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Ah, Tracy as a low income author of non-fiction pop science books a shot in the head feels a bit extreme to deal with my sorrows, but if I could have been in one your named cities a photo would have lovely. I still live in hope of a sales boost but not posthumously.

Photo taken today on the roadside edge of King's Forest, a section of Thetford Forest located northwest of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, established in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary.

From today my book "Science and Sensibilty: From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below" is being published by Boydell & Brewer under the Lutterworth Press imprint. A must read for all those interested in the natural sciences! (says the author 😀). @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Things I did during the first covid lockdown and just discovered buried beneath a pile of things to be filed or thrown away: painting I did of a schematic topographic map of Norwich. OMG, I've just found several more! I must have been desperate for things to do.

And while we're here why not treat yourself to reading "Science and Sensibilty" with its chapter on geology's pioneers including the remarkable Mary Anning! 😀

Mary Anning looking east from Lyme Regis at her beloved Jurassic cliffs.

Rainbow over Lyme Regis last Thursday 11 June late afternoon. #LymeRegis

Iris, thank you so much for your kind words!

Well, vanity compels me to mention the 5 short chapters in my 2025 book "Science and Sensibility" (Lutterworth Press, Cambridge) that consider the origins and development of modern chemical theory. 😀

St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington with the City skyscrapers and Shard in the distance viewed from Woodberry Wetlands, Hackney.

The untamed bit of the garden (of which there is rather a lot, what with me not being much of a gardener) has been taken over by primroses

Rydal Mount saved. Excellent news and a big thank you to the Save Rydal Mount team who write:"After many months of thought and discussion we are thrilled to confirm that Rydal Mount has been acquired by the Wordsworth Trust in partnership with The Julia Rausing Trust and the Charlotte Aitken Trust."

Ah ha! So it's World Book Day I see. So it has to be done. All modesty held firmly in check. Here are 3 of my recent must reads! Treat yourself. Go on, you know you want to 😉 @saraband-books.bsky.social #Lutterworth Press.

Langdale Pikes

Quite true Javiera! Well said.Also see my book "Extraction to Extinction" @saraband-books.bsky.social which explores how we transmute rocks into our modern material and the heavy environmental price we pay for our hubris.

St Mary's Church, Ambleside, Cumbria, by moonlight. The church was built in the 1850s to a design by Sir George Gilbert Scott in Gothic Revival style. The building is Grade II listed.

John Steinbeck "Cannery Row"

Lily Tarn on a moist and misty morning.

So true. And true of so many of our key materials that we ultimately extract from the ground. 'If you can't eat it, a geologist probably found it'. "Extraction to Extinction" A must read! 😊@saraband-books.bsky.social