Just caught up on tonight’s episode of uk traitors. Cannot wait to hear the questions Harriet will ask the traitors. Fiona -what a rocket 🚀 made me laugh so much & absolutely brilliant on Traitors Uncloaked, I think Ed Gamble just loves her. He should take her on one of his comedy tours. #traitors

I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum. All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply). The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”. Extract in the replies.

Dexter my 15 1/2 year old cat is fair enjoying the fact that his servant is off on annual leave. He is milking it since he had to go to the vet yesterday to get his claw clipped as claw went into his paw pad. On antibiotics and pain relief, he a wee champ and the vet nurses ♥️ him. #catsofbluesky

Maybe the fact that I’ve had a few glasses of red wine before this, is accurately describing how I’m feeling right now. 😂

#thetraitors cannot believe it finished there 😂 I bet we will need to wait till next week. My bets are on Fiona, Harriet or Ellie for secret traitor. Definitely do not think it’s a male .

www.instagram.com/reel/DTAx0kw... Just watched this video today on Instagram, I found it incredibly moving. This gentleman is a beautiful soul and his attitude to life touched me today.

Swans & ducks along the canal in Glasgow today.

Saw this beautiful heron on my walk along the canal today in Glasgow.

#thetraitors I think Amanda is too obvious to be the secret traitor.

#thetraitors great twist to series 4 of the traitors. I don’t have a clue who the secret traitor is. Claudia Winkelman is brilliant. Her witticisms are top notch.

Happy New Year to all when it comes. Especially thinking of those whom are no longer with us, we will remember the good times & keep them alive in our hearts and minds. I’m now off to bed after binge watching Netflix drama Beast in Me which was superb, accompanied by some red wine. Sleep beckons 😴

Whilst this is a rip-roaring read, the author is clearly bonkers. Every one of these apparently self-evidently incomprehensible sentences is perfectly reasonable...

Happy Christmas to all and special mention for those where Christmas may be a difficult time of year.

Thank god I just have tomorrow morning to work and then off for 4 days. December has been a hard long month.

Some students came to sing carols from the local Filipino church choir, at the nursing home my mum is a resident in, today. It was lovely seeing many of the residents singing. For a wee while we could just forget about dementia and appreciate the joy of music and being in each other’s company.

A fair few gigs booked for Celtic Connections Festival in January 2026 in my long adopted city of Glasgow. Luka Bloom, Alasdair White with Tempest, Oscar McLennan to name a few. Ranging from trad Scot music, Irish, americana and world fusion. Cannot wait.

Tommy Robinson got pushed over by Ty Mitchell, a muslim beating him in a muslim country where Robinson was begging for money. Then they deported Robinson because the locals were enraged by his presence. What a shame 🤣

It appears Dubai has now deported Tommy Robinson. We are are jealous.

Cannot believe that it is 37 years ago that the Lockerbie disaster happened. Seeing the news of the remembrance events on the news last few days reminded of the time I visited the Lockerbie memorial and spoke to families whom had lost family there.

There's a lot of talk of acceptance working with people with chronic conditions. Let's remember- this is easy to say for the person without the condition! A big component of acceptance is grieving- a painful process, & with bumps in the road. Let's not push acceptance like people can 'just do it'.

New term/condition came across recently. Polymorphic psychosis-never heard of it in 30 years as a mental health nurse. Time to get reading.

Lidl Stem Ginger Cookies are just dynamite. Definitely not helping my weight loss journey 😂

Bought a Kindle Paperwhite - I’m now enjoying reading Freud The Unconscious. No doubt I will be unconscious in about one hour.

Discussion with my healthcare colleague today. All of us are struggling to get up in the morning, even after good night’s sleep we are gubbed. Winter in Scotland definitely takes its toll and it’s not even been cold yet. Think it’s time for sad lamps!

Seen this on Scottish Banter on Facebook for what Statue of Liberty will be wearing when Scotland go to the World Cup ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Some storming goals in this, what a match. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Still canny get over the shock that Scotland will be going to FIFA World Cup in 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I’ve waited 28 years for this 😂

Shoooooooot Shooooot #Scotland

Glad this parasite Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been stripped of his privileges. Sad that it took so long and the suicide of someone affected by his entitlement. As others are saying, maybe we now should be questioning the hereditary rights of the royal family.

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king. Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy. Long, long overdue.

Celia Imrie’s response on Traitors Uncloaked when told whom the traitors were, was brilliant. What a legend. #celebritytraitors

So for anyone in psychoanalysis, what was your experience of using the couch for the first time? Do you feel that it helped you to access your unconscious?

Can’t believe fireworks going off again tonight in Glasgow. I thought you were only allowed to buy them a few days before 5th November. They’ve been going off since last week in Glasgow. Luckily my cats don’t bother with them but feel it for other animals whom are petrified of them.

Really enjoying another Walter presents drama on Channel 4. Classified a French Canadian drama, got some great actors/actresses in it. Having a lazy day on the sofa whilst it’s raining outside. Bonus being I’m on annual leave.

When an honorary Brummie meets honourable Brummies something magical can happen. Beautiful.

Charlotte Church bird feathers that smelt like poo, Celia Imrie surely party prepared you for that with her farting 🤣 #celebritytraitors

Pmsl at Celia Imrie farting -she will never live that one down. I couldn’t stop laughing. Best moment so far on #celebritytraitors

In Defense of Disordered Grief No, grief has not been given an expiration date www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/in-defense...

Here I am in March 2020 wearing the PPE that was available at the time for frontline services about to see an influx of extremely sick people with SARS-CoV-2 now known as COVID-19. I watched many die. Colleagues died. Michelle Mone should be in jail. And she should only be the first on a long list

Followed recommendation from colleague about taking Magnesium LThreonate for sleep. Taking 2000mg capsules, very surprising that am sleeping better after only 2 days. Deeper sleep and less “awake disturbances” on sleep monitoring app. And feel tired before going to bed.

September weekend means extra sleep… so needed.

Everyone who sees this post, quote post 5 things that make you happy: - getting purrs and head bumps from my cat Dexter - watching scandi noir - questions asked by my 6 year old nephew - watching the squirrels outside my flat - watching cetaceans videos on Clyde cetaceans sighting Facebook page.

drive.google.com/file/d/1HxUf... This is spot on about the weaponisation of immigration and violence against women.

I watched the Stillpoint History of Psychoanalysis Analysis Lectures on YouTube today. Donald Winnicott was some work horse. Worked with around 60,000 mothers. Love his belief “change the technique not the patient”. & said at one point to someone he was seeing “you can cry on my hands” -beautiful.

Having grown up in the US and spent my adult life in the UK, I can only see the US “health system” as a form of brutality. The NHS may be far from perfect, but I’ll take flawed over brutal any day of the week.

Tough day today. Struggling with missing my mum now that she is in care. Lewy Body Dementia sucks & the fact that it steals any joy that my mum used to have adds to the pain that we feel as a family. I can only hope that her paranoia & delusions lift a bit to allow her to let us all in.

I’m a bit bored of the “let’s stop dementia in its tracks” lazy trope of “fast dementia” — the Pharma led drive to #cure #dementia as instantaseously as fast food or fast fashion. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...

Today will be hellish. Having to take my mum off the island she has lived on since the age of 12. 61 years later she is moving into a nursing home in Glasgow, due to Lewy Body Dementia. Her husband of 53 years will be separated from her. As a society we need to do better for our elderly people.