The road to fascism is paved with everyone pointing to coal mine canaries and saying "that's just a dead bird. It doesn't mean anything."

I’m not doing well. I’m seeing #Epstein images and discussions on my feed and it’s reinforcing my belief that nowhere is safe. That even if it ISN’T all men, most of them will make excuses for the ones that it is. When you’re powerless, how do you make peace with a world like this?

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Ambassadors Theatre, 9/2/26 @ 7.30pm paranormalonstage.com OH, MARY!, Trafalgar Theatre, 28/2/26 @ 2.00pm ohmaryplay.co.uk MEAN GIRLS Wales Millenium Centre, 14/3/26 @ 2.30pm Sunderland Empire, 7/4/26 @ 7.30pm meangirlsmusical.com/

Well, I just did my last #AudioDescription for #MammaMia at the Novello. (The last until someone calls in sick, anyway). It was never my cup of tea, but you do have to appreciate the sheer joy it brings its audiences. It’s also the gig that bookended lockdown for me, so that will always be weird.

Where are you, #ProLife #Christian #Republicans? This is a CHILD. If you can’t even fight for HIM, what is the point of ANY of your arguments? If you look away, you will have to answer for it one day.

I’ve been doomscrolling for years, but there’s just never been this quality of doom before. Covid came close, but we could at least imagine we were making a difference then.

I just saw this picture of a five year old, with his school bag and little blue bunny hat, being put into an #ICE vehicle, and I am not getting anything else done today. I don’t even believe in hell, but if you defend this - if you even THINK about HOW to defend this - I hope you burn.

Anyone got a guess what this word might be? From context, it’s probably a colour, but I’ve no idea. #WritingInTheDark #AudioDescription

I’m pretty sure when people talk about therapy only being effective if you “do the work”, they don’t usually mean having two separate therapists encourage you to spend more time with your delusional Voices, only for you to go “no, I’ve got too much being-a-functioning-adult to do, first”.

Oh, this is taking a turn right away from the fantastic. I thought it might be Luddite, at first, but it’s much sharper. Colonialism, capitalism, death of the soul. #TheRoseField Certain people would ban it in schools, if they could understand it.

A reminder that you can report X and Grok in the App Store and get them removed. Just go down to “report a problem”

Rewatching #Pluribus already. Probably the most original series watched - well, last year now, I suppose. I mean, I only managed to watch about four series in total, but it’s still pretty damn good.

This year has not got off to the best of starts. Today’s event was slipping on black ice during the school run, and I’m pretty sure I’ve cracked my coccyx. I can barely walk.

Our heating has packed up. It is below freezing outside, and 10c in the house. #CriesInRaynaudsSyndrome

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: MAMMA MIA, Novello Theatre, 31/1/26 @ 3.00pm www.mamma-mia.com PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Ambassadors Theatre, 9/2/26 @ 8.00pm paranormalonstage.com OH, MARY!, Trafalgar Theatre, 28/2/26 @ 2.00pm ohmaryplay.co.uk

A good way to tell who’s abled online at the moment, is to look at who’s crowing about Trump potentially being killed by 325mg of aspirin (fractionally more than one standard tablet). Have you any concept of how many painkillers some of us have to consume daily?? Stop spreading false hope!

Right now, the main thing standing between us and WWIII, is the existence of someone in the inner circle with sufficient moral courage to shoot the glorious leader in the head, before he tries this nonsense on a NATO member country. So we’re probably fucked.

Why have I scripted the line “Max successfully sits” in this #AudioDescription? Do I hate myself? Don’t answer that.

#TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea: Generally slightly didactic and silly fun, but you’re telling me they had the ability to return the pollution to the land, yet held off and kept dying for years - so that they could wait to make a dramatic point?

The crazy is still at its most potent at this time of year. And, as ever, it is when I have the least time to surrender to it. I’m not sure what it says when two separate therapists are going to”No, really, you need to listen to your hallucinations MORE.”

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: A CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG, Apollo Theatre, 4/1/26 @ 2.00pm mischiefcomedy.com/whats-on/christmas-carol-goes-wrong/about/ MAMMA MIA, Novello Theatre, 31/1/26 @ 3.00pm mamma-mia.com PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Ambassadors Theatre, 9/2/26 @ 8.00pm paranormalonstage.com

Well, after several years of hearing such sad announcements with increasing frequency, it was finally the train I was on that hit a person on the tracks. 😥

The fact a tribunal upheld this bullshit decision is particularly distressing. God forbid disabled people LIVE. And I hope whoever “drew the DWPs attention” to the video, experiences their own traumatic disability, the miserable, snivelling, wannabe stasi snitch. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is remarkable. We often speak about the arts being “inspirational” in an optimistically woolly sense, but here we have an example of totally unexpected real world change.

