This medieval cresset, with holes to fill with oil to provide multiple lights survives in Brecon Cathedral, Wales. I think they are rare but there must be others elsewhere. To satisfy my curiosity, who knows please?

How to write a novel

Night night

1st February is St Brigid's Day & the pre-Christian festival of #Imbolc, halfway between the winter solstice & the spring equinox. In the agricultural year, preparation for spring sowing begins, lambs start to be born & ewes come into their milk. The days are visibly lengthening.

Anastasia Krupnik. Sara Crewe from A Little Princess. Lyra Bellacqua from His Dark Materials. Topsy. Tracey Beaker. Rosie Lee from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken. Fern from Charlotte's Web. Polly from The Magician's Nephew. Sheila from Otherwise Known As Sheila The Great.

Morning! From snowy/sunny Bristol

📣 #publishingnews Canelo Crime to publish new detective series by debut author Anna Britton! (Anna Britton 🪴)🎉 #crimefiction fans will relish the chance to “play detective” in the immersive, twisty crime thriller #AShotInTheDark, publishing in Oct 2023.

Clouds over England, sunbeams over Wales. Make of that what you will 😬

Hardly ever on TSFNAT these days but just popping on to say a) hello! and b) please read this blog I wrote about staying at extraordinary Gladstone's Library

It's lottery time, folks

Research reveals reality of puberty for Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago phys.org/news/2024-09-r…

Woke early, saw news, got depressed, wrote a poem #Trump #USAElection2024

When America sneezes the world catches on fire #Trump #USAElection2024 #Election2024 #Trump2024

Found in the 5yo's room. I love how it's simultaneously mostly incomprehensible and extremely clear in its core message