I know folk say don’t stick photos of your kids on t’internet but, meh, he’s 35. Crucially, he’s here ❤️ (he’s the one in the middle)

Cricket!?! Does not compute. Clearly they just needed a couple of games to warm up. They should consider that next time. #TheAshes

Perfect day for pootling around the pretty parts of the city that are usually full of people. Having a lovely lazy non-Christmas round ours. Zero gifts have been opened #joinin

Welcome to day 1 of “Everything’s absolutely normal inside but out there the worlds all a bit more unhinged than normal”. Opened my last advent calendar (mini roll of masking tape) and that’s me done with present opening. If you don’t really do Christmas, hello, you’re not alone.

Vegan winner. Nice. #scd

Pretty much the only thing I don’t hate about Christmas is here. Hurrah. kwc.im/wp-content/u...

Not a fan of day-night tests. I don’t like being awake for so much of this hammering #TheAshes

Oh *you’re* so frightened? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All work has stopped. The tension has done for me #TheAshes

I made it! I resisted opening any of these until this morning. *That’s* a fucking Christmas miracle right there. (And of course I missed the autotypo in the original post. I know)

Possibly the earliest I’ve ever made mince pie.

Not been much noise floating up the hill today but I’m hearing the now…

Well that’s a disorientating arrangement of numbers #ncfc

Oh FFS. Again. #ncfc

Bonkers AI mindfuck today. Encountered a reference to a paper by a team I was part of but I had no recollection of us writing. Took a minute of wondering if I’d just forgotten a paper that should be on my CV. But no, of course not. Was a made up citation to something that doesn’t exist. But by me.

Sodding hell. Again. #TheAshes Morning.

Oh, partner’s woken up #TheAshes

I do love these early morning exchanges with my firstborn when there’s an Ashes series on #TheAshes 🏏

hSo grateful they wrote about this! I thought, "do I have climb this trail again?" But Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser took it on, and their analysis is spot on! animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/q...

Erm Clive, I don’t think it’s yours to offer. Kind regards, Kate from Norwich South.

Attention #vegan #Sociology - @vegansociology.bsky.social are here at last 🥳

We're hiring again! A new 0.8 post on the research pathway. It's ace here, join us. #AcademicSky vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...

Can confirm, still not needed.

Anyhoo, after the boos have died down I’m going to get my lippy on for a bit of Heaven 17 at the Waterfront. Shall report back as to whether fascist groove thangs remain surplus to requirements.

Oh FFS #ncfc

I know there’s some fellow pen lovers here…Look what arrived today, my Tom’s Studio adventure calendar. 😍 Odds of me waiting til December to start opening stuff: TINY

Ready for another working week.

There’s more tennis balls than that in our shoe rack #ncfc

Happy World Vegan Day, vegansky 💚🌻

When we decided to live in the city centre I wasn’t expecting we’d see a muntjac casually strolling up to the front door every so often. Yet here they are again. (And the poor fox who visits the back garden barely ever gets a mention cos everyone expects city centre foxes these days).

I was having a lovely day at UEA Open Day, and then my watch started giving me goal alerts for Swansea v Norwich. I’ve turned the notifications off now. I had a lovely day at Open Day.

“Linked to quality”: 1. 🙄; 2. That’s gonna spook a few Russell Groups 🤭. Whaddayameeeeaaan they aren’t all the best unis?

Oh Bridget.

Co-led by the UEA, @ukceh.bsky.social, @metoffice.gov.uk and @ecmwf.int the second annual State of Wildfires report has found that human-driven climate change made wildfires many times larger and more destructive. Read more 👉 bit.ly/47sZNhC #Research #Wildfires #ClimateChange #NewReport

“When the Red Tractor's there, your food's farmed with care”… although we have no idea if our farms are complying with basic environmental laws but don’t think that’s got anything to do with farming with care or animal welfare. Uhuh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m not that faffed about the footie but that was an EXCEPTIONAL national anthem performance from the Welsh this evening. I apologise to the entire central Norwich area for my singalong.

Day trip to Brighton today to watch my partner pick up degree number 5. The 4th one with no mortarboard or bonnet.

Day 2 of #IAVS2025 is also baking day. The magic of online conferences.

About to kick off another weekend of Vegan Sociology at the #IAVS2025 conference. One of my favourite weekends of the year and definitely my favourite academic conference.

Figured a quick batch of giant choc chip hobnobs wouldn’t hurt too.

Sunday afternoon work prep 👍

WFH today. I may have popped the heating on. And a cardi.

The Blackburn Ipswich hoohaa needs sorting with Duckworth Lewis Stern. Easy.

I’m so happy Slow Horses is back.

A Dickie Bird anecdote from my big brother this aft: “He befriended my dad on Wakefield Westgate with the sole aim of sharing a taxi to Lords - Dickie was spending the day on a freebie in Mick Jagger's private box, if I recall. He was too tight-fisted to contribute to the taxi, but good company” 🏏

There appears to be a number missing at the start of the temperature reading on my bedside clock 🥶

Yes of course my PC ran into a problem and needs to shut down on the first day of teaching of the new semester. :( indeed.

Peanut butter & Biscoff blondies and frangipanish brownies cooling for an ETERNITY before I can safely slice up and taste.

Semester 1 teaching starts tomorrow. Which means baking for the staff student drop-ins begins today. Haven’t baked anything for yonks, and I’m way too excited 🧁🍰👩‍🍳

Oh FFS Norwich. Don’t be the plucky comeback episode.