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The air is scented with cut wheat on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, and a combine just chugged past that *might* do the field at the back today. And suddenly I’m 8yo again, wrapping a scarf round my face to sit on a blue, open-air Ransomes with my dad.. 🌾#FarmLife

Not even sure there’s still a #BookTwitter but even if it’s howling into the void I have exciting news incoming - here’s where I had an excellent muffin between meetings yesterday..

When you go for an inspirational walk and find a simile in a field.. 🫛#WritingCommunity

‘to smell colour’ It’s stayed with me since I read it and it brought Ireland with it 💚 From the brilliant Sinéad Gleeson ‘Hagstone’ #BookTwitter

Highly likely everyone has seen this already but I haven’t, and now I have new journal/life goals.. #BookTwitter

Just the average Thursday here in Norfolk. Met a friend for coffee, came with added car goat..

The last of the harvesting near me - and every time I see it I am a kid again, grazing my ankles on stubble and crazing my dad to let me have one last go on the combine.. 🌾 #FarmLife

Because too often it isn't. Just 8% of people in film and TV come from a working-class background compared to 60% from upper-middle-class backgrounds. Journalism has a similar problem. It means the stories of working-class communities are rarely accurately or adequately told.

Normal for Norfolk in a good way. They don’t call it big sky country for nothing.. #Norfolk 💙

Last day of summer game is strong in my garden today. A dizzying storm of these and dragonflies. Gorgeous. #autumn

‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

That seems to me to be the point of literature: to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary. I speak to my students of that often while reminding them how extraordinary it is to be living on a planet rotating on its axis at 1699 km/hr while hurtling through space at 107000 km/hr.

This.

Absolute unit. #ThickTrunkTuesday.

Went for a walk, world’s cutest mouse ran out in front of me and started eating lunch. Couldn’t believe it didn’t see me (until it did)..

Someone’s given me this. I’ve read a lot of Irish lit this year and loved it. Also read a few Booker winners I didn’t vibe with, and I’m a bit put off by the lack of paragraphs… thoughts, please, #BookTwitter?

Book post cheering up a cold, wet Thursday that can, quite frankly, get its coat.. #BookTwitter

Join wordsmith Adam Sharp for an entertaining show blending stand-up and excerpts from his book as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Tickets are available from cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk

My pear tree has three pears on it. Here’s two of them. Yup.