Lucyfer

Sending out the bat signal that, if you want a sexy, irreverent Regency Romp written by yours truly, then the entire first book is available to read, for free, online, and the second one is starting next week.

Just give @earlofforthenby.bsky.social a follow for updates. 💜

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(The next time we visit will you teach me how to cross stitch please?)

Yes?? I spend so much time, almost every morning, wondering how much easier my life would be if only I was a Morning Person. But ALAS.

We are both sick, send chocolate.

So much this? My natural sleep pattern is not quite as nocturnal as it was in my 20s, but I still *detest* rising before 8am (and even that is pushing it, some days.)

I am supposed to be resting my wrists. Which means mostly sitting still and not doing anything that I would usually do.

I am... not good at it.

How lovely to discover! There's a lovely mature rowan in my garden too, but it might be too tall to reach the berries - I'll have to go and see if any are low enough tomorrow!

One kind is easier to explain the taxonomy/ontology/knowledge graph divide to than the other 😂

In my experience, there are consultants who are experts in their field and whose time is spent helping non-experts navigate whatever their specialism is.

Then there are also consultants whose entire jobs seem to consist of booking meetings 😂

I grew up in a house called The Rowans - which, unsurprisingly, has many rowan trees - and I had no idea!

WAIT.

YOU CAN COOK WITH ROWAN BERRIES??

Until about a month ago I'd never listened to The Black Parade.

(I knew most of the songs! I'd just never listened to them in the right order!)

Not that it takes priority over opposing genocide (nor is it entirely separate from it either) but Pride is also a frequent, repeated protest on the same issue.

Hugh, I would find this so funny if this wasn't *exactly* the sort of thing a consultancy firm would, with absolute sincerity, ask us to do.

(Truly, it is only a matter of time.)

Attacked in the shower by a daddy long legs. AGAIN.

(Mostly because I have not yet had DINNER.)

We went out for COCKTAILS. I am TIPSY.

Congratulations!

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Do not sign up for digital ID. Do not comply. Make this shit unworkable

"For clarity, it will not be a criminal offence to not hold a digital ID and police will not be able to demand to see a digital ID as part of a “stop and search.”

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

Keep the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds trans-inclusive: hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

We had two single sockets in the living room. We asked the electricians to replace them both with doubles, so we'd have four sockets instead.

They clearly took one look at how many devices we have and gave us eight instead 😆

It seems to be one of those weeks where just nothing happens when it's supposed to? Someone at work today also turned up at our office a whole day early for a meeting. I think space and time may have become slightly misaligned.

Today, the courier has delivered *half* of the (flatpack) dresser.

I am so confused.

On Sunday I ordered a dresser from Debenhams. On Monday they sent me a tracking code but no information on where to use it. Yesterday after much back and forth they finally told me which courier was bringing it, and it turned out they were intending to deliver today, so I changed it to Friday.

So discombobulated by this morning and by Having Strangers In My House that I may have a small meltdown, as a treat.

Reading an article this morning on the Elordi casting where Fennell defends the Elordi casting on questions of age and race as 'he looked like the Heathcliff ilustration'in her teenage copy. Her response to the book, she says, was 'primal, sexual' 1/

But on the plus side, by tonight we should finally have a shower with a bit more power than a leaky tap!

This morning we had to rush clear a bedroom in our house (that was FULL of stuff) because the electricians turned up 3 hours early, and to do a different job than we thought they were doing 🙃