Having a lovely post dinner snooze at my sort of sister in law’s. Woken gently by her dog sticking his tongue in my mouth. #MerryChristmas

Heron taking off, Forth and Clyde Canal, Old Kilpatrick

Good morning 🌞 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

And through it all, she offers me protection…

“Arsehole? Then our vodka’s for *you*”

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

Still the best photo I’ve ever taken from a Lidl car park

Good morning ☀️

Loving this thread 👇

Good evening 🌅

This scene is seared in my mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Wh...

Brilliant "I've got a life, I've got a name, and I need stuff, and you need stuff, and all our stuff is not the same" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmFP...

At our September gathering over 200 people who draw on social care and allies came together to share and generate suggestions for consideration by the Casey Commission on the future of adult social care. Today we're sharing these in a short film & report (link in replies) youtu.be/2s3F_xBCunY

Good afternoon ☀️

Good morning ☀️

Sad times for us, but what a legacy #DementiaDiaries

It's a Private Members Bill, not a government Bill, absent the manifesto, with more holes in it than a Swiss Cheese, being given the precise legal and policy scrutiny the Upper House is so effective at. And the more its proponents defend it, the more they are revealing the huge risks it presents

Whoop, off to see the Super Furry Animals & the Beta Band next summer. With every other person in their 50s in London.

Choice and control is an ongoing political struggle, not a service model, with some unlikely & unexpected new heroes: nuns on the run. makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/n...

Apparently the traffic will be terrible.

Good morning 🌞 🍂

Oh, Guy Garvey’s Mani tribute…. playing out with Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem 🥹

Have never cared for football, but this has triggered a lovely olfactory memory of the aroma wafting from a freshly opened packet of Panini stickers (or Star Wars ones which was my thing) & the lovely sensation of peeling them off to put them in the album.

Watched ‘Steve’ on Netflix yesterday and it will live free in my head for some time I expect. What a beautiful, powerful film.

Listening to Cerys Matthew’s tribute to Mani from Stone Roses while being served in a cafe in London by a teenager wearing a pair of very wide bleached denim parallels in 2025. Life after death right there….

Good morning 🌞

This band are 👌 youtu.be/OTQekDaynWs?...

Good Morning to you too.

Free e book exploring a more positive perspective on demographic change in the West (in this case Italy)

Shifting the social care system – how does narrative change help? socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/... #socialcare @socialcarefuture.bsky.social

Civil service careers Web Editor: Office of Budget Responsibility Salary: name your price.

How can a shift in the way we communicate about adult social care help build understanding & win stronger public support for investment and reform? New from Frameworks UK for @socialcarefuture.bsky.social @adass.bsky.social @tlap.bsky.social @local.gov.uk socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/...

Brrrrr 🥶

What have the Stone Roses and Manchester’s renaissance to do with public service reform in 2025? makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/t...

This is so off the rails it's incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...

Oh, this is awful in so many ways www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Thinking of founding the Human Hibernation Movement. Any joiners?

Why we should reconnect our imagination of adult social care and wider support and policy to a broader ambition of human freedom, development and wellbeing. makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/f...

Jennifer by Faust (1973) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0y...

This is a great short article about a #SocialCare movement that was “born of frustration but driven by hope”

For fellow movement builders & shakers @socialcarefuture.bsky.social has shared this today - learning and reflections on several years of trying to shift a system to be more human sized and shaped thru growing narrative, people & relational power. Hope helpful socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/...

Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.

How can a different narrative help build a more powerful case for long term reform and investment in adult social care? www.linkedin.com/pulse/making...

Public mindsets are an obstacle to winning support to change and reform adult #socialcare, but new research brings us closer to knowing how we can go about shifting them. Join the @socialcarefuture.bsky.social webinar on 8 December to find out more: socialcarefuture.org.uk/wp-content/u...

#Pluribus Oh, wow.....

Switched onto Big Special through their appearance on the superb new Sleaford Mods single. Their album is soooo good: open.spotify.com/album/2wHHIE...

So did I

The Hacienda is always the club mentioned in association with the late 80s Manchester scene but Isadora’s ‘The Hangout’ was the one I loved so what joy to find this online youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Halloween in Bermondsey

And breathe…. #SouthwarkPark