Listening to Chicago by Sufjan Stevens when a little voice pipes up from the back seat: ‘Houses don’t go… they would need wheels on them.’ (He has a point.)

Every day I clean whole house, but every day whole is messy once again. Will investigate.

Village life is sitting with some childminders at a playgroup having a nice chat until they start blaming someone not getting a school place on ‘all these immigrants’. 😒

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

—me, eating a burrito

Our incumbent County Councillor (Tory) was telling people ‘Vote Labour, get Reform.’ and he wasn’t wrong. 😢

The school have asked H. to bring in food packaging from ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods tomorrow, so I’m going to have to unteach some diet culture BS later this week. 😠

I’d earmarked my summer marking money for patio furniture, but now I’m tempted to blow some of it on a Switch2, because I’m 33 and can do what I like. 🙈

Identifying the motivations of the speaker? Evaluating the source and strength of the evidence? Critically considering logic, emotion, tools of construction, platform, bias? Evaluating timing, power dynamics, context, allusion, implication, tactics of audience manipulation? Yeah we cover that lol

Good morning from my kiddo's kindergarten worksheet.

H. made a Mother’s Day card at school last week, and hid it so well that he can’t find it. Like mother, like son. 🥺😂

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When you think you’ve been generous to yourself, and it still comes out like this. 🫠

Pirate Calico Jack of Octonauts is NOT a calico patterned cat. FURTHERMORE, calico cats are almost always female and if they ARE male, they are infertile, meaning he COULD NOT be Kwazii’s grandfather. In this essay I will…

It doesn’t matter how many screen free activities we do and how much time we spend outdoors in the morning, I still feel like a bad mum when E. watches a load of telly in the afternoon while I do jobs/have a sit.

Absolutely this!

“Oh, so I suppose EVERYONE else at Train Club is autistic too? Come off it!”

Kids’ books are something else. 😳

I’m here, with the same stupid Radiohead reference I wrote in 2009 because I didn’t want to steal someone else’s username. How do I find people?