The highlight of recording the audiobook was when I successfully negotiated the word ‘Yinpterochiropterans’, only to stumble, three seconds later, on the word ‘bats’.

Nothing induces the fear of culinary failure like the word ‘tumble’. There’s the quiet implication that if I don’t tumble the beans/carrots/peas into the tray with sufficient nonchalance, the dish will be ruined.

Phwoar

Please welcome this speckled wood butterfly.

People really love their power tools, don’t they?

Sarah is brilliant.

NEW! #WhenWasThings Number 127: April 1954:
Monroe and Mitchum, Eric and Ernie, Mai Zetterling and Danny Kaye, Daphne du Maurier, David Lean, Big Joe Turner… and Bill Haley and His Comets.

Three years ago we threw caution to the wind and opened the doors of FOLDE as newcomers to books & retail.
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Today we celebrate our journey and the amazing folk who’ve helped us on the way. Thank you all ☺️
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#bookshop The Bookseller Bookshop.org #shaftesbury B Corp UK

Every so often you see an absolutely deranged take like ‘people shouldn’t be allowed to eat food until they can run their own cattle farm’ and it’s always someone with eight hundred thousand followers.

Every so often you see an absolutely deranged take like ‘people shouldn’t be allowed to eat food until they can run their own cattle farm’ and it’s always someone with eight hundred thousand followers.

Hi Nature fans! I've created my very own Animated Bird Guide YouTube called What Bird is That? Episode 2 'LISTEN' is OUT NOW! It's time to take out those earpods and learn about one of the most important skills in birdwatching, to listen. Watch it here! youtu.be/mWZ_19tlbcw?si…

In just over 3,000,000 seconds* the paperback of Taking Flight will be published.

There will also be an audiobook edition, which I am recording as we speak**.

I would love this information to be widely shared.

uk.bookshop.org/a/581/97817839…

*give or take
**not literally

Just watched the University Challenge final. Bloody hell.

In just over 3,000,000 seconds* the paperback of Taking Flight will be published.

There will also be an audiobook edition, which I am recording as we speak**.

I would love this information to be widely shared.

uk.bookshop.org/a/581/97817839…

*give or take
**not literally

I like corporate sponsorship like this.

Great gig, conducted by Lev Parikian, including Walton’s HENRY V (the incidental music from Olivier’s film and me doing all the famous bits).
Two weeks today, @CadoganHall

How the hell did I miss Tom Lehrer’s 96th birthday yesterday?
Because he is excellent, he put all his stuff into the public domain a few years ago. Feast yourselves.

tomlehrersongs.com

– What do we want?
– A combination of an old joke and a tired twitter trope!
– When do we wa—
– Timing