I found a child’s violin in the back of a Zipcar in south London yesterday. The customer care people didn’t seem all that concerned so I took it home. I would love to reunite it with its owner if I can. The name tag says Isobel Lopez. Can Twitter help? Please share! #lostviolin

What a glorious night at the HarperCollins Summer party! So lovely to see everyone. Never get enough pics, but managed to capture this gorgeous bunch Katie Ginger/Annabel French/Emma Royal Hazel Gaynor Amy Gaffney aka Rosie Hannigan🌸🌙🪷 Gill Paul @adeleparks Megan Clawson Penny Thorpe/Alex Hutchinson ❤️

If it's based on one of my books I want to know who got the part of the horse.

If you’re after a real-life #Halloween tale today, I got you covered with this gruesome history lesson from #Bradford 💀 🍬 Feat.the knowledge and expertise of Penny Thorpe/Alex Hutchinson and Dr Lauren Padgett 🙏🏻 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

It's mid-December in North Yorkshire and the honeysuckle out by the field is in bloom. This is not good.

Why do we want actual historical documents, won't digital ones do? If you don't think that's a good idea, please sign now! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6540…

What are the five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep? Mine are: 1. Why Quakers didn't get into cocoa to promote the temperance movement 2. Women in 20th century manufacturing 3. The Baedeker raid on York 4. The British confectionery industry 5. Me 🤦🏻‍♀️

I missed this because I had covid, but I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Sam. Am excellent podcast from an excellent podcaster.

Currently at Huddersfield train station where I was meant to change for a TransPennine Express rail replacement bus service. Unfortunately the rail replacement bus is awol so they're having to put us on a series of trains which replace the bus which was replacing the train. 🤦🏻‍♀️

And so it begins... (Thank you John Finnemore and @unbounders for sending this at the start of a rainy bank holiday weekend 🙏🏻)

Terry's have launched a Milk Chocolate Ball and fake controversy abounds. The Chocolate Orange is safe, please put down your pitchforks. In fact, Carambar might actually be on to something... alexthearchivist.com/terrys-chocola…

Chocolate for breakfast with one of my favourite presenters, what could be better?

Spotted this morning in @BookCornerHX at The Piece Hall. I'm very excited about curling up with my copy over the weekend. Annie Gray 's writing is always, always a joy. I'm making myself an enormous cup of cocoa and lord help the cold caller who interrupts me.

I know people are leaving Twitter, but the algorithms also seem to be mysteriously (or not so mysteriously) working against some of us. I know that some followers of mine have somehow automatically unfollowed me (without them doing that), and that my posts are hidden or buried. I

Buy #TheBookshopTheDraperTheCandlestickMaker by Annie Gray through Bookshop.org until the end of the year to raise money for bookbanksuk ✨ 10% of the sales made in this period will go towards getting more books into foodbanks this winter 📚 tinyurl.com/TheBookshopThe…

I've also moved to Bluesky.