taking advantage of baby wearing not pram pushing to walk up many steps to greenwich’s best view 📍 the point

me: sets out a wide array of sensory toys for baby to play with baby: i will now spend 20 minutes studiously examining these odd multi pronged things recently discovered at the end of my arms - i believe they’re known as “hands”

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

i just turned on the radio to hear someone say “i think we are a race of people who are being targeted “ - the targeted race in question? LANDLORDS 💀💀💀

9 november is germany’s Schicksalstag (day of fate)! all these events happened on the same day: - 1918 - november revolution - 1923 - hitlerputsch in munich - 1938 - Kristallnacht - 1989 - fall of the berlin wall

i try not to criticise councils but really - who decided to install this new bench here?!

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

me on social media: i will not be posting pictures of my child online! parents should not be creating a digital footprint of their child before they can consent! me on whatsapp: please receive these 187338 unsolicited images of my child doing exciting things such as sitting, smiling & breathing

sitting in a pitch black silent room at lewisham hospital, as the lights in the designated windowless breastfeeding room (ie a cupboard) are on a ten minute timer 🙃 not ideal when you’re stuck under a nursing baby! what a classic NHS experience

put on a playlist designed to get baby to sleep and it turns out spotify DJ merges each song into the next even if it’s in a completely different key, creating a discordant nightmare … presumably not the intention

eschewing screen time for the delightful nursery rhymes of the past, which seem to vary between mindless violence and outrageous moralising

the today programme just referred to a district council in cambridgeshire as “south east england”…. now who do i write to at the BBC about the erasure of east anglia 😩😡

i’m not sure why i chose this moment, when i’m temporarily struck down with diabetes (🤰) to binge watch the entirety of the last seasons of great british bake off

this should be illegal and i will back any party whose manifesto promises to rule out temperatures over 30 degrees

summer solstice morning ☀️ from hilly fields

people keep asking me, as someone who’s eight months pregnant, how i’m coping in the heat…. but i’m not just pregnant, i’m pregnant and ginger

This week, MPs will vote on whether to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. As the police issue guidance to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and seize phones to inspect menstrual tracker apps, I wrote about why reform is more vital now than ever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah this is interesting devo news. London will get an integrated settlement after all from next year. It'll be interesting to see how the model differs in London compared to the combined authorities, and whether it'll require constitutional change in the GLA-Council relationship to make it work

at the antenatal clinic and there is a woman wearing a beautiful dress, so every midwife, sonographer and even the obstetrician has been brought out to admire it 💃 this is peak womanhood

Reform’s “British DOGE” when they finish up looking at Kent Council:

campaign to make map based products accurate again 😩 women deserve to be able to buy geographically accurate cute purses!!

i think i’m the only person in the world likely to receive a personalised card of former defence minister sir gavin williamson for their birthday 🥰❤️ and i love it

Why we need decriminalisation to pass and fast observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

the fact shostakovich attended two live shows of jesus christ superstar and loved it always seems to surprise people but it shouldn’t! it’s uncompromising and complex music, some of andrew lloyd webber’s best ever writing - and a (pretty) accurate portrayal of jesus’ last few days

me walking slowly down the bus aisle because i’m scared it’s about to move off // the bus driver waiting for me to sit down first because he spotted i’m pregnant

south london sunset 🌅

this was true before february 2022, but russia hasn’t been increasing its global presence since then. it’s severely weakened by the war in ukraine, which it naively thought would be over within weeks. i sympathise with annaliese dodds but i’m not sure she’s right on this point.

excited to be playing in this on 23 march! if you’re a fan of requiems, you truly can’t top mozart’s 🎶 🎻 www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/bla...

'Greenwich Park' by Kit Boyd kitboyd.com

you cannot leave facebook when people are genuinely posting things like this

due to train shenanigans i was unexpectedly in broxbourne today. would be a nice place if there were 60% fewer cars!

semi frozen pond at St James’s park this morning

as much as i’m excited for the new DLR trains this year, the red stock really is iconic. going to miss this view

germans don’t just wish each other a happy new year, they wish each other a “good slide” into the new year and i love that 🛝

New Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was a key advocate for devolving Southeastern Metro to TfL as Deputy Mayor. SE Metro has great potential - and is now the time it may actually be realised? Or will the Treasury block? www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/11/29/s...

will it be amol rajan for match of the day or amol rajan for next archbishop of canterbury?

9 november is germany’s Schicksalstag (day of fate)! all these events happened on the same day: - 1918 - november revolution - 1923 - hitlerputsch in munich - 1938 - Kristallnacht - 1989 - fall of the berlin wall

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat for the popular vote, 48% to 48%, the final national poll by The New York Times and Siena College found. The effective tie is evidence of an electorate that is both polarized and frozen. nyti.ms/40oUhd7

tchaikovsky reaching into the very depths of his soul to compose six romances, never knowing that in 2024 he would end up on a spotify playlist with hozier called “goblincore”