Nah someone is trying to save face because he actually solved the mystery.

Also wtf at having confessionals in St Giles. What's the point in making such a big deal of filming in Edinburgh only to turn it into a backdrop as generic as this film's score? And could they not even find room for one single, solitary Scottish accent?

It does specify that it's a wicked pumpkin.

It sounds so good! I'm sad to miss it.

Also, I've yet to change my mind and when my hysterectomy happens I'm going to make an artwork with the discarded organ and my press cuttings, which I will dedicate to you.

I'm already not thrilled about the official policy being that if you were on the priority lists before but you're not actually old then you should crack on with dying and decreasing the surplus population, but to waste my time on top of that was just so unnecessary.

This is after taking time out of my schedule to turn up for my NHS winter vaccines (note that plural) appointment, only to be interrogated and told off for thinking I might be eligible for a covid jag just because I had been specifically invited for one. I'm under 75 therefore can just fucking die.

And perhaps occasionally deciding that I'll spend my train journey unproductively is part of it. I'm already dreading the catch-up I'll have to play to make up for this stolen half hour. But life is so short, and sometimes you just can't answer one more fucking email. /13

So how do we socialise when we're time and energy-poor? I wish I knew. Chronic illness and freelance schedules killed my social life years ago. But I am holding on to the things I can, like insisting on spending as many Sunday afternoons as I can watching films with my husband. /12

Is a return to greater social media use part of the solution? I don't think so, at least not in its current form. People like me (forged in the flames of the webrings and chatrooms) will always use it, I suspect. But more widely, I think the solution is not social media but socialising. /10

They'll gradually start to care if/when the wide lack of leisure time impacts your capacity to be a good consumer, unless they can think of things to sell you that aren't impacted by or even exacerbate your time/leisure issues

*cough*AI*cough*

/9

Class and privilege come into this, of course. Wealth insulates you from this (to a greater or lesser extent). The situation benefits those to whom wealth flows, and for the most part they don't care if you have no peace or leisure - at least not yet. /8

The rates of pay I'm being offered these days are lower than three years ago. Not just adjusting for inflation, actually smaller numbers. Makes it necessary to take on more jobs, more demands, and hacks away at leisure, community, family time. Me and everyone else I know. /7

...and I'm trying not to make life harder than it needs to be for all my over-busy, under-leisured collaborators who need responses from me, or of whom I need to ask things. This constant scrabbling to make ends meet and relentless pressure devalues us all. /5

I'm writing this on a train to Paisley to open Poisoner there. There was a time when I'd have seen a train journey with patchy WiFi as legitimate social media noodling time, or reading time, or music listening time. But the tasks don't stop coming, because I'm over-busy and under-leisured... /4