Ugh, I just got a suncream-blueberry. Blueberry roulette can be so cruel.

Oh my word, Georgey4 absolutely losing it - considering the RIDICULOUS things he's done so far this series - in that pork sketch just made it 500x funnier 😂 #SNLUK

I am a HUGE Miranda fan, so am obviously delighted - but most of all, I'm so glad that she is well enough to have gone and done this. A huge thing considering how ill the Lyme disease kept her for a while. In general this is an excellent lineup, though, I love it.

If knowledge is power, And ignorance, bliss, Then which of these two, Would you rather miss? To know you know nothing, Solves your dilemma, Making you mighty, And joyfully unclever

Such a great prompt. Ok, in no particular order: 1. Our Velocity, Maxïmo Park 2. Everywhere, Fleetwood Mac 3. Fireworks, First Aid Kit 4. Laura Palmer, Bastille 5. Asleep in the Back, Elbow 6. Feel it Still, Portugal the Man 7. Dance wiv me, Dizzee Rascal 8. We're both in love with a sexy lady, +

It's been a long while, but inspiration and brain finally did something together and I wrote a poem sort of thing. It's joyful 🥰

A spider just ran at me while I was sat on the loo, so my adrenaline won't let me be sleeping for a while yet!

Just a reminder that it is within your human ability and free will to cut up a load of salady bits, cook some halloumi, shake up some tahini and maple salad dressing in an old jam jar and absolutely smother it over the aforementioned and call it lunch. Has to be absolutely smothered, though.

I was chatting with a friend recently about our celebrity crushes, and I admitted that while there are plenty of attractive people, I didn't have an *actual* celeb crush. Well. That's all changed. It seems I am entirely enamoured with George Fouracres. And I can pinpoint the exact moment it started:

I was chatting with a friend recently about our celebrity crushes, and I admitted that while there are plenty of attractive people, I didn't have an *actual* celeb crush. Well. That's all changed. It seems I am entirely enamoured with George Fouracres. And I can pinpoint the exact moment it started:

This is really good - a short programme explaining ME, meeting a few people who are living with it, and explaining how you can support more research 🩵

I like using the Merlin app to identify birdsong when walking in Gledhow Valley woods, which are ancient woodland, as this reading clearly shows.

Today’s poem is called ‘Why You Should Never Ever Follow Your Dreams’.

I've discovered that if I leave a bit of fringe out and tie it up in a half-bun, it sort of looks ok. So. That's what I'll be doing for the next...eight weeks, I guess? 🫣🤦🏻‍♀️😂

I said I wouldn't because this always happens, but I booked in with my mum's hairdresser last week and despite showing her a reference photo OF ME with a previous haircut that SHE DID, she still just did whatever she thought. So, now I look like a combination of Dora, Francine, and Trent Crimm.

I said I wouldn't because this always happens, but I booked in with my mum's hairdresser last week and despite showing her a reference photo OF ME with a previous haircut that SHE DID, she still just did whatever she thought. So, now I look like a combination of Dora, Francine, and Trent Crimm.

Happy London Marathon day to all who celebrate, especially my uni friend who runs SO much and is so chill about life that she was at a wedding until 3am last night, and only just made it to the start line in time. And she's dressed as a giant bunch of grapes 🍇 😂 cheer if you see her 😂

There was nothing I wanted to watch on the telly tonight, so I dipped into my (very long) list of films I've been meaning to watch, and put My Neighbour Totoro on 🥹 what a STUNNING film 😍 Consider me converted. I can't believe it was made before I was born, it feels so fresh and beautiful. Loved it.

I don't know what's going on this weekend, but it's only just 1pm and neighbours on both sides have slammed their front doors a hundred times each already. How?! Why?! I manage to close my front door without slamming it *every time I use it*? We're in a terrace, so my whole house shakes every time 😂

I've just finished listening to When the Cranes Fly South, and I'm just sad that I don't have my grumpy old Swedish friend for company anymore 🥺

BATS! 🦇🤩🥹😄

I know people love to joke that Americans will use anything but the metric system, but I just saw an Instagram recipe that called for a pint of cherry tomatoes. A PINT OF CHERRY TOMATOES. Cherry tomatoes are not a liquid! Spare me! 🙈😂

Today, it's not giving beautiful, It's giving train wreck It's giving unfortunate.

In case you weren't feeling ancient today, I regret to inform you that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is now actually Sabrina the 50 Year Old Witch.

A lovely reminder today of the time John Finnemore retweeted me in the most Arthur way possible (nine years ago today)!

