"Your books have given me back my love of reading" a woman living for many years with depression once told me. Surely one of the most wonderful compliments anyone can pay a writer. I feel very blessed that my books have helped her.

Notification received of a very modest yet still welcome payment from the Public Lending right. Encouraging for all writers to know that readers are borrowing their books from public libraries. (Only a limited number of libraries are sampled annually.) #hoorahforpubliclibraries

A very happy new year of Reading to all friends and followers. And there is a new title from the writer of the popular Berringden Brow books - not part of the series but a quick romp through the past 50 years narrated by a rather pompous man married to a free spirited young woman

Who is the dummy here?

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Listening to radio 4, I was reminded that women couldn’t get a mortgage without a male guarantor until the 1975 Sex discrimination act making me something of a trailblazer obtaining a mortgage as a single woman in autumn 1975 #womensrights #financialequality #equality

Jess sits in a field with her revision because her father does not want her to succeed in her exams so throws her out of the house. She gets the best results in the school and he is furious when people stop him in the street to congratulate him. What happens next to Jess? #1960s

An enjoyable afternoon at Saddleworth Rushcart watching Beltane Border Morris

Further to an elderly local woman recently arrested because of her T shirt slogan I read that a Brighton man was arrested for wearing a T shirt with the legend Plasticine Action complete with picture of the character Morph. Should the arresting officer have gone to Specsavers…?

The unpleasant post was quickly deleted and we all do silly things we later regret. But please let the punishment fit the crime.

Just heard Lucy Connolly has been released. Her sentence for posting what some might consider an unpleasant tweet had exceeded those handed to some sex offenders. Two tier justice is not to be borne

https://t.co/0yWlQh3wZO Yesterday’s arrest in Hebden Bridge. The elderly woman is handcuffed. Are the public really safer with her in custody?

An elderly woman was arrested in Hebden bridge apparently because of the T shirt she was wearing in support of Palestine action. I wasn’t present so do not have full details but the film shared on facebook is very distressing. Surely uk citizens used to have the right to protest?

Home made Bramble jelly outside my house, donations invited for PDSA who helped my last staffy dog Cybill

Welcome to a number of new followers. I don’t post often, but would like to draw attention to my Berringden Brow books if you are after some fairly lighthearted summer reading. You can listen to me reading Life’s Rich Tapestry on YouTube for free! #berringdenbrow

The boys in blue appear to have settled down after the restlessness of the Spring

Made resolution to declutter after helping neighbour dispose of stuff prior to removal. Exhausted after loading my van and unloading at charity shop. I’m 74 so had better get on with it before my strength goes. Main problem - too many books + way too much crockery. #declutter

son’s 40th birthday i found him a 4leaf clover. Reminded me of the day in 1969 before my 0 level exams began when found patch of 9 on way home from field where i revised.(dad thought education was wasted on a girl so drove me from the house)I got best results in school that year

Comedy clip from a decade ago, fully explaining the Global Warming scamfest (which Rockefeller originally created for our puppeticians to exploit):

Myself and @_ConnieShaw are outside Leeds University Student Union. Discussion and debate encouraged!