The thrill of having the front door and the back door open, creating a wind tunnel before the temperature rises 🌬️

It’s only a USB port if it’s on the left side of your device, otherwise it’s a USB starboard.

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

We also need to have a more honest conversation about how driving, no matter how useful to the person doing it, imposes harms onto other people. Until we try to reduce those harms as much as possible, it’s not clear how we’re going to take the steps needed to create a safer, healthier country 8/10

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ So nice to see rainbow flags popping up in shop windows on Stirchley High Street. Thanks to Aphra Bakes, Couch, Deadbeat, Loaf, Cheddar, and anyone not pictured. Have you seen any others up? If you want a poster there's loads to collect from The Old Post Office (or message me). Happy Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Still haven’t identified Fire Pit (Selfish Arsehole) Neighbour. So can’t complain to the council and can’t have our windows open or have the aircon on, and it’s 28 degrees in the bedroom. I will find you ….! *shakes fist*

I am once again calling upon famous people to praise my book to their large audiences on TikTok or wherever. Tony Targett from 'Points West'. Nam Rood from 'Bad Influence!' Gonch Gardner. Big hitters.

THIS is what we do to Teletubbies who snitch

BeReal sent extra notifications during the football match last night. ‘Unbelievable! Snapshot the absolute joy in the room!’. The joy was me being in bed at 9.30pm ready to go to sleep. (And I don’t believe BeReals additional notifications are acceptable.)

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

My nephew has made a Bee Hotel. I said surely it’s a Bee & Bee

Found what I thought was a pasta sauce in the freezer. On reflection, I think we had carrot soup with our meatballs and spaghetti.

Second night out in …. well, my baby is 11 months old now, so *at least* a year. Had fancy sushi in a friend’s garden for her 30th birthday - and I got a party bag! Baby & 5yo were still awake when I got home at 9.15! 😅

Baby’s first bike ride today - she was not exactly thrilled about it, but I was! Watch out streets of Stirchley 😎

If you had a trillion quid and spent one million of it each day, how long do you think it'd take to spend? Go on, have a think... Well, it's a lot more than you think. It'd take 2,737 years, 10 months and 27 days. Also, there are children starving right now. Well done humanity.

When I worked in the design dept at a football club (yes, really) I swapped ‘son’ for ‘child’ to make the copy for the design I was working on gender neutral. 88 instances - thought it was a win for equality. Enter: ‘perchildable’ etc

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

I really wasn’t prepared for how expanding from one child to two children would break me open - I don’t think I’m the same person I was 12 months ago. However, I am really enjoying dressing a tiny person again. My 5yo doesn’t let me choose anymore.

‘How old will [the baby] be when I’m 20?’ ‘15’ ‘How old will she be when I’m 44?’ ‘39’ ‘How old will she be when I’m 77?’ ‘72’ ‘You’ll be dead then.’

Time to log in and read the thoughts of people I've chosen to follow and, curiously, the thoughts of people I was specifically trying to avoid

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️ I've made posters for businesses on Stirchley High Street to celebrate pride and stand up to all the division being pushed on us. If you want a copy for your home, there are loads available to pick up from The Old Post Office. I'm happy to drop them off to any businesses. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

If hypothetically speaking, a business was struggling (third month in a row), would you rather hear about it and make a (pity) purchase, or see jolly marketing as normal and think ‘this looks like a happy great place to be and they seem to be doing okay’? Asking for me, for my business, lol.

Haven’t seen any of the ‘new’ Hockney mentioned but did really enjoy reading through the replies to this.

I cannot begin to tell you how FURIOUS I am about this. We are disgustingly careless with all wildlife - let alone these magical birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Behold my new green glasses! Hoping they stop the daily headaches I’ve had for 1+ year.

I've been reluctant to tap the sign on this lately because last time some people I like got upset about it. But, anyway...

There are nowhere near enough public benches for my liking. Gals gotta breastfeed with a back rest!

More stunning allotment roses 😍

Allotment rose palette cleanser.

(Posting doom after doom for your doomscrolling)

Went to the allotment at 7am to water everything and brought some wilting flowers home with me 😍 (yellow roses, white and coral peonies)

10pm and the temperature’s dropped but we can’t open any windows because someone is having a fire 😭

Today on the 23rd May 1988, Section 28 was passed into law In 2026, we are witnessing an increase of copycat laws internationally + increasing censorship of the trans community in the UK This law impacted me Sign my petition for a public inquiry into the law petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Friday night’s melon a feast for the allotment ant community 🐜

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

The Stirchley Co-operative Development project has another update, and it is not good. I’m not sure how SCD can find another £300k on top of the funds they were already desperately seeking to find www.stirchley.coop/press-releas...

Watching the bees *scream*

Pure joy meeting my best friend’s five day old baby today. Absolutely beautiful and not squished up at all. Top marks!

Times are difficult but I feel we should take inspiration from this plucky spud

There’s a community sauna opening which is all well and good if you like air pollution.

The time has come to proscribe Raise the Colours as a terrorist organisation. No ifs. No buts. They are a violent terrorist threat to our communities and need to be treated as such by the authorities.

My latest make! And it’s been a few months since I got my machine out. I’ve made a baby changing mat with pockets for wipes and nappies. A gift for a new mum!

Instead of bedtime reading: bedtime writing to my MP about the latest issue that’s infuriated me ✅

One of our cats followed us to the allotment and joined our picnic.

Every few posts is about the flags in Stirchley and our friend who was badly injured by a driver in a hit and run. The good news is the culprit has been arrested for GBH. 🤝

Richard Dawson’s music video for Polytunnel makes me cry happy tears every time I watch it 😅 youtu.be/mraMN1lILXY?...

Margaret Calvert, designer of UK road signs, got a special cake on her 90th birthday yesterday

I’ve sang the same sweet song to my son for 5+ years, every night that I’ve been on bedtime duty. Tonight he asked for me to sing a different song (!) and the request was for ‘I don’t like cricket, I love it.’ 😅

‘You’re the huffiest puff, mummy’