Sylvia Leatham

Thank you, good to know!

Reading aloud is transformative, you’re right!

She was but unfortunately the experience was ruined by a group of extremely drunk young women in the row behind us, who kept bellowing at each other about wine and also spilling said wine on us numerous times! 🥲

“Allen is flawless, hair Golightly-ed up into a glossy Tiffany’s tower” is a helluva line. 👏

Big shoes to fill Lily Allen's new live show wardrobe looked amazing and gave me The Fear.

I wrote about Lily Allen’s show in Glasgow and how her shoes made me feel things.

Wow, fantastic writing here! Such interesting points. Btw I was at Raye on Wednesday and she performed the entire show with no shoes, and boy did she own that stage!

Caveat that I too am old and was never able to wear heels (trainer generation!) so I may be anti-heel biased also.

And libraries are terrible places, giving out books for free!

Ah god! “Geribatric!” This is so lovely how they care of him.

Great advice here! I read it out loud late in editing, although this is making me think I could/should do that much earlier in the edit process. If your work is funny (or intended to be), reading it aloud is a real test of whether it truly is or not! Much of comedy is in the rhythm.

You must be able to record the whole thing in one go? Or do you do it chapter by chapter?

One step away from being Murderbot.

Hey there good folks of Ireland I am going to be all over your island with my wee island book. (By your island, I also mean my island). Please come join me at one of these lovely events #FewAndFarBetween

Yay! Not so few and far between!

💯🤣

You could abbreviate it to NWIN.

I just wrote to the council about a continually waterlogged path and I very nearly ended the email: “You may wish to note the above.” @ronanhession.bsky.social

Instead I chose the pass-agg “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Andrew Garfield tipped to star. (As long as he doesn’t have to work Mondays.)

Nice!

I imagine it probably sounds better in a Cork accent!

But I always print receipt in case I’m accused of theft!

In Aldi the machine shouts “Information needed!” at you if you try to walk away without indicating receipt/no receipt preference. I always panic and say “What now?” out loud.

Was just checking to see if anyone had said this yet! I suppose manbrella is gone too?

* Casts around lamely *

Umbrellad?

Ooh thank you! I will check these out!

Lol, good point! 🤣

Excellent work!

The only time I’m glad I wear glasses!

When Irish isles are smiling… 🎶

Whaaatttt? Ah here! I feel duped and swindled!

Is there any way to guess what that might have looked like? (I'm halfway through your asteroid book so let me know if the answer is in there!)

Aha! Robin, you may have just given me inspiration for how to end my current work-in-progress novel (spoiler alert)!

And if the Ai therapist disagrees with the human one, but the patient prefers the Ai one… Total minefield.

I have heard of a positive use for Ai in healthcare, using it to get patients with different languages booked in to see GPs without having to speak to a human.

What did they dress as?

My school not doing it this year, hallelujah! Although maybe bringing in a book would have been nice.

My idea would be to make it a pyjamas + book day at school.