How to support bookshops during #IndieBookshopWeek (17-24 June):
• Follow them on social media
• Sign up to their newsletter
• Pre-order a book
• Visit your local bookshop
• Buy a book for your summer reading
• Purchase a gift card
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Visit Inverleith House tomorrow for a free talk at 1pm, given by Head of RBGE Library Lorna Mitchell who will be presenting original cyanotypes made by Anna Atkins, one of the most prominent women artists of the 19th century! 🔵
The library is dangerous –
Don’t go in. If you do
You know what will happen.
It’s like a pet store or a bakery –
Every single time you’ll come out of there
Holding something in your arms.
— Don't Go into the Library, Alberto Ríos 📚
"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can."
From poet Jane Kenyon, some of the best advice to create and live by: https://t.co/YxdVbiPaOU
We try - by nature - to understand as much as we can. But there is also a moment when wisdom involves realising we have no ability to grasp more and must fall silent; when the wisest thing is to know we don't know.
This remote wall #postbox in the Scottish Highlands remains in place thanks to Royal Mail's commitment to have a postbox within 500m of 99% of UK residents. Dating from the reign of George V, its aperture was enlarged in the 50s to accommodate larger mail #PostboxSaturday
"Here is tonight’s Bill of Fare, inscribed on distressed parchment and encased in a leather book fashioned from the boots of retired blacksmiths."
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