Posted a birthday card Wednesday lunchtime. Birthday was Friday. Card only had to make it about 5 miles across London. It arrived Saturday. #royalmailfail

Oh. #granddesigns is a terrible tear jerker 😢

Think there was a mini tornado in West Norwood. Dust dump on path & also all over my mini!

There was actually guidance to this effect (knives) pre 2010 under labour as I referenced it in an exclusion appeal. It disappeared under the coalition.

Nice www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Vegetarian fry-up after my run today. Not sure what I think of vegan bacon

Horrified by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester. My heart goes out to the families those killed & who’ve been affected.

I know #granddesigns follows a formula but it’s still painful watching novice project managers wondering why no one pointed stuff out to them

Amazing meal at Murano for OH birthday

Children’s names, photos and addresses stolen in Kido nursery hack | this is low (£) www.thetimes.com/article/9906...

Probably the last of my tomato crop. Didn’t get many & I think the heat made them extra small but they’ve been tasty

Rainbow

Two of the three helicopters that flew in line over London today. I imagined it’s prep for POTUS visit?

OH got the test alert but I didn’t 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is of concern. Important to check what security measures online providers have when you hand them data to process on your behalf

Fake or Fortune revisit was an eye opener. The buyer turned down a £300k offer from a major collector 🙄

Yes. I did go through a village called Tiddleywink

One of my projects this month was to get our office into a new location. Double win on the commute. 1. New office is about 8 minutes nearer the station. 2. I qualify for an age related Oyster card which will halve my costs. Not every week you get a fine & money win! 🤣

Promming last night. Wonderful @londonsymphony.bsky.social & a performance of Suor Angelica

33 years!

Jeez, this is grim (£) ‘Baboon massacre’: German zoo feeds culled primates to the lions www.thetimes.com/article/93bf...

‘The Five Sisters’ shale bings at West Calder are a protected monument now & a reminder of an industrial past.

I was singing at it! Glad you enjoyed it.

New post: "The Radicalisation Spiral" Why are so many people becoming radicalised? Is there any way to stop it? With an antivaxxer running the US health dept + extreme discourse dominating politics it's an increasingly pressing question. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

First night of the 75th Edinburgh Tattoo was pretty special

My tomatoes haven’t really thrived in the heat, but my micro crop of tiny tomatoes made its way into my salad tonight

Pleased to get round in the heat! 😎🥵

Friendly Bodega Cat @thecatreviewer.bsky.social Got good pets in once I’d taken the picture

The Children’s Commissioner’s report today on child poverty www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/gro...

This was shared by @miconm.bsky.social earlier in the week but here you can beat the paywall. What a lot of waffle to promote a new book!

Niche q: has anyone taken a ferry from the port of Huelva as a foot passenger in recent years? Am drawing a blank of there being anyway to cover the 17km to the port from the station that isn’t either a taxi, or a 7km walk through an oil refinery from the nearest bus stop. Am I missing something?

We went to the late night at London Zoo last night. It was fun!

Alarming report from the children’s commissioner into unregistered AP - a quick data search found nearly 100 potentially operating illegally Dame de Souza says the system is ‘failing children who often need the greatest support’ schoolsweek.co.uk/illegal-scho...

There a a lot of stupid articles but this is stupider than most. (£) ‘We’d be £500k better off if we hadn’t moved to France’ www.thetimes.com/article/e44e...

I personally think this is a shame. I work for a public body & have a choice of a public sector defined benefit or defined contribution scheme. I joined the latter & think some would welcome an informed choice at different stages of their career.

Men aren’t taking paternity leave. Should we blame the matriarchy? If you only get stat pat pay it’s not affordable. Even shared parental leave can be tricky as OMP isn’t transferable - only the statutory element. www.thetimes.com/article/3921...

Kinda demob happy as I’ve just got my accounts over the line with a clean audit opinion. 🎉🥳

I set myself a little goal at the start of the year & I did it! 🎹🎵

No mention of death in service benefits 3 x salary - which you don’t get if opting out. Local government scheme offers a 50/50 option, halving contribution & accrual. Civil service has option of DC pension with 0% employee rate. Good to have options! www.thetimes.com/article/d2b9...

Had pretty much a perfect day. Not working. Breakfast on the deck. A run (hot & under distance but still), piano practice (grade 1 in a week) & a late lunch al fresco on the deck! 😎☀️

The internal control environment is really important to prevent fraud… Soldier defrauded MoD to buy ‘adult services’ and a hair transplant www.thetimes.com/article/b6b6...

It was carnage in round Westminster today. Road closures for building works and lots of diversions for big day in parliament 😩

Have I got this right? Labour were slammed for cutting the winter fuel payment. Now they’re being slammed for giving it back to ‘rich’ pensioners 🤷🏻‍♀️

Finally got to Mission Impossible - the Final Reckoning & enjoyed it. But ‘Trafalgar Square’ tube station??

A satisfactory morning cleaning the kitchen. I underestimated how much fingerprints would show up on satin finish cabinets & glass appliances 😩

Things which can be true at once: A) It's entertaining B) It's deeply dysfunctional which the Trump court always was/was always going to be C) This happens when a political project is about vibes/personality cults rather than actual convergent beliefs D) It's pathetic E) They could make up

Just had the bestest 3 days in NYC

Three runs this week. Week 1 of training for the Saucony London 10km in July