Adam Lay KatBrownden 🎵🌲
@katbrownwrites.com
Freelance journalist and editor, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
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I was so excited to celebrate It's Not a Bloody Trend's birthday this morning, only to discover that it was actually...yesterday. Anyway, my book on (you'll be shocked to hear) ADHD is one today!
I am so hugely enjoying Ella Risbridger’s book on romantic fiction (a present from my peerless mother in law) and I think it might be the platonic ideal of a betwixtmas book. I feel myself waking up again.
December 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I am so hugely enjoying Ella Risbridger’s book on romantic fiction (a present from my peerless mother in law) and I think it might be the platonic ideal of a betwixtmas book. I feel myself waking up again.
Sybil is the Spirit of Winter (zoomies)
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sybil is the Spirit of Winter (zoomies)
Hand for scale but does anyone have the slightest idea what these mad cake-fork-fish-knife-looking cutlery implements are?
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hand for scale but does anyone have the slightest idea what these mad cake-fork-fish-knife-looking cutlery implements are?
Each Christmas my husband makes me a year in review made up of our no-context WhatsApp photos to each other, and it is my favourite thing ever. No evidence of our holiday, obviously, but local roadworks were well represented.
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Each Christmas my husband makes me a year in review made up of our no-context WhatsApp photos to each other, and it is my favourite thing ever. No evidence of our holiday, obviously, but local roadworks were well represented.
Watching The Muppets Christmas Carol and my nephew’s (8) solemn verdict on Scrooge is that “he’s a dingdong.”
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Watching The Muppets Christmas Carol and my nephew’s (8) solemn verdict on Scrooge is that “he’s a dingdong.”
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To me, my X-Mas!
December 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
To me, my X-Mas!
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as a Christmas gift, one of my favourite weird Ask A Manager letters of all time (be sure to read the update): www.askamanager.org/2021/09/a-co...
a coworker prayed for my fiancé's death so we didn't invite her to our wedding ... and now there is drama
A reader writes: My fiancé, “Ted,” has worked for 10 years on a small, very close-knit team, all of whom seem to get along exceptionally well. All the team members and spouses/partners socialize outsi...
www.askamanager.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
as a Christmas gift, one of my favourite weird Ask A Manager letters of all time (be sure to read the update): www.askamanager.org/2021/09/a-co...
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Fellow North Londoners! The four independently run cafes in and around Hampstead Heath have been given four weeks notice to quit before a fancy (and expensive) Australian chain takes over. Please sign the petition. c.org/NxsZFkLmSG
Sign the Petition
Require the City of London to retain current cafe operators
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December 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Fellow North Londoners! The four independently run cafes in and around Hampstead Heath have been given four weeks notice to quit before a fancy (and expensive) Australian chain takes over. Please sign the petition. c.org/NxsZFkLmSG
The dog rather optimistically put a leg in the river then hastily removed it. It is bitingly cold today in the most literal sense: I feel as though sharp-toothed goblins have been hanging off any part of me that is exposed to the wind.
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The dog rather optimistically put a leg in the river then hastily removed it. It is bitingly cold today in the most literal sense: I feel as though sharp-toothed goblins have been hanging off any part of me that is exposed to the wind.
Such a small but lovely Christmas thing is the massive Big Yellow Self Storage building near the Hammersmith Flyover turning off the S on either side so it now reads ELF STORAGE.
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Such a small but lovely Christmas thing is the massive Big Yellow Self Storage building near the Hammersmith Flyover turning off the S on either side so it now reads ELF STORAGE.
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on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic
Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual assault offences
Russell Brand will appear in court on 20 January 2026 over the new charges.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Once again, Blair finds the beauty, the mystery, the magic, and the humanity in ordinary places. The lesson? All of it is all around you all the time if you take the time to look and listen.
Last month, @outsidemag.bsky.social sent me to spend 14 hours in a suburban ice rink, learning the stories of everyone I met. Why do they skate? I asked. To feel free, they told me. To feel God. To forget, for a minute, what they've done.
What I Learned After Spending 14 Hours at a Suburban Ice Rink
A full day inside a suburban rink revealed how one place can hold ambition, grief, faith, and escape—sometimes all at once.
www.outsideonline.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Once again, Blair finds the beauty, the mystery, the magic, and the humanity in ordinary places. The lesson? All of it is all around you all the time if you take the time to look and listen.
Good!! (she writes from bed where it feels like she now lives) If you’re not going to count at least some flipping farm equipment in there then nobody is going to be able to afford to take on a farm at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Good!! (she writes from bed where it feels like she now lives) If you’re not going to count at least some flipping farm equipment in there then nobody is going to be able to afford to take on a farm at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
For anyone who’s had enough hard news for 2025, I have written a nice cosy story about inadvertent Christmas animals, with lots of pictures of Sybil and Genevieve looking either tiny or magnificent or both
www.independent.co.uk/voices/rescu...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/rescu...
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For anyone who’s had enough hard news for 2025, I have written a nice cosy story about inadvertent Christmas animals, with lots of pictures of Sybil and Genevieve looking either tiny or magnificent or both
www.independent.co.uk/voices/rescu...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/rescu...
The Inside Legoland at Christmas doc on All4 is absolutely lovely and has it all: nerds, health and safety, snow, dancers, a handmade 9m-tall Duplo tree and dogs in Christmas jumpers.
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Inside Legoland at Christmas doc on All4 is absolutely lovely and has it all: nerds, health and safety, snow, dancers, a handmade 9m-tall Duplo tree and dogs in Christmas jumpers.
I need you to imagine what this could be, and then go and read the thread, because it’s better than you could possibly imagine.
A thread for @katbrownwrites.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I need you to imagine what this could be, and then go and read the thread, because it’s better than you could possibly imagine.
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Sooz should either be paid by the BBC each year for doing this and/or given a part in Eastenders.
Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.
December 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Sooz should either be paid by the BBC each year for doing this and/or given a part in Eastenders.
Finally went to the Lower Morden Lane Christmas lights and WOW. Home Alone’s lighting happened in South London and it’s raising money for St Raphael’s Hospice!
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Finally went to the Lower Morden Lane Christmas lights and WOW. Home Alone’s lighting happened in South London and it’s raising money for St Raphael’s Hospice!
There’s been a significant attack of myjourneyitis on Strictly and given The X Factor finished in 2018 we can only *slightly* blame that
This season of Strictly can only be faintly made out through all the tears, says @katbrownwrites.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/stric...
Please, no more sobbing on Strictly
This season of Strictly can only be faintly made out through all the tears, writes Kat Brown. So much for hoping that the ghastly reality TV trope ‘the journey’ had been consigned to the past. This ye...
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
There’s been a significant attack of myjourneyitis on Strictly and given The X Factor finished in 2018 we can only *slightly* blame that
Sybil sends her very best regards to anyone caught up in a panic at the shops today
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sybil sends her very best regards to anyone caught up in a panic at the shops today
A beautiful accuracy burn by Melissa Quinn at CBS News www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A beautiful accuracy burn by Melissa Quinn at CBS News www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...