Thanks Felicity. Your experience and thoughts are very welcome, and are spot on. I hope you have a lovely family Christmas.

Nice flavour in a rich beef stew….but it needs chopping up very small so no one knows it’s there. Kind of a Ninja condiment

Massive shoulder pads, big hair and huge phones….yes please to 80s excess and sauciness!

You can thank Michael Gove and his primary school curriculum change for fronted adverbials and for squeezing any joy and creativity out of learning. They don’t even do grammar at GCSE level, so it’s forgotten about at secondary school.

Lovely to see you here Beth!

….and they’re probably eating them at home - classic wokerati trick to shun the office….. washed down with almond milk caffeine free flat whites by the bucket no doubt!

….and this is 2024. Please make this stop. How can there be so many little children going hungry? The world has turned so topsy turvy that we’re now celebrating the opening of foodbanks. Poverty isn’t something we have to accept. These are real kids who are suffering.

We need Greg Jackson on Question Time every week, it feels so much more optimistic and positive to be actively doing something - rather than sleepwalking further into our climate catastrophe.

Thanks for sharing, these lists are invaluable for find all the people from the other place…

I hope this is how Twitter used to be. Just trying to find everyone again…