Nurse Pip, reporting for duty

I’ve been over the Tyne, the Wear & the Thames today on trains. And Thomas Cromwell is on this leg. Or the actor of.

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Northern skies

Coleen Rooney for Labour leader

Is there a better train view?

Time to show off his paws

Reading this atm and it’s reading more like reportage and not a lot of fiction. In my second ever publishing job I had to phone Ray Bradbury to ask about an interview request and I remember my hand shaking as I made the call. He was very friendly.

Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card

They can keep Their Party, thank you very much.

@natalie-steed.bsky.social justice heard your credit after another lovely episode of the Reunion which reminds me we need to meet soon pls x

A LinkedIn DM asks me to consider taking my next step in my maritime career. Well, I’m at sea life-wise, so there’s that.

The Trumps! The Flumps! They say stuff like ‘the Trumps are meeting the King’ but I hear ‘the Flumps are meeting the King’. If only.

A floating monk and reflection of southbank on t’bus

I love that Wolf Alice has a song celebrating the sofa

Probably should be higher in the UK news agenda.

I find young middle class white male Londoners penchant for wispy ‘tashes and mullets so strange.

First celeb book signing I set up. Lemmy smoked Marlborough Reds on entering & throughout the shop with secure guards trying to stop him. Just fucking try was his response, and he smoked all through this signing.

Gulliver Stays Home

Interesting perspective on Angela Rayner from Kimia Zabihyan, an advocate for Grenfell Next of Kin. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

So much to say, Angie. As a working class woman you’re not allowed any mistakes in these exclusive nubs of power - otherwise the wolves come to feast. Like journalism, arts, publishing. Nubs of power don’t like working class women cos we should know our places.

Leave Angie alone

This pleases me beyond everything Our show kept its live audience figure Invest in British TV drama Invest in British TV writers like @jamiecricht0n.bsky.social Invest in the stories of people like Ann Ming Invest in our regions Huge kudos to @itvx.com for programming #ifoughtthelaw

It’s a question I’ve asked myself and there’s no good answer

My god can Sheridan Smith act!

‘Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses’ while her husband makes a merry penny as he presents on itv and they both keeeeeep dancing

The worse thing about horrid illness was losing my 117 wordle streak and now being back to 4 (& building)

What the actual www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Must be the season of the witch, ye-ah

Autumn signalled by the return of the neighbourhood stray (on table)

Is there really a Labour MP defending views to not accept refugees on BBC Radio 4 right now? Does no one read the international sections of newspapers anymore?

Whiskery dreams

Bridget Phillipson: our government should do more about millions of many young families living in abject poverty and then pls start with this Victorian advise

Twas ever thus

Is there any cup of tea like the first cup of tea after the physical storm of nasty week long illnesses? No, there isn’t.

This gorgeous film about folk artist Maud Lewis is on Prime atm - sod the three star review here, it’s beautifully done www.theguardian.com/film/2017/au...

It was raining rats and frogs

Good lord, what is this tone deaf silliness www.theguardian.com/fashion/gall...

In episode 3 of BBC’s King & Conquerer there’s such a bad continuity error with the intricate plaited hairstyle - plaits! Not plaits! Plaits! - of the young cousin of Mathilde of Flanders…. Well, it’s taken over my fever dreams somewhat.

"Life in Gaza is measured not in days or weeks, but in litres of water." Hasan Jber's diary of daily life in the al-Bureij refugee camp is free to read:

Wow - Margaux Blanchard aka Fakeaux Wankard. Index on Censorship of all places. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

I dreamt I was lost in a giant Pick n Mix shop. Cola cubes as big as planets.

Didn’t notice her before

A gorilla plant in the Land of North London

Pipe dreams: a pipe band’s ‘world’ tour in Northumberland – in pictures

Local stray who lives with us during the colder months yelling at me for giving him dry food and not wet

Succession is both funnier and sadder the second time around.

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She was very kind to me when i was a fledgling editorial assistant way back when. & the only other publishing woman from working class north east I ever worked with. Fantastic woman. Sad news. www.thebookseller.com/obituaries/s...

‘I have a daughter called Tiger Lilly…’ says the poshest woman who’s ever walked the Herne Hill.