Was an absolute DORK over @janicehallett.bsky.social at the @chilternkills.bsky.social festival just now. I always said she's who I want to be when I grow up, and that's still mostly true, but just a tiny bit less after she said she's a 100% pantser!!😱

There's this true crime advert that ends with someone saying, "How do you know the person sitting next to you right now isn't a psychopath?" and it makes me laugh every time because whose sitting next to me is him

Got a new purse and trying to answer the eternal question: do I fill the purse with loyalty cards or my phone with loyalty apps?

I finished my book and now I'm too sad to do anything else (Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro)

I bought a new plants and it wasn't in my flat 2mins before Copper got at it...

Happy #InternationalCatDay! Peanut is off his face on catnip

Oh I am SO pleased to see this. I worked with Prof Dougherty a lot at Imperial and she is one of those people you really want to be when you grow up. Smart, dedicated, kind and funny. A true inspiration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I read a LOT more now than I did 10 years ago, and yet I've still only heard of one of the Booker longlist again this year. It used to make me feel uncultured, but I think the type of book favoured is just not for me! 🤷‍♀️

Just beautiful work there. The disclaimer really earning its place

So how many books did you buy in the @waterstones.bsky.social pre-order sale? I managed to restrict myself to six 😁

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Honestly, how disrespectful is this? Not only have they already told us two different values since April, they can't even be bothered to pretend to explain why the new figure is, naturally, higher (Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, MTVH)

When I gave blood last week, one of the nurses found a 2hr video of silly cats on YouTube to put on the TV in the donation room. And my nurse gave me an extra bag of Mini Cheddars 'for the road' 💪🩸

Why did this make me want to do homework again. I miss doing assignments. Grown-up job work just doesn't hit the same

‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

Every summer I think about leaving London

What a beautiful thing to arrive on the solstice from Jackie Morris and @tamsintheshed.bsky.social 🌅 Tinged with sadness tho as it's probably the last book I'll receive from #Unbound - 2 others are still on order but one (another folk title) was cancelled by the author this week

Happy solstice from Stonehenge! I sang in the dawn this year 😊

This is 39

What's weirder? Black holes, human consciousness, or quantum spookiness? Join the debate (and me) tomorrow as three @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social scientists fight it out to have their 'thing' crowned the weirdest! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/weirde...

A small selection of the wonderful animals I got to say 'hi' to in South Africa :-)

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STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

Puffin's Bluff

"She's been sleeping diagonally in her bed for years" YES I HAVE

Can you believe I'm on this list?! I almost can't, but there I am in black and white!

Met a sentient potato

Really enjoyed hearing from @ginarippon.bsky.social tonight about her foray in autism in women. Lots more to learn as I delve into the book. Thanks @conwayhall.bsky.social for putting it on 🌟

It is a good day for trees

my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Extract 2/18

Am I mad at the lost hour today? Of course I am, I'm not in thrall to Big Daylight

Joined two magpies on a walk today ☺️ 🪶

An English spring is one of the things I missed the most when I lived abroad. Nothing like it 🌷

Me and my bank account had a grand time at #StitchFest today 🪡 😍

Couldn't agree with this more. I loathe leadership that looks at mental health issues rising and fails to examine their role in that. I've seen it in previous jobs and it creates an extremely toxic environment

This is the most intricate and complex cross-stitch / embroidery I've done so far. A lot of work for a Christmas stocking gift from my Mum! Now what should I name him?

My top two women role models (my cat Copper and Jessica Fletcher) #Caturday

London Book Fair! Me and @clotimms.bsky.social are here, it's overwhelming but amazing. Chloe will be speaking soon with @kitdewaal.bsky.social #LBF2025

I love that Peanut is such a chill cat I can embroider on him

Went to an extremely dystopian co-working place today. I thought Ex Machina but people keep saying Severance vibes (I've not seen it). Either way, everything in this corridor looked like it was easy to wipe blood off of

Awh I love coots (and their chunky, dinosaur-like feet) - this study is as fascinating as it is disturbing www.science.org/content/arti...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman buying cranberry juice must be in possession of a UTI

"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off." www.theguardian.com/environment/... Never mess with a Canada Goose.

Sure the scientific value is questionable, but on the other hand: “Adorability was one of the unintended consequences that we did not expect.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

typical book project timeline

BOOOOO!

Instinct tells me this is because there are fewer marriages, or at least later marriages - people are marrying now because they have chosen to, not because they felt compelled to (for a variety of reasons...)

A story in three pictures

Why is Peanut sleeping like a dinosaur caught in a mudslide about to be fossilised??