very much relate to this! sitting in my one bed flat, which still hasn’t gone below 28, trying desperately to keep my baby cool 🙃 meanwhile boomers in their draughty houses with gardens are complaining about losing the winter fuel allowance!

i would love to see some analysis of gender make up of council leadership following the local elections, now the AGMs are done. it certainly *seems* like there are more male leaders and cabinet members than previously but that’s just my impression, not backed up by stats.

baby books: in hot weather your baby should be wearing one layer less than you! but what if i’m so hot i want to claw my skin off…… what then?

wie sagt man „psychodrama“ auf deutsch? oh

a lot of councils are now being run by people who’ve never even been councillors before - they’re about to find out they have a lot less money and a lot less power than they thought!

A gold star to Laurence Williams of Bexley, who is standing for election this May for the Greens - which I think is his tenth political party. It takes some political journey to stand for both UKIP and Rejoin EU. candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/person/6615/...

things my baby has played with today: - mixing bowl - wooden spoon - measuring cups - packet of baby wipes - bag of crisps things he has not played with: - any of his many, many toys

went to see wuthering heights and immediately identified the actor playing linton as taz from spooks - which aired over 15 years ago. the cultural impact that show had!

i asked a man not to push in front of me and my baby (in pram) and he said “why don’t you k*ll yourself you f*cking b*tch” happy valentine’s day!

Breaking: The government has pledged write off 90 per cent of councils’ historic SEND deficits – estimated to be worth £5 billion https://schoolsweek.co.uk/government-to-write-off-90-of-councils-send-deficits/

heron up high / fox down low, spotted in my local park. i saw a kingfisher here last week too! a small tributary of the thames in urban london

spotify: you wanted to listen to one specific aria from don giovanni? hahahaha no. either randomly guess or get ready to listen to the whole opera until you randomly hit on the one you wanted

sometimes parenthood means watching the traitors in silence with the subtitles on while you get your baby to sleep - and then the BBC go and put the wrong subtitles on 😭 (i assume)

vile misogyny promoted by the world’s richest man and endorsed by everyone who’s still on X at this point

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.

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 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