My child just declared that she didn’t like a boy because he had been staring at her. When asked for further context, it emerged that she had proposed a staring competition. 🤦‍♀️

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: ROBIN HOOD, New Wimbledon Theatre, 17/12/25 @ 7.00pm atgtickets.com/shows/robin-hood-pantomime/new-wimbledon-theatre/ A CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG, Apollo Theatre, 4/1/26 @ 2.00pm mischiefcomedy.com/whats-on/christmas-carol-goes-wrong/about/

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: THE CHAOS THAT HAS BEEN …Norwich Playhouse, 25/11/25 @ 7.30pm norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/the-chaos-that-has-been-and-will-no-doubt-return/ ROBIN HOOD, New Wimbledon Theatre, 17/12/25 @ 7.00pm atgtickets.com/shows/robin-hood-pantomime/new-wimbledon-theatre/

@helpsheffield.co.uk Heads up if anyone is waiting for a tram: all that is currently running is Malin Bridge > Cathedral, but no one’s communicated this. Nothing eastbound through city.

Child has to do eye exercises for a recently diagnosed condition. She is supposed to rest her eyes for two minutes afterwards. So she has choreographed a two-minute dance routine, which she performs entirely with her eyes closed. She doesn’t stumble or bump into anything. It is eerie.

Child asked me to toast her leftover Halloween marshmallows. They are shaped like ghosts. I am spearing tormented souls on a skewer and holding them over the flames. What have I become?

Having just left my psych appointment, this poster was, on closer inspection, quite disappointing.

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: A CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG, Wales Millenium Centre, 22/11/25 @2.30pm mischiefcomedy.com/whats-on/christmas-carol-goes-wrong THE CHAOS THAT HAS BEEN…, Norwich Playhouse, 25/11/25 @8.00pm norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/the-chaos-that-has-been-and-will-no-doubt-return/

There’s a teenage girl on this bus talking to her friend about a vocational beautician course. “I can go to city college. Yeah, I’d rather go to X, everyone says it’s top notch, but it’s £190 and that’s a huge amount. Mum wouldn’t make me pay her back, but I’d feel bad. It’s so much”. 💙

Has anyone heard of #BWRT therapy? I tried it for the first time on Wednesday. It’s primarily been developed for trauma/anxiety, but I actually think it could be a game changer for ADHD related procrastination. (I did my dry run notes ON THE TUBE HOME, not at 1am!!)

Health anxiety in your late 40s is *something* being wrong with 80% of your body, but no one thing being *wrong enough* to see a doctor.

Way too much of my brain is taken up with being irritated by narrative inconsistency in children’s TV. In #PuffinRock, why do all the animals share a common language EXCEPT the seagulls? If the kids in #RescueRiders speak dragon because they were raised by dragons, why do they also speak English?

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: TROILUS & CRESSIDA, Globe Theatre, 17/10/25 @ 2.00pm shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/troilus-and-cressida/ A CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG, Wales Millenium Centre, 22/11/25 @2.30pm mischiefcomedy.com/whats-on/christmas-carol-goes-wrong/about/

Can anyone shed light on why the idiots in charge of the US are jumping on *this particular* drug (acetaminophen/paracetamol) for their scaremongering? The opiate freak-out has already got doctors there prescribing this stuff to terminal cancer patients. Take that away - what am I missing?

Every now and again, I think back to the “writing for stage” module I did at uni. I wasn’t good at it. I can craft a fairly elegant sentence, but I couldn’t write a plot for toffee. Anyway, that’s not why I remember the (older, white, male) professor scoffing at my efforts…

I am so confused by all the people who “never again” about genocide, who are also hand-wringingly “violence is never the answer” when an actual fascist gets shot. Are you under the impression the nazis were persuaded to open the gates of the concentration camps by our well-reasoned arguments?

On the one hand, one less fascist, on the other, Reichstag fire. #CharlieKirk

Our street has been without power since last night. First it was going to be fixed in 3 hours, then 12 hours, now it’s apparently 24 hours and looking a bit silly. We have essential medication that needs to remain refrigerated.

Child is watching a programme featuring a little song about how your gear and equipment don’t make you a winner, your heart does. Which is a lovely sentiment, but not actually true. We’re teaching kids financial privilege doesn’t exist.

At a kids disco. I absolutely adore how uninhibited our child is compared to most her age. She dances like a whirling dervish. Like it’s a religious experience.

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: BORN WITH TEETH, Wyndhams Theatre, 20/9/25 @ 2.30pm rsc.org.uk/born-with-teeth TROILUS & CRESSIDA, Globe Theatre, 17/10/25 @ 2.00pm shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/troilus-and-cressida/

Despite her father having full on pediophobia, the child persuaded him to buy a vintage doll as a gift and store it until my birthday. At bedtime, she innocently proclaimed “I hope (doll) feels safe, so she doesn’t murder us in our sleep”. The child is a comedian.

Trying to coordinate directly with some arts companies makes me so very bloody appreciative of the agencies I usually work through.

Is it normal, as a parent, to find yourself utterly drowning in the horror that one day your child will find out how awful the world is? Or is that, you know, the trauma? Because some nights, I can’t breathe.

So I’m back in therapy. EMDR for my DID-adjacent CPTSD. That’s a lot of acronyms. Today we’ve been working on my relationship with my mother. I am such a stereotype.

Our 7 year old just introduced herself to a new friend made in the playground as “I’m named after a show, and I’m #Tramlines famous for the wrong reasons”, complete with roguish smile and raised eyebrow. 😆