Got told yesterday that "the gallbladder and the stomach are completely separate issues". By a doctor. In a hospital.

Archive link to the Times article Dr Clarke mentions: archive.ph/1xGxl

#Connections Puzzle #1022 🟨🟩🟦🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Tricked me 😂 #Wordle 1,744 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Strands #756 “A bit peckish?” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Told my husband I needed to sort out the hookers in the wardrobe. Hangers. The word I was looking for is hangers. 😂

My very brave (or crazy!) niece is doing a sponsored skydive to raise money for Alzheimer's Society, a wonderful charity. If you can donate, even a little, that would be amazing 😍 Thank you. #AlzheimersSociety #Alzheimers #JustGiving www.justgiving.com/page/maegan-...

Hardly anybody phones me anymore, but when they do you can guarantee I'll be on another call 🤣

And they wonder why so many people just don't bother to turn up!

Just spent 50 minutes on hold on the phone to cancel a hospital appointment, and failed to cancel because the first person I spoke to put me through to another department who weren't able to cancel the appointment and told me to ring the first department back! 😤

Made a victoria sponge... because why not? 😋

Not been up that long and I'm already looking forward to going to bed tonight 🥱 #PermanentlyTired

Weird coincidence in the car earlier. Car overtakes us (we're doing speed limit), my mum says "look at that idiot, how fast is he going?", radio starts playing 🎵Here you go, way too fast Don't slow down, you're gonna crash...🎵. My life is being soundtracked 😂

📚 Bookish Checkpoint 📚 ✨ Last Read: Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler ✨Current Read: Parable of the Talents - Octavia E. Butler ✨Next Up (maybe!): The Mistake I Made - Paula Daly ✨Last Added To TBR: Be Prepared - Farrah Rochon 📚 💙 #BookSky #Books #Readers #BookishCheckpoint

#Connections Puzzle #1016 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I would never have guessed the purple category 🤷‍♀️ #Wordle 1,738 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Strands #750 “In pieces” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 No spangram first today

#Strands #748 “Sniff sniff” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Found the spangram easily enough but had a bit of trouble with a couple of the words!

Just got an email from The Works... "From today, customers will no longer be able to shop online at theworks.co.uk " That's bloody annoying. I do most of my shopping online because it's difficult for me to get into town. Have to find somewhere else now for my stationery and cheap(ish) books! 😠

#Strands #747 “Spring fever” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 Found that really hard today!

#Strands #745 “It follows” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 I very rarely get the spangram first 😁

#Connections Puzzle #1011 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 #Wordle 1,733 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Strands #744 “Happy Saint Patrick's Day!” ☘️🟢🟢🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟢

Busy weekend of baking. Lemon cupcakes for Mother's Day, and a toffee sponge (my most requested flavour!) for my brother's birthday. #Baking #Cake

In case you were unaware, the Cass Review was the biggest and most egregious case of policy-based evidence making perpetrated by any government in recent years. It is so flawed it has been almost universally condemned. Don't let them do the same for mental health care.

If you see this, share a #RandomShelfie.

Athos taking a nap (or pretending to, because he's peeping at me 😂) #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cats 🐈‍⬛

I'm already feeling unwell. The stress of doing the 8am scramble for a GP appointment might just be what finishes me off. Wish me luck.

Athos. In a box. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cats 🐈

#Connections Puzzle #993 🟩🟪🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Thought I was being really clever when I fell for the trickster 😂😂 #Wordle 1,715 4/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Birthday cake for Mr Moomin. Didn't turn out quite how I pictured it in my head but I'm sure he'll be happy with it 😂

#Wordle 1,712 2/6 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yay! 😁 #Connections Puzzle #990 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

#Connections Puzzle #988 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle 1,710 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Wordle 1,708 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Connections Puzzle #986 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Not so patiently waiting for their breakfast. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cats 🐈

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS. Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records. Tell the government to end the contract! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Oh joy. It's snowing. ❄️😐

🍌 Banana watch - day 16 (or 17 maybe?). Having been exposed to the influence of the yellow bananas for a couple of days, some of the green bananas are showing signs of ripening. Decided to peel one on the advice of @natterblog.bsky.social. Unfortunately no gold inside. Disappointing. 🧵1/3

Love is in the air… and so is hypocrisy 💘 UK tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s second richest man in 2025: £0 UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: £17,000,000,000

#Connections Puzzle #979 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 #Wordle 1,701 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Popped my head outside, thought the fence was on fire. It wasn't. Just frost "steaming" in the sunlight 😂

Banana watch - day 15*. Yep, still green. There is something deeply wrong with these "bananas". *at this point we have no intention of eating the bananas, we are keeping them purely for scientific research 😂 (The yellow bananas were bought yesterday and pictured for comparison)

A work in progress. Still loads to do and I'll probably change my mind half a dozen times before I'm done! Taking a break now.

Banana watch - day 10. Still green. 😂

I have new bookshelves! 😁 Looks a bit unbalanced at the moment because there should be another cupboard top left to hide the fuse box but it's not ready yet. I'll probably put some books up there for now. Guess how I'll be spending the weekend! 😆 📚💙 #BookSky #Shelfie

Urgh. A rogue raisin* got through my muesli screening process and entered my mouth. I've been contaminated. 🤢 *devil's bogey

I have had enough of technology today 😡 All I wanted to do was change the recovery settings on one of my email accounts. A simple enough task you would have thought. Ended up nearly pulling my hair out with frustration!!

I'm having one of those days where everything is annoying me, but mostly the fact that Google wants me to verify my age on my email account. Because I'm sure a lot of under 18s have an inbox full of emails from the electric company, the water company, Asda and Tesco 🙄

Had these bananas delivered by Asda a week ago. Beginning to suspect they might be cucumbers. (They actually look greener than this in real life 😆)

Decided to give Netflix a go so I can watch the last 'Stranger Things', and the new 'Knives Out' film. Thought it would take me maybe 5-10 minutes to sign up. An hour (and a bit) later, I finally have Netflix. This is why I don't much bother with streaming! 😠

I just slammed the chest freezer lid on my thumb 🤬🤬🤬 #ouch

My very talented little brother @kevrooney.bsky.social has been longlisted for a BSFA Award for his short story 'The Tiddy Mun', featured in the folk horror anthology 'Hiding Under The Leaves'. Very proud of him! 😁🤞 💙📚🩸 #BookSky #Horror #FolkHorror #BSFA

Don't say it too loud, but the sun is shining! ☀️ It's still bloody cold but the sky isn't grey! 😁