“Mummy I love you, Mummy I love ham.” Not even a millisecond of pause between them.

Look, I don’t care how many emails you send me. I’m not reviewing The Towel Shop.

We are aiming low with the World Book Day costume this year.

I do a tiny bit of acting/modelling as a side hustle and I just got my first ever audition tape through for… … drum role please… Middle aged lady. I don‘t think I’m going to recover from this.

Well, it turns out that taking the kids swimming for half an hour leads to a pleasant afternoon and easy bedtimes, but taking them swimming for an hour leads to Lord of the Flies.

No bigger disgust response than a preschooler discovering bugs in the bug hotel he made with his father. What did you think it was for? Did you just want to be one of those landlords investing in real estate thats sits empty and actively contributes to the affordable housing crisis?

Nice little earner for a state secondary teacher.

I had the kind of day when I went to church with 40-50 scotch pancakes and came home with a cabbage.

Do you think people are staring at me because of the dog collar or the space lunch box?

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

The greatest peril in Spidey and His Amazing Friends this evening is that Hydroman is threatening to get some books wet outside a bookshop. Captain America has been deployed to help. Captain America, I think you may have bigger problems right now.

I’ve become way too invested in letter of the week at preschool. This week is F week. Here are some ridiculous ideas I have for the preschooler to bring to show and tell. Please feel free to add your own: 1) Functioning fondue set spilling cheese everywhere. 2) Fungi. 4) Mini working farm.

“Wet rehearsal?!” Seriously, NASA, just call it a tech rehearsal and then every theatre kid will understand the vibe.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

I read in the press that the Brooklyn Beckham debacle will be a test case for influencers’ children and how they will view their parents when they grow up. But what about Christopher Robin? We already know how that went.

A country of small roads, limited parking and congestion charges. This makes no sense.🤷‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Kids these days don’t know they’re born. Watching the entirety of Mary Poppins on Disney with no adverts and no accidental rugby match taped over the top of it right before the finale. I’m weirdly unfamiliar with the end due to that aforementioned incident.

My fascination with the Beckham story is just escapism and avoidance about the world basically falling apart, isn’t it? Also the cow that can scratch itself.

I think C of E comms should use this. Somehow.

Thank you, Stranger Things, for introducing me to this delightful, and deeply Christian novel. I can’t believe I‘ve never read it before!

I would just like one play date that trundles along without the preschooler at some point randomly retrieving and pretending to read the Bible.

There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.

babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel

If you’ve never been to an Episcopal Church service, I highly recommend it. I’m an avowed atheist, but my local Episcopal church is so amazing and the messages are always about building community and love. It can lift even the most skeptical soul in these dark times.

If you live or work in Oxford diocese (that means Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) then please fill in this questionnaire about what you’d like to see in the next bishop: oxford.anglican.org/consultation

AI slop, which I didn’t even ask for. Of course the film’s release is in the future, not the past! Such a silly answer.

This is beginning to have the same vibe as preachers who keep predicting the End Times.

I would love to be Karen Wheeler in Strange Things, or of course Winona, but in reality I am Dustin’s mum.

My sermon from last week kind of feels more relevant this week, actually: likestarsintheworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/o...

Who can guess what job I do from the contents of my bag?

What if Barb was supposed to be Robin’s soulmate?

For the 1st Shabbat of 2026, 10 things (in no particular order) that this rabbi humbly suggests each of us can do to make 2026 more sustainable than 2025. Note that these will look different for each of us because we have different capacities and professional/personal demands. That's ok.

Please help me choose a New Year’s Resolution: a) Tennis b) Ice skating c) Roller skating d) Finish the novel! e) Ironing f) Be nicer to everyone g) Vegetables

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I have lots of questions about what happened at the Christmas Eve service...👀

My three year old is refusing to wear a novelty Christmas tree headpiece at nursery tomorrow because “hairbands are for girls” and so he “only wants to wear it at home” and this is the narrow view of gender you get if you raise a boy in a household that doesn’t watch association football.

You can have a tastefully, symmetrically decorated gingerbread house or you can let small children be involved. It can’t be both. Choose wisely.

Christmas craft workshop and live nativity animals, SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER 10-12, University Church on Oxford High Street. Animals include donkey, Shetland pony, sheep, goats and chickens. Feed and grooming included. Probably not grooming the chickens though, they won’t like it.

Out of interest, how often does someone hiring a bouncy castle from a local business request it be set up in a different country?

Me: You are not allowed to wrestle with your brother. You will break him. The Preschooler: God will make a new one. Me: God only makes one of everyone! God makes everyone special. TP: WELL, there were 2 white mans at church. Me: What? TP: There were 2 white hair mans. Me:They were DIFFERENT PEOPLE!

I’m seeing plenty of adverts declaring “Black Friday is upon us” or similar. But shouldn’t Black Friday be on a Friday? It’s Monday.

The Preschooler: At Lego church, I will make a motorbike. Me: Yes, well you’re really supposed to make something from the Bible story. There’s a different one each time. But there aren’t any motorbikes in the Bible. The Preschooler: There should be a new Bible.

I’m 44,000 words into the first draft of a novel that’s planned to be around 80,000. We‘ve passed the midpoint and it’s all kicking off. This is my third novel and I’m really hoping this will be the one. I’m doing a course with @cbcreative.bsky.social and it’s pushing me in a good way.