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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve always thought that J.J. Field should play Alec Guinness in a biopic.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 23h

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without an explanation.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very Important Announcement: A Matter of Life and Death is on BBC2 at 10.15 this morning. #FilmSky🎬🍿

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This reminds me of ‘I’ve no regrets. I've been everywhere and done everything. I've eaten caviar at Cannes, sausage rolls at the dogs. I've played baccarat at Biarritz and darts with the rural dean. What is there left for me but marriage?’ #TheLadyVanishes

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Perhaps you could show the surgery this, from welcome.cqrs.nhs.uk/services/shi...

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t have any photos of ours on my phone, but here’s an example from the web. Ours was a blue, like this. They also come in apricot.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spider-removal equipment. The cut-down plastic bottle needs to be the flexible sort, for pressing into corners. The card is dual-purpose, being ideal for both corralling and giving a gentle nudge. Once spider is caught, a brief conversation and a quick stroll into the garden ensues. #PatentPending

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Book recommendation: The Badgers of Badger Hill by David Ross is about a clan of badgers living in Kent and the strangers who join them. It observes badger behaviour perfectly. Ignore the silly cover: the illustrations in this Target Books pbk are lovely. Find a copy if you can. #NationalBadgerDay

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An unexpected detail spotted in the Bayeux Tapestry—camels, one of them wearing a saddle.

Two Bactrian camels positioned above Duke William of Normandy, later King William I of England, on the Bayeux Tapestry, probably made in England in the 1070s

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've looked at the source website and the few illustrations are all in the same 'unfinished' style (eg below). What a very bizaare decision is was, to stamp it like that!

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s nothing like a classic crime caper on a Sunday afternoon.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have always said that ‘when’ I have a yacht, she will be named The October Rose.

Rose ‘Vanessa Bell’, partially open and bedecked with dew.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think you’re very brave to attempt a fringe at all. And I appreciate the insertion of ‘Romulan’ …

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the bucket were wooden, the straw might potentially swell when wet, enough to caulk a leaky joint between the staves.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michaelmas daisies, timing their opening perfectly for St Michael’s mass.

The white flowers and bright yellow buds of Aster novi-belgii ‘Mount Everest’ (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii ‘Mount Everest’) photographed in a rain-damp garden on Michaelmas morning.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How could anyone fer-fer-forget Mrs Fer-fer-fer-featherstone?

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This year’s not getting any better. Stephanie Cole, rest in peace.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've watched and read The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes/The Wheel Spins so many times. How is it that I have failed to produce a prospective bestseller out of the experience? Will I be reading this? You bet your life. #BookSky

The cover of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger, which is published by Faber and available to pre-order now.

London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert.

Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel deep in the English countryside, then onto a train bound for Scotland.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remembering Felicity, beloved mother, talented author, born on this day. For @annelouiseavery.bsky.social xxx

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The stories it could tell. This is from the summer of 1889. (Content Warning: drowning)

Content Warning: Drowning.
This 1889 newspaper report, found at British Newspaper Archive, reads:
'An Inquest was held on Tuesday before Harry Wayman, Esq., Deputy-Coroner, on the body of Edward Foreman, who was drowned on the previous Saturday evening in the Brandon river by the sinking of a boat.
Deceased was 31 years of age. Frederick Palmer, of Feltwell said deceased was at the Waterman's Arms with him and others. Deceased was grinding his scythe. Palmer and deceased, with H. Ruddenham and Abraham Johnson, had some beer; but at closing time left the house quite sober. They proceeded to the boat, belonging to the landlord of the Waterman's Areas, lying by the side of the river opposite the public-house, and is used for crossing the river. They all got into the boat for that purpose. Palmer took the "sprit," and, when all were seated, shoved the boat off. The "sprit" stuck in the mud, and, when Palmer tried to draw it, the boat went from under him, and he fell into the water. He caught hold of the stern of the boat, which caused it to dip and fill with water. The boat sank, and, whilst sinking, the deceased, Ruddenham, and Johnson, got out of it into the river. It was getting dark at the time, but Palmer could see. The deceased appeared to sink almost immediately the boat went down. Palmer got to the river bank, and only once saw deceased's head above the water. Ruddenham and Johnson got out of the water on the opposite bank to Palmer. As soon as it was light on Sunday morning Johnson searched in the river where decessed was seen to go down, and recovered the body. Abraham Johnson gave corroborative evidence. Deceased, when in the water, called him by his nickname, and asked for Johnson to assist him. Johnson told deceased to make for the shore, and he (Johnson) said he would do what he could as soon as he reached the shore himself. He was fast in the mud, and was quite unable to make an effort to recover the deceased. Verdict, "Accidentally drowned."'

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reading for #BattleOfBritainDay: Squadron Airborne by Elleston Trevor, reissued by Imperial War Museum Classics, tells the stories of the pilots and ground crews over the course of one week in the summer of 1940.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'The young airman in the far corner of the carriage was asleep. It must be odd to him to be travelling like this. He and his kind were evolving into a race apart.' — Barbara Euphan Todd, 'Miss Ranskill Comes Home' #BattleOfBritainDay

The condensation trails from German and British fighter planes engaged in an aerial battle, or 'dogfight', photographed in the sky over Kent, south-east England, on 3 September 1940, as the Battle of Britain's intensity grew towards its pinnacle on 15 September 1940.
Image sourced from the Rare Historical Photos website.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What are the last three books you bought? I’ll start. 1. Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood by Tom Cox 2. Togetherness by Rowan Hooper 3. Radical Magic by Kate Macdonald

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is this a good time for a gentle reminder? If you are fortunate enough to have a hedgehog or hogs visiting your garden and want to help them feed up ahead of hibernation, please do not give them dry mealworms. #Hedgehogs love them, but they cause a horrible metabolic bone disease that can be fatal.

A photograph of a West European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), also known as the common or British hedgehog.

Photograph is from the website of Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘The people of vessels of every nation, whether in peace or war, are to be equally objects of this institution …’ — William Hillary, on founding the RNLI, 1824. Quoted in We Came By Sea by Horatio Clare, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy that you're feeling better. I honestly do see you as one of the heirs to the Provincial Lady ...

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There's cosy, bijou viewing on Talking Pictures TV at 4.10 this afternoon—The Smallest Show on Earth, starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles and Leslie Phillips.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Having adored 'The Tortoise and the Hare.' I'm intrigued by this: Honey, by Elizabeth Jenkins, newly republished by Daunt Books @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. #BookSky

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another loss. Another mind and heart we couldn't afford to lose. Gloria Steinem #RIP

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner are a delight, managing to be both robust and sensitive, as I feel she was herself. But for really getting to the heart, as you say, I've not read anything to beat Autobiography, A Ray of Darkness and The Nightingale Silenced by the incomparable Margiad Evans.

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First day of Meteorological Autumn, and the crocuses know.

The light purple flowers of autumn crocus.

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