Just beyond parody at this point

Best in Show of every show she was in. Thank you, Catherine O’Hara. Sleep well x

Fantastic, pointed, and written with furious élan. She v good. open.substack.com/pub/grainnem...

Forgive me for tootling a small trumpet - stuff from the past, reappearing on your radio ...

Put the right one in .

Happy Christmas x

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

And now I find out that The Salt Path wasn't even published by a real penguin.

Exhausted parent turns to Freecycle.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Coming home from work is the best.

It’s almost as though they haven’t read The Ship🤷‍♀️

Not all emerging writers are young; not all emerging writers are unpublished. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

We now have to keep this special box forever.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

The Christmas shop at Liberty is open and we haven’t even gone back to school yet.

I should be enjoying my 50s, not living through the rise of 21st Century fascism.

ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE, a memoir of a working class Manchester childhood in the 70s and 80s, was a literary sensation. Then author Andrea Ashworth dropped out of sight. For @manchestermill.bsky.social I found out why. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo...

Apropos of nothing, if you're looking to support someone making a long distance walk in support of a great cause, take a look at what my excellent big brother is doing right now. Land's End to John O'Groats - he hit 500 miles last week, and is currently in Lancaster.

While attempting to tidy up my Chrome bookmarks I rediscovered this interview I did with @antoniahoneywell.bsky.social on Chiltern Voice Radio a couple of months before the pandemic. It is the closest I'll get to being on Desert Island Discs. I got to pick books and songs for two hours. Fab time.

Dammit, we can’t have anything nice.

These narcissists need to take a long, hard look at themselves.

New show alert. Back in the 1990s I was the only female spark / "Gaffer " working successfully in the UK film industry. I had all kinds of movie adventures but...

me in camden market rn waiting for hungry teen’s chicken cheese wrap with fries

How would this particular blurb be helpful to anyone considering reading 1984?

Seriously: this is absolutely extraordinary, do take a look. A truly DEEP dive

Hi I’m Vanessa, a professional storyteller that is I literally tell stories for money. I also coach storytelling human beings & I programme storytelling festivals. (It’s a spoken word artform thing). I like foxes, trees, strangeness and people watching. #introductions #introduction #MeetMe

Eighteen years ago, almost to the minute. Happy birthday, sweetheart. Vote xxx

I’m a bit disappointed that no one has responded to this. Please all go and listen to @johnfinnemore.bsky.social’s absolutely perfect radio comedy Cabin Pressure and get back to me x

Arthur is vindicated.

They are wonderful.

Dinner x

I have finally given up on the other place and will be hanging around here now. I’ll be so glad to see you here if we’re friends there - and am looking forward to making new connections too.

Look what's arrived!! They're called 'proofs' because they're proof that I've been doing *something* for the last three years... It's a new milieu for me - an enormous, dilapidated country house just after the war - and it's out in September.

Smol but superior.

Rumpus, this is everyone. Everyone, meet Rumpus.

Everyone, this is Rumpus. Rumpus will be coming to live with us very soon. I wasn’t managing to do any writing anyway.

@tomshakespeare.bsky.social hello! So happy to find you here x

It’s at 6:30pm x just so you know.

But I do not want to have my nails clipped.

All those auditioning for the part of Cinderella to the fireplace please.

Bas-cat.

Many humans, resident and non-resident, have been feasted, feted and loved, and now I am going to sit here till New Year.

Excuse me but I just fixed the dishwasher. It took me an hour and a half, a cocktail stick, a pair of tweezers, a head torch, a very short fat screwdriver and a whole stack of exam admin I’ve been avoiding for a week.

In which Boots, cunningly disguised as James’ trousers, manages to sneak onto the sofa.

Boots is very happy with our holiday rental, although she thinks the sea is a bit big and best avoided.

Has the other place finally crashed? Just a black screen with nothing on it at all…

Blue sky you say? Yes, I approve.