Reading the first Wallander. The horse did it! Case closed.

I had forgotten the developmental stage of 'toddler immediately falls in puddle every time you leave the house'

Am I rejoining twitter? Am I distracting myself from day one of LBF? Anyway - burying the lede - bought the new book from David Attenborough and Colin Butfield so my career has peaked and if I stay now I'll just tweet about dogs.

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Stupid question time: what's that sort of book called that's like...an miscellany of people? Very old fashioned sort of thing, possibly used for listing famous/rich folk

I said there was news incoming...
Orion acquires official prequel to TV series ‘Baptiste’ written by Hewson thebookseller.com/rights/orion-a…

This morning the 4-year-old woke up at 7 instead of the usual 6.30, and when he came into our room he said, 'I'm SO sorry I'm late; I didn't realise the time.'

For reasons unknown I am watching the Chelsea Flower Show and they keep cutting over to and discussing the Chelsea Pensioners like it's Springwatch and they've got a camera in their nest box

If the sun had his hat on would that not make things...less sunny?

4-year-old has insisted we watch the Power Rangers film, and in a 'domestic' scene said suspiciously: 'This is sort of like a story...'

Me: Yes. Did you just want the fighting bits without the story?

4yo: I don't even want them to talk.

Great interview with the brilliant Megan McCubbin; we're very lucky to be publishing her Atlas of Endangered Species in 5 days. Time is ticking in more ways than one ⏰

'...and I couldn't help but wonder if Samantha was right after all. Do we all turn into our mothers?'

No thank you, I'll keep the ones I've got.

Fair play to the almost-4-year-old, 'I've added the secret ingredient: a sneeze' is an objectively funny thing to say after being left alone with his birthday party cake for 2 minutes 😶

Brilliant take down of Madeley with clear facts. The rhetoric that striking workers don’t care about their patients need to stop.

If you were visiting a northern(ish) French city with what will be a just-turned-4-year-old and 6-month-old in June, where would you go? (Will have car)

I love this

Started to get nervous reading this Judy blume interview because it sounded like she was going to talk about cancel culture or people being 'too sensitive', but she actually uses it as an opportunity to talk about queer book bans and why lgbtq books are important to kids

You'll find no better, funnier, more life-affirming summer read than this. Also available in spring/autumn/winter

Sometimes I get sad thinking about the paleontologist who discovered an prehistoric monotreme with crosses on its teeth, but whose colleagues banned him from calling it a 'hotcrossbunodon'.

Alternative baby nicknames for sale, £5 o.n.o.

Peggy Googooheim
President Jed Fartlet
Kurt Vomegut
Simon Peebag Montefiore