i think what this comes from is a very toxic form of "mental health inclusivity" that essentially acts like the only mental illness people ever have is a mild depression and does not reckon with any of the actually difficult questions linked to actually difficult illnesses

Melancholia. Had to take a break halfway through it

Check in on the millennial women in your lives: Michelle Branch has just posted a cover of Alanis's 'Head Over Feet' on Instagram and I fear many of us simply will not cope

Another lovely relaxing Sunday afternoon watching Liverpool

Gardeners, help a complete dunce out. Previous owner left a couple of rose bushes, and I’ve been advised by a knowledgeable friend to prune them right back, asap.

GET IT YOURSELF

Experiencing the sort of hangover where there simply isn't enough food in the world to make me feel better

Side point: Daniel Craig’s (superb) physique in Casino Royale is an interesting time capsule of what Hollywood thought a really built guy looked like twenty years ago. No six pack.

If you wait long enough, the Vampire’s Wife dress shape will trickle down to the high street

At my colleague’s 40th birthday party tonight, someone greeted me with the words “God, you smell nice” and I fear I’ve peaked

Fun to remember that the dad of the Brontës was just a weird Irishman whose surname was actually Brunty, but he changed it up to be fancy.

It’s important to have a cute guy ready and waiting to jump into your bed when your husband’s away

Check in on the millennial women in your lives: Michelle Branch has just posted a cover of Alanis's 'Head Over Feet' on Instagram and I fear many of us simply will not cope

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Oh good, Keir's bringing out his "putting them on notice" line YET AGAIN

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Absolutely terrifying! A few years ago I experienced some mild harassment-type behaviour by a friend of ten years (now former friend, for obvious reasons) who’d decided we should be a couple and got really wedded to his own narrative

However much the LFC social team are being paid, it’s not enough. They are doing the Lord‘s work

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

It's on ITV player so last night I said to J "I'm going to get into bed and watch Tom Hardy as Heathcliff", to which he responded: "Is that code for something? Should I just leave you to it for a bit?"

New work notebook day. The lack of choice when it comes to B5 notebooks is a scandal.

Oh for those happier days of the 12 May 1994.

Well, a power cut is as good a time as any to discover the only candles we have in are my spendy Diptyque and Union of London ones

Sunday lunch with my parents. Brother and I started remembering the more rural bits of our childhood (including but not limited to memories of being dragged to ploughing matches). Brother proceeds to rattle off all the types of tractor he can recall, plus the colours they typically are

Really quite enjoying the amount of very good, angry culture writing that Fennell’s film is eliciting

Roses are red Zack Polanski is woke compared with the population in general, what percentage of Reform voters do you think regularly use coke?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you want a decent Wuthering Heights adaptation, the ITV one from 2009 with Tom Hardy as Heathcliff is dark and miserable. And has Burn Gorman playing a truly vile Hindley. AND Sarah Lancashire as Nelly!

We’re watching Manhunter and I can’t believe I’m having Feelings about a young Gil Grissom

Things that are bad luck, worldwide: ▪️Friday the 13th (France) ▪️Friday the 17th (Italy) ▪️Tuesday the 13th (Greece) ▪️Sharing a pear with your spouse (China) ▪️Whistling indoors (Lithuania) ▪️Yo-yos (Syria) ▪️Complimenting a baby (Serbia) ▪️Having ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife (Canada)

Just accidentally ended up reading a string of Substack notes and God it's like LinkedIn for people who are a bit too into Sylvia Plath

I think it’s really important right now that folk with platforms speak up and loudly point out how fucking weird these people are

Our neighbours are called Chris and Ruby and they have a lovely golden retriever pup called Margot, but I’m damned if I can remember which of the girls is which

Live scenes from Manchester United's PR and Brand Image Protection Department ...

I love him. I don’t even go for an STP but I’d follow this guy into battle.

I enjoyed this immensely!

Good morning to everyone except my husband, who woke me up five minutes before my 6am alarm by shouting wordlessly in his sleep. Love to wake up in utter terror!!

As a child, I used to get spooked when I heard owls hooting in the woods behind my grandmother's house. Now I can hear them hooting in the woods behind my house, I find it strangely comforting.

Despite my ‘Country Life property section’ habit, this was in fact not me

Client’s just messaged asking if we can remove something from “the Google”; how’s *your* day in marketing going?

Post a banger that isn’t in English.

Reading that Emerald Fennell has apparently removed the character of Hindley from her "Withering Heights" has put me off seeing it more than literally anything else I've heard about it

I'm going to laugh myself to death if all the boys leave and they replace them with their overlooked female deputies (quite plausible because they won't be able to recruit externally) and the whole thing starts running better

Aside from anything else, I don’t get how it’s less effort to take a class on using AI to write sex scenes than it is to just… have a bash at writing them. As it were.

I'm no political strategist but has anyone in Labour considered *not* alienating any huge chunk of their base? I just feel like they tried alienating the left and the centre left and the public sector workers and the academics, and none of those things worked great, so maybe give my idea a whirl?

lol

THE SOUND I JUST MADE

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

💀

Tori Amos in 1994:

Outside does take a bit of getting used to - but what doesn't?? So damp.