Vented a substantial portion of my trauma out on UltraHuman for delivery of a dud ring that then tried to fob me off on AI support until I battered their customer helpline. Sending a replacement ring. Meanwhile doing the pulse rate and respiration the old fashioned way. But FFS.

2 months, an iron infusion and surgery, and my Hb back to normal 🥰 Still feel like crap. Recovery horrendous, tired and lethargic as my mitochondria are mulch from hypoxia. Past weeks the worst as peak rebuilding, but inching upwards now and getting out and about some more Onward! 🥰

Shittification and shareholder return A rehash of an old thread Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets He had zero faith in merchants And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline 1/n

Update Ended back in hospital with 4.9 HB, apparently critical life-threatening anemia. Woot! 🙂 2 blood transfusions later and a lot of probing, back home, and excruciatingly BORED, as only back to 8.3, and have less energy than a snail stuck on a blob of glue But still alive 🤓

So not feeling amazingly better Not nearly fainting every time I stand up, feel 1.5% more energy, and given even hospitalised iron deficiency (I prob really should've called 999 last week) takes 2wks to even START to feel an improvement, I think I'm being too impatient

It struggled to find investment, sinks under corporate collapse, but produced some of the finest films of its era that far outshine anything Disney or other competitors achieved Katzenberg was right, good art is good art, DreamWorks was right How to balance that with execs is its problem

For those not in the other place, I emerged from A&E this week with iron deficiency anaemia caused by an almighty bout of menorrhagia. Most likely my own fault as forgot to take my iron supplements for ages. Energy crashed, blood pressure zero 🥺 Hilariously vampiric in skin tone and sunlight tho 😂

Live on me own so got no one to practice portrait photography on, so apologies for the vanity selfies But damn I can do this photography lark, and this phone is Fan-Tastic for it, it's a fabulous camera Limited post-pro to really even out the colours but it Will Do

When there is a box, there will be kittenz

They say you can drive for 12hrs in Canada and never leave the same province In London you can travel for 9,088 hours and never leave the same Overground train 😭😭😭😭😭 (Slams head slowly on window from sheer, unadulterated boredom) Is this purgatory? 🥺 Did I die?

Vanity shot because using the working from the office this work to overdo the office style, compared to home casual woollies Tweeds off, got my urban chic on Bring it 😎

Offs 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Sweden’s Prime Minister, in a new statement on Greenland: “We will not let ourselves be blackmailed… Sweden is now having intensive discussions with other EU countries, Norway, and the United Kingdom for a coordinated response.”

Oh this is good. This is very good.

That polar bear pelt hanging in the tiny conference room

This vote exposes the isolation of the President's new reality. He can command the executive branch. He can purge the military. He can weaponize the Department of Justice. But he cannot force the legislative branch to participate in his delusion.

Right day this time! And if I wasn't in the mood for networking yesterday, feeling even less sociable tonight Reminding myself it could be My Show Up There One Day, but it's amazing how fast the Glamour of Telly and Premieres wears off Wanna be home reading Lockwood A series they cancelled

All of this But adding it does not absolve Twitter from the responsibility to safeguard users against obscene uses of its technology and platform. It's like making crack and then saying it's not their fault people dose up on it.

Self portrait (with extensive and careful and detailed instructions to my dad for taking it) after the style of Cecil Beaton Albeit I ain't no Cecil Beaton 🥺

This afternoon's meanderings 🥳 Cecil Beaton exhibiton RAF, of course, all the best ones are 😎 Did atrociously at Cambridge, as did Stephen Fry, mark of genius He repeatedly looked fantastic in a dress for those of you that wonder how to get popular with the ladies (he pulled a lot of gals)

Happy Christmas to all you mad, glorious people Wishing you all the very best of the season, however you celebrate it, and love to you all for making it all Fabulous ✨🎄🤗❤️🥳🥰 Got my four candles...

Happy Christmas to all you mad, glorious people Wishing you all the very best of the season, however you celebrate it, and love to you all for making it all Fabulous ✨🎄🤗❤️🥳🥰 Got my four candles...

