Ceri May

Full marks to @camdenlight for this birthday present

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

@AnnaSavory Ah very glad you got this sorted! Wishing you much JSTOR joy

@Super_Ewe Thanks so much for this offer! It's since been revealed to me that I actually also have graduate access - my disappointing university experience was all worth it! Now to catch up on a decade of free journal articles...

Now, does anyone have a Jstor account I could borrow for the week? I realise I work at a huge cultural institution that could provide its readers with free access but also - my cultural institution is currently broken! :(

@ShirleyHughes_ @PuffinBooks I think this is the most perfect Christmas story book, it captures the ordinary magic of Christmas with so much warmth and detail. It is a joy to read it to my own son now :-)

Today's Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas comes from Alfie's Christmas, one of the stories in the @PuffinBooks collection A Shirley Hughes Christmas. Great-Uncle Will and Alfie go out after lunch to test Alfie's new scooter.

@AnnaSavory My goodness I think you are articulating a pre-sleep thing that I have also experienced but never been able to describe!!!

Looking at this I get the feeling I used to get with fevers as a child/ sometimes before sleep as an adult. The only way I can describe it is the feeling of a huge lump of clay dangling by a single thread of hair, or the feeling of looking at this finger! Alice in WL syndrome-y!

@EastHerts I can’t put out my paper recycling today because you only supply a lid-less box and it is a rainy day.Wet paper can’t be recycled.I suggest you supply smaller boxes with lids as current system not fit for purpose & will discourage recycling

@EastHerts I’m concerned to read of others struggling with the new paper recycling box and that many may just give up given that the box is not fit for purpose.Recycling needs to be easy to get engagement.I would suggest the council issues smaller boxes with lids?

We collect paper separately from other recyclables in its own compartment in the vehicle. ♻️📄 From our depot, it's collected and taken to recycle into other products. Because you sorted the paper free of glass, it’s worth more and can be recycled into other paper products. 👏

@EastHerts Please can you tell me why you don’t provide paper bins with lids- paper that is wet cannot be recycled so given the general Uk weather, bins without lids are not fit for purpose.

@AnnaSavory Basil Bunting reading Brigflatts is glorious!

Alright chaps, long period of travel and rest ahead for the next two weeks. Come at me with your favourite spoken word recs! Audiobooks, podcasts (except not podcasty ones), monologues, anything Joe Frank adjacent. Tell me what you love!

@imogenfoxell @lantanapub I am just about to order several more copies of this so that all my friends’ children can have one (even though it is impossible to read aloud without weeping!!)

Look what we spotted in pride of place at Oxford Central library . Why not borrow a copy of Maybe You Might today! @lantanapub #anacunha

@HRHopkins Not poetry but poetic The Well Gardened Mind is a tremendous book and one I’ve found useful in cultivating my garden and my garden poems

What are your favourite gardens/gardening poems? I’m thinking of putting together a garden-themed poetry workshop and I’d love to read any favourite poems that might get missed! (Here's a very old photo of my 1st London flatshare and of the sunflower I grew there).

@AnnaSavory Frozen chopped veg is my go to- onions, Mediterranean veg, stir fry veg and ingredients in jars (minced ginger, chillis, garlic etc), so you are just throwing things into a pan.Also as it’s frozen lasts forever so less waste & less guilt!

Has anyone REALLY cracked meal prep? I’m reaching a stage of functioning where I’m holding down my job & writing (happy tears) but the cost of that is theres nothing left in the tank for cooking (stone me, what a life) Anyone got recs for freezer meals/ batch cooks? #longcovid

@suzannezeedyk Anything by Ross Greene (The Explosive Child or Raising Human Beings) and love his Lives In The Balance website and the incredible wealth of free, accessible information there for parents/careers and professionals.

Parents of Twitter. I need yr help please. What is the *very best thing* you hv read that you think wd help parents to shift from seeing a primary child's explosive behaviour as 'bad' (so go to your room!) to seeing it as overwhelmed & distressed & ultimately abt sadness & need.

@AnnaSavory This will undoubtedly be my new favourite podcast!

The bad news for all of you is im either incrementally getting some energy back, or learning to live with pain and no energy, and either way I’m planning to start a podcast in 2023 which will just be me reading ghost stories! Maybe sometimes I’ll bring a guest on to read one.

More of artist Helga Stentzel's 'clothesline animals' #WomensArt

@AnnaSavory Have you read Piranesi? It manages to be deeply poetic and uplifting and beautiful and also easy to read

Found a book token I’d forgotten about! Any recommendations? I find myself at a point where I want poetry or easy addictive reading (still ill, if somethings difficult I get the kindle version, since I’m already addicted to staring into my phone, but this will be an object-book)

Why are the animals on this children’s jigsaw all Medieval monsters?

@shotscarecrow Yes yes yes! One of the things I have learned to do if I feel incensed by something is try and find out more about it

OK, we all saw the headline, and the headline did its job of outraging us, not least because she's said some very stupid things in the past, but for goodness' sake, read the actual press release -- because it's actually good sense. gov.uk/government/new…

How meeting someone for the first time should end