Solidarity with everyone queasily accessing results this morning. I hope all goes well.

YES. Also to those who got through a global disaster and then steered a bunch of teenagers through mahoosive exams. I hope everyone gets to celebrate today x

How’s your weekend going? I went for a fabulous walk on Ilkley Moor, I saw actual lizards and I got to go shopping in Booths, so I think I’m living my best life.

Have to say, this isn’t how I imagine Lucy Snowe. #CharlotteBrontë

Spotted in the wild in Manchester yesterday! ⁦susannacrossman⁩ ⁦Fig Tree⁩

Forget Oasis. The most important Northern reunion this week consisted of me and three former schoolfriends: a walk round our old home town, followed by several hours of wine and catching up. I’ve known two of them since primary school. Such a lovely, lovely day.

Lovely article by ⁦Nell Frizzell⁩. If this resonates, read #ReadingLessons! ⁦Fig Tree⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A lovely endorsement from Leah Crawford. Thank you, Leah!

Now on the BARS Blog: Helping to Run the John Clare Society--a call for aid! See our full blog here: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5478. Please RT and share widely!

The Dude makes all his new friends undergo a simple personality test, which consists of watching extracts from the LWT 1988 classic, An Audience with Victoria Wood. If they get it, they’re in. If they’re a bit nonplussed, he knows they’re Not His Type. I have brought him up well.

A nose, in search of carrots.

Thank you, Miss Egan! Fig Tree

Short review of ‘Reading Lessons’ by Carol Atherton in today’s Irish Times.

Literature explored through different reading frames,informed by Muslim readers, their experiences of core curriculum texts. How different cultural values inform identification with literary texts & their characters.Thinking about English Lit at A-level ⬇️ englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-forwa…

Very much looking forward to this! Brontë Parsonage Museum

In Haworth for the Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing. It’s karaoke night at the Kings Arms. Charlotte wouldn’t have approved, but I can imagine Branwell there, belting out Wonderwall before wandering unsteadily back to the Parsonage. Brontë Parsonage Museum #ReadingLessons