This promises to be a lovely evening of (hopefully) erudite crime chat!

“Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids” - #lyttonstrachey to #doracarrington . Photograph by unknown photographer, 1920s (National Portrait Gallery, London). beyondbloomsbury.substack.com.

Poetry in motion.

Celebrate #NationalCrimeReadingMonth with us at Nuneaton Library this June, where crime author Natalie Marlow will be chatting with us about her new book, The Red Hollow.

Find out more and book your FREE place at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversat…

A decorated cart. May Day, Luddington, 1934.

Harborough Magna, May Day 1914.

Lower Braille’s, Warwickshire circa 1910. May Day.

An Edwardian May Day in Southam, Warwickshire.
#MayQueens

Great interview with the super talented Tom Benn

Already tired of people looking me up and down and asking me if I’ve seen Baby Reindeer.
#NotaStalker

We got the automated flood warning call through at work yesterday. I’m only a BIT disappointed the town centre didn’t end up looking like this.
(This is a photo from the ‘great flood’ of 1932. They called this girl the Nuneaton mermaid 🧜‍♀️ ❤️)

Magpie the cat choosing classic crime fiction.
(And looking like the model for the cover of Richard Osman’s new book!)

Enjoy the beautiful work of Douglas Sirk, folks. A bit too late to celebrate his birthday (yesterday), but this is so gorgeous I couldn’t resist.

It’s very late in the month but I realised I hadn’t shared my #MarchWrapUp ! 🫣 if you want to see what I read last month (& which book was my favourite), check out the blog post below 👇🏻📚

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Christopher Wood-Inspired Knitwear 👀🧶

In our latest blog post, Curatorial Assistant Meg Breckell tells us more about her recent knitting project, inspired by Christopher Wood's 'Self-Portrait'! Isn't it brilliant? 🤩

kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/stories/christ…

a. Ozzy Osbourne reminds me of my dear old dad.
b. He’s right about ‘the guts of the city’.

Lovely to be in the audience for a great event Waterstones Birmingham last night hearing all about the new books from Caz Frear Lucie Whitehouse and Natalie Marlow. Vagina dentata, Taylor Swift, PJ Harvey and the Specials all featured plus a bonus shot of Needless Alley

Yesterday we met with several Station Street related arts, business & education bodies... And representives of Vyse family, Glenbrook developers and Howells Architects & Toyoko Inns (The Crown landowners)

Top tip: find yourself a man who brings you home an excellent sewing machine whenever he goes to the tip shop.
This one is Singer’s finest. A 201k made in March 1940.
I have been told they were used by the upholsterers at Jaguar. They would’ve been very expensive when new.