Maxine Roper just moved here

David, Ruth and Stella are going to do polyamory, aren't they #TheArchers (after the harvest, obvs, no time for that now)

just been camping for the first time in my life and i have some valuable camping advice: take everything with you. Everything in your house. Take your whole house with you and live in it. Live inside your house, at home. Stay at home, living in your house with everything in your house.

Oh no! Commiserations on the weather, I think we just caught the tail end of the storm!

Apparently, if you have your cataracts done* you’re temporarily not allowed to stroke cats. Horror!

(*no, not me, my eyesight’s not that bad yet…)

Today, I am reminded of my Barnsley friend Glenn, who, when unable to recall the name of the “me too” movement because of a few light shandies, called it “thee n’all.”

‘Appy Yerkshire day, tha daft bamcakes.

#YorkshireDay

Screenshot of a writer quote: “Most agents turned it down until my agent, Gemma, said ‘well this is a mess but I can fix it.’ “

Hello, my fiction needs a Gemma…

Missed the England game but this is worth reiterating right now I think…

Watching women’s football with my German aunty who’s over visiting and it makes me happy because she was here for those godawful front pages during Euro 96.

I loved the girlband sketch so much!

Hannah Maguire: 'I grieved for my unmedicated self' | 16 How Do You Cope? · Episode

This. Just, all of it. open.spotify.com/episode/4fNH...

If my 13 year-old self could see Space and Republica playing in the field behind my granny’s house…

Someone please do a voiceover webinar on how wearing studio headphones all day flattens you hair

"Checkmate" is from the Arabic "shah mat," meaning "the king is helpless."

#etymology

The truth about anniversaries Not this again.

Six years ago today my best friend died suddenly and those of us left behind have been trying to make sense of it ever since. So I wrote about where I’m at now.

Remembering that time in 8th grade when I wrote a letter to Roald Dahl telling him he was one of my favorite authors and got a really nice letter back from his publishing company informing me Roald Dahl has been dead since before I was born

*hopes I’m not writing this on divorce papers one day*

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Caught a snatch of TOTP 1979 last night. Quite a week to hear the original of ‘Can’t Stand Losing You’ by The Police for the first time and not the cover by Feeder where they changed some of the more direct lyrics…

Or RAMO. Been a long day…

I was offered a ticket to see Salt Path and couldn’t go and now I have whatever the complete opposite of FOMO is. Relief at missing out? Yes, that’s it. ROMO!

Wow! Autistic woman who struggles to read a room manages not to sexually harass people Despite having an autism diagnosis, a woman has survived a whole lifetime without sexually harassing anybody in the workplace, it has been reported. Emma Bernard, 33, from Ancoats, finds it difficult ...

Emma Bernard, 33, from Ancoats, finds it difficult to decipher social situations at the best of times – yet has mysteriously managed to last three entire decades without playfully spanking a colleague.

Went to sort some mic stand trouble and the man in the music shop asked if I was a singer. Good to know my rendition of ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ gave him that idea.

I don’t struggle with these things so much these days because of - spoiler - appropriate, qualified help!

“I chronically struggled to manage my time and attention, but then I realised there’s no treatment better than Straight Talking Sid from Montana telling me to grow up and stop being a baby.” Said nobody whatsoever.

Brought to you by “I happily went online looking for advice on a niche business topic and am now being blasted with videos by shouty marketing gurus ‘telling it like it is.’”

Business idea: A coaching business for neurotypical people on how NOT to be a business marketing coach in an industry where probably a good 50% of people are neurodivergent and/or disabled.

The 6 biggest questions about adult ADHD, answered by a neuroscientist | BBC Science Focus Magazine ADHD diagnosis has risen in recent years, particularly among adults. But we need to improve how we view and treat it.

The 6 biggest questions about adult ADHD, answered by a neuroscientist

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The reality of living with ADHD and what it means, but those who do just that, and have done for years

#ADHD #Brains #Neurodiversity

Oooffff it’s warm. If you see a cat on the street please review your fussing experience with us but also make sure the sweet baby angel has some shade and access to water. CATS FOREVER.

Weekend: Polite graffiti. Hot London…