My toxic trait is texting a family member with a request starting "no rush, but", and then being perturbed when they haven't replied two hours later.

Just caught up on this evening's #Taskmaster - I hope fellow orchestra kids up and down the country have rejoiced, as I did (alone, in my room, that's why I'm telling you here) at being able to solve each of the studio tasks without an instrument. Who knew that skill would be useful?! #LegUpJonny

...like ripping their own faces off in advance, and removing all their sinuses entirely 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I regret to inform you that I made some hummous out of those big, fat, Bold Bean chickpeas, and now I just want to eat it out the fridge with a spoon any time I'm in the kitchen. And lots of times when I'm not in the kitchen. It's so good. I'm spoiled for regular chickpeas now.

Can we all agree that the interpretive dance, "if you don't like it, change it" Voy adverts are the most cringe adverts in the world, and they should stop? I mean, it's my fault for watching daytime tv, but...post migraine days require it. And require that the singing stops.

Temporarily forgot this was controversial, took a discord screen shot and shared it elsewhere on the server, and am now being dragged by my friends in the chat for using discord in light mode 🙈😂 I knew it would come back to bite me, I shouldn't have forgotten about it 😂😂

Guys, can confirm that two weeks in, I am very much ready to change these new ear piercings and put nice jewellery in instead. Only six weeks to go! 🙈😂

Yeah, I obviously had a horrible migraine last night after all this 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 GOOD WORK. All slightly exacerbated by messages from family on holiday saying they're juuuuust heading to A&E (thankfully all well, a bad arthritis flare up rather than a break or tear, etc). QUIET DAY TODAY. For all involved.

I woke up feeling irritated today (hormones) and then the dishwasher hadn't cleaned properly (again), so I washed the splotchy things, made breakfast, ate that watching old bake off reruns, did a bit of crochet...cleaned all the filters and arms on the dishwasher, made some hummous, and that into +

😂

Big news from the RSPB today, that calls for a real change in bird feeding culture. Some *coughJackBaddamscough* say it's not far enough - and they're probably right. But it's going to take a lot to convince everybody. But. You've got to follow the science 🤷🏻‍♀️🐦

Some lovely family who haven't seen my house yet popped in earlier, and brought a housewarming gift full of lovely symbolic things for my time in this house: salt, so life will have flavour; coins, so I will be financially sustained; flowers, so there will be life; and bread, so I'm fed 🥰

"We love you from the moon." 🥹 Oh, these astronauts get me so emotional! #ArtemisII

I mean, what is this?! Today is a perfectly lovely spring day. How is it going to be nine degrees warmer in two days?! How am I supposed to dress for a rogue 22°C day at the beginning of April?! Wild.

I'm watching the live action How to Train Your Dragon - I don't hate it (I could never hate HTTYD) but I don't think they needed to make it. But. I'm also reminded that I watched loads of the HTTYD series to unwind when I was doing my masters, which was in species identification and survey skills...

Your semi-regular report from my semi-regular browse of Threads (the nothing app): apparently, everyone across the pond is amazed that we have holidays for Easter, and everyone here is amazed that they don't. It seems this is the first time *anyone* has realised and acknowledged this.

My body is simply refusing to acknowledge the clock change. It straight up ignored my alarm this morning, got up at my normal equivalent time instead. I'm already out of sync with the normal world, I'm even further out now 🙈

Well, eating dinner in daylight is novel, isn't it? I am so scrambled.

Birthday boxing day: I'm allowed to eat leftover birthday cake for every meal, yes?

"Lose an hour, not your dad." Had me absolutely creasing 😂 #SNLUK

I starred following Mayim Bialik a long time ago because she's a clever, interesting person, and would often talk about the intersection between science and her Jewish faith and I really respected that. Of recent years, it seems the podcast she promotes has got...wackier? Shall we say? +

Last night, watching telly before bed, I thought, wow, this crash is really kicking my butt, now on top of everything I feel absolutely freezing. And then I checked the weather app. It was 1°C outside, and my window was cracked open. March, I do not understand you. It was 16°C a minute ago.

I really do feel like I'm penalised for having blood that, RIGHTLY, wants to stay inside my body. I'm perforated and bruised, all for a(n eventual) single vial to confirm my increased prescription dose isn't accidentally doing me a mischief.

youtube.com/watch?v=HtVc... Cor. I LOVE this. Thank goodness we still have real human artists doing gloriously creative, wonderful things like this, which AI slop can never replace. And...Hans Zimmer?! Massive flex.