My 3 favourite reads of 2025 on this delightful indie book platform. shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/gr… Lissa Evans #SamLeith #KatherineEverett

I've #justdonated to SUMMERTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY on JustGiving. Donate on @justgiving and support this great cause justgiving.com/charity/summer…

EDS UK is holding an MP drop in session on Monday, 8th December between 2:15pm and 3:45pm in Portcullis House. We need you to write to your MPs again please and ask them to pop into the drop in and talk to us about how they can help! ehlers-danlos.org/news/invite-yo… #EnoughIsEnough #EDS

Our fundraising #IllustrationAuction includes beautiful original artworks like these by Rebecca Cobb! Support our work in schools & buy some truly marvellous art. Browse some of the works now, bid from 12pm on Fri 28 Nov tinyurl.com/mryssb93 #Illustration #MakeYourBid #kidlit

Action Against Illegal Waste site on the River Cherwell - Sign the Petition! c.org/2ZnwJkWsqW via Change.org UK

Over 50 MPs, Peers, and their colleagues attended the Overlapping Illness Alliance’s drop-in event in Parliament on Tuesday! The event raised much needed awareness and understanding of the impact of the illnesses represented. Read more: ehlers-danlos.org/news/overlappi…

What a super review of Christ Church Cathedral School by muddyHQ showing it to be a strongly musical, academic, creative & happy place with its own unique charm. Be a chorister for an afternoon, Sat 24 Jan 2026! bucksoxon.muddystilettos.co.uk/kids/school-re…

Rhyme, Reason and Puns Galore griseldaheppel.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/rhy… via Griselda Heppel The glorious children's classic, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.

Rhyme, Reason and Puns Galore griseldaheppel.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/rhy… via Griselda Heppel The great Norton Juster and his brilliant Phantom Tollbooth.

Why not start the New Year with something wonderful. A free concert curated by the great Sholto Kynoch - impresario of the Oxford Song (formerly Oxford Lieder) festivals. Go for it! #Brum Stephen Maddock

God Jul & Happy Christmas allihopa! ❤️

✨ **Top Ten Images of the Year · #2 of 10** One of my favourite photographs of York Minster. I arrived at first light — behind me in the nave the 🔵 blue hour still lingered, while ahead, in the quire, the ☀️ golden hour was already glowing. Overwhelmingly beautiful.

Very British graffiti.

I know, I know, the season is over. So here's a thought for next year: Leave Christmas Carols Alone, Church of England griseldaheppel.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/lea… via Griselda Heppel

Super visit yesterday to King's College Prep School to talk to Years 7 & 8 about #TheFallofaSparrow and gothic literature. Always great to meet keen young readers and writers (and introduce them to Frankenstein and The Castle of Otranto. Brrrrr)

I much enjoyed my author talk on #TheFallofaSparrow King's College Prep School earlier this week. Possibly the most beautiful school classroom I've yet spoken in. griseldaheppel.com/news King's College

I've just spotted that it is #HolocaustMemorialDay so I must apologise for the late to this but here's the only known piece by Hannah Cohen who exhibited with the Group towards the end of its career in 1935 & 1936. It is a sketch of Phyllis Bray, sketching at the art classes.

Emphatically seconded.

Authors Electric: How a 13 Year-old Girl's Diary Inspires Young Peop... authorselectric.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-13… Anne Frank Trust Emma Barnett Rob Rinder

A Diary that Inspires Us All to Build a Better, Kinder World griseldaheppel.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/a-d… via Griselda Heppel Anne Frank Trust