Still available for tomorrow!

🎟️ Theatre ticket on offer 🎟️ I have one ticket for Book of Mormon in London for Monday evening that I won’t be able to use. Row B of the circle. Was £23 on TodayTix but I’d take £15 to get rid of it. Any takers?

Also: open source repo is coming soon 👀🎉

Thrilled to hear that our team won MHCLG’s inaugural Permanent Secretary award ❤️ Such a brilliant, hard-working group of people. Creating Share is proof that while vendor lock-in is a hard problem, it is not an inevitability. Proud doesn’t cover it 🥹 What we do:

Resources and help for anyone, and it will be mostly women, affected by the increased risk of domestic abuse associated with football www.nhs.uk/live-well/ge...

3rd in the world championships. Not too shabby 😄

We’re on the way to the Netherlands to represent England at the World Music Championships 🤩 Little Coco would be astonished ❤️

I’ll be speaking at (sold out, waitlist only!) Product for the People in September 😍 Currently kicking around talk ideas. I think it’ll be along the lines.. the value of hidden/invisible enabling work that PMs do, in my context of building a new digital service but not being involved in the tickets

One week today, we’ll be on the ferry to the Netherlands for the *world music championships*. What on earth?! How lucky am I 🥰

Has anyone ever had to use GWR lost property? Clearly I’m too tired/distracted, as I left my suitcase on a train last night 😭 I’ve reported it and it has a tag so should find its way back to me, but I’m curious to know how long it takes.

Genius over here decided to bake a birthday cake on the hottest day of the year 🥵

Away from the national news yesterday, there was a significant update in the brass band press… 4barsrest updated their rankings for the first time in 6 months.. We are now ranked world no 1 in both systems 😎💐 (Nobody knows why there are 2 😂) www.4barsrest.com/news/64817/w... www.brassstats.com

💥 GDS Local is hiring! 💥 We are recruiting for three roles. Associate PM, Senior UR, Senior Service Designer - links in thread🧵 The roles are located in Bristol, London or Manchester.

Back at work today while recovering from a big mental health wobble last week. Didn’t cry, so that’s a win 🌟

@jenitennison.com thanks so much for coming to Cheltenham Science Festival! Really enjoyed your nuanced views on AI (as a massive sceptic 😅)

YES to women’s health on major stages 👏🏻 Thank you #CheltSciFest for programming such an informative session!

Thoroughly enjoyed our first evening at Cheltenham Science Festival 👩‍🔬 Delighted to see both live captioning and BSL sign language interpreters on stage. Well done organisers, this is how to do it 👏🏻 #AccessibleEvents

Last day of May, and what a ridiculous month it’s been. Celebrating becoming European champions. Meeting the Queen. Our work featured on BBC News. As much as it’s been fun, I’d quite like a peaceful June, and a rebalancing of my adrenaline and cortisol levels ☺️🙏🏻

Long weekend time, hoorah! 💤

Are any of my followers local to Newbury? We will be performing at the Corn Exchange tomorrow evening, in our first concert as European champions 😎 Tickets still available cornexchangenew.com/events/flowe...

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

The adrenaline crash from the last month of my life is hitting hard today 😴

why do all the apps now have to act like the creepy guy who interrupts you at the library to ask you what you’re reading, who wants this

This remains my favourite song to come out of Eurovision. Romantic *and* an absolute banger youtu.be/YSMhu-PrLME?...

ICYMI last week our work was featured in the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Petition to send Bob Mortimer to Eurovision next year with ‘Slender People’ ✍🏻

My boyfriend is out of town today, but his friends have still invited me to join their Eurovision watch party 🥹 How lucky am I to have found my person, and to be so accepted my their family and friends ❤️

New fiction I’ve read recently for fun, that is definitely not on that Guardian list: Queering Him by Katherine Bogen Before the coffee gets cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The Castle Knoll series by Kristen Perrin The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Treated myself to a new book and a pizza, because today has been a *big* day ☺️

I’m back on the MHCLG blog today, talking about how we in-sourced our system for Homes for Ukraine and what we learned along the way 💙💛 mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/09/f...

Well, urm, what an unusual morning 😅

Where have I been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen! Yes, really. Shook her hand. And saw the King walk by. A surreal day, and an honour to be there to celebrate everything our team has achieved over 4 years, to support the people of Ukraine 💛💙

Didn’t sleep well. Too excited.

Back to reality with a bump today… Those three weeks of leave went by so quickly 🥲

Saturday activity: hemming my dress for a rather special occasion 🥰

Number 1 in the world 🤩 whaaaaatttt brassstats.com

Just landed home from an exhilarating long weekend in Linz. I plan on staying on cloud nine for a while 🥹❤️ Our little band from Gloucester are European Champions - somebody pinch me!!

It’s going to take a long time to take in what we achieved last night. The first ever representative from the West of England. Only the 3rd band ever to win on debut. Winners of both days. World no 1 band from next month. And an invitation to defend our title (!!!) next year in Switzerland. 🤯

We only went and won the Europeans #ItsComingHome

Day 2 🤘🏻

That’s how you make a European debut 💪🏻

My house is clean. My suitcase is packed. I’ve printed everything we need for band. I have exhausted my procrastination options. 1000 words to write, and 5 hours left. #OnlySlightlyPanicking

Very exciting post day! 👀

I have a 2500 word essay to write in the two days. 10 hours sleep, a good breakfast consumed, and a pomodoro timer at the ready. Let’s do this ✍🏻

Finally, time for the break I’ve been looking forward to for months! It’s been a productive final pre-hol week: 💡 Kicked off our Share reusability discovery 💡 Spoke with Welsh LAs about onboarding to Share and how we’ll support them through transition 💡 Qtrly development chats with my reports

1 day until I take the longest break I’ve had in 10 years (three entire weeks)! So naturally my calendar is filling up with lots of last minute meetings before I go 🤣

Eek, we got in! Time to start writing the talk…

I’m back on the MHCLG blog today, talking about how we in-sourced our system for Homes for Ukraine and what we learned along the way 💙💛 mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/09/f...

Thank you for all the responses! Lots of Kobo fans here, and I’m particularly excited to have a device that I can sync library books to 😍 I’m going to finish all the books I already had downloaded on my kindle, and then go shopping!