Publicists and editors - we're choosing July, Aug and Sept readalong books for #TheBookload . Any suggestions for good, meaty discussion books? Must be out in paperback (can be pb original), newish. Any genre. Bonus points for racial diversity.

Many baby bird sounds from the porch hole nest. Many deliveries of insects. It looks exhausting.

Lapwing, once a familiar sight, birds breeding in spring sown arable and wetlands.

Can anyone recommend free audio editing software? Or explain why I seem to have constant glitchy problems with podcast editing sites. is it my slow internet? My ancient computer? Yours, frustrated podcast creator.

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Exactly this.
“I sent him a list of questions about how much money this would take and what the hoteliers of Scarborough would think, all these challenging questions. He’s so far ignored my request for this information.”

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I think I might have just seen a swift. Didn’t have my glasses on.

Having an imaginary rant-conversation with the Tory representative who’ll soon be visiting my village with his swagger of gimmicks, knowing full well that on the day my anxiety will stop me even leaving the house. Prepare to be scowled at from my living room window, Tory.

Sorry I’m late, I was watching a video of wet towels being put through a wringer and it was too satisfying to walk away from.

As ever, Nicola eloquently expresses the anger around what is happening to rural communities.

Good coffee, rain falling against the window, and back to working on the rewrite of the play.

This is good writing time. I am at my best when there is weather at the window, caffeine in my veins and a project that excites me on the page.

Happy Sunday

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Anthony Field, Head of our UK office, is quoted in this really important article from i newspaper

“We must stop building factory farms that drive pollution.” Share if you agree.

'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998), a close friend of Frida Kahlo #WomensArt

Extraordinary example of ‘passive rewilding’ at Ruddycleave Water on Dartmoor. Wet willow scrub, hazel, rowan & birch feathering over a lightly-grazed common (cattle & ponies more than sheep), interlaced with orchid-studded mires & mossy bogs

As I suspected during Uxbridge by election. Money being used to create fake groups to peddle lies but under the pretence nothing to do with the Tories

Longbarrow Press was launched in Sheffield 18 years ago today. Over the next few hours, we'll post 18 loosely threaded tweets - anecdotal, aphoristic, archival - that reflect on the ethos and evolution of the press. What we do, how we do it, why we do it. In no particular order.