The @SSGreatBritain may be changing its name but my 2022 book, Know Bristol, remains on sale with its original name in the SS Great Britain shop and on their website. Like the historic ship/dockyard, the book is considered both woke and unwoke simultaneously. Read it and decide!
Pleased, flattered, excited to say that my children's book, Patch the Solitary Bee, has been adapted into a musical by my talented friends at Sapling Theatre. It will be showing at the Tiny Ideas Festival in Oxford later this year. Crowdfunder: https://t.co/fmof2aSMpP
Some of the ways in which the history of Bristol and the United States have intertwined...from moi... Bristol & the United States: historical linkages | by Ashley Coates | May, 2026 | Medium
I am now fundraising for this plaque, which is being sponsored by the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society. Want to chip in? Donations welcome here: https://t.co/0m9vUdBgxb
I am very pleased to say my Bristol City Council petition calling for a plaque to mark the location of the discovery of thecodontosaurus gained 50 signatures. Get in touch if you want to help with next steps. https://t.co/Du7FR2U9gT
Thrilled to be at the UK launch of "All the King's Fathers: The Paternal Ancestry of King Charles III and the House of Glücksburg", yesterday at London's East India Club. If it is anything like Ed's last book, it will be a fabulous read. Get your copy: https://t.co/VsPskGVcdr
Saw my first temminck's stint (Calidris temminckii) at @WWTSlimbridge over the weekend. One of around 100 individuals passing through the UK annually. A real treat.
it’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week.
Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined.
Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen.
The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.
Yesterday was Australia's #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, held on 7th September as this was the day the world's last known thylacine [Tasmanian Tiger] passed away. This year I recognised the observance with a small installation of my own, taking inspiration from @LostSpeciesDay
Every paperback and hardback copy of my 2022 book "Know Bristol" plants a tree through the Bristol-based social enterprise Ecologi. Today it funded 297 trees at their Kandrany 2 site in the Northwest of the island near Mahajanga https://t.co/ZaW4NPYqXT
Just a wall lizard hanging out next to Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge. Thankfully this non-native population does not appear to be spreading and pleased to say I had my first sighting of the native common lizard today at the same site.