuts that they had collected the name of a potential lover and cast them into the flames.
The first nut to crack, or that which cracked the loudest, would reveal the name of their future love 🔥🍂
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JD Vance says Ukraine shouldn't be bombing Russian diesel plants, but I'm pretty sure it's Russia who shouldn't be killing Ukrainian children.
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You ever just look at your pet and think "how did I get lucky enough to share a house with the cutest thing in the entire world?"
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Over the moon to be Author Of The Month at Chelmsford Library!
Huge thanks to Erin and the team and to @EssexLibraries
Please support your local library. They do an amazing job and each time you borrow a book the author gets a few pennies so it’s a WIN:WIN.
Happy reading!
It is done!
377 pages
80 chapters
97, 970 words.
And now I can cry and eat cheese and sleep… and after that I can think about tackling all the other much-neglected stuff that needs to be done.
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Out on Thursday! Find it in Tesco, Sainsburys and branches of Asda and Morrisons. - and tell me where you spotit! The Christmas Retreat Paperback is Out on October 22nd! #booktok #chris... youtube.com/shorts/MMkZHOPpG… via @YouTube
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Young people actively hate AI.
My two younger daughters are 19 and 18, both at universities - one in the UK the other in Italy. Through them, I happen to know quite a few kids their age.
And ALL OF THEM seem to universally hate AI.
To them it's "something old people invented that we now have to deal with... as if climate change wasnt enough"
AI is cringe. When they introduce me to their friends, they literally say "heyya, meet my dad, he's a software engineer but nonono, NOT IN AI, dont worry, hahah".
They hate it for flooding their social feeds with slop, ruining music, taking phone scams to the next level, also destroying careers & devaluing their hobbies - why become an architect, this skill is about to become worthless? Why learn a musical instrument if session musicians are already obsolete?
The outcome is interesting, though - they're spending less and less time on public social, meeting up IRL, moving their online lives into private group chats with actual verified friends. TikTok and Reels are increasingly cringe-something for old dudes.
Which, I guess, might be a net positive after all...
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The most radical thing you can do to rebel against this emerging post-literate, brain-slop-world we are entering is read long, complicated books on a daily basis. The ability to pay attention for long periods will be one of the most valuable and rare skills of the future.
