Everything is quite awful and terrifying and heartbreaking and fury inducing at the moment, isn't it?

Look at what’s happening in the States. Nobody should be sending football teams there in the summer. Boycotts really should be happening.

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

Aww poor Jack but better this way than standing with Stephen for the reveal .... #thetraitors

Thought this must be about the Traitors

This is exciting! I really have no idea how it's gonna go... #thetraitors

(un)typically my kids went to bed really quickly tonight...and Traitors is half an hour later than usual...!

Just had to shout 'stop sitting on Kevin Keegan' at my cat... @noscoredraws.com

I'm no expert but I just assumed cannula bruise?

MOTHERFUCKER!!!! #thetraitors

So much this. Although changing a vote looks sus as.... #thetraitors

Oh Roxy. Massively wrong to the last hahaha #thetraitors

I know this is a minor point in this story, but I find it interesting that Victoria Beckham is referred to as David's 'fashion designer wife' in this article...! Spice Girl erasure right here www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bit too much cloud cover but is that a little peek of green aurora I spy....??

THIS! Also I get more of a thrill seeing my book in a library than in a bookshop I reckon....

Watched #traitors on a 10 mins delay as baby bedtime overran so scrolling through here now... This made me laugh @katebevan.com @msyellowhat.bsky.social

Lego really do customer service right. I emailed them about this, not asking for anything. They are sending the missed kit from the advent calendar. But also ...

In the jungle, the mighty jungle ....

Hello jet lag migraine. Please eff off. Also British Airways PLEASE give me an update on my suitcase as your last message said it was being picked up by the courier at 0900 on 15th....which is while it was high above (probably) Turkey with me on the flight it actually made...so I'm confused.

Back in the UK after an amazing trip to Hyderabad. Watching the rerouting of our flight plan to avoid not one but three air spaces made me feel quite sad.

It's not like we have loads of world experts in this topic here in the UK...

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Amazing visit to NIN with @pravpatalay.bsky.social to meet the director, and our collaborators. What a beautiful campus.

Amazing visit to NIN with @pravpatalay.bsky.social to meet the director, and our collaborators. What a beautiful campus.

Carrying my pocket AtoZ map in my bag every time I went out anywhere while a student in London.

I'm an hour behind on Traitors because my daughter decided to scream for the last hour....

I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum. All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply). The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”. Extract in the replies.

Meant to be off to India on Saturday morning (from Manchester) for a research trip. Place your bets now on whether (weather) I'll make it!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Do we need to update our antiquated drink driving regulations? Absolutely. Will this kill off the pubs? Unlikely, and if it does, it's still better to stop deaths and life changing injuries that impaired driving cause. My latest blog. open.substack.com/pub/suzigage...

Great stuff here from @soozaphone.bsky.social about the flimsiness of arguments being trotted out today against lowering the drink drive limit in England & Wales open.substack.com/pub/suzigage... I might be one of the cynics complaining about enforcement though...

Do we need to update our antiquated drink driving regulations? Absolutely. Will this kill off the pubs? Unlikely, and if it does, it's still better to stop deaths and life changing injuries that impaired driving cause. My latest blog. open.substack.com/pub/suzigage...

...I wrote it. Have at it. Special prize if you can tell me what film the pictured pub features in... open.substack.com/pub/suzigage...

Oh boo hoo I can't drink my neuro toxin then get behind the wheel of my ten ton murder machine. (Obviously I'm being a bit facetious here, but come on, this is the absolute peak of entitlement as an argument.

Are British Airways completely incompetent these days? I'm flying with them this weekend and...I can't get any info I need? It seems like my exec club membership no longer exists? And I've tried to rejoin and the email to validate just isn't arriving.

I sort of love these. Like the reviewer says they're awful but comforting in a way. Also lots are filmed round the corner! In the new one I've already spotted Minna on Lark Lane, and a dog being pinched from Sefton Park (I cycled past when they were filming it!) www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Anyone know where you can get Indian rupees from in UK? Only place I've found that seems to have them is M&S currency, but not available to collect until after my trip! I didn't realise this would be so tricky!

Oh my

Happy new year friends. May 2026 be kind to you all x

Something very odd happened in the middle of the night last night. As I went to brush my teeth before bed, my electric toothbrush didn't start. This is unusual - normally it gets slower as it's running out. But, as it had been in a suitcase yesterday as we travelled home I wondered if maybe it...

What was Jesus in for?

I recommend making mulled spice bags, and then just leaving them out in your kitchen. We have just got home from family Christmas down south and the house smells DELICIOUS.

Preparations complete

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Has everyone got taskmaster audio described??

Well this is grim.

Anyone else got a Lego advent calendar? We had the wrong thing in ours today. Just trying to find out if we were unlucky or if everyone's was wrong....

Me and the 5 year old are making home made gifts....

Things you love to see.

It's Mari Lwyd getting ready to celebrate the dying of the year