Griselda Heppel

Love these young reviewers!

No Poo at the Point! c.org/gMT2XvL7 via @UKChange Please sign the petition against Southern Water’s plan to build a huge sewage overflow pipe at Bembridge Point, Isle of Wight. A terrible place for raw sewage.

Happy 125th Birthday @wigmore_hall! Many happy times and see you December 10th! @juliusdrake @HewittJSB @polenzanitenor @AliceCoote #ChristianGerhaher #AnnaProhaska wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20261…

Happy 125th Birthday @wigmore_hall So grateful for many opportunities to sing on your stage, and hear remarkable friends perform in your amazing acoustic (just wish you had a little more leg room for your seats)

@GeraldFinley @SchlossElmau1 @juliusdrake Takes me back to the days I worked there as a Hilferin. Would LOVE to have come to your concert then!

Rehearsing for our concert tonight at stunning @SchlossElmau1 @juliusdrake

Whitsuntide, the days after Pentecost, was for centuries *the* time of the year for holiday-making and summer fun - fairs, plays, games, and parades. It's the reason we have a Bank Holiday in late May, which this year falls nicely on Whit Monday itself. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/06/whitsu…

I have the last 2 proofs of 'My Name is MacKenzie Bly', which I wrote because I have always loved and cherished books that make me laugh, and I wanted to write something purely funny. I *think* it's for everyone over 11. It's out in August. RT by end of tomorrow to win a copy.

A baby otter at a British sanctuary, who was initially afraid of water, gradually becomes accustomed to it and learns to dive thanks to a device devised by zookeepers that requires it to enter the water to catch fish.

On this Mother's Day, EDS Canada Foundation wishes to recognize our Mothers and the multigenerational impact EDS has on women. Caring for their families while living with chronic pain and fatigue. #EDSCanada #EDSAwareness #Mothers

Happy birthday GREAT Dame Felicity Lott What a career, what a classy artist..what a lady!! Grateful for you!!

When the British soldiers walked through the gates of Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, one of the first prisoners they spoke to was a thin woman in a dirty coat who stepped forward without being asked and started giving them instructions. She told them where the sickest prisoners were. She told them which barracks held women who could still be saved. She told them, very calmly, that there were children in the camp. Hundreds of them. Some still alive. Some not. The soldiers asked who she was. She said: I am Dr. Bimko. I am a dentist. I will help you. She had been in the camp for ten weeks.💔💔💔❤️✡️

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

Looking for the right next step for your child? Join us at our School Open Afternoon on Wed 13 May & see why so many families choose to be part of the #CCCSOxford community Find out more & book your place here ➡️Open Mornings and Visits- Christ Church Cathedral School

@KateClanchy1 @arealmofwonder @grok Come on @grok spill the beans. And while you're at it, clear up the sludge of bogus sentimental quotations supposedly from A A Milne that infects the internet.

@arealmofwonder Fake quotation, right @grok ?

"If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out for you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find." ~ Franz Kafka 🎨 Stanislav Zhukovsky (1927)

So Mary Bennet had Hidden Depths: Who Knew? griseldaheppel.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/so-…

Stronger together 🤝 Proud to partner with amazing organizations to advance EDS research, care, and support 💙 Learn more: EDSCanada.org/partners/ #EDSCanada #StrongCommunity #EDSAwareness

Authors Electric: Mary Bennet is Charming: it's the Other Bennet Sis... authorselectric.blogspot.com/2026/04/mary-b…

@LissaKEvans I agree. Here's a glorious profusion of them, Addison's Walk around Magdalen College water meadows. I also love that the German for fritillary is 'chessflower'. Not wrong.

Try and tell me these haven’t been hand-painted by pixies; I won’t believe you.

Authors Electric: A Mostly Delightful Farming Memoir... with a Chill... authorselectric.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-most…

Why 'Murder Your Darlings' Makes the Perfect Quiz Question griseldaheppel.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/why… via @GriseldaHeppel

My World Book Day visit to Skinners Kent Academy griseldaheppel.com/news to talk to Years 7 and 8 about the inspiration behind Ante's Inferno and The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst. Amazing day.