Tired. So tired. Physically, mentally, emotionally tired. The teen has broken me this week and I just can't see the point trying to help him any more.

Fascinating or terrifying? All very Handmaid's Tale and not even trying to hide it. The women in Gorton and Denton need to know what a vote for this party is supporting, either their own vote or that of the men in their lives.

It's not the thing that I most dislike about Reform (there are so many things to choose from) but quite high up is the fact that I love the colour turquoise and they are spoiling it for me.

My favourite plants, I love hellebores 🌱😍 #gardensky

Struggling with my physical mental health just now, have an injured shoulder which is annoying, but the root of all of it is that I'm still trying to lose weight and getting nowhere. A month of very consistent tracking and what should be a calorie deficit and have actually gained a couple of pounds.

#fitnesssky #gymsky Happy with Strava for run/bike but its rubbish for circuits or gym. What do people use that syncs with strava and samsung health (HR) that lets me pick exercises as I do them, record the weights used etc so don't have to type it all in manually or write it on paper and take a pic

Wow.

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people. Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

Blew up halfway through what was supposed to be a long run, feel awful, so tired and drained. Tearful and fed up and broken. I think I might have cheese for dinner. I feel like cheese could help.

@evanhd.bsky.social are those ring cameras able to be used find victims of domestic abuse by their abuser? We can't take photos of our kids at school things any more in case a child who is at risk is seen by someone who shouldn't see them. Abusers could search for a 'missing' victim. It's not safe.

Just discovered there was a new series of Bridgerton. It's daft but it is lovely to watch, and listen to!

As a nation, are we going to have to endure the embarrassment and destruction of a reform government or is there time to reverse this shitshow? What proportion of the populace is looking at the US govt in admiration rather than horror and are there enough of them to impose that on the rest of us?

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

How much butter is a stick?

Giving this stick-on nail varnish a try, not like fake nails you glue on with horrible glue, they are a bit like stickers. I think they look really good, not too fiddly to apply so let's see how long they last! Have got a dark purple and a bright blue to try after this coral one. Glaize.co

TFW you've had a long crappy week at work, you get home in the dark and lashing rain and your husband says "I got the date wrong for the social thing, it's next month"

Of all the people to be brought down by Epstein, Kier Starmer wouldn't have been in my top 100.

In case anyone is looking for part time library work in south London. The librarians here are a lovely bunch. Downside is you may encounter me at times.

So what you're saying is, I should get out of bed and go for a run because it's frosty and beautiful outside? Fine.

Source: London Evening Standard share.google/aYzlxiTwTFzK... Amazing that the piece on BBC news criticising people working two civil service jobs (example chapbeas getting about 16k full time) didn't mention 9 jobs Nigel!

BBC News - 'Low pay and boredom led me to get a secret second job' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧵 I am sorry, but I need these thoughts out of my head. However, they do not need to be in your head too. They are the dark nightmares of Cassandra, looking at the USA and, by extension, warning all of us. Skip this thread if you cannot read it right now. 1

Walking round Sainsbury's me had lots of good ideas for what to make for dinner tonight. She was vastly overestimating the energy this evening's me has.

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.” * read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Had a very stressful day at work with some very bad news for me that is very good news for someone else. Smiling is exhausting when inside you are going fuckfuckfuck.

Sent him a friendly encouraging text yesterday. He hasn't even read it, let alone replied! Finding this term much harder than the last one, I guess because it isn't new and exciting now, and I am much less worried about him, and he's just gone.

The news on the third Monday of January is usually a load of nonsense about Blue Monday. I miss those days.

Can doing weight and core exercise really be good for me if I spend many days a week unable to laugh/cough or with painful movements? I'm pretty consistent so have had DOMS several days every week for the last 2 years, do you ever get past getting it? #FitnessSky

Enjoying Stephen's jumpsuit game today #TheTraitorsUK

My 18 year old told me he is really looking forward to getting back to uni at the weekend. I am simultaneously delighted that he is so happy there and outraged that he isn't bereft at being ripped from the bosom of his family. Couldn't he at least have *pretended* to be a bit upset?

I'm 52 and still basically read aloud to myself in my head, I can't understand how reading is possible without doing this? Always been jealous of those "I read a whole book in a day" folks.

In true "you only regret the runs you don't do" style, I feel bad for not running tonight. Ok so it's a bit wet out, I should still have gone. OTOH my knees are still sore from the long run on NYE so could probably with a day off but still feeling that whiff of failure. #RunSky

Seriously Fiona, WTF? #TheTraitorsUK

Make it viral.

Perhaps if our government crawled out of the cesspit that is twitter they would see how people (as opposed to Musk and Putin's bots) feel about their cowardly response to a dictator bombing another country for its resources?

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

Well fuck Starmer. So much for caring about international law.

Starmer effectively gives the US the UK’s backing over Venezuela.

If my government doesn't condemn this invasion of a sovereign power, the kidnap of their leader, the theft of their natural resources, all on the flimsiest of premises, then they are a bunch of cowardly quisling fucks. This is horrific.

It is my annual "bloody hell it's dusty in here" day.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

I wonder what she wants?

Chuffed that Stranger Things has absolutely nailed the landing. Good job.

Me: *stands on scales Damnit! I guess at some point I'll have to stop eating all this cheese.

Received wisdom: "You can't outrun a bad diet" Me: *runs 13k on the last day of 2025

So this Christmas I brined the turkey before cooking it. I regret to report that it made a HUGE difference and I will have to do this every time I cook one from now on.

Can't imagine why this was still in the sales, who wouldn't want it on their tree?!

We have a freshly minted 17 year old in the house so I am once again a white-knuckled passenger seat driver. Oh the joy.