If anyone needs me today I’ll be cracking on, getting back to it, having no rest for the wicked, going back to the grind, heading onwards and upwards and just generally getting there.
Immediately after I have a cup of tea.
Alan Hollinghurst just can’t write a sentence that isn’t beautiful. Am still haunted by the atmospherically glimmering melancholy and elegant wit of Our Evenings, long after finishing it.
🕯️ Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to honour the trans people we've lost. We know this day can be difficult, and there’s no right or wrong way to reflect
If you need support, our helpline is here for you.
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning,
We will remember them.
#Remembrance2024
This guy is called Martin. He was my German exchange partner in 1997. Twenty seven years later he’s just walked past my table, both of us on holiday. I like it when life does this sort of thing.
📖✨ Brevity 'text-hibition' at Ryde Library displays local literary works from the 'Hear Me Now' project 🌈🖊️
https://t.co/GODd0T3fIa
#iwnews#IsleofWight
‘Logical not biological family’ 🫂
It's the people you choose to be with who are at the heart of @sanditoksvig's new novel, Friends of Dorothy.
She tells @claremcdonnell1 why that happens to be an outrageous, foulmouthed, minicab-driving, septuagenarian called Dorothy 🎧 ⬇️
New word: Biscgret.
Meaning: The feeling when someone offers you a biscuit and you refuse, and you spend the rest of your time with them secretly wishing you’d accepted the biscuit.
@IoWBobSeely@Keir_Starmer@Conservatives She was homophobic and persecuted the LGBT community by bringing in Section 28. That’s just one of the reasons why she was our most detested Prime Ministers.
Art lovers on the Isle of Wight!
Meet the makers from across the Island during National Portfolio Organisation @TheIslandColle2's Open Studios 17-day event📍
Starting tomorrow until Sunday 8th September. Map your visit here > https://t.co/rDl7d0tz5t
#ACEsupported#LetsCreate