'Planet Earth: A user's guide' starts TODAY! 🥳 @seis_matters kicks us off with 'Engine Earth', showing how our planet’s oldest rocks and fossils provide evidence of radical climate changes, and how humans are now tipping the balance. 📺 8pm, BBC Four: rigb.org/christmas-lect…

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Queer- LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday, an exciting new anthology with an extraordinary range of writers is published today. Sappho to Rimbaud, Carson McCullers to Herve Guibert, Audre Lorde to Alison Bechdel. What a treat. @HofZ_books bit.ly/3o06mi2

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I don't like it when zoom calls end abruptly so I've added credits.

this is good

Someone had to do this, so I did it

Am reminded of this while eating a Kat-Kit.

#OnThisDay 1960: Sally Morton visited a Soho salon to investigate outrageous claims that men were getting fancy haircuts.

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I never considered there'd be outtakes of the "His Master's Voice" promo shoot IN 1901 but now I can't stop laughing.

So many: couth, ruly, ept, wieldy, persona grata, feckful, pecunious, gorm-like, gruntled (thanks to P.G. Wodehouse), kempt, consolate...

Love this: Henry VIII's wives if they'd never met him 😁

Deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (being shipwrecked in a strange land, disguising myself as my twin brother, becoming a page for the Duke, and being entangled in a love triangle where I am irresistible AF)

Word of the day is 'flapdoodler' (19th century): a speaker of nonsense; a deliverer of twaddle and flimflam.

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We are absolutely delighted that The Sun and the Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz is a Sunday Times Bestseller!! ☀️ Thank you to everyone who has supported and shown so much love for this book 💙

Am I more excited about the upcoming holiday, or the holiday reading? Is this enough for a week in a remote farmhouse!?