I’ve completely lost my voice - I can’t even whisper without triggering a coughing fit. But I’ve found the Natural Reader app is pretty good - you type or take a photo and it talks. I’ll see how dinner conversation with the kids goes. And then bedtime stories with them.
02.12.2024 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4 hours of digital queuing. Across 3 different devices. And I have... tickets to my 6 year old daughter's Christmas gymnastics show.
Worse than Glastonbury! But the upside is that given the demand on the website I could surely resell the tickets for about £1,000 each!
02.12.2024 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TRANSFER NEWS: Effective today I’ve moved from the Mayor’s Office to the Economic Growth and Regeneration Directorate at the North East Combined Authority. 3 months after the transfer window closed, or about a month before it opens, depending on how you look at it.
25.11.2024 16:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s my starter pack of North East MPs (covering the widest definition of ‘North East Englsnd’): go.bsky.app/J15BLR3
22.11.2024 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I did. I think this place works much the same as the place that shall not be named. This is public, ‘chat’ is private.
22.11.2024 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’ve attempted to make a starter pack. Here are all the Metro Mayors currently on BlueSky: go.bsky.app/7nsnpAS
21.11.2024 09:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve completed my transfer (of followers) from Slytherin to Gryffindor (that’s right, right? Never actually read the books).
So I’m ready to fly…
19.11.2024 12:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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