I just stopped #totp before "Mississippi" even started. I heard it on one of the old replays years back and I kid you not, I couldn't get that earworm out of me head for weeks. It was driving me crazy. Can someone please tell me when it's gone?

I do not quite believe I'm watching 'Legs and Co' dancing to the theme from Jaws, on an old #totp from 1976. It's scary, alright, but for all the wrong reasons.

If healthcare improvement research matters to you - come along to THIS Space - a completely free online conference about just that. The programme has just dropped and it's looking like another great year - and spaces are limited. See you there! #THISspace2025

Gotta love it when your train gets cancelled on one of the hottest days of the year, forcing you to not only hang around in the sun for an hour and get a steaming migraine, but share the next train an hour later with twice as many bad tempered people as usual, many of whom needed a deodorant top up.

August 11 is always a tough one to get through. Ten years ago today, I lost my dad, after a long illness. My husband died two years later on the same date. Completely out of the blue. So yeah, tough day for bad memories. And it's a Monday this year.

Is it just me, or is Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood an absolute gold plated banger of a tune, even if it's well over 40 years old?

There is no better feeling than walking out of the dental hygienist's clinic, safe in the knowledge that you don't need to go back for six months.

I have to say that I didn't have 'chasing a mouse around a barrel of chicken feed' on my weekend bingo card. But there you go... No mice were harmed in the making of this post. Despite curious chickens.

My story set in Suffolk in the 17th century has been published in Suffolk Magazine... I absolutely LOVED writing this!

Just ventured into the local Facebook group and seen a woman asking for recommendations for a nail tech who'll do acrylics on a 12 year old 😳😳😳 I've replied that she's not likely to find anywhere reputable willing to do it and no insurance will cover that age. Bet she does it anyway.

My ❤️❤️... I adored #Fame in 1982. Used to do dance routines in the playground and sing all the songs 🎶 #totp RIP Irene Cara...

I still cringe at the memory of trying to dance to this at a school disco in 1982. Little did I know the song would be played at every wedding I ever went to, well into the next century, so I would be able to practice it. #ComeOnEileen #totp

Yazoo - absolutely class. I saw Alison Moyet live a few years ago and she definitely still has it #totp

Yes Errol, I remember you. You were only on the telly an hour ago #totp

Um, #totp you already played this in 1998.

Best tune so far #totp Chaka Khan, Ain't Nobody... Proper summer groove 🎶

MUTE!!!!! #TOTP I can forgive SAW but I have my limits.

1989 on #totp now. Pretty good year, a new job - the people were fantastic and the social life was amazing as we were mostly young. I met people I'm still in touch with now. That summer the weather was good and I was dating my first proper long term boyfriend. Good times. I can even forgive SAW.

This Aqua Dr Jones tune has all the irritant power of Barbie Girl without the charm. Can we have another year now, please?

Ugh. Back Street boys. Never was a boy band kinda girl #totp

Have to say this 1998 #totp has been disappointing. I've had to ask Google several times and I know I was around and watching in '98... Where's all the good stuff?

Not at all suspicious 🤔

The next health influencer who says that I need to prioritise sleep and aim for eight hours of quality sleep per night "no excuses" is going to get her clearly NOT perimenopausal backside handed to her on a plate. I know I need eight hours of sleep. I also know my body won't let me. Watchagonnado?

So I'm watching the Live Aid thing. Remember watching it on a tiny TV in my mum and dad's bedroom, because Dad didn't want to watch a load of oiks! Fantastic to watch some it again. Simpler times, no phones, no Insta, just thousands of people in one place being part of a historic event...

When I think humans can't possibly get more revolting, I'm proved wrong... 😕

A few years ago I read that ending a sentence with an “Ellipsis” is a total GenX thing because we are used to just trailing off because no one is listening to us and y’all I just…(copied from Threads)

On the train back from Cambridge and I'm being harassed by a ladybird. Yes, I am wearing a top with daisies on, but the little bug is determined to hitch a ride...to be honest I prefer it to most of the other passengers.

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Just leaving this here. I don't feel old now...#GenX #Glastonbury ❤️

Watching #Glastonbury at an advanced age reminds me that I don't actually feel old at all. I'm loving some of the newer, younger acts as well as loving Pulp and Alanis very very much.

Never underestimate the power of music. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette got me through a tough time in 1998. Much as I loved it, I've found it hard to listen to for a long time. But when 'Thank U' was on the Glastonbury recap I thought I'd be OK. Reader, I was not.

The Mail Online top headline today is "Was Marilyn Murdered?"* Is it 1962? *Probably.

Seeing so many Glastonbury clip posts pop up on social media of talented young women being ripped to shreds for not looking the way keyboard warrior commentators think they should in order to be a woman at Glastonbury. Nothing ever changes, does it?

Ten Father's days without you but you're still with me, Dad. ❤️

I feel seen.

Monday vibes carried on until tonight when my plans for a quiet night in as my OH was working turned into two power cuts, an error message on the boiler, a knackered plug extension, a chicken coop door getting stuck and a chase around the garden to catch a Silkie hen and move her. In the rain.

Today continued to Monday hard. The engineer came to fix the router but we still don't have our Internet back. He's got to come back tomorrow and we don't know when so I've had to cancel going to the office tomorrow

This Monday is already Mondaying hard.

Today's castle: Orford. Followed by a trip to the Pump Street Bakery which is amazing, and then a stroll around Woodbridge.

Why do vets suggest euthanising chickens as a first resort? This girl is under the weather, she has a cough that's not clearing up so we took her to the vet. She's eating and drinking but not as much as usual and she's alert and nosy. We got antibiotics but that wasn't their first suggestion.

I bit the bullet and I've had a consultation with an online pharmacy about GLP-1. My GP recommended me for it but the waiting list is horrendous, and the anecdotal evidence about reduced inflammation has sold me, even more than the weight loss, as my joints are suffering big time from peri-meno.

Cornwall, it's been an adventure 🌞🌞

Cornwall. And it's not even raining.

Proud to work with people who are really making a difference in healthcare.

“The purpose of education is so you can get a good job” No it’s not…. Nooooooo it’s not The purpose of education is so you won’t be a dumb ass

One day closer to Cornwall... Some days working in Cambridge just looks prettier than others... Feeling the 4.55am start a bit though. 😴

I'm so tired and menopausal that I actually just walked out of M&S and didn't realise I hadn't paid for my shopping until I got my phone out to pay for the bus and realised I hadn't got it out at the checkout 😬 Yeah I went back to pay but I was genuinely on another dimension somewhere then 😜