Wanger Wednesday! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... Find out why our lake is @mariannelevy.bsky.social ‘s Netflix smalltown carpenter boyfriend. Also find out what this is:

A new episode of Wild Swimming Wangers has dropped! This week @mariannelevy.bsky.social and I are wanging on about Thames Water, tips for newbies, singing and SEXY COOTS: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Are you a wild swimmer? Wild swimming curious? Maybe you hate wild swimmers. Fair enough, we are annoying. Join me and @bethmorrey.bsky.social for half an hour of kit chat! Body image! Wildlife! The latest episode of Wild Swimming Wangers is out now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Dryrobe regret, temperature mansplainers, dramatic rescues and wild wild swimming parties!

There’s a new episode of Wild Swimming Wangers - the podcast I do with @bethmorrey.bsky.social. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Found a haunted table

Like seeing the last twenty years on fast forward… I reviewed the tv documentary Twitter: Breaking The Bird for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

WE’VE TAKEN THE PLUNGE. This is not an April Fool’s joke, we’re actually doing it.

💦We’re doing a podcast!💦 Episode one of WILD SWIMMING WANGERS is out tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts Subscribe and follow us on insta @wildswimmingwangers Because what the world needs is more content about wild swimming. And podcasts.

She also shared it on LinkedIn, with a longer reflection. Link here if you want to read it (and share your thoughts with her directly) www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Guys!!! @heavyweight.bsky.social is coming back!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

⭐️⭐️ ‘This is a thriller of the sort that involves people in suits talking at each other, with the occasional close-up of one of De Niro’s troubled eyeballs’ My review of Zero Day, for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

A brand new short story from Garth Marenghi is available NOW as a Kindle Ebook. Unless you own the Terrortome Collector’s Edition or Incarcerat paperback, you will not have this. GO THOU AND RECTIFY. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DSLHBYW...

please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later

Bjark 🐕

Trying to buy a new vacuum cleaner. Do you like your vacuum cleaner? If so, might you tell me what it is? I am so tired of reading about vacuum cleaners; also, generally.

Kids dislike mincemeat so we thought we’d try to top little pies with marshmallow. Do not do this.

Just been to see The Polar Express which is batshit insane but then I saw Tom Hanks’ assistant’s name on the credits which reminded me of this. If you have a few minutes, it is incomparable harpers.org/archive/2021...

I reviewed the latest instalment of The Famous Five for @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/culture/jemi...

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I am writing something about A Dog So Small and crying just THINKING about it.

Just found myself the unwitting co-star in a seasonal horror movie we’ll call A Spider For Christmas

My book is on a list! And it’s a really good one. Thanks so much @jofinneybooks.bsky.social www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

I couldn't be more thrilled that The Carousel Horse is one of i newspaper's 20 Best Children’s Books for Christmas. I bought 3 copies on the way home and bragged about it to the man at the counter in Sainsbury's. 👌

"I'm sorry if you feel like I declared martial law"

📚🎄✨ I’m completely delighted to bring you my 20 Best Children’s Books For Christmas in today’s @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/culture/book...

So I taught the kids how to play #Whamageddon but six year old was upset at losing. So then we invented Reverse Whamageddon where you get a point every time you hear it but he realised he could just repeat the track and oh dear god help me

“No worries if not” -President Yoon Suk Yeol

THERAPIST: I’m not sure it’s healthy to take a studio audience with you everywhere you go. STUDIO AUDIENCE: *oooooOOOOOoooo*

Just bought a tin opener in the Black Friday sale

NEW REVIEW📚💙 Today I am sharing my #review of #DontForgetToScream #UnspokenTruthsAboutMotherhood by @mariannelevy.bsky.social! Here's what I thought: forbookssake.home.blog/2024/11/28/r...

My dad put his favourite mug in the dishwasher too many times so now it looks like he has a souvenir from the weirdest theme park ever.

Hi guys, my name is Jeff Techbro and I'm planning to DISRUPT the WATER INDUSTRY by shitting in your local reservoir

Good morning from me and from the large mushroom we’ve just found growing in our bathroom. Self-sufficiency here we come

I write literary fiction.

I wanted you to see my ‘little hamburger’ which is so small that it is barely perceptible

Daughter, thoughtfully: So… they’re wrapped in a blanket and the blanket is made of their own flesh

Post you from a different era

Bolognese are coming Bolognese are coming

"From its subtle opening to the explosive final episode, this is a truly great piece of television: after all, there’s nothing more powerful than being heard." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My review of the BBC’s The Listeners, in today’s @theipaper.bsky.social inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

"From its subtle opening to the explosive final episode, this is a truly great piece of television: after all, there’s nothing more powerful than being heard." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ full marks for The Listeners from @mariannelevy.bsky.social inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

Adding a green pepper to tonight’s dinner, knowing that in several hours, after it has cooked long and slow in a blend of red wine and herbs I will carefully remove it again and throw it away.

Trying to capture zeitgeist

This week I joined a gym and now I’ve paid money and time and in return all of me hurts. Tell me it gets better?

Coraline, first draft

It’s not a children’s book! Why I’m seriously concerned that The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse will be taught in schools (Had to mute this on twitter, interested to see how it plays here) inews.co.uk/culture/book...