Served a delicious lunch al fresco by gorgeous son in the sun ❤️

New level unlocked! I’m the ONLY person on this bus, I’ve got the five star upfront seat and I’m using my new Freedom pass 😻

Car crime round here is so … upmarket #w12

Tracey shooting up in my estimation #TheArchers

Gawd Pip who doesn’t bring anything to read/listen to for any kind of appointment #TheArchers I’m amazed they haven’t got a colouring book out for her.

HUNGARY---Victor Orban concedes to this man, Peter Magyar, a cat guy! Bravo to the Hungarians for standing up against dictatorship.

Really hope Vance turns up to campaign for Reform

Reading one of those stoopid memes about retirement - no alarm, meeting a friend for lunch, having a nap in the afternoon - and I’m thinking shit I must have retired years ago without noticing 😱 #freelance

Fucks sake #TheArchers

A camera? I hadn’t noticed, this is just my standard chair pose 😻

I have a wearisome piece of lamb in the oven and as I said to Mr D, well it won’t kill you and you can put loads of gravy on it.

I dropped the treats but fortunately a small furry hoover stepped up 😻

Nice to see #BordeauxMerignac step up to the challenge of EES and Easter 🤦‍♀️ Only 2 booths open, all passports in same line. Why is it so crap, it’s an International airport.

I think UK banks should be forbidden to say ‘pop into branch’. I got told they were too busy/short-staffed/do it online (not always possible with POA as a forrin resident). I swear if I’d turned up and announced I had leprosy, I couldn’t have had a more lukewarm reception.

Who needs to see a dog living his best life on a steam train ❤️🇮🇲#isleofman

Fantastic burger from #PortersKitchenIOM with added spectacular sunset courtesy of #PortErin Not too shabby! 🇮🇲

This is the kind of French parking I’ll never have the balls for! Left on the parvis at Bordeaux St Jean, in the middle of the bendy buses, trams and taxis. My airport navette brushed by him by a cigarette paper. Armed soldiers on patrol. Forget the ticket, I say blow it up 😱

I fucking love Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I’m not sure who worries me more, Rooarrui and his wobble or Brian and his instability. Really painful, tender performances #TheArchers

Having the sweetest evening babysitting my London neighbours’ Franco German toddler. Telling him I got 80% for my B2 exam hasn’t stopped him laughing like a drain at my efforts.

My iphone likes to transcribe my French language messages and believe it or not this was a friendly message to tell me my wood pellets would be delivered this afternoon 🤦‍♀️

I can’t take Celia seriously. I hear all her lines delivered in the style of Dame Celia Molestrangler #TheArchers

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Furious voices from our arse biscuit neighbour. A doughty voisine giving him a lathering about a) mowing land that’s hers not his & b) mowing at all at 6.30pm Sunday. I’ll pass no comment except that his equally charming son crashed his stoopid pimped car into their own barn door, the pic is real!

Poo, Spew, Richer Than You, Cuntface, Dribble, Twat.

Told you! Poopin’ out a ring! #TheArchers

Oh God, the dog’s going to shit out a ring isn’t it 💩💍 #TheArchers

My idea of a treat, 5.30 showing in Chiswick. Mad, violent and somehow tender. I walked home just a bit cautious of any Jimmys appearing IYKYK #HowsThat

Jeez, who’s that horrible spoilt little shit pulling the stupid face. Ah yes, me. 😱

I’m right under the swirly orange bit, it sure is breezy #IsleOfMan

A Porsche in the visitor car park* at Mum’s new nursing home is a good sign, right? *A visitor, not the owners who have modest wheels in their spaces

I so recommend this podcast, it’s always fascinating but this ep is an absolute belter @nickcohen.bsky.social

Tell me you’re a pilot’s daughter without telling etc etc #navigation #pilot

Overtopping. Or mad bastard wind whipping the sea into a fury, either is correct #Ramsey #IsleOfMan

Some of you know that I’m on the Isle of Man with a specific purpose, I’m in the process of moving my Mum into residential care. It’s a positive thing. Busy like I’ve never experienced in my production career. So every day I have coffee and stare at the sea & I’m thinking, let’s do more staring 🇮🇲

In the 2005 film The Dark, Port Erin features as the place where a body is dumped into this bay at Port Erin by a classmate of our daughter at primary school. He played the young Maurice Roeves. And he’s grown up just as cool as that sounds. I just had chips & gravy looking at the very spot 🇮🇲

You could look at billing to determine the shape of the year but I prefer to look at stairs climbed. Our flat is 3 floors up and Jungle Studios is a classic old Soho building with no lift. Stairs = busy. March, April & October were quiet, but check out June, September & January.

Hearing our lovely neighbours gorgeous little boy make his way upstairs belting out Incey Wincey Spider in his Franco/German accent has just improved my day by a billion per cent 😍

Too itchy?

Toulouse. Sadly don’t do egg mayo, an acquired taste but the best in the whole world and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees 🥪

Hard agree. Makes me appreciate the role of a producer - for god’s sake, EDIT!

Do subscribe, a good read 👍

Loving #TheBroons annual and the absolute stroke of genius that has invented a Jings Doorbell. DC Thomson needs this patented and in production sharpish!

Have to say, the nutella calendar has not disappointed #nutella

I can vouch for the cluster fly theory #Uncanny We had an old farmhouse in Pays de La Loire which did a great impression of a set from The Exorcist. Hundreds and hundreds of ‘dead’ flies, hoover them up and 20 mins later hundreds back. All doors & windows closed. Truly unsettling.

Come on London. You proudly made Depp’s ‘sauvage’ into ‘sausage’. You can do this #unt

No no that’s fine, I didn’t want to adjust the shower temperature 🕷️

Like many books I came back to later, John Donne was part of my A level syllabus and I got through the work but without much meaning. Now all these decades later, it stops me in my tracks. This is a lovely, timely post #solstice #winter #poetry

This is what happens when you get a #nutella advent calendar and then go away for a fortnight. Many many doors to open.

I very much enjoyed Maurice & Maralyn on R4 (do read the book) and now loving Adrift on Apple podcasts. Amazing stories of utterly bonkers people and I’m now thinking, was the 70’s peak mad Brits shipwrecked in rafts on the Pacific? Pre social media & rolling news, I guess we never knew! #Adrift