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Me in today's @ftweekend.com on the joy of the small restaurant. Feat. Dublin's Bar Pez, Simon Rogan's Aulis and the legend that is Andrew Edmunds on.ft.com/3Xvn0tP

just finished Black Rabbit on Netflix. Hard pass. Didn't give a toss about a single character

The Traitors? Well, that was magnificent

Have walked past this umpteen times yet never heard a word about it. Soho. Anyone?

Massive slagging of this in Times today by a chap who does not understand why some of us watch tv youtu.be/mpJ7iDnn0P8?...

without consciously engaging, I now know more about Lily Allen than I do some of my actual family

proud

Know what I love? Bookable bars

Me on those retail floral horrors for @ftweekend.com... on.ft.com/42YLhvE

I'm in a bank, waiting to see a cashier. Literally can't remember the last time I had to do this

Ach, Jilly Cooper 🖤🖤🖤

yeah up yer ARSE Michelle Mone!!!!

This is quite the story. Proper, fact-collecting reportage too

on.ft.com/4nS0EOf The sexy little numbers luring me away from my beloved 'nan tea' - are we ready for a return to late night dining debauchery?

Have bought sandwich in departures for flight. Now have the worst child on school trip with packed lunch syndrome

open.substack.com/pub/thefence... Oh yay - 'Secret Chef' is back in @thefence.bsky.social He (and I'm pretty confident it's a he) is A One

Just had a jolly fight with a giant bloke on the bus bcs listening to his phone on loudspeaker. (I asked nicely if he had earphones. He said 'it's not that loud' and LOOMED.) French have banned it, and now the Irish. When is it our turn? www.thejournal.ie/irish-rail-c...

In which - amongst many FT real coffee heads - I confess to crimes against coffee making on.ft.com/3IvCAlo

Slightly plastered on raki in Piraeus. Just spent days in Sicily. But just thinking how much I adore London - possibly as only an incomer can. I've never found anything but curiosity and acceptance and adventure. Fk off Elon, fk off JD. We KNOW what you're up to

Love an Italian pharmacy. Glamorous staff just asked me my symptoms by miming belching and farting

It's me in @ftweekend.com - on my properly unhealthy relationship with Pret on.ft.com/45QOGhT

Prediction: no resignations will ensue www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gorgeous early autumn day. My favourite

Am about to see a new movie that doesn't have Pedro Pascal in it

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Bought this chap at auction by mistake. Thought he was tiny and had no idea that he MOVES. Couldn't love him more

Now that might work. (No sausage jokes pls)

Bzzz, pals, I've finally made it. Been asked to be a sex toy influencer Go me!

Some wonderful praise for THE PUB from @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social

LOVED this book 🔥

Yes, yes, yes, YESSS. On manners, by Ferhat Dirik of the brilliant Mangal II www.mangal2.com/newsletter

First time ever: I'm fleeing from a trip because of the heat. Trains being cancelled thanks to 38° - in France! - and I'm cancelling self too. Sanity of seaside Kent, here I come 🥵

Mildly* creeped out by big plant having sprouted mushrooms seemingly overnight *VERY. Post The Last Of Us, are they coming to get me while I sleep??

please help me celebrate my ability to write something and not only forget that I wrote it, but all the learned shit therein Sigh. I love tacos archive.ph/vqGvZ

on.ft.com/4ffbYB2 I SPILL about Florence's restaurants for @ftweekend.com. May I be cast into a boiling pit of peposo per i miei peccati (Free link, I believe)

Gutted to hear And Just Like That has been cancelled. I've never been in such a weird relationship with a show: utter contempt on the one hand, on the other, gripped in its vice-like manicured claw

Trump can't even pronounce Turnberry and Aberdeen

this, by @parkermolloy.com, on the cancellation of Colbert: grimly compelling What a mess www.readtpa.com/p/stephen-co...

Just watched the final ep of The Studio. Bryan Cranston! Crying with laughter

One Club Row in Shoreditch is a blast - every which way. Fun menu, crowd, pianist, divine staff 🍸🍸🍸

Man to me at bus stop 'I think your welly Crocs are very chic' They are, ofc, not welly Crocs

I KNEW I missed my true vocation! Fun quiz @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

John Torode currently at home, curtains drawn, riverdancing expressionlessly as the phone rings off the hook.

Certain v vocal characters have gone strangely silent. Those pesky itchy underpants, eh

This weekend I'm a) staying out of the heat and b) bingeing the whole of Too Much

@alisoncook.bsky.social I don't post on Twit any more, but still peek ofc - so thank you for your lovely tweet xx

Someone asked grok for recommendations for cookery people. (SO wrong, but I might adopt Fried Dough Queen)

GregG👈 is at best being disingenuous. I know first-hand of behaviour that was far from 'inappropriate language and humour'. But not my stories, so won't reproduce here. But lots of them out there, and not just 'middle-class women of a certain age'