Sarah Tanburn

CHILDREN OF THE LAND is available NOW. Buy via your local bookshop or online at bit.ly/3Aa2van. - see more details on the publisher's website ladyturtlepress.cymru. Follow @LadyTurtlePress on here for other updates.

@mariejane2020 Absolutely. Brilliant.

Anyone remember this, I don’t.

@mrmikeMTL Hamza Yassin. The new Attenborough, understands the beauty and fragility of our world, just how awful humans can be but also how wonderful.

if you could nominate one human to converse with an alien civilization as a representative of all of us... who would it be?

Looking forward to this event tonight. The @Peterfinch Oriel Playlist is still there in Spotify. open.spotify.com/playlist/18Ern…

@JohnCleese Seriously @JohnCleese we are desperately furious & in despair about what is happening to women in Afghanistan. It is ridiculous of you (master of ridicule) to suggest anything else.

I'm starting to wonder why feminists seem happy about this

@ronsterd89 Between 1969 and 1972

What is your guess as to what year this photo was taken?

@Fat_imyy Be’doch. Short for Behomoth’s daughter (doch in Russian). Behemoth is the big, black we’re-cat in Bulgakov’s Master & Margarita. Your kitty looks like she should have a role in a great novel (which will drag you into that surreal world with her).

@Sofia_5070tg I miss my old girl. So there was this …

I want to see the last cat photo you took on your phone 😊 😻

@sueveneer Hard a but for a party enjoy Twist & Shout by Chaka D’émus & Pliers open.spotify.com/track/4wrS2dvd…

As it’s my birthday, I’m giving you all a slice of cake and asking for your favourite song for my big Twitter birthday disco 🎈🎂🎉🥳

For 25yrs from 1974 Oriel bookshop in #Cardiff hosted much great stuff, run by @PeterFinch - launching memoir #LiteraryBusiness on 5/3. He gives the Oriel Playlist, part of the work of growing bilingual Welsh culture. Sounds of the era. #musictobuybooksby open.spotify.com/playlist/18Ern…

@KateClanchy1 @FloatOrSwim Please tell her she is a beautiful writer.

In 2022 everything was taken from the women of Afghanistan. It can be an overwhelming thought but reading and passing on this poem makes a real difference to the poet. (She can't share her name)

@bagshaw2112 £16, 6/4½. 16 pounds, 6 shillings and 4.5 pennies. £16.33 (near enough). 5p is one shilling. A shilling had 12 pennies. So 4½d is 2.66 new pennies, but they don’t come in halves. If pic taken at decimalisation in 1971, equivalent today is £209.02 (Bank of England calculator).

Can any of my followers do this - must say I struggled 😳😳😳

@akafaceUS Two of us in the UK here. One thinks it is a big pond, and the other a small lake. Take your pick - neither is definitive as we can’t see the far side of it, so can’t really judge the size.

She wouldn’t refer to it as anything else, only “a smaller body of water.”

Do badgers get into magic mushrooms? #stonedbadger #Winterwatch

@AmeliajakSolana @bigbeard666 @bill019_brown The Maōri reached Aotearoa having made astonishing voyages of exploration across the Pacific. At that time, Europeans had not sailed across the Atlantic. What achievements do you count?

@bill019_brown For some context, around the time the Māori were arriving in NZ, the English were building Westminster Abbey in London (1245-1269).

Oh, true!

@CrazyVibes_1 It’s your wedding . Prioritise what you and your spouse will enjoy. Mention it to your mother (with no emotion or whatever) and she will make her own mind up!

My future mother-in-law just informed me that she paid over $1K for this light pink beaded dress and plans to wear it to our wedding next week, completely ignoring our “navy blue because we want the mothers to be our something blue” conversation from months ago. When I gently reminded her about the color scheme, she got defensive and said, “well, your family can be in blue,” like this is some kind of competition between the mothers instead of a wedding where we hoped everyone would follow the same plan. Now I’m stuck wondering if I should buy my own mother a matching pink dress so she doesn’t feel underdressed, or if that makes me the crazy one for enabling this whole situation. I’ve already found the perfect secondhand formal dress online that would match his mother’s style and price range, and I’m sitting here debating whether spending money I don’t have on a dress my mom doesn’t even want is worth keeping the peace at my wedding. Part of me thinks I should just let it go and have mismatched mothers, but the other part of me knows my mom will feel self-conscious standing next to someone in a thousand-dollar gown while she’s wearing something from her closet. And honestly, I’m so tired of managing everyone else’s feelings about my wedding that I might just elope instead. Credit - Emilia Berry

For @TheRestHistory - Ring of Bright Water is from the Gavin Maxwell book. A doc of Tarka was made in 1978. Elementary otter-error there. Otherwise, lovely episode.

Distinguished Prof @ProfAliceS agrees a talk @BristolUni 15 months ahead. Ludicrous protests stifle her statistics session. Uni doubles down on 'free speech', ignoring importance of truth & evidence to such speech. Universities losing their way, much. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@perseverare1776 I don’t believe in the question. Lowest educational achievement, acceptance of dictatorship, cycle of civil war, etc etc - none of them equal IQ. Racist rubbish, whatever the putative answer.

Which country has the lowest IQ?

@TomTugendhat I love walking at night in cities. But you do need to get real about the very different experiences of women. Many streets you think are fine are much too risky. Most women will not walk alone at night at all. (PS London is a great city despite the issues you mention.)

@AudreySuffolk I have always viewed FGM as a core test of moral stance. It needs no religion nor relativism to know it is WRONG. To diminish/dismiss/pretend otherwise is bankrupt ideologically & ethically.

Horrific