Louise Atkinson

Yesterday, I was one of 81,000 fans at Twickenham Stadium watching the Women’s Rugby World Cup final. The Canadian team, who played brilliantly and even had the tournament’s best player on their squad, had to crowdfund just to make it there. Start 👏 funding 👏 women’s 👏 sport 👏

This man's head seems to double as a mini roundabout

I'm sorry, why is there not more conversation about the fact that Greggs is opening it's first pub this weekend called 'The Golden Flake Tavern' and on one of its sharing platters it lists a sausage roll as *checks notes* a garnish...

Part of my ADHD is vocal stimming — I’ll randomly interrupt myself mid-sentence to blurt half a movie quote. If you don’t catch it, you usually back away slowly. My dream? That one day I’ll stim-quote, and someone instantly replies with the other half. My perfect match. An ADHD Cinderella moment.

Like so many the phrase of lefty loosey, righty tighty is one of the most useful helpful tips I have ever learned and I wish adulthood came with more of those. Like…
“Left is sweaty, right is regretty” for the thermostat.
"Breif is relief, long is wrong" for office meetings.
This kind of thing

Every autumn, pumpkins turn into the Regina George of root vegetables: "I love your latte, where did you get it". They’re everywhere, they’re in everything, and somehow we’ve all just accepted it. Meanwhile, turnips are at the mathletes table waiting for their moment

If it could be a Yorkshire hybrid I.e. gravy powered, Yorkshire pudding wheels, I'd really appreciate it. Ta 👍

Me: northerners aren’t just walking clichés.

Also me: burned my arm getting a pie out of the oven

I'll just go get my flat cap and use my gravy powered car to get to the whippet race. State of it

There are some times when I think my days, the Internet is a horrid place and should be burned. Then there are times like today, when my social media tells me it's the national ploughing championships in Ireland and there is a brown bead baking competition and then I'm happy again.

Peak UK laundry struggle season: too chilly for clothes to dry outside, too mild to justify putting the heating on and stuffing knickers down the side of the radiator to dry. Basically all Brits will be damp from now until November.

This is what I shouted back, as I ran out the store with my many gold bars

If anyone was wondering just how pale and ginger I look, I walked into a corner shop just now and without me opening my mouth the man by the till said "the Irish section is down here". So, just left with 7 blocks of kerry gold to not embarrass myself

Seems to be a trend of people calling recipes things like "marry me chicken" or "engagement beans" for cooking to impress your partner, and I would just like to see the alternatives for break up foods - "restraining order risotto" or "its not you its meat pie" this kind of thing

Joined the air fryer community.
Didn't know what to do. Panicked. Now dehydrating a banana for 8 hours

*me 4 years after watching Marie Kondo*

Where is that thing? Why can't I find it? Oh FFS I chucked it out. Why did I chuck it out? Oh, so I could have more joy...narrator: but 4 years on, she did not in fact have more joy.

Thank you. Maybe your soups be hearty and your knitwear snuggly

I just want to wear knitwear, and make soup. When will this tortuous summer end!?!?!?!?!?

And that is ok. I respect that some of you have to be wrong so I can be right....it is life's balance

I think it's so strange that I believe the green fruit pastles and the green Starbursts are the best flavour and the rest of you...are wrong.
So weird

If he was wearing a nacho hat, or a bald eagle, this could be the most American man I've ever seen.

Applaud the red, white and blue beard, what dedication 👏

#rwc2025

*me waving a tube of Smarties and 3 glasses of wine down*

LET'S GO GIRLS

*Shania Twain kick - wine glass smashed*

#rwc2025

Niche request: Podcasts should include a warning or offer the option to mute sound effects like car horns or sirens when listening while driving. I just shat myself on the M1 looking for a non-existent ambulance, to the extent I nearly needed a real one myself

I've just brushed my teeth and forgot I had a cup of tea waiting and, honestly, I know there is a lot of stuff going on right now, but this really is the most horrific thing to happen to anyone today I reckon

People think feminists hate men and we don’t, we’re just...cautious. A feminist to men is kind of like how diabetics are to sugar; diabetics don't hate sugar, they love sugar, but allowing the wrong kind into their body can be fatal....same with feminists and men

And for today's ADHD lunch it was 1/3 of a quiche, a handful of Cheerios amd a yogurt that I thought would be find 3 days after it's expiry, but I can only describe as "fizzy"

The fiercest kind of loyalty is when a woman finally finds her hairdresser.

Once she’s found the one, that stylist could say “I’m relocating to Outer Mongolia” and her only response would be: “Cool, will you still have space at 2:30pm on Tuesday in six weeks time? May be late due to air traffic

What I’m about to confess is honestly pretty embarrassing, but as of today, I’ve finally added Celine Dion to my cleaning playlist.
A great wrong has been fixed. The list is now...
Whitney
ABBA
Westlife
Destiny's Child
Celine
Master of Puppets for anything that requires high levels of scrubbing

Look, all I’m saying is, if we’re already putting up giant screens for the football and tennis in public spaces, is it really too much to ask that we leave them up until October and we all gather for a moonlit public viewing of Practical Magic and have a large margarita party in our best knitwear?

Because the heatwave continues in the UK, I can’t bring myself to switch on a single appliance; don’t want to risk adding even a degree more heat. So lunch today was two Dairylea slices, some packet ham, and a cider. It's called survival mode.

Not sure which poor soul WFH in the UK needs this today, but pro tip: wrap an ice pack in a tea towel and stick it under your laptop. It'll stop you feeling like you're melting in the lava of Pompeii while drafting that email to Kate in accounts