Kipling collection available at @OxfamBooksTW today.

Enjoyed a great performance by Peter basham as Macbeth at Salomons yesterday evening. TheShakespeareProject

Enjoyed reading and researching at Gladstone's Library today. Hopefully tomorrow there will be more actual writing!

Bought a couple of lovely Christmas presents here yesterday

Plenty of food for thought at today's @TEDxRTW And two ghosts?!

Coming to the end of my stay at the Arvon Clockhouse retreat centre. It's been great to have time to read, reflect, write and move forward. And to enjoy the company of other writers in between.

A typical find during my fortnightly stint at @OxfamBooksTW - a poor condition book, but with beautiful illustrations. This is Four Hedges: a Gardner's Chronicle by Clare Leighton. Gollancz 1935

WIN a signed copy of ‘Mudlarking’ and a Ming porcelain cast of one of my finds by ceramic artist Raewyn Harrison LIKE AND SHARE TO WIN Winner will be picked 10 Dec Signed copies available to buy from Southwark Cathedral #Mudlarking

Wonderful writing about place in Ghost Town by @jeffyoungwriter. 'I want the colours of the story to clash', an inspiration for writing outside neat boundaries.

In 10 DAYS Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be flying home. 🚨 RT our daily countdown & help us call on UK government & Iranian authorities to reunite Nazanin with her daughter & husband at the end of her sentence 🚨 #FreeNazanin Iran (I.R.of) Embassy in UK amn.st/6012HYUAq

Our first podcast has launched! It draws on the Museum of the Home 'Stay Home' collecting project. Listen to powerful and moving experiences of how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home: stayhomestories.co.uk/listen/episode… anchor.fm/stayhomestories open.spotify.com/show/4pHd7PaHq… #stayhome

Fritham, Eyeworth, Studley and Islands Thorns: Part 2 newtalesoldforest.com/2021/03/27/fri… via WordPress.com

Found in a book during today's shift at @OxfamBooksTW .

New favourite place for coffee in TW. 11 Pantiles was once the local suffragette hq. Listening for their voices above the sound of Adele.

Amelia Scott: A Tunbridge Wells Pioneer. Copies from The Friends at the Amelia Scott facebook.com/ftwmlag/ Price £5, raising money for museum conservation projects. Find out about the amazing woman the new cultural centre is named after. #TunbridgeWells The Amelia

Visited RSPB Dungeness on a gloomy afternoon yesterday, but this baby Whitethroat sang and cheered me up!

This is a big day🥳as I've just published my 1st guest blogpost: Amanda Scott's wonderful "The Quaggy: a once forgotten urban stream now working for wildlife – and people". Enjoy! freelancenaturewriter.com/2022/09/02/gue…

Researching my ancestor Harriet Wilkinson, wife of an Oxford Circus chemist, died 1882. Have a hit a brick wall looking for her grave. Nothing on Ancestry, Findmypast, Familysearch or Deceased Online. Surely her passing would have been marked somewhere? #genealogy #familyhistory

Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day by eithne nightingale is a carefully-curated and urgently-needed collection of oral testimonies from child refugees who arrived in Britain over the last 100 years. Publishing today 📔 bit.ly/3St3MDE

Proud to have marched for nature yesterday. Disappointed that BBC News (UK) didn't think a march involving 60,000+ people and all the major nature and wildlife charities was worth any coverage at all.