Caroline Scott

What a joy to watch Lucinda Lambton's Durham episode of Travels with Pevsner again. Wish you'd repeat all her programmes, @BBCFOUR4. Her delivery is such a delight.

Cowslips in the spring sunshine. ☀️ #spring #naturephotography #wildflowers

And the #cherryblossom is just starting to open here in France today.... so pretty at this stage when it's all flamingo-pink dots. Been seriously uplifting to be working outside this week - a new joy to be discovered in the #garden every day. #signsofspring #gardening #blossom 🌸

The blossom on my little peach tree began opening today. Had to scrape ice off the car windscreen this morning, but 20 degrees here this afternoon... weird weather, but SO nice to be out working in the garden. 🌸 #signsofspring #gardening

Shiny new celandines. #signsofspring

A few hours of sunshine (at last!), and suddenly the wild #violets are shyly lifting their little faces. #signsofspring #nature #gardening

I’m looking forward to watching #TheTestamentofAnnLee. I found myself reading about Ann while I was researching #TheBestofIntentions. If you’re interested in utopian communities, you might find this novel amusing… #fiction #historicalfiction #amwriting @simonschusterUK

...at first to see a girl in breeches and leggings and farm overall; but their remarks, if plain, were amusing to me… Certainly the ‘un-mentionables’ are the most comfortable working costume I have discovered.’ #WomensLandArmy #WW1 @penswordbooks (2/2)

An email from @PlumoStudio informs me that #Landsgirls is the new look... which reminded me of researching this book, & just how many people were utterly outraged by the sight of women wearing breeches. One Land Girl from Bristol wrote, ‘Naturally, perhaps, people stared... (1/2)

Phil Rickman's #TheEchoofCrows is my #audiobook companion today. It's a joy to be back in Ledwardine, & once again drawn into Phil's atmospheric and folklore-rich writing, but it's a bitter-sweet listen knowing this is the last Merrily Watkins novel. 😢#PhilRickman @AtlanticBooks

Another in my #randomshityouspotonauctionsites series… He’s a blingy, but ultimately purposeless antique pig. Face on, there’s a certain resemblance to… ‘A Russian hand-carved figurine representing a pig...' @thesaleroom #gammon

Snowdrops at Cupper’s Piece, James Ravilious, February 1983. #Photography #Snowdrops #JamesRavilious @beafordarchive (Thought of this image today... I became a bit obsessed by James Ravilious' photos when I was writing my last book.) #image" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">beafordarchive.org/archive-image/…

@PLR_UK Thank you! Such an uplifting email to receive - and VERY much appreciated. ❤️

We are pleased to announce that UK PLR statements for the year 2024/25 are being distributed and will be emailed to you by the end of today. You will only receive a statement if you are due a payment. Postal statements will follow over the coming days 📚.

Please support your local #library in this #NationalYearofReading. 🙏@go_all_in_2026. Authors/illustrators, if you’re not already registered for #PLR, do it! It's so easy. bl.uk/plr/ #libraries #IloveLibraries #amwriting #authors #royalties #historicalfiction

I just received my #PLR statement (authors receive a contribution every time their books are borrowed from #libraries), & I’m flabbergasted that my novels were taken out 5,912 times last year. Wow! ❤️ A huge THANK YOU to all readers, librarians & the @britishlibrary. @PLR_UK 📚

And the first #snowdrops have appeared. (Is it a generational thing that it's impossible to see them without #TedHughes gloomsomely enunciating in your head?)

Moody skies and flooded fields on our afternoon dog walk... My sugar-deprived Dry January brain decided that the plane trails looked like the feathered icing on the top of a vanilla slice. (How many days to go?)

Much tree veneration... look at this handsome old oak, with the last of his leaves all gilded in the sunshine.

It was a beautiful crisp, sunny afternoon for a walk and I do like to stop and goggle at a venerable tree.

Dog and shadow woman on their afternoon constitutional... #winterwalks