The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦
@theunhurriedreader.bsky.social
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
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The fact that @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has continued to produce such thought-provoking, beautifully-constructed tales, full of wisdom, poise and grace, throughout her illness and ongoing recuperation, has always seemed a kind of miracle to me. Please support her on Patreon if you can.
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🦊Attention medieval fox fanciers! My Reynard the Fox audiobook is available for only $3.99 at Barnes & Noble! It's normally $24.99! An absolute bargain for 14 hours of listening! Narrated by the brilliant Joseph Edward Degnan! barnesandnoble.com/w/reynard-th... 🦊
February 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🦊Attention medieval fox fanciers! My Reynard the Fox audiobook is available for only $3.99 at Barnes & Noble! It's normally $24.99! An absolute bargain for 14 hours of listening! Narrated by the brilliant Joseph Edward Degnan! barnesandnoble.com/w/reynard-th... 🦊
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Lovely Glynis Johns In MIRANDA at 12.50pm today. A lunchtime treat for anyone who happens to be free! #FilmSky
Here's today's line up folks! Wednesday 11th February on #TalkingPicturesTV
February 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Lovely Glynis Johns In MIRANDA at 12.50pm today. A lunchtime treat for anyone who happens to be free! #FilmSky
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Dear new followers. I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
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The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Dear new followers. I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
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This government is repellent.
Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says
Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says
Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plans
Families of nurses and carers have said they fear being torn apart under an immigration crackdown condemned as “an act of economic vandalism”.
A survey of more than 1,000 people, many of whom moved to Britain to work or study, found that three in five worry about being separated from their relatives. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 AM
This government is repellent.
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Today would have been Brynhild Parker's birthday as she was born on 10th February 1907. Attached herewith are her paintings of "Saloon Bar(1931)": "Appledore(1932)": "Islington Street Scene(1935)" & "Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend(1930)"ex the collection at the Beecroft Gallery, Southend #botd
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Today would have been Brynhild Parker's birthday as she was born on 10th February 1907. Attached herewith are her paintings of "Saloon Bar(1931)": "Appledore(1932)": "Islington Street Scene(1935)" & "Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend(1930)"ex the collection at the Beecroft Gallery, Southend #botd
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I hadn’t been to Sophia Square for over a month.
The last time, there was a Christmas tree here.
Standing there today, I felt it deeply:
we survived this winter.
We did it.
I hadn’t been to Sophia Square for over a month.
The last time, there was a Christmas tree here.
Standing there today, I felt it deeply:
we survived this winter.
We did it.
February 10, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Greetings from Kyiv.
I hadn’t been to Sophia Square for over a month.
The last time, there was a Christmas tree here.
Standing there today, I felt it deeply:
we survived this winter.
We did it.
I hadn’t been to Sophia Square for over a month.
The last time, there was a Christmas tree here.
Standing there today, I felt it deeply:
we survived this winter.
We did it.
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Please think very, very carefully before posting photos/videos of young children on any social media platform. This is even more important given what AI can do and everything we know about the people who control these platforms.
We must keep children safe. ✌️
We must keep children safe. ✌️
February 10, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Please think very, very carefully before posting photos/videos of young children on any social media platform. This is even more important given what AI can do and everything we know about the people who control these platforms.
We must keep children safe. ✌️
We must keep children safe. ✌️
If only they could speak ...
'The Top of the Bus' (1920s) by Mabel Frances Layng
(Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery)
(Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery)
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 AM
If only they could speak ...
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I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand better transport in new development! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
Demand better transport in new development!
Launched with a pledge to “go further than ever before” to meet housing targets, the Government is consulting on the biggest shake-up of planning rules since 2012. A few welcome words on transport, li...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand better transport in new development! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
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We now live in a world flooded by knowledge and information but thirsty for wisdom and understanding
January 23, 2026 at 6:28 AM
We now live in a world flooded by knowledge and information but thirsty for wisdom and understanding
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🌊 Look at the gorgeous cover for Brigid Lowe's #Shiver: The Lessons of the Lochs!
This is a love-letter to Caledonia - its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills - and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again.
🗓 24 Sept
This is a love-letter to Caledonia - its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills - and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again.
