Here’s a Saturday night kind of question. If you moved around a lot as a kid, how do you answer where you’re from? Birth place? Primary School place? Secondary School place? Place you lived longest? Place you liked most?

English summer + English seaside =good excuse for coffee and a muffin! Mind you, my skin feels wonderful after sandblasting walking along the front!

And that odd little Australian is all over our media saying we should holiday in the states. Add this to guns being fired by dogs in cars and it’s going to be a no from me.

I forgot about lunch and now I’m hungry at a time that will mess up dinner. God this stuff is so annoying.

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

Psychocat has decided that our new getting up time is 4 am. I am very unimpressed and he is unrelenting but only one of us gets to stay in bed all day 😭

Well today’s been a shitty day to be British. What a mess.

Absolutely disgraceful that Farage spots political opportunity in this murder. There is no tragic situation that Farage won’t make worse. His answer is more hatred, more division, more threat. A profoundly loathsome man. Our country will deeply regret giving him power. He does nothing but harm.

Tube a mess again. That’s once or twice a week my journey is disrupted. Seriously considering driving in.

‼️ Amnesty's new research exposes the anti-trans movement. They have a plan - first they're coming for trans rights and then for women's rights. We'll only defeat them by coming together.

Those of you who’ve been following me for a while (cooeee and why!) will know that I have the ability to close a foreign museum simply by being in the country. Miraculously, this wasn’t the case this time in Palma.

Are we not past the Dickens was a truly horrible little man yet? How is it a shock to anyone? Extra BBC points for the phrase ‘museum bosses’.

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Sat with a couple of Belgians earlier. They asked why I’d come to a resort filled with Germans when I could have gone to Magaluf. Trying to explain that drunk young men aren’t as unpleasant or embarrassing when they aren’t from your country and you understand less of what they’re saying!

Cancer scientists are really on a roll right now! Bless every one of them.

Now I’m in Spain regretting I’m not in Croatia 🤣

I have absolutely never gone for a drive with three guinea pigs in their indoor house!

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

The cat sitter arrived to find this yesterday. He realised she wasn’t me and ran back upstairs. I’m a bad person 😱

If anyone is heading to Palma, Majorca this summer, there’s a great exhibition of Miros at the Museum of Majorca.

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My summer suggestion is frozen grapes! Eat them like sweeties.

Basically, when it's this hot, it's fine to eat nothing but chips and ice cream.

Just to annoy everyone stuck in London today.

So proud of the team today. They gave up their bank holiday to work a stinking hot birthday fete. We had a great day with over 1300 in the museum and god knows how many in the park. The team were so flexible, willing and unfailingly cheerful.

Those of you advocating for air con need to be on this train. It’s bloody icy.

Talking my cat sitter through Mischa’s routine and saying how he’ll probably just hide and she may not see him at all. She looks over my shoulder and says “is that him?” I swear he lives to embarrass me! 🤦🏼‍♀️

It is hot outside so I have bought mint Veniennetta. I don’t really like ice cream so it’s perfect.

Such a great idea #Denmark #wildlife

Someone is enjoying the nice weather.

Thought I’d be sneaky and work in the garden to enjoy the sunshine. Unfortunately a combination of hayfever and my neighbours’ unceasing DIY are driving me back inside. Curses!

In the 1980s, we had an openly trans councillor in, of all places Tunbridge Wells. He often wore capes which was pretty much why he was so visible. No one cared. He wasn’t so “passing” as not needing to. It was fine then, it’s fine now.

This is a thing of beauty!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #scotland

Well this is awkward. I think Mischa might have realised I have a trip coming up. I will suffer for this 🤦🏼‍♀️

My only thought on the train set nonsense is that in the end it went to someone who’d enjoy it. If she’d thought of that before getting arsey that there was a process to follow, she could have saved a lot of time.

All week there have been many more overdressed people at Victoria than usual. The blazer and fascinator types. The only thing I can think of that’s happening is Chelsea Flower Show but surely people don’t go dressed as mother of the groom to a flower show?

Caught by the Fuzz on cafe radio at work. 👍🏻

Al Carns is just going to get called Poundshop Paddy Ashdown. He doesn’t even have a name that will suit a sex scandal.

Not yet 7:30 and I’m already drenched because of twatty drivers taking big puddles at 30mph. Seriously unimpressed.

I didn’t know there was an International Museums Day. Do we get cake or something?

Had to go on mumsnet for work and holy hell!

Habitat hates single people. Step 8 I find out you need 2 people. Well there are aren’t two people so extra swearing and a pledge to buy better brands next time will have to do. 🤬🤬

Out for drinkies. Crashed a birthday party, accidental jäger bomb and chicken shwarma on the train home. I feel 30 years younger 😆

Why does so much online comedy revolve around blokes putting a yea towel on their heads and pretending to be stupid women? Is is because they can’t do tit jokes any more? I’m sick of it anyway.

Calling A-level English teachers! Do you teach Austen, Brontë, or other 18thc stuff? Could you use a set of free research-informed teaching materials, which support students' historical, literary, & linguistic understanding, & foster debate about misogyny, consent, & healthy relationships? (1/?)

That Guardian book thing is designed to get clicks but I’ve read around 20 and the first chapter of several more (a school thing). All I’ll say is that I’d rather commit murder than be forced to reread their no 1 book. And that’s partly why these things are silly.

Julian Richards is an archaeological legend and absolutely lovely when he helped us launch a new gallery years ago. Go watch this.