Whooooo's been at my composing stick?! It's #Halloween at Cambridge University Library Historical Printing class.

First galley proofs of our Cambridge University Library Historical Printing class typesetting and (author's idiosyncratic spelling and capitalisation all being correct) I have made the absolute classic error 🤦🤦🤦

CALLING ALL AUTHORS.I don't know who's left out there to read this but I'm a CAMHS mental health support worker. The children's ward I support in Sussex is among the most underfunded in the country & I'd love to boost their library. If any of you could donate a copy of your book-

Medieval women as modern women, a 🧵 Medieval cat lady vs modern cat lady 😻 An anchoress was allowed to keep one pet, a cat blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus… #Caturday #MedievalWomen #medievaltwitter

This has so much the feel of "mother has been singing lullabies and almost asleep too".

Benefits of WFH as a virtual attendee at the Historic Libraries Forum collections security conference: tea break birdwatching and seeing the corvids hanging out in the garden: three magpies gossiping over windfall apples, and a jay grappling with the seed feeder.

Update that to six magpies!

Me too, Caxton, me too.

Headline writers not messing about

Just received a lovely compliment on the new trousers I got yesterday, so at least there's that.

I mean it's great that H is for Hawk is being filmed in Cam. I'm just mildly concerned that walking past the set means allowing the film-makers to do whatever they like with people's images, in forms which may not yet have been invented, unto eternity.

Seriously? Aquain? 😖

Presenting; our boss 👑, and our birthday gift to you. Watch right to the end for the pièce de résistance instagram.com/reel/DCHWtYyNw…

This from Armando Iannucci is absolutely right, and by happy coincidence, Fairhaven Singers are performing the Howells Requiem *tonight* at Queens' College - do come along and enjoy the gorgeousness. fairhavensingers.org.uk/event/fare-wel…

After a wonderful concert last night, we can't quite believe it's time to start thinking about December and sharing our Christmas concert poster. This one will sell out fast, so get your tickets early! fairhavensingers.org.uk/event/music-fo…

It's so tempting...

Booking parents' evening slots online is worse than trying to get Taylor Swift tickets. The screen flicks up and down, slots disappear as you click on them. And now the whole system is frozen.

Our local food bank is also collecting toys/gifts - worth finding out if yours is doing something similar.

Picked up this book in the stacks because it had a pretty binding. Turns out to have belonged to Leonard Jenyns, friend of Darwin, and before that had been given to an unknown owner by Hester Lynch Piozzi. And there's a bonus temoin too 😍 Syn.8.56.1

Anyone I know likely to visit V&A in the next few days? Trying to identify this dress that 16yo saw in an exhibition in the fashion gallery a few weeks ago, but we can't find it in the collections search.