The Bookwise Owl
@BookwiseOwl
Feathering its nest with tweets about libraries, learning, books, curriculum resources, words, London and the occasional LOL.
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20-09-2017 08:42:26
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RT Laura Lupin: Rob says 'blameless' but I've never been able to think of Miffy the same way since reading this many years ago. twitter.com/robpalkwriter/…
RT James Hogg 🖋: Hinge and Bracket are STILL trending, which is rather nice. Here they are then, performing Rossini's Cat Duet - brilliantly!
RT Sarah’s Garden 🌱: Tip from a former recycling development officer, (me), save your waste foil, put it in the recycling when it’s at least a tennis ball 🎾 size lump so it gets picked up on the recycling conveyer.
Little bits (like oxo cube covers)…
RT Scarthin Books: Own a piece of Scarthin Books history!
These artworks are made by Gareth Hills and are made of the old window panes replaced last year. Some are thought to be over 100 years old. £20 each, stand included.
RT Bill Tonelli: At Esquire we sent a bunch of people $100 bills and asked them to send back $100 worth of work. Amis sent this bit of brilliance.
RT Feargal Sharkey: Yep, you can't make this stuff up.
Surfers turning up to protest again sewage pollution were advised not to go into the sea because of... wait for it... wait for it... sewage pollution.
Ho hum.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
RT Rebecca Silverwood: I live on a public street. It was not my car parked outside. I deliberately do not list a safe place to leave parcels with Amazon.co.uk as there is no safe place to leave parcels.
Somebody else now has my stuff 🙈
RT Oliver C Wright: Today was lucky to see a huge roost of dragonflies (4 spotted chasers)
I reckon around a 1000 dragonflies over a few different groups but was difficult to tell
V difficult to photograph and also did not want to get to close to dist…
RT Westminster Libraries and Archives: Join us and Urbanwise London, for a free community walk exploring beautiful Hyde Park, discovering its history along the way.
The walk will take approximately 2 - 3 hours.
📅 Saturday 27 May, 10am to 1pm.
📍 Paddington Library.
Boo…
RT Anna Mazzola (is away): Was worrying that the ending of my novel was unsatisfactory, but remembered that Wilkie Collins ended The Haunted Hotel like this:
RT Ian Walker: Re-reading Super-Infinite (initially, for no other reason than it appeared centre stage in the local library). It’s a fantastic book. Its argument that humanism - faith in us & in love - draws so much strength from our flaws is so at odd…