First ruler of the universe, immortal, 80 words per minute.

Invidious to point it out, but the Solar System is a bit larger than South East Asia.

Don’t want to boast, but yesterday the new book I worked on was #1 bestseller in the Solar System.

It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO

Portugal becomes the latest EU state to announce a flat-rate monthly rail pass It'll cost €20 a month, according to government plans theprogressplaybook.com/2024/09/23/p...

Portugal becomes the latest EU state to announce a flat-rate monthly rail pass

The pass will give commuters access to urban, regional, and inter-city trains operated by state-owned CP.

Some more friends of Mary Severn and more women artists / writers plus colonial cycles of connection in Ireland. Massive thanks to @beyondnotables.bsky.socialwww.debbiechallis.com/post/i-feel-...

‘I feel as if New Town is my home’: Mary Severn and (some) Irish Connections

The circles of connection between women writers and artists in the 19th century through friendship and exchange of art and words.

Greater Manchester’s renown as a rain trap – there is even a website tracking rainfall, called Rainchester – means that the RHS Bridgewater garden in Salford is being earmarked for species that thrive in a cooler, wetter climate.

The UK will get hotter and drier for plants … except in Manchester

Thanks to the city’s famously rainy climate, trees suffering in the south can be moved, says the Royal Horticultural Society

The Rolling Stone Roses

Good morning. I’m reading The Furious Masters by Margot Bennett, in which chaos ensues after an alien spacecraft lands in Yorkshire. It’s ace - like a comic John Wyndham.