Su Toogood

[Lindum Books @LindumBooks]

Bank Holiday Monday
11am-4pm
(and it stays lovely and cool inside our shop… 😉)

[Kate Witney @KIWitney]

There is a little collection of books in there as well, with titles such as How To Clean Anything or The National Trust Manual Of Housekeeping. I have filed them under Fantasy Fiction.

[Su Toogood @SuToogood]

RT @MartinSLewis: Gutted to learn it's likely bailiff regulation WON'T be in the King’s Speech. Aggressive bailiff behaviour destroys lives…

[Alice Jolley @mthr_alice]

Blustery Holy Saturday! Makes me think of this, with resurrection lapwings.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A hilarious April fools video made by the police

[Papaganda @Banjaxbill]

Lady passenger from Marylebone to kings X this morning. I have your phone . Left in cab , you'd been to stoke Mandeville and we're going home to Peterborough, you paid in cash . Please circulate

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

On this day six years ago we first shared this parody ...
Join us for a LIVE reprise at our #hollowchapters album launch concerts in two weeks!
👉https://t.co/UNysTPCXtw

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Why should you have to tell firm after firm that you’re vulnerable? Our new @mmhpi campaign is for a ‘tell us once’ service for those with mental (or physical) health conditions, to minimise stress in a crisis.

Do watch and read more here https://t.co/v9nNSonaXx

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

#OnThisday in 1986 Blue Peter presenters Simon Groom and Janet Ellis showed off a 70-metre wooden replica of the Bayeux Tapestry made over eight years from solid oak. Taking up 22 wooden panels, the carving by Pierre Bataille was so big it didn’t fit into the Blue Peter studio.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️

The entire global pencil industry.

There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain.

Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the roots was something nobody had ever seen before.

A black substance. Soft, dark, left a mark on everything it touched.

The shepherds didn't know what it was, but they used it to mark their sheep.

That was 1565.

It was the purest deposit of graphite ever found on earth. The only one like it. Ever. 🌍

Word spread fast.

The Crown seized the mine, put armed guards on the fell and flooded it between diggings to keep the price high.

Stealing graphite became a criminal offence.

Punishable by transportation to Australia.

Because this wasn't just for marking sheep.

It was perfect for lining cannonball moulds. It made England's cannonballs rounder. Faster. More deadly. ⚔️

England had a pencil monopoly for nearly a century. Every artist, every cartographer, every engineer in Europe. All of them wanted what was in that one Cumbrian field.

Slowly, workshops appeared in nearby Keswick. Cottage industries. Families cutting graphite into sticks.

Wrapping them in string. Then sheepskin. Then wood.
The pencil was born. ✏️

In a Cumbrian field. Because a storm uprooted a tree.

There is still a pencil factory in Keswick today. On the same site it has always been.

Did you know that?

These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten.

We find them. We tell them.

We put them in front of millions.

You help us make that possible.

Be Part Of Us.

Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

https://t.co/wN9S2gRmFj

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

If I'd thought the ****ing scammers couldn't sink any lower - now they have now done deep fake ads with a supposed video of my wife @LaraLewington being beaten up by an 'immigrant' as he was refused entry to 'Martin Lewis' Quantum AI' investment scheme as it isn't for 'outsiders'.

We've had worried messages from friends.

Social media firms have no problem taking money to publish this offensive, fake, organised criminals attempts to rip people off!

Clearly if you see these please report them. Yet I have no faith in any of these firms to clear up this crap as they're earning too much. And the implementation of the scam ads rules in the Online Safety Act keep being delayed and delayed.

[Cait Mercer @MercerCait]

My eyes hurt.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Must water be brought back back into public ownership?

Please RT after voting - thank you.

[Sandra Weeden @SandraWeeden]

POTHOLE OLYMPICS! (just spotted on FB!) 🤣🤣🤣

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

[Su Toogood @SuToogood]

@CllrCSmalley Not prepared to give my phone number.

[Lessig 🇺🇦 @lessig]

Brilliant remix of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by the extraordinary Marsh Family. Favorite line: "He is drumming out the glory of a land once free and brave..."

https://t.co/ZjDOcDCBk7

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music first written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem

[Su Toogood @SuToogood]

@TheCCT @Crowseyeuk These videos are wonderful - superb needlecraft and filming.

[Churches Conservation Trust @TheCCT]

What church could form a better backdrop for a video about Anne Boleyn than St. Lawrence's, Snarford?
This church full of Tudor effigies, was recently the site of a shoot for the series 'Getting Dressed' by @Crowseyeuk
Watch the video here: https://t.co/GPHdvC8SnW #AnneBoleyn