Clare Hall-Craggs
@loveswimming
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Love books, illustrations, newspapers, baking bread, growing veg & tulips. Children’s books PR. Slow swimming, loopy tennis, aiming for a half. She/her.
London
Joined March 2009
Chuffed my yellow trousers made it into this @RNLI pic http://t.co/eFNsJveN0N what a cheery team #LondonLifeboatWeek
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After swimming in the sea, the local pool, and saunas galore I headed north. True theatre in the sky above the deck. Alesund > Trondheim #Norway
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Til next time Alesund! Kayaking, swimming, saunas and views that went on and on. Trondheim calling with the promise of 2.5m waves and the Northern Lights!! #norway #nordnorge 🇳🇴
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A Fenland weekend with inspirational naturalist Dara McAnulty staring @Bookbugsdragon1 meeting ace booksellers Leanne and Dan in Norwich, the window of @ToppingsEly the glimpse of a kingfisher on the Ouse and @nationaltrust #WickenFen #WildChild
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Calling publicists! We're super keen to get school events booked in the diary for authors/illustrators - just get in touch!
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What's next for the InvestiGators? They're facing their biggest and most implacable foe yet . . . the weather! UK-based InvestiGators readers can pre-order InvestiGators: Weather or Not this week and get 25% off at Waterstones with code OCTOBER25! https://t.co/4EIzPHubTR
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Discover which creatures wake up when you go to sleep with @NaturalistDara & @Barry_Falls’ stunning & informative gift book A Wild Child’s Guide to Nature at Night @loveswimming @MacmillanKidsUK https://t.co/Q3R0Pty5D8 Review also @leponline later this week!
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My Etsy shop is now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards: spring, summer, autumn, nature/botanical collections & tiny posies. I post to the US now too. I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or
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Tennis on a 3G court (!) by Pendle Hill Views of folds and ridges and hills rolling to the horizon Swims in the Ribble & Wharfe Proper cake and pots of tea Spotting a frog in Guisburn Forest Potted shrimps & Old Pier Bookshop galore #lancashire #yorkshire #bookingfornextyear
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Fun to be at the tube station for the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon watching families coming through knowing we are all off to see their brilliant production of Lenny Henry’s The Boy With Wings!
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A 5 ⭐️ day in Constable country to walk, 🏊♂️ 🏊♀️ , chat to the cows and take in the bucolic scenes before tea at Flatford Mill and a wander round the beautiful RSPB garden #traintripping #scones #coffeecake
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Another train journey and another plug for this alluring, enticing, just starting to get a bit uncomfortable read. #Piglet by Lottie Hanzell. Tantalising description of Persian food too…
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Sun block ✅ Water ✅ Sarnie ✅ Binoculars ✅ Book (bought from @Book_Nook_Shop during #IBW) ✅ Yes I’m off to the other side of London then out to #KingstonRegatta to watch nephew 1 #Vesta and nephew 3 race with #TidewayScullers #rowing and already feeling quite 🥵…!
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Spontaneous trip to #Norwich to take in the cathedral, the flint work hewn from Grimes Graves, Dormouse 2nd hand bookshop, the super open & purposefully designed city library, a heaving Waterstones, 5 star curry (with trolley) with even a swim 🌊 to come!
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Back in Nottingham #HolmePierrepoint - 1980s childhood trips to watch brother row, then came 2024 BUCS rowing & 2025 Outlaw triathlon with daughter, now we’re here to watch nephew race in his single scull. Feeling unfit and untoned with all these athletes!! #rowing
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Introduced rightly as Dudley’s finest Sir Lenny Henry’s on BBC Saturday Live now chatting about his new play and the @polkatheatre production of The Boy With Wings. We have a lot of fun with Lenny and Mic Lord doing events with the books.
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✨ Calling all early years settings: our #WriterInResidence Camilla Reid has an amazing competition for you! ✨ She's asking you to create an eye-catching initiative which communicates the power of early shared reading at home. Find out more 👇 https://t.co/ChZLOgUzQk
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Enjoy watching little ones get hands-on with Is Dot in the Tree? second of a gorgeous interactive hide-and-seek board book series from @CamillaReidHere & #CarlyGledhill @MacmillanKidsUK @loveswimming https://t.co/Q3R0PtxxNA Review also @leponline later this week!
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To celebrate #WindrushDay my film of Coming to England was shown to around 800 schoolchildren at @BFI. Most of them had read the book and loved it❤️
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