I feel seen

Saw some of Willard Wigan’s microscopic sculptures - literally you have to view through microscopes - at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham yesterday. He uses eyelashes as tweezers!

Nottingham, centre of the known world for 250 million years

Popping open a tub of Roses is a depressing experience now - I want to pop the lid off a beautiful tin and see those individually foil-wrapped gems

So excited I have finally got my own little library

Yes and Trump’s boasts about sexual assault were just “locker room talk”. Minimising sexualised, discomfiting “bants” and behaviour enables it and creates the environment where it escalates - and where sex offenders start believing they’re the victims

At least the sun is shining today - the mist was properly rolling in last week and it’s more poetic sung about than stood in

Despite being a big crime fiction fan and nostalgic about years lived in Edinburgh for some unknown reason I’m only now reading Rebus. On no. 4 and what a treat to know there are a lot more to come

Occasionally it’s a shame real life isn’t more like social media - the car next to me posts this and I just want to leave a friend request on the windscreen

Urgh the crypto guys have started popping up

A visit to the City Ground museum earlier revealed this absolute beauty awarded for winning the 1898 FA Cup (against Derby too) - bring back the FA Cup Teapot I say, far more practical than an oversized trophy! #nffc

Peeked out the curtains and I’m not going out in that. Starting Orbital instead - being sandwiched between the duvet and orbiting the Earth seems a better place to be this morning

I’m sure Farage must have a genuine reason for donning wellies in central London and that the ex-banker isn’t just projecting a completely false character he’s cynically created

Having spent last week reading the anxiety-inducing Yellowface plus X and this week reading the exquisite A Month in the Country plus Bluesky my blood pressure must have dropped considerably

No photogenic blue skies on todays walk but this light at the end of the tunnel felt pretty apt