Alice Lilly

Been trying to write a couple of things over the weekend and was wondering why I was finding it even harder than normal. Realised it’s because* I haven’t really written anything since I went on mat leave over a year ago!

*Could also be that I’m just useless at writing

An all-time favourite Christmas recipe that makes delicious gifts!

Also Verstappen is being nothing other than friendly and warm and classy here, fair play to him

Lando Norris’s mum giving Oscar Piastri a hug is very wholesome

Counterpoint: imagine how upset Red Bull would be

Funniest possible outcome here is that Leclerc gets past Norris, pushes him into fourth, and then gets disqualified for excessive plank wear after the race

Lando ain’t messing around

Very stressful, this

Very stressful!!! #F1

This letter from former Cabinet Secretaries and others is straightforwardly wrong regarding the constitutional role of the House of Lords relative to the role of the Commons. /1

Leclerc has the inside line
Perez goes off the track, cuts the chicane
Off goes Leclerc

Through. Goes. Hamilton!

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

Turns out Popes can be fallible

The good news: England are batting!

The bad news: England are batting

At this stage Mark Carney must be asking himself if it’s all been worth it

To be fair that turned out to be the smallest problem with this particular musical act

‘Do you think in this massive televised spectacle that is the World Cup draw we should have a subtle or non-visible way of setting up a band on stage while the hosts are talking, something that fundamentally would be quite easy to do?’

‘Nah’

Courtesy of FIFA it really may be time to deploy the phrase:

game’s gone

FIFA World Cup draw planning meeting:
- right, so what would make a good World Cup draw?
- so obviously we need to draw the teams into gr-
-PEACE PRIZE
- or we could draw the tea-
- INEXPLICABLE ROBBIE WILLIAMS
- what if we drew th-
- a two hour show before we do anything else

Reads: Not been much to keep Jane up to date with really. We think the draw will properly start soon although there is a Spanish language interview happening right now. And I only did Spanish for one year at school. And they're not counting to 10 or asking where the library is so I'm lost.

Reads: "That will be a song for the summer," says presenter Kevin Hart about the thing Robbie Williams and Nicole Scherzinger sang.

I’m enjoying how fed up the bbc live page is starting to sound

Buster Bluth from Arrested Development holding his stuffed toys and saying these are my awards, mother, from FIFA

FIFA Peace Prize may be one of the funniest concepts ever invented, absolutely incredible

(I mean it's worth a go, isn't it?)

Reckon it might be about time for a couple of wickets, fellas

This coming five minutes after the singing and describing the field as “half pregnant”: incredible scenes

Heh heh heh

Steve Smith: I am really annoying

Marnus Labuschagne: hold my bat

Very confused to turn on TMS and hear… singing

Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles NHS bosses warn the public to use hospitals wisely amid concern this could be a tough winter.

The 'clogging up' of A+Es is not due to the 2% of people coming to ED with this quite arbitrary list of conditions. The main reason they're clogged is poor flow through hospitals!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Teachable moment this, going to use Harry Brook to explain to the toddler that she shouldn’t play reverse scoops early on in an innings