All families live with a monster... 🕷️🕸️Read all about the Spurt family and their misadventure with one such monster: The Big Suck.🕸️🕷️ One week to go before our new #KidsLit#Spiders#KidLit

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SEPTEMBER - "Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending..."

... I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;- I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill The music i...

Borderlands: George MacDonald Between Worlds Bicentenary Conference, St Andrews, 8–9 Nov “MacDonald plays with & transgresses boundaries between the quotidian & the fantastical, theology & literature, home & abroad, secular & sacred, life & death” www.george-macdonald.com/gms/2024Conf...

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#HistFicThursdays - Apollo's Raven - Linnea Tanner - Book Blast

If you've been following this blog for a little while, you might remember me sharing a fabulous guest post about this book in 2022 (which y...

Trendsetter? You bet! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,172,710!

Quite a nice moon this evening! 🌙

So excited to report this, and about the potential impact on the whole of the Scottish arts scene Alan Cumming named as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival theatre, Scotland's ‘theatre in the hills’ www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/s...

Alan Cumming named as artistic director of Scottish ‘theatre in the hills’

Hollywood actor will ‘invite the world’s best’ to Pitlochry Festival theatre after making surprise approach for role

Ever wondered about the word reindeer and how Santa's flying reindeer got their names? Enjoy an extract from "Words Christmas Gave Us" today on the Wordfoolery blog. wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/f...#etymology#WordsChristmasGaveUs#amblogging#Christmas2024

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The Scottish Handwriting resource offers free online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists & others interested in reading manuscript records from Scotland c.1500–1800 – including an introduction to common Secretary Hand letters www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/scottish-han...

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