What I’ve discovered in the first 4 months with a baby: those dolls that automatically close their eyes when you tip them over?False advertisement;the increase in patience for a baby is in direct relation to a decrease in patience for old, semi functional tech (I replaced it all)

Isn't life wild? Thank you Windham-Campbell Prizes ... with all my heart ... and congratulations to the other recipients 💚

Join us for a special event this Thursday showcasing another successful year of the Emerging Translator Mentorships programme 🌟

Fresh from 6 months' mentoring our talented translators will offer readings from their translation projects.
Register here: buff.ly/3uuzAyG

We are concerned to see the cancellation of Aye & Wee Write festivals and hope the situation is reviewed.

Leaving Glasgow without a book festival will impact readers of all ages, and those who write for them, with no occasion to celebrate all that books and reading does for us.

The workshop is sold out but if you would like to be among the first to find out about upcoming workshops, sign up to our newsletter—now available on our website! 2/2

Getting some inspiration for our upcoming workshop Body of Water with Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social : the Kale Water further upstream from Kalewater Cottage. These two reels were taken on the same bridge but the landscape and quality of the water could hardly be more different. 1/2

Would you like to adopt a raised bed at the Croft?
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Save Cathkin Park - Sign the Petition! chng.it/NXbvjJyJ via Change.org UK

Word of the day (again) is ‘unasinous’: ‘united in stupidity’.

A 17th-century riff on ‘unanimous’ (literally, of ‘one mind’), based on the Latin for behaving like ‘one ass’.

What I’ve discovered in the first two months with a newborn: wind is a terrible torture device turning my daytime darling into a nighttime banshee; hands are amazing (imagine discovering what they can do and that they are YOURS); I haven’t been to baby cinema often enough

GOING TO SEE DEATH CAB AND THE POSTAL SERVICE IN GLASGOW THIS SUMMER!!!! Excited broadcast over Death Cab for Cutie The Postal Service

So at £28,500, which is pretty much the average salary, you're paying £6 more a year in Scotland

Picking another measure, median full-time salary is £35,518. At that point you'll pay £77 more a year

At £100,000 though (genuinely wealthy), you'll pay £2606 more. As it should be.

At £28,500 you'll pay £6 more in Scottish income tax versus rUK. For that you get:
💊 Free prescriptions
👩‍🎓 Free university tuition
🚌 Free bus travel for under 22s & 60+
👨‍🏫 Better pay for public sector workers like teachers
& more

Labour just oppose taxing the genuinely wealthy

Is there a word for when you are reading a book passage that happens to be exactly about this very moment or time? Sometimes you even read a word precisely as someone else says it out loud. “Coincidence” or “serendipity” seem too broad Susie Dent any ideas?

A closer look at the cover of The Last Day by Owain Owain, in my translation from Welsh, out this spring.

Clawr The Last Day, fy nghyfieithiad i'r Saesneg o Y Dydd Olaf gan Owain Owain, allan y gwanwyn eleni.

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Body of Water: a new creative writing workshop at #KalewaterCottage with Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social this April. Book now!

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If you’re looking for some time and space to kickstart your writing plans for 2024, get in touch: Many writers have commentated on how Kalewater Cottage provides conducive conditions for concentrated work #alliterationrocks

Borders Book Festival - Special Discount on Group Stays at Kalewater Cottage during the festival; contact us for more details kalewatercottage.blogspot.com/2024/02/border…