3 person beds in this house. A large sofa. At least 4 cat beds. I've been away working all week. She sleeps on a cardboard box in the spare room. Where is the love?

Day two of new job and I'm exhausted. It's so hard being the new girl. I know how to do my job. My transferrable skills mean I WILL be able to do this one. But having to learn new systems makes me feel so stupid. I'm also losing my voice which is poor timing.

I made a quiche for my partner so he'd have something home cooked while I was away. He finished it before I even checked into my hotel. I *think* that means it was ok?

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social How many times has this been sent to you today? And isn't it GORGEOUS 🥰😍

Planning a road trip home with my bestie. Where is good in #Glasgow these days? We're Merchant City twats going wedding dress shopping. We love Ichiban, anywhere that was fun 15 years ago like Brunswick or Bar 10 and will not do Southside, sorry.

An Apache just flew past the living room window. Life isn't dull in the country.

Oh.

Busy busy busy.

Yesterday by The Beatles. Or The Archers theme music. Both stir hatred in my soul.

@kavey.bsky.social They sell it at Pengethley.... We should do a farm shop day trip!!

How do us exiled Scots feel about the vote? From what I've read about the proposed legislation, it seems fairly well safeguarded. My personal preference is for much better / stronger palliative care options at the very end of life over self administered euthanasia too early, but... Thoughts?

I was about to go to bed. Someone has other ideas. I *am* the bed.

My little outdoor greenhouse blew over. Might have to actually man up and walk to the polytunnel 3 times a day :(

Lunch in Abergavenny. Trying out Y Bwyty for the first time and it is delicious. Now for a good root around the charity shops.

I sat on a kerb in Rome and cried until a man with a machine gun told me to move. I was 17. I realised I could move and cry more or I could find somewhere to stay the night. So I got up and found a hostel.

This just reminded me that in my dream last night I could. I ate an entire grapefruit and it was amazing. And I didn't die within minutes.

My dreams have started getting so specific I'm recording them to compare against actual events. Come back to me on June the 10th about a big event.

I'm reading a nature book written in the 70's. The author is a pompous old man but his poetry is truly excellent. I'm conflicted.

Forgot I had a TENS machine. Now luxuriating under the gentle pain.

My ladies out there, can I ask at what age you started to notice The Change? Because so far, nothing. I think my family runs fairly late. What were your first signs?

Carefully bought a jif lemon yesterday ready for pancake day. Somehow managed to be oblivious to it all day today despite knowing deep down it was today. So, pancakes tomorrow? Double pancakes?

I just can't help feel that the latest branch of tech bros - AND NOT the OP - need to read Jeff Noon and Neal Stephenson. Potentially Cory Doctorow too if it comes to it. These guys were 30 years ahead of this shit.

Our view at home here in the UK was much the same. This can't go on for much longer. Of course, I don't know what they are like where you are but I can't help fear they are as bad or worse.

I've been reading a lot of older thrillers recently set from the 80s to 00s in the middle east. Mostly, it's making me very hungry. Chapati. Grilled meats. Naan. Dosa. Thick lamb stew. Peshwar. I don't want BIR food, I want Gurkha food and regional food.

I have been selected for special screening and can not move from the sofa. She's lovely and warm at least.

I rolled my car on a country road at 2am. Car was a write off but we were fine. First time I'd been in shock and it's amazing how stupid your brain is when it happens. It just stops working. You have to do everything manually. Breathe. Now open the door. Get out car. Phone for help.

For years I've said macarons. Then we got some for Christmas as a house treat to ourselves and they were actually quite satisfying. Light, nice flavour, decent texture. Maybe it's an age thing. I enjoy a couple of bites of something sweet then that's enough.

I've come home to sheep eating the hedge and a collarless cat* in the kitchen. It's all go here in the country. *The cat is ours but she's managed to lose her collar in the house somewhere. So more money!

PSA. Aldi have chocolate coated peanuts and they are much better than they have any right to be. I still don't know what I went in for but they were a nice bonus.

This is the little demon who made a runner for it this afternoon. She was so sheepish when I opened the door and said "get in". Didn't even pretend she wanted to play out.

Any turkey farmers in Herefordshire? I've got my pig supplier sorted and there are a millions cows and stuff but turkey.....

A certain idiotic black cat shoved open an upstairs window, fell out then realised it was raining. She was quite relieved when I realised and opened the door to get her wet face indoors. I'm getting the good cuddles now in thanks.

So, someone in the last two days has mentioned something from Aldi and I mentally noted that I needed to get to Aldi. What I didn't note was what the damn thing was. Have any of you mentioned some Aldi specific thing? Could have been food, could have been aisle of tat.

Adding this to my vocab. With IBS I'll be able to popularise it within weeks.

As I zip up my fifth layer of the day I think back to summer when I'd wear a vest. Did I just imagine it? Does it actually ever get warm? Will I see the sun again?

I occasionally Google my GI symptoms to see how abnormal I am. HOO-Boy do I have issues.

My toes are bloody freezing. More on this at 6.

Woke up for a wee and saw something super bright in the sky. Turns out it's Jupiter. I love the countryside. Clear skies are beautiful.

If it has to be a River, then the Forth is mine. Some of my best (and worst) teenage memories were in the shadow of the Forth. But I'll always have a soft spot for the burn that flows through my parents garden. It eventually joins the Forth somewhere near Limekilns

A is away so I've got a huge pan of chicken stock simmering. Will be a chicken broth for tomorrows lunch and a pile of cubes for the freezer. Love homemade stock cubes. Can throw them into absolutely anything for a burst of depth and flavour.

Lynn Burn

@katebevan.com @jonnelledge.bsky.social You have proved each others point I feel.

We've got SNOW!!!

Someone is cold.

I have applied for two (2) jobs today. Is the sun over the yardarm yet? I'm exhausted? Ps pls employ me. I'm fun and capable.

Woke up having pulled my shoulder in my sleep. In tears on the tube into work, ended up taking Tramadol to cope with the pain. Fucked up the cash up massively.

She's a sleepy little thing this afternoon.

I am a Roman water engineer who doesn't believe in the gods. Well, half of that is definitely right.

What is your leftover dish today? I'm doing my chicken, chickpea and chorizo stew but with Turkey. All the leftover veg and potatoes popped into the oven to warm through to have on the side. Dumplings because why not. And crusty bread to soak up and last bits. And a PILE of mash because mash.