It’s 4am and I just had a little fridge snack (slice of cheese and some corned beef) so this was good timing reading this. Hopefully can get back to sleep now.

‘I am helping my hooman build this shelving which will obviously become my favourite climbing frame‘ #caturday #catsofbluesky #laperm

Wish cafes and restaurants would put #accessibility information on the door. If your lavatory is only accessible by stairs, please for the love of god let me know before I consume any food or drink. #disabilty

Valentines cake for the school bake sale. I had a spare sponge in the freezer so just topped it with vanilla pink icing, freeze dried raspberries, mini marshmallows and hundreds and thousands.

“Accidentally” bought 4 cookbooks in the last 48 hours. All from charity shops so haven’t spent a fortune, but it includes my first ever Nigella cookbook, which is shocking considering I pretty much collect cookbooks & have an entire bookcase dedicated to them. I’m looking forward to her recipes 😋

The scariest question I have today is…Who took Epstein’s place in his most heinous role as procurer of the innocent?!? You know that this was a business go these animals and there is always another scumbag in line…

Also good timely change on standards: Restricting payments for Ministers leaving office following a serious breach of the ministerial code Commitment to the principle that second jobs for MPs should be banned outside very limited exceptions, such as maintaining a professional qualification

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

If only he’d known then how much money his mum was willing to spend to protect him. Shoulda just asked her earlier.

Public advised to stop using some non-sterile alcohol-free wipes UKHSA and MHRA are urging the public not to use 4 specified non-sterile alcohol-free wipe products due to the risk of infection associated with their use. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Misread this as the defecation of Suella Braverman, and frankly, either word works here.

Good morning all! I'm delighted to have an upcoming event in the wonderful York International Women's Week. All the info is in the picture / alt text. If you're in the area, it would be delightful to see you there.

My burnout featured my body throwing everything at me to try to get me to listen and stop. Pushing through new pain, nausea, vomiting, heart palpitations, fatigue, severe Raynaud’s, brain fog, parathesia, dissociative events causing moments of paralysis & scarily high blood pressure.

I know a family whose new born died from measles. Yet they STILL wouldn’t vaccinate their other child. I don’t know how you reach someone who is so deep down the rabbit hole.

Probably horrifyingly close to the truth

Today’s lunch: smoked salmon on rye bread with a beetroot, fennel and radish salad. Adapted from a Rick Stein recipe. #food #lunch

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

Our 7 month old kitten, struggling a bit with coordination after his general anaesthetic. He doesn’t get sleepy, just hyperactive with zero control over his limbs. This is the calmest he was in the hours after coming home from the vet. #catsofbluesky #caturday #cat

After the Pelicot case I knew we’d see many more of these assaults. There’s a subset of men who’ll stop at nothing to feed their sick fantasies and desire to exert control over women. Joanne Young is another brave woman who has waived her right to anonymity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the worst things about chronic pain is lying in bed freezing because you have several ice packs on your body. No amount of blankets keep you warm when the chill is coming from inside the bed. 🥶 #painmanagement #chronicpain

The Reform Council in Worcestershire wants to ban trans people. In news that will surprise no one, it hasn't thought things through very well. So we've written to it to say, 'if you continue down this path we will sue.'

Thank goodness for Trump ‘protecting women’ by shooting unarmed women in the face, kidnapping the mothers of dying teenagers and snatching helpless little five year olds. Never forget Farage is Trump’s little lapdog.

🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!

There’s a petition to parliament hoping to get enough signatures to force a debate on this. Add your signature to help it reach 100k+ 👍🏻 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services. They promise you that. And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.

I'm available for freelance & remote work! If you need lecturing / tutoring / teaching / expertise in: Creative Writing, Children’s Literature, Girls' Writing, or Libraries, then I'm your bookish gal. Contact: didyoueverstoptothink.com/hire_me/ #WritingCommunity #KidLit #Freelance #HireMe

An vital reminder from Shayan to check before sharing dramatic footage. There's so much disinformation around this attack.

At the point between Christmas Day and NYE where the only fruit I’m eating comes from jars where it has been soaked in alcohol, presumably rendering any nutritional value defunct. Hoping a kind nutritionist out there can reassure me I’m still getting my five-a-day.

Even as a black square he's a smug twat

Partway through christmas #callthemidwife and can’t help but think that if EBD had written this series (which is totally her vibe), Phylis would have kung-fu-ed that gun out of the ganster’s hand. #chaletschool #ebd

The Sixth Ever Quite Niche Children’s Literature Christmas Quiz It's the most wonderful time of the year! Yes, the one where I try to desperately avoid making typos and hope that I've not messed up (apologies in advance if I have....) - it's the Christmas quiz! If you're new here, I've done a…

Happy Christmas Eve Eve lovely phone family. How's everyone feeling? 🤗 I know this can be a really difficult time of year for many of you. Here are some great support charities (UK) if you need them. There's never any shame in asking for help. Have a fabulous day ☕️ #HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Nobody in their right mind would want to stop him. The question should be " How can we stop Farage and Reform making our country worse than it is already?"

I am usually several of these categories within a 20 minute timeframe. And I wish I could say this only applied to bookshops, but it’s every shop ever.

LOVE Call the Midwife. I legit turn it on just to sit in and appreciate the emotional triumph of being a woman

Hello! If you're looking for a last minute Christmas book for your young, old, or cake orientated bookish friends, then may I suggest these? They feature best friends forever, afternoon tea, found family, delightful chaos, footnotes, covert ninja skills, and more... ❤️ #booksky #books #childrensbooks

"I find myself #grieving the strangest things sometimes. The ability to make plans without wondering if I’ll feel well enough to follow thru. The luxury of waking up & not immediately doing a mental body scan to assess the day’s #pain levels.": buff.ly/6Ynz2fQ by sarahwarburton #ChronicIllness

OK, strap in…. Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims! 🎄🎅🤶🎄 TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look. And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting. Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait 🧵 1/31

#caturday I’m currently in bed sick but this video is keeping a smile on my face

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Noteworthy to me that they always use the loaded language of “drugs” to suggest a negative connotation, because they realise there’s no scandal in using the correct terminology of “medication”. Much harder to get people angry when you refer to it as the healthcare that it is.

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

A tempting argument, but I don't subscribe to it, personally. I want to be the party that actually shows some integrity. If we do the bad thing because Labour does the bad thing, tell the lie because they tell lies, what's the point of not being Labour? I may as well drown myself right now.

Catching up on TV, and all I can say is, if #hignfy (which I do ❤️ ) wanted me to reject @zackpolanski.bsky.social because he ‘failed to show up’, they failed to consider I would research why and find that he believed the “Immigration Special” QT was more important to film the same day. Quite right 💚

The conflation of "foreign criminals" and "illegal migrants" is disgusting. Vile when some people don't have a safe route to flee from the utter detestation & brutality of war. It's all grim enough without the Labour Government pushing further misinformation.

Beautiful statement #transrights #womensrights #transrightsarehumanrights #intersexpeopleexist #nonbinarypeopleexist #genderisasocialconstruct #howaretheygoingtoenforcethenewrules

This post, article whatever you want to call it - is the best ‘pacing in a nutshell’ explanation I’ve seen. #painmanagement #chronicpain

This is really good advice and I’m going to try to incorporate it into my pain management plan. Not tonight though because it’s been a rocky afternoon/evening and I only have the energy to lie on the sofa and occasionally look at my phone. #chronicpain #painmanagement

An extraordinary thing, this. A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase. Register now for tickets. www.transmissionlive.uk

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...