Suzie Grogan

Colourful new mural now adorns Enfield Town Library The artwork by artist Agwa was inspired by former Enfield poet John Keats

I like it. An interesting new artwork for Enfield library inspired by #johnkeats. ttps://enfielddispatch.co.uk/colourful-new-mural-now-adorns-enfield-town-library/

And if you can recommend book/writing/bookshop accounts to follow I'd be grateful. #Booksky @framlinghambooks.bsky.social

I haven't posted on here for ages - my daughter is getting married and it's a BIG THING. Please follow @framlinghambooks.bsky.social I'll be there posting about books and bookshop news. Many of you are here for that anyway 😄

All my @penandswordbooks.bsky.social titles too 😡

Old books, new homes: secondhand bookshops are precious. Ours especially so... Shall I tell you more tales of secondhand bookselling?

I just dont seem to get much traction on here - something im not doing I expect. On Substack people have loved our little secondhand bookshop. So im writing about it! open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

Mine too!

Really useful Louvain, as I recently discovered additional family members in Victorian/Edwardian asylums. Not sure if Banstead and Claybury were as relatively benign as this but good to think so.

One of my favourite ever books, though I can never explain why. Maybe that is the mark of truth and that word again - authenticity.

#OTD 1742 the Incorporation of Surgeon-Apothecaries of #Edinburgh ordered notices to be placed “on Church Doors, City-Gates, Coffee-houses or other public places” to “show the World the sentiments of this Society” in opposition to body snatching, “a Monstrous Crime”.

A glass vial with some string wrapped round the neck of the bottle. The string has a wax seal hanging from it. There is a label on the bottle that reads: "fertig gestellt 19.2.91'

In 1890 Robert Koch claimed he had discovered a cure for tuberculosis. However, this cure is often referred to as Koch's greatest failure.
This is one of the earliest specimens of Koch's original tuberculin to be received in Edinburgh.

Scars on the landscape - environmental or emotional? Inspiration strikes, but has more questions than I can answer

In which I get caught up in a tricky issue on a lovely walk. Complete with dogs and ice cream. open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

I love #wildflowerhour , without having a clue when it is. Have some violets. John Keats’s favourite flower.

That's a great idea. I think I have to be clever and interesting 😄

There is so often a tragic backstory isn't there? It was a newspaper article that alerted me to the murder committed by Alfred Hardiman, my GtGrandfather's son with my grandmother whilst Sarah was in the asylum. He had killed his girlfriend after being affected by the Great War.

And some of the people applauded the emperor, for although they knew he was naked and feared reprisal, others (because their worship was so deep, and their minds so owned) saw clothes where there were none. #BodyLanguageExpert #BehaviorAnalysis

Thanks so much Sue! My blogging energy is much lower than it was when I started 25 years ago (15! - can't believe it) But I need to get more creative.

Thank you! Yes, and they resonate with us more than a century on.

Sarah's Story - an update. Researching mental health in family history Who are the victims? Transgenerational trauma in a family tree

open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

I would really like to get back into blogging but need a bit of encouragement! #genealogy

Sarah's Story - an update. Researching mental health in family history Who are the victims? Transgenerational trauma in a family tree

In which I once again ruminate on my great grandfather's role in the incarceration of his wife and two daughters... victim of a tragedy, or villain? Family history can ask and answer many questions... open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

Anxiety Overload Chelsea Gerow published a post on Ko-fi

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Sarah's Story - an update. Researching mental health in family history Who are the victims? Transgenerational trauma in a family tree

In which I once again ruminate on my great grandfather's role in the incarceration of his wife and two daughters... victim of a tragedy, or villain? Family history can ask and answer many questions... open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

Make sure you add some boot polish to it. And take care of yourself x

I have adored Kenneth Branagh reading Shakespeare since my 20s and I was with him right up to Poirot wielding the gun…

a man looks at a statue of jesus in a hallway with the words @tvresidence above him ALT: a man looks at a statue of jesus in a hallway with the words @tvresidence above him

Just watched ‘Agatha Christie’s’ The Pale Horse on iplayer . Terrific acting (Bertie Carvel was an heroically awful character) but WHY BOTHER? Barely a scrap of the original left. Bonkers.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

I’m not a Nietzsche scholar, I was commissioned and learned my stuff but he believed he was something of a prophet and it doesn’t end well.

I’m definitely a generalist here but yes (though the Superman being of necessity subjective it means a self appointee like Musk can emerge) - and AI, and issues of truth and problems for the liberal left and, and and…

Evening in the Woods by Worthington Whittredge 1876
Oil on Canvas
(The Metropolitan Museum, NY)

Genius!

#booksky