Polly MarshallTaplin

Sailed round Britain ⚓ 3000 miles ⛵ six months

@KayHarker4 This is the one I have had for always x

@KayHarker4 Love to you Kay and thank you for all the magical adventures you bring x

@Andr6wMale Nice bit of tweed as well x

#NowPlaying Love the scrape and drone on this one.

@JacquiWine Thank you Jacqui! By the miracle of technology, I can download this from the library and start reading it within seconds.

@tenbuckben @estellecostanza A great book x

Finally got round to reading Kill Your Friends by @estellecostanza (it’s brilliant BTW) and on the day Oasis announce a reunion I hit this paragraph 🤣

@foxxmetamatic Happy birthday x

Today is my 60th birthday. THANK YOU to everyone that has helped me get this far. Incidentals, accidentals, steadfasts, shadows and angels. Friends, family, fools and followers God bless you all

@Wordsworthians Imogen has a wonderful beard

#OTD 1784 Godwin publishes 'Imogen, or a Pastoral Romance from the Ancient British'. It has druids.

@Wordsworthians Ooh me too, Byron old boy x

#OTD 1818 Byron writes from Venice "Business and the utter and inexplicable silence of all my correspondents renders me impatient and troublesome"

@Bonn1eGreer @lunaperla @TheNewEuropean A beautiful, poignant column. Thank you, Bonnie

@lunaperla @TheNewEuropean Well done!

In my column on vintage #cinema-for @TheNewEuropean: I look at the great #AudreyHepburn-#famine survivor: a catastrophe that may have shortened her life. Towards the end of that life, she rigorously helped other famine victims.... and survivors. theneweuropean.co.uk/bonnie-greers-…

@mookse @bibliopaul All the Dickens

This weekend @bibliopaul and I are revisiting our very first podcast topic: bucket list books! What are some books on your bucket list? Please share why they’re there!

@LevParikian @SoSSwifts 😍

Might be worth saying at this point that it’s just 10 million seconds* till the swifts get back. *give or take

@jonathancoe Your nuts, my lord

My father fought in WW11 then became a trade unionist to fight for workers rights……This government must be stopped from anymore damage they wish to incur on working people. Enough is Enough

Next, Joseph Andrew Thompson on setting Blake's A Poison Tree to music wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2019/02/0… @pameldav3 on the importance of 'Jerusalem' to her family, wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2016/03/0… and @PollyTaplin 's review of the 2015 @Ashmoleanmuseum exhibition wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2015/02/1… 2/2

Give Peace a chance

@BBC6Music @AntiRecords @tomwaits @IggyPop @deenkerbell 🐺🧚‍♀️

This will be a treat of a listen 📷 @tomwaits is going to co-host an Iggy Confidential episode with @IggyPop! Echoing their famous joint appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’, the two-hour programme will see the pair pump the Confidential Jukebox full of nickels and dimes and spin some of their favourite tracks to one another. Listen to Iggy Confidential on Sunday 3rd December from 4pm (UK Time) on @bbcsounds

Shirley Collins selects her Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne 💌 Listen back to the episode now on @bbcsounds 📀🔗 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Delighted to announce Shirley will be a guest on Desert Island Discs this Sunday. Tune in from 11:15am on BBC Radio 4 (@bbcradio4) or BBC Sounds (@bbcsounds). 📸 BBC/Benson

@AllanKitt Hmmmm… interesting, follow the £££, there's plenty of it sloshing round the cabinet… theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/…

@jonathancoe Hoorah! Well done mate! Though must confess I have some catching up to do... Must get my mitts on Bournville first x