Martyn

@martwritesstuff
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Copywriter & Creative Writing PhD student.

Born at 330.21ppm

Tamar Valley, Cornwall 🌿

#books #writing #nature #history #art #poetry #dogs

Joined23 Dec 2025
Book Bloghttps://quitebookish.com/
And, for everyone who is wondering why this is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_at_polling_stations
Dogs at polling stations - Wikipedia

Delighted to report there was a dog at my polling station: she is clearly a very good girl indeed #DogsAtPollingStations
There are no elections here today, so I have to participate vicariously through #dogsatpollingstations 🐕
The obligatory #dogsatpollingstations photo. That’s the rules.

The Holly King & The Oak King framed print.

Now available from https://tamzincavendish.co.uk

#science #nature #history
Aurochs once roamed the grasslands of Wiltshire in England, they were a valuable food source. Just one Aurochs could feed 300 people! Afterwards the hide and bones were useful commodities too. The ancestor of modern day cattle, they disappeared from Britain about 1300 BCE due to loss of habitat and hunting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21ljrj5klo
What were aurochs? The prehistoric creatures that roamed in Wiltshire

The aurochs are the wild ancestor of modern cattle and were large enough to feed 300 people.

BBC News
The lanes are hurtling towards peak frothiness #Cornwall #nature #trees #bloomscrolling

Hello disabled artist friends!

I am on ESA income support benefits, which I cannot afford to lose. I am able to do very little on any given day, but over small bits of time spread over weeks, I can produce art, and it's been good for my mental health to do so.

I would like to start selling the art I produce, but don't know if or how I need to notify the DWP. I don't think it counts as exceeding the amount of 'work' you're allowed to do, but don't want to risk>

#disability #art #UK #benefits

The Tamar Trails on the #Devon side of the Tamar.

It’s the site of Devon Great Consols, once the world's largest copper mine. Once the copper price crashed, it switched to producing arsenic. In the 1880s it was said there was enough arsenic stored on site to poison everyone on the planet.

William Morris was a shareholder at DGC, and his uncle one of its managers. Arsenic from here was used in his wallpapers. It was the largest employer of people from our village.

#industrialheritage #mining