Just found out my fixed term contract (as a proofreader) is closing in April next year. Do any of my friends here need someone who’s got 30+yrs experience in publishing to help them out? I can proof UK & US, speak French and German and have a law degree. I’m quick, accurate and have no ego😁.

Every afternoon, regular as clockwork, she comes for her afternoon nap. I never know how to use my keyboard in these moments.

I get the #nokings stuff for America. Truly. But here, in the UK, if an elected ‘monarch’ decided to rip down the East Wing of Buckingham Palace there would be a peasants’ revolt.

I’ve now seen photo examples of the rampant vandalism of the East Wing of the White House and I’ve changed my mind. No longer will I hope for the actuarial tables to take their toll; I want that crass, vile mendicant (and his supplicants) to suffer in this life. Roll on the restoration of sanity.

The only thing I’m (half)sure about is that if Tumpelthinskin dies in office, so does MAGA. I’ve never rooted so hard for the actuarial tables in my life🤪.

Update: I haven’t yet found my cat (three of them are in and sheltering from the oncoming ravages of Storm Amy) but I’m now stumbling and bumbling around my garden in the winds and rain with a glass of scotch. I will find the little bugger … but I’ll have fun at the same time😜.

I don’t post often so, to those who know me, hello!

There’s a lot of shite
going on in the world. Here’s the heavens from my back door tonight at midnight - there has to be a higher power.

I just can’t listen to the fat mango Mussolini’s voice. Whatever he says… there’ll be a soupçon that’s relevant, more that isn’t and some that’s purely red meat. I, meanwhile, will try to persuade two recalcitrant cats that I’m not the antichrist. 😁

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors…

Your training, your experiences, your history, your knowledge, your lives… mandate that you should share your experiences, your learning, your understanding with the world.

Evan Rachel Wood: I’m watching the UK 3-part documentary on Manson and … I believe you. #shero You’re great - keep on being great.

New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.

Last year’s tree. I’ll be putting up 2024’s effort tomorrow. With four insane cats and a completely stupid labrador … wish me luck.

It took just one post and three replies for me to come across someone so egregiously coarse and crude that I have now made my first BlueSky block. I shall celebrate with one of my four cats, a roaring fire and a glass of red.

And … that’s two of my three Twitter accounts deactivated. The only reason the third is still active is I can’t remember the damn password. 🤷‍♂️