Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. New book, Wildly Different, about women and the wild is out in the wild!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Wrestling another one
Never use AI
Doc Sarah Lonsdale
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Oh my, spotted by a sharp-eyed friend in Talinn: Wildly Different amongst some truly great authors in The English Bookshop. Woolf, Orwell, Zweig, Hooks and de Beauvoir. Such amazing company!
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Thank you random bench, gazing out over the gunmetal grey sea on the slopes between Whitstable and Herne Bay, on an otherwise melancholy Sunday afternoon, you've made me smile.
Constant plugs for my prints and postcards shop will continue until morale improves. marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Just 4 days to go till I give my talk about Bumblebees in Stirling!
Do please come along if you are in the area - or pass the details on to anyone you know who might be interested.
Ticket and details below:
www.tickettailor.com/events/madei...
Masses of Ragged Robin now in the field margins where I live: feathery red-green leaves and tiny pink flowers. It's one of nature's healers. I made a poultice of this with marsh woundwort and it cured my daughter's impetigo on her knee that wouldn't heal with medical creams (*if in doubt see a GP*)
I wish Starmer dealt with Reform like this
The immediate recession didn't happen, but the long-term economic damage was spot on. A decade after voting Leave, the Guardian's charts prove our economy is smaller, trade is throttled, and households are thousands of pounds worse off. Absolute self-sabotage. 🇬🇧💸👇
Ambiguous headline alert. I genuinely wondered what kind of balloon would need 10 years' funding.
Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
The Hidden Lives of Garden Bees - A talk with author and bee advocate, Brigit Strawbridge – Made in Stirling, Thu 18 Jun 2026 - Thursday 18th June
7pm - 9.30pm
£10
This illustrated talk focusses on ou...
Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years."
(AfD members laughing)
Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."
