Love Kate thinking she is a serious journalist

The John Candy documentary on Prime is very good. Really lovely

Successfully completed my mission to find a garage with apparently no name and clear directions to collect my father. Feel like he is setting me little tasks to test me

I like Claud’s coat

Actually avoid the traffic and get to work on time or

I agreed to drop a file from one office to another office today on my WFH day and I regret that decision as I leave the house in the rain and cold. It’s not even for my department that’s how nice I am

Oh Nick looking adorable in his shorts and hiking boots #CelebrityTraitors

Still not entirely convinced Joe Marler knows what is going on #CelebrityTraitors

My non working day today. This last week at work has been tricky (bloody awful) for a stupid reason and a wrong decision (not mine). So now we move forward and spend many hours proving I can do the job I’ve been doing - apparently illegally - for 20 years. But onwards I guess

Joe Marler mouth open like a fish, still wondering why he is sitting at a table and how he got there #celebritytraitors

Obsessed with Charlotte Church and Tom Daley having a tits off at a funeral #celebritytraitors

I cackle every time they show Joe Marler’s bewildered little face #Traitors

One last swim before we go home. Still only four months til I come back. For a week of peace on my own which I am excited for

A little after dinner swim and now an amaretto. Holidays are great and I really can’t wait until next Monday and work

A man on the train to Lisbon has his phone on without headphones so please send letters to Lisbon prison for me

Ah, enjoying the racist chat at the bar we are in, from the UK people living in a foreign country, about immigrants in the UK. Just fuck off

Portugal is rather lovely, the weather is fine, the food is delicious AND Nuxe products are about half the price they are in the UK so will be coming back smelling lovely too

@hayls.bsky.social and @clairewithani.bsky.social I very much enjoyed wordle today

C’est moi

Checked into my flight. Packed a suitcase and, most importantly, deleted work emails and Teams off my phone

This time next week I will be going on holiday and it’s been a “bit of a year” and I am crawling to those two weeks off

The tennis is excellent

Big fan of Alvarez in his pink vest top. BIG fan

This is not a funny story but this headline has made me laugh

Used my £40 Amazon voucher for insuring the worlds most terrible kitten on cheap ear buds that will work a million times better than the stupid AirPods that only charge one side

Nothing I like more than spending five hours trailing back and forth to Southampton hospital because my idiot child (a grown adult) has broken his jaw and has to have an operation and won’t go without his mum

My dad has asked me to take over the rental of his Portuguese property but I can’t have the rent as I am not registered there like he is. So all the work and no reward. Sounds fair

I’m not in the mood for work tomorrow. But it’s only for two days and I am edging closer to my holiday

Made my dad throw away plain and self raising flour with an expiry date of 2019. “Do you think you might use it?”. No father I don’t plan on poisoning anyone this year

Got to clean my office and do Sunday homework. I have my first non working day next week, wonder how many times I will anxiously check my emails

I ordered this on a kickstarter so long ago and before we knew for certain Gaiman was a wrongun and it’s so beautifully done but I do feel conflicted. Damn those woke feelings

Super aggressive barrister at court today. Became less aggressive as the day wore on and he realised actually I was right (obviously)

Putting off going to see my Dad when the reality is that I would be bereft if I wasn’t able to see him. So I will go and smile and be patient with the same stories about lost glasses and kitchen floors and gardening

Nothing I like more than someone saying, “yeah your reputation is a bit no nonsense” at work. Better than the last nickname someone gave me (which isn’t at all true I am a delight)

I have stretched myself too thin at work and now find myself in three different courts next week, curiously advocating almost the same case in each of them, just different clients. So I have to work this weekend to catch up everything else. Not complaining I love it really

Luton Family Court and Staines Family Court in one week, living my best Suits lawyer life

Jesus it’s still SEVEN weeks until my holiday. This is an appalling state of affairs

Did my daughter duty today. This time I spent 45 mins unblocking Santander and ME from my father’s phone so he can pay his bills. 40 mins for the story, 5 mins for the fix.

I can’t bear Matt Damon but was struck with a desire to rewatch The Martian. So here we are

We’ve had the stupid kitten less than 6 months and he’s been fighting twice and looks like anothervisit to the vet to get more antibiotics which will cost a million pounds. What a ratbag

This Channel 4 thing with Michael Mosley is weird no? Talking about how he can live a long life and the secrets of aging. Feels a bit crass

Cleaned the fridge. Minimum I deserve is a little treat. Or Pedro pascal to come and tell me how great I am.

Never has my mediocre white man t shirt been more relevant

One of the (very many) reasons I could not play a professional sport is I would simply be too hot and worried about sunburn. Were it not for this am sure I would be an elite athlete

My arms ache from deadlifts and my bum hurts from lunges and I am still being told that exercise is good for you? So is cake

A pre-order of the new @benaaronovitch.bsky.social book showing up today was a welcome little surprise gift to me from me some months ago

Yes Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan have awful accents in Mobland but Tom Hardy in full on threatening mode and then talking about kitten. Yes please

This week I was so worried about something at work I thought they would make me leave. Now I have been able to agree to change my work hours to have alternative Fridays off. It’s been EXTREME and I don’t like it

My tiny goddaughter wants me to make a “pink purple and blue blanket” for her bed. It sounds horrific. I shall make it as garish as possible for her. I also have to go to the zoo with her in the summer

A hideous night’s sleep not improved by a work thing worrying me. Might start work early whilst it’s not a million degrees