13 beetroots in the veg box. A frankly upsetting amount

I used to think the lyric in More Than This was ‘for the leaves in the night’. Prefer it

Anyone live in or near Rhyl? There’s a murder case from 1960 that I would like to know whether you’ve heard of

Call me unpatriotic, but Mr Whippy is what you have when there’s nothing else on offer

American Pie was in my dream last night so now it’s my mental soundtrack for at least the next week

What from the recent past but before you were born was talked about a lot in your childhood? For me, the moon landings

Films: 90 minutes Novels: 250 pages Songs: 3 minutes

Think I’d always assumed when the USA went fascist it would be seen as a bigger deal

The one in central Brighton yesterday looked to be about 4 people

I googled ‘low stress icebreakers’ and two truths and a lie was the first hit. That one is so stressful

Someone has left a baby gym outside our building. The effect is pretty creepy

Thought this was George Galloway

‘Opal Fruits’ deserves to be in a poem. 1989 by Louise Machen

There really should be more substitutions for ‘stated’ and ‘argued’ that don’t sound unbearably pompous

Nightcrawlers are just worms? Disappointing

Back from holiday and our broadband router is kaput. Why God, why

Hope it’s good for some people, but I find lifestyle stuff makes little difference. Sometimes I cut out caffeine when I can tell I’m getting more anxious, but it feels joyless because I love coffee theconversation.com/menopause-an...

Being on holiday with a preteen is so magical. Her suggested activity for today is staying in the hotel

Why do mosquitoes have to go for the face?

You become such a delicate plant in middle age

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I fondly called my 10 yr old ‘brat features’ and she said ‘Have you seen your nose, bro’

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My daughter is 10 and has a non-binary school friend. That is, thankfully, quite a difference from the days of Section 28 and illustrates how unworkable this guidance is

My husband and daughter both use them, but I don’t like long A sounds. One syllable words become too long

Why to the genre of headline: He may have cooked and eaten his grandma, but he’s right that the Post Office should never have been privatised

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The nectarine is a truly superior fruit

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Reassured by the totally unsubtle ‘My Mum’s here, my Mum’s here’ when walking in on a video call between 10 yr old and bestie

Have had cause in the chapter I’m currently writing to use the phrase ‘uncanny puppet-based torture show’

She’s my Mum so I don’t see her as - quote unquote - cool My daughter in response to the question of whether I’m cool

I find it continually weird that ‘people become fascists because they feel scolded’ is supposedly a serious analysis

Jarvis Cocker said ‘All right?’ to me circa 1998 when I was waiting outside the toilet at a bar where he was DJing

Justin Timberlake popped up while my 10 yr old was watching YouTube and I asked if she knew who he was. ‘Is he the Never Gonna Give You Up guy?’

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Would love to see more emphasis on how rebuilding local services and amenities would likely be a good way to counter the far right, rather than boring analyses of ‘woke gone too far’

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The Trust's May newsletter is out now! Read about intersectionality and the musical, exploring our future in space, plantation afterlives: landscape change and environmental experience in Guyana, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

I feel like I need to put ‘singer Cliff Richard’ but Laurel and Hardy can just be Laurel and Hardy?

Listened to an AI generated (not by me) podcast about my first book. It described it as 'not gospel, but a conversation starter!' Bloody cheek.

Read about new project ‘Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown’ that @esmoriemiller.bsky.social and I are about to embark upon

I’m pretty sure my life as a middle class woman is unimaginable to Nigel Farage, a man who has always been rich. He’d hate a week as me - not a champagne lunch in sight

Ha, yes. Literally any ‘idea’ they advocate turns out to be eugenics

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

I googled ‘healthy snacks for children 10-12’ and hilariously some hits begin ‘homemade’

In 1988 the idea of Donald Trump as President in 2025 saying he was going to investigate Bruce Springsteen would have sounded like satire with a lame premise