Think if you give a Liz Truss venture half a million, it's not even a case that you need to be taxed more, but you should be made a ward of the state and your assets seized for your own safety.

I had the privilege to test this and I can tell you it is good and also: infuriating

Self date (followed by actual date) day! I'm off to a matinee of High Noon then intend to look fabulous & sit at a bar somewhere with my book drinking a cocktail until R comes to meet me for dinner.

Out with a pal and we've caught up on work, then some love life stuff and now we have got another glass just to laugh and laugh and laugh at memes

Well this has been the best timeline I have EVER come out of a meeting for!!

Got catfished by my avocado this morning.

Charlie & Camilla are visiting my bit of London today - literally ten mins up the road from me - if nothing else at least we have seen some of the streets cleaned for the first time in about 3 years.

How to make pancakes the british way: Step 1: remember it's pancake day Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes Step 4: no pancakes for you

Went for a run at stupid o'clock in the morning, as I do a couple of times a week, but this morning I got to see the start of the dawn and I responded with the glee of a neolithic druid off his face on mushrooms. (Later on in the run I tripped over, making the metaphor more literal than intended.)

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

Might just build an ark and be done with it, lads.

#DoctorWho Roses are red, My heart is a quiver...

Does anyone know where I left my keys? I last had them in a blinding panic letting in the washing machine delivery that arrived 90 minutes early and haven't seen them since then, having during that time done a major clear up. Yes, I am sure they will be easy to find in these circumstances.

Happy Valentine's Day! We are getting a washing machine delivered. ah, the romance.

A thing we have started doing is every couple of weeks or so the person who is WFH will meet the office person off the train and take the dog to the pub past the park. This supports our local pub, the dog is happy (he drags us in most times anyway), we get a pint, everyone wins.

For those of us in the pocket of the north-west where comprehensives didn't have sixth form in schools so in fact had to go to local colleges for their A-Levels: thanks for asking, it's Richard Ashcroft.

*Hallelujah chorus intensifies*

Okay I literally turned on my telly and there is another Dune ice skating routine, this time with somewhat less good cosplay?(I think Duke Leto and Jessica but who knows) What is in the air in this sport?!

I'm watching the ice skating, a sport about which I know nothing despite enjoying it every four years: why is a Paul Atreides cosplayer on my telly because I know he promised water to Arrakis but an ice rink seems to be over delivering on that promise.

Leo here is the one trying to grift his way back onto the open mic circuit and it is not fun seeing the already short list of 'non-bringer gigs not run by potential dangers' get ever shorter.

post a banger not in English youtu.be/U7-dxzp6Jvs?...

Happy Monday, we've started by going from 0-100 when we heard the dog heaving (got there MOSTLY in time and this is why the rug is washable), this better not be an omen for the week.

Today we went to see Oh Mary! Mostly because I will never stop fancying Mason Alexander Park. I enjoyed it but I can see why Americans loved it and why British reviewers were luke warm, tbh.

oh dear

Because of Reasons, I am taking this morning off and Hastings is embracing the vibe.

My washing machine is playing up and I'm going to be honest, it turns might be the thing that tips me over the edge this week on the old menty h if this last ditch attempt to reset it doesn't work.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Well, back to miserable grey rain for my WFH day so another trudging day of dog walks it is.

The sun in London is incredibly joyful today, never before have I so much enjoyed the lunchtime walk to M&S

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

I see Leo Kearse is trying to rehabilitate himself by coming back via the open mic circuit and some of the names working with him are a real, real disappointment.

Watched Sinners last night which is exactly as good as everyone said but also combined with watching The Bone Temple on Wednesday, my main takeaway is that if Jack O'Connell turns up at your doorstep and is doing an accent you should just immediately bludgeon him to death.

Today's lovely thing part 1: staggered out of bed early to the alarm, went through to let the dog, started making tea, R comes through and says "are you ok? It's your lie in day!" so I happily went AHAHAHAHA BYE and went back to bed for an absolutely delightful further 90 minutes

NO (NEGATIVE)

When I was 16 I thought 28 Days Later made my brain turn sideways with what cinema could do. 28 Years Later did the same thing to my 38 year old brain. The Bone Temple made both ages come together and shriek "OH MY GOD THEY MADE THIS FOR US"

Taken myself to see The Bone Temple but the screening time completely clashes with dinner time and that, friends, is why I've just snuck a packed lunch into a zombie film to eat during the adverts (not during the film, I'm not a monster)

Bad: being at the gym for opening Good: being the only one on this floor and the radio station they're tuned to JUST starting playing 9-5 Bad: someone walking in as I'm REALLY going for the chorus

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

Lovely weekend with friends, with Star Trek, escape rooms, discovering that Nottingham is basically mostly caves, a very good dog who decided that my bed was the best one to sleep kn and delicious food. Only downside is that the mascot for EMR trains is genuinely terrifying?

On a train to visit friends with a fully charged e-reader, a seat and a bag of giant Caramel Nibbles all to myself, what more can you ask for on a Friday afternoon?

On the flip side as an employer, AI applications are an absolute curse as well, just a deluge of noise for every role drowning out good candidates. The good work of accessibility over the last few years with remote interviews etc & open hiring is increasingly untenable

I am on a work away day which, you know, fine, but the vegetarian lunch is a coriander salad so I hope everyone in the afternoon session is prepared for The Hanger making all my decisions for the next four hours.

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

Awful day yesterday. So first, all these assholes get on the wrong bus

I've had a nice, filling, genuinely enjoyable salad for lunch and now some absolute git has brought in pizza and I regret all my choices. This is not a metaphor for politics or at this point who knows, maybe it is.

What’s your sign?

ALSO and yes I am on a service station kick now, the best crispy spring rolls in Vietnam were at a, you guessed it, service station somewhere around HCMC. SO good.

The best KFC in the world is at Keele service station on the M6, on the bridge over the motorway.