Screening and Q&A of #fakhamhall at the fantastic Living Room Cinema, Chipping Norton ❤️🥰 Super independent cinema

Canada is a reliable partner that has what the world wants — and the world wants to do a lot more business with us.

Hilarious story behind the dress. So the parcel delivery said "addresses inaccessible" while I was outside talking to my neighbour Seeing NO posties So, adventures ensued. This girl does not Wait. Got in my car... 1/n

Royal Television Society Awards and UB40 ✨

Royal Television Society Awards and UB40 ✨

New book 🤓 Can't afford the time for the master's right now, so reading up until I mull Next Steps (or turn to a life of crime, which would be a bit time consuming if the screenplay kicked off)

“eurostar entanglement” refers to the principle that if you buy an expensive macaron from the shop in the gare du nord, a corresponding macaron will also disappear from the similarly exorbitant St Pancras shop.

lots of orcas 🌊 #art #orcas

This potentially says more about the quality and volume of Duolingo's learners than it does about my prowess, but iechyd da! Hoc rapiam.

Weekend adventuramarating 🥰🤗

Excluding Classical concerts... ... ... VnV Nation That's it. That's the list

Was saying Season 3 had really improved But tbh episode 4 was dire It was so Boring And for an episode that involved survival in the desert, a horse and exciting scuffles with drug dealers, to make it boring must've taken some serious effort But god he is SO pretty 🤤 😍🤗

The European Space Agency will develop a programme designed to serve military as well as civil requirements for the first time, as it clinched a record budget increase on.ft.com/3K1DgQp

Lovely funeral service near Oxford for the great BBC correspondent John Osman. His g’daughter Katy wrote and read a poem including these unforgettable lines: ‘You spoke for those who do not have a voice, The slaves, the prisoners, those who lack a choice.’ John absolutely did.

Let's be revolutionary here So, if you set up clear and simple safe routes in Set up appropriate facilities for people to stay in And adequately fund, staff and structure processing, with clear yes and no criteria Then the small boats will about 95% disappear overnight Mad idea But y'know 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cold enough for my long black coat. Love it, it's a long flowing piece of solid, beautifully tailored Drama But my late colleague Jamie Freeman used to call it my Sherlock coat, and it just reminds me of him every time I get it out of storage for winter 🥺 Miss you mate 💔 🕯️

Ha! Things I realised trying to play my cello Song of Angry Men is a remix of Glory Allelujah. Just hum bits of them interspersed with each other a few times Et voila mes amis!

Screenwriting, the one where US monopolies insist that scripts MUST be in FinalDraft format (despite the fact you send it as... A pdf, so they have no idea what you made it on), with specific centralises formatting Until you realise 60yrs of the UK's best-selling shows use totally different formats

Dragon breathe FIRE 🔥 🥰🐉

This is incredible

“Our Lord Jesus Christ commands us to treat one another as if we are treating Him. ‘Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me,’” Father Gill said: catholicphilly.com/2025/11/news...

Helping people is more efficient. This is a society, if we help each other, we grow and prosper. We don't help each other, it all falls apart.

In contrast to shittification When shareholder value returns are not involved, and those who have a stake in the business use and need the products and services Service quality and customer support flourish As your high street bank closes local branches Building societies stay open

He he he 🤭 ❤️

Took bins out Coming back, startled Not My Cat (black) in darkness, it ran, I dodged, slipped, skidded onto one knee Shock of fall + 2nd day of heavy period, no blood pressure to head, took me ages before I could stand up without keeling over And this, kidz, is why I don't do household chores

I've lost my tiara 👑 No, seriously. I can't find it anywhere. I need it later this week. (No, seriously)

Took bins out Coming back, startled Not My Cat (black) in darkness, it ran, I dodged, slipped, skidded onto one knee Shock of fall + 2nd day of heavy period, no blood pressure to head, took me ages before I could stand up without keeling over And this, kidz, is why I don't do household chores

Better than season 2 ish But episodes are 2 short. They have a rushed feel. Getting the plot and structure out the way just in time for the finale. Fun, but want... More