But no baby Clives or Keiths. Funny that #TheArchers

And I’d suggest he walk around a few old churchyards to see what the absence of vaccinations used to do to ‘fragile babies’.

My mum has the same. A natter about Trump would be lively rather than lovely. She loathes the man & Farage. Once she stops getting angry about them we’ll start to worry about her.

There’s a group of us in Oxford going up to Liverpool next week for the Labour Party Conference so we could take them back for them.

Yes- we saw it last week with barrister husband & solicitor daughter so a bit like a busman’s holiday. Thought it was superb harrowing too

Sour grapes from Sultana.

Charles Collingwood is such a tremendous actor & Brian a wonderful character. I really hope he carries on #TheArchers

I don’t like to remind you of something very unpleasant, but what about Hazel Woolley? #TheArchers

It could be worse: you could have won one of Richard Thwaite’s crocheted loo roll holders #TheArchers

Thank you. In the end it turned out to be fairly minor & she’s back home. We’re away & my sister will be too but she has lovely neighbours who will keep a close eye on her.

I sadly get insanely excited by the idea of an evening in front of the TV with some knitting, after a few days of evening meetings.

I’m feeling guilty escaping on the sleeper down to Penzance then Isles of Scilly tomorrow, leaving Michael in a dust bowl of a house with no kitchen & no water.

Thanks, Peter. As they say, every day is a learning day & that priceless piece of knowledge had completely passed me by until today.

While one may be considered by a psychiatrist to have mental capacity, excruciating pain takes that away temporarily. Suffering severe pain with 1st baby, I lost my ability to make the best decision for myself & had to rely on husband who knew my wishes & had mine & baby’s best interests at heart.

I remember chatting to a Cllr colleague about the JR. He’d taken his son for a hearing check up at the Children’s Hospital & marvelled at the care & beautiful design. He then visited his grandfather in a geriatric ward which was dirty & had too few staff. Both need equal & excellent care.

That’s really disappointing as they look so beautiful & I admire them whenever I cycle past. In my next life, I will be a bike stand architect, based on the William Morris beautiful but useful maxim.

Or Therese Coffey just snuck in to the Conclave. She is a Catholic after all- about the only thing I have in common with her.