We were very grateful because driving the DLR is a critical part of Aunty Catherine’s Transport Tour of London™

Son of a bus driver. The Mayor knows the rules.

We are committed to a Civil Service joke and it will be released in due course

Far be it from me to criticise a Minister - but this seriously underestimates the amount of Pizza this Civil Servant can eat

I've just realised that AI us basically the Internet designed around those people who used to post on forums/social media with questions that would be answered definitively on the first Google result

Finally, something that could persuade me to move back to the Home Counties

Just U

Absolutely delightful to watch The War Games with @catherinepowen.bsky.social . We've reached the episode 4 cliffhanger. She is not ok...

All the answers to this have chosen isolated episodes based on what would be historically revealing. But I think I'd want the thrill of being able to watch a Whole New Story. Probably the Mythmakers (liked my one audio listen, but not massively familiar)

Indeed. There’s a weird type of person who just can’t seem to compute that some people actually just like living in cities.

Every conversation with HR, ever: 'Hello, we are having the following problems with the process...' 'Thank you for getting in touch. This is the process...'

Is number 1: 'You're reading The Telegraph?'

Hold for Awayday

This time I made @catherinepowen.bsky.social watch Dimensions in Time. She still seems to be talking to me. #Doctorwho

Well, obviously #doctorwho

I can't believe the BBC have lost this weeks episode already!

I can't believe the BBC have lost this weeks episode already!

‘Hi Letting Agent. I’d like to talk to you about a structural issue with the flat I send you a over a thousand pounds a month for…oh so sorry, obviously nothing to do with you, don’t know what I was thinking, silly me’

The number and geographical spread of people who have a strong opinion on what my local coffee shop should be is getting frankly disconcerting

I just had to explain Pyramids of Mars to someone who had friends in the nineties

So, Susan's back then

The people insisting we come into the office more really failed to consider how much of my writing process is just me muttering under my breath

Nine-year old niece being introduced to Dr Who via the Eccleston era. Mixed results so far. But pleased that she finds 'lots of planets have a north' very funny.

We are now far enough from Brexit that I regularly mistake European Union for Extended Universe, rather than the other way round