I’d totally forgotten about using a ruler to make a margin in books at school. (Just heard Bill Nighy mention it.)

No one ever talks about The Dooleys

Seems unfair that Karen and Harry look like that and I look like this #strictly

I just saw two toddlers cheersing ring donuts 🍩 and it made me very happy.

I bought Bourneville Old Jamaica cos it was my grandad’s favourite (and I like the packaging redesign). Good lord, who is buying this stuff?? It tastes like tyres.

I know people complain about lighting in modern films but what is up with the sound? I saw The Sound of Music yesterday without my hearing aids and every word was clear. Today I saw A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, my hearing aid battery ran out, and I’d say I missed half the dialogue.

Imagine being this much of a cringing twatweasel

Screenshot this in 2021. Thinking about it today for no particular reason.

Dreamt I was dating a celebrity and kept putting off our first kiss to savour the moment. Woke up before I got to kiss him. Learn from my mistake. Snog that celebrity! Seize the day!

I loved this book

This is really useful revivr.bhf.org.uk

I just verified mine by saying 01 811 8055

This is like finally watching A Streetcar Named Desire, thinking “can’t wait to find out what the title means!” Huh.

In all the years I’ve been wanting and intending to read Fun Home, never did it once cross my mind that Fun was short for funeral.

One thing that drives me nuts is buying off-peak tickets. Me: So which are the off-peak trains? Rail companies: It’s a secret.

Still bangs.

Truly baffled by people who loved that book. I read it for book club and found it both unbelievable and tedious. The Simon Armitage stuff alone!

Last night I dreamt I was in a band and the song we were playing rhymed “a tornado that blowed” with “sandals, open-toed.” Mortified that my subconscious is such a shit songwriter.

Why are photoshopped pictures in TV and film still so rubbish?

If you see this, post an image you saved because it makes you laugh

Just heard Dua Lipa on a podcast saying her album Future Nostalgia was inspired by the music she grew up listening to, which was the music her parents were into. Like Jamiroquai.

I legit just thought “god, showers are great. If you’re cold you can have a hot one and if you’re hot you can have a cold one.” I’m basically this guy

If you're a writer and you worry about repeating yourself, here's Ted Lasso's "semantic satiation" in the Spin City pilot from 1996

Started watching a film that opens “Forty years ago…” My brain: the fifties, cool.

Finally.

WHY IS ALAN SHEARER YELLING THE WHOLE TIME

It’s here! Fifteen years almost to the day since my first ever author copies.

Ooh my book is out in the world! ♥️🤍♥️

Favourite writer. Gorgeous book.

This book is so good!

Banger.

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Did an interview with @keris.bsky.social about money and disability go give it a read x open.substack.com/pub/theladyb...

I loved asking author @keris.bsky.social lots of questions about publishing and creativity at Words and Pictures last week - but it was her thoughts about money, advances and transparency in the publishing industry that I found the most insightful: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com/p/words-and-...

Me: Omg, apparently they’re phasing out landlines! My 16yo: What’s a landline?

Been stuck under a cat for the last hour, but it meant I could finishing this absolutely gorgeous new novel from @sarramanning.bsky.social

An actual life changing post! In this economy. (It’s not about Gary Barlow. I can’t believe I have to say that again. What is my problem.) keris.substack.com/p/the-articl...

Give it a rest, eh. Breaking news, my arse.

My latest money post featuring my latest money cock-up 😬 But also Sarah’s excellent bookshelves (and wisdom) open.substack.com/pub/theladyb...?

My teen just asked “What’s this with the bats and the newts?” I explained. Him: “Ohhhh… I thought it was an expression. Like the birds and the bees.”

Latest post from my mum’s suitcase. She went to Austria in ‘59 and the cinema (a lot) in ‘62. “Royal with Mo to see [Mission] to the Moon and The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow. Both of them were stupid to say the least.” keris.substack.com/p/the-view-f...

Putting this on right now.

The Year of LESS, not “yes”. I should’ve waited until I was more awake. But also I’m reading Birdy Arbuthnot’s Year of ‘Yes’ by @joannanadin.bsky.social and it is delicious.

My latest money newsletter. A tax cock-up, a subscriber milestone, and an inspiring interview with Cait Flanders, author of The Year of Yes open.substack.com/pub/theladyb...

Ah the Sunday morning trapped under a cat photo sesh

Just spent my entire shower composing bad reviews for my own forthcoming book.

Shut up.

The teen just asked me “What’s the point of pyramids?” I said “Right there at the top.” Turned out, he actually said ‘periods’ but we both cried laughing anyway.