@cbuckthorn.bsky.social spookily replying before I’d even posted

Magnolia!

Sister time let’s have a sister

Just remembered the QE2 is in Dubai. Now I know how that guy with the dog feels

Easy World Book Day costume

2,000 of my favourite words on one of my favourite things. advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2026/03/Sund...

I wrote a bit about passing my viva, and how I got this far, and also, can we all stare at my tiny grumpy children and wonder at how the HELL I managed to do all this with THEM being like THIS? sophiemhistory.com/2026/03/02/v...

You can't make a Cadbury's Creme Omelette without breaking a few eggs

Discovering that last year's uneaten Cadbury's Creme Eggs have hatched and become Cadbury's Creme chickens

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Today’s stop-the-kids-going-mad fun has been cleaning a dirty, dusty old doll’s house that belonged to my nephews. Then I raided my old doll’s house cut-outs and failed to engage my daughter with decorating it

My daughter walked in as I was trying on a new pair of buckled boots and said “you look like the Highway Rat.”

Bad back doesn’t seem to be getting better. This is who I am now. Bucky with the bad back

I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

So tired I can’t even defend against my daughter’s craft-based tyranny. I have assembled a full World Book Day costume. I made this car entirely from scratch

Night 2 of nursing my boy through a terrifying fever, the kind Victorian kids used to die from

Enormous congratulations to my big sister, the most amazing woman I know, Dr Soph. Always outrageously proud to be your mini-me xxxx

Have become incredibly adept over the years at smuggling my own lavish meals under the noses of my sickly nil-by-mouth children

Lighting up, kicking back, typing in 58008 and turning that baby upside down like an absolute legend. I am smooth, I am suave, I am James Bond, I am the Hofmeister bear, men respect me, the ladies love me, thank you Casio

Twat dooming Reform? (4,7)

Lurpack Man in the streets Lurpack Man in the sheets

Had a blast yesterday recording the Harry Hill podcast alongside Taskmaster Alex Horne. Too many references to ferries at the seaside to count but great fun sharing my love of the #greatbritishseaside Watch previous episodes here harryhill.co.uk/podcast/

Back is still agony without painkillers. WfB. Today’s look is overgrown sickly Victorian child

God's to-do list for the first six days.

In my village there is a lovely big house called The Lawn, and next to it, where once there must have been the eponymous lawn, a new-build street called Lawn Close

Have done my back in, like an old man

*Guy whose favourite day at school was when they did litmus testing* this is a litmus test

5yo asked me to draw her an ‘energy jug’ and kept crying because I wasn’t drawing it properly. “Draw it the other way round! Do the sides straight!” When I had a fully elongated ‘jug’ with the handle at the top I realised she was, in fact, asking me to draw a battery icon

If I want my child to get into the Winter Olympics I'll make sure they eat their crusts, because they make your heir curl

Shag, marry, kill your darlings

Idea for a rhyming children's picture book "That's terribly kind of you, Snake, but no. I'm going to have lunch with Mark Ruffalo." "Mark Ruffalo? Who's Mark Ruffalo?" "Mark Ruffalo? Why, didn't you know? "He was in Zodiac, and Hal and Harper, And with every role his craft grows sharper."

'I want that fable on my desk, AESOP!'

There are trompes everywhere for those with the l'œils to see

Sunday morning Skeleton Tree

🎶when I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary calls to me, singing words of wisdom, Leccy B.🎶

We went out, for all of half an hour. Someone ate some shit tripe the other day and can no longer function. Didn’t even get a selfie

All vintage Humpty Dumpties fit in to one of three categories 🥚the worst little gross nightmare creep 🥚tight trousers benevolent rotund friend 🥚serving a surprising amount of cunt for an egg

Here's this year's first big charity push, pals. I'm running the Leeds Half in May in support of @mariecurieuk.bsky.social and in memory of my lovely mum-in-law Sue, who so sadly died this month. It's an amazing charity. Throw all your spare money my way, please. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

Tonight we paint

It’s our two-year anniversary next month

Smartphones have caused the demise of the great social art of leaning and gazing boredly into space

She has absolutely nailed the title. Almost out-Lana’d herself

I'm not fond of these goofy error messages like 'NIGHTMARE! We can't find the page you want (sadface)'. Look, we are not flatmates. You should be apologising. 'Mr Watson, it is with the greatest shame and regret we announce our failure to connect you. We will take all possible steps...'

Televise it

Once a week or so I hear small noises coming from the loft above my kids’ room, like borrowers are trying to saw through the ceiling

5yo pointed at the letters ‘ph’ and said “Mum, what’s this *digraph*?” they’re just teaching the kids to show off now

Oh to be a feverish five-year old, wrapped in blankets on the sofa, watching Disney films and being doted on by Mum

I’ve just realised my brother had this exact same top in the 90s