🗓 24 Sept
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 PM
🌊 Look at the gorgeous cover for Brigid Lowe's #Shiver: The Lessons of the Lochs!
This is a love-letter to Caledonia - its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills - and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again.
🗓 24 Sept
This is a love-letter to Caledonia - its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills - and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again.
🗓 24 Sept
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One day it will be sunny again. In the meantime....
Birdsong in Woodland in May in Beautiful Shropshire
YouTube video by Radio Lento
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February 6, 2026 at 8:08 AM
One day it will be sunny again. In the meantime....
‘Sea Otters’
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
(Sea and Air Mammals, 1972)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
(Sea and Air Mammals, 1972)
February 6, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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For #readindies today, a clever crime classic reissued by @blpublishing.bsky.social which has some wonderful echoes of the past. More here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
“A truncated cone of flame…” #skyhigh #readindies
One indie press I’m always happy to spend time with is British Library Publishing; as is fairly obvious, I’m a huge fan of their Crime Classics and Women Writers imprints, and so #ReadI…
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February 6, 2026 at 8:26 AM
For #readindies today, a clever crime classic reissued by @blpublishing.bsky.social which has some wonderful echoes of the past. More here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
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Will the winter never be over,
Will the dark days never go?
Must the buttercup and the clover
Be always hid under the snow?
Ah, lend me your little ear, love!
Hark! 'tis a beautiful thing;
The weariest month of the year, love,
Is shortest and nearest to spring.
Adeline Whitney
Will the dark days never go?
Must the buttercup and the clover
Be always hid under the snow?
Ah, lend me your little ear, love!
Hark! 'tis a beautiful thing;
The weariest month of the year, love,
Is shortest and nearest to spring.
Adeline Whitney
February 6, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Will the winter never be over,
Will the dark days never go?
Must the buttercup and the clover
Be always hid under the snow?
Ah, lend me your little ear, love!
Hark! 'tis a beautiful thing;
The weariest month of the year, love,
Is shortest and nearest to spring.
Adeline Whitney
Will the dark days never go?
Must the buttercup and the clover
Be always hid under the snow?
Ah, lend me your little ear, love!
Hark! 'tis a beautiful thing;
The weariest month of the year, love,
Is shortest and nearest to spring.
Adeline Whitney
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I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY!
Out in August.
Out in August.
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 AM
I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY!
Out in August.
Out in August.
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“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.” A perfect sentence, a perfect reflection of Bowen’s work.
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.” A perfect sentence, a perfect reflection of Bowen’s work.
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It’s especially sweet when our ex-orphans give birth to girls. Elephants are a matriarchal species, which means that females form lifelong family units. When little Sia is all grown up and raising babies of her own, they will still be walking side by side.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
It’s especially sweet when our ex-orphans give birth to girls. Elephants are a matriarchal species, which means that females form lifelong family units. When little Sia is all grown up and raising babies of her own, they will still be walking side by side.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...
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A wonderful and insightful background to my favourite book on nature and gardening, Claire Leighton's Four Hedges. Look for the delightful reprint by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Artist Spotlight: Clare Leighton and the Fine Art of Mass Reproduction
by Kristin Bluemel for the Rediscovering Art by Women blog
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by Kristin Bluemel for the Rediscovering Art by Women blog
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February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
A wonderful and insightful background to my favourite book on nature and gardening, Claire Leighton's Four Hedges. Look for the delightful reprint by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
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Last August, I ditched Substack, and decided to start sending out all my writing from my own website instead. It was a terrible decision, if we are talking in internet words like "growth" & "discoverability", but the correct one for me, and what I believe in. You can subscribe here: www.tom-cox.com
Tom Cox
New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.
www.tom-cox.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Last August, I ditched Substack, and decided to start sending out all my writing from my own website instead. It was a terrible decision, if we are talking in internet words like "growth" & "discoverability", but the correct one for me, and what I believe in. You can subscribe here: www.tom-cox.com
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Inspired by a walk earlier this week — “Fieldfare Bridge”.
February 5, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Inspired by a walk earlier this week — “Fieldfare Bridge”.