Dr Joanna Nadin

I can see that. Or hear it. Great accent, deep tones, soporific, references to obscure economists. Win.

I falute low

Bows. The centre is always hard.

1. Agree. 2. Hard agree. It’s stopped me wanting to kill people / die although the T was wild at first. I was low key angry at everything all the time. Now I just have a super hairy thigh patch.

NASA CONFIRMS EARTH NOW HAS TWO MOONS UNTIL 2083. Discovered this year but traveling with us since the 1960s, the small asteroid will drift away in 2083.

This is a Pixar movie. The little moon (Sabrina Carpenter) comes in to work-shadow the veteran actual moon (Meryl Streep). Streep is grumpy about it for the film’s first thirty mins. But by the end they’re inseparable and when 2083 comes we cry. While also learning about the need to let someone go.

ok but that's not how bread works

I don’t really know who I’m saying this to but around 1/3 of the proofs I agree to read never actually arrive so maybe if you’re a writer thinking another writer hated your book and didn’t want to blurb it, it’s just that they never received a copy

Ha! But also:

Journalists: what's the fee?

Academics: let me have the privilege of sharing a lifetime's knowledge and insight for free

The Velocipastor (film precis): After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. Although he is horrified by the new power, a sex worker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.

Constantly staggered that we haven’t just hit the ‘Monkey Tennis’ level of commissioning, but long since jumped it. I present: The Velocipastor.

Oh I can well imagine. Solidarity

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Ah yes. I was invited to ‘meet *** *** tonight’ by our mutual publisher which I assume is a big press junket. Funny how none of the rest of us get this. Or even a publicist at our events.

Ok. But are there any downsides?

every headline after 2022 that mentions the Queen should be legally have to have "(no not that one)" after it

Really hoped this would be, like, "Satan" and "Witches" or even "Popish conspiracies" but turns out to just be "reconciling the worldwide anglican communion" as you were

Signed books for my first ever Aslan and Arrietty today, and I have serious name jealousy.

Chaotic evil

em/en dash explainer – EN DASH – (in UK English, typically used as brackets or commas) — EM DASH — (in UK English, used to indicate interrupted speech, with no space before it) And then there’s the little - hyphen - (used for compound words)

Really tired of people pronouncing on em dashes when they can’t even identify one.

This is where it gets complicated. Are the clothes invisible? Murder weapons? I think if your skin is touching it then yes.

You have the power of invisibility. How do you use it to get rich?

Ideas so far include:
- become hired assassin (but only on evil people)
- read answers for Who Wants to Be A Millionaire in advance
- steal scratch cards

(offloading hard cash/learning what bitcoin is seem harder than murder)

I love Taylor but this is depressing evidence that Matty Healy is more inspiring than Travis Kelce. (Or that Aaron Dessner is a way better producer. Or that heartbreak has the best songs bar Cure’s Friday I’m In Love.)

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

The orchestra tuning up - never not brimming with excitement. Gorgeous.

Walker attacks The Hate U Give ban BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

In an open letter, Walker Books 'is concerned to see the latest developments in Weymouth, particularly given the extreme reality of book banning in the US. We must ask ourselves is this the beginning of something, and what comes next?'
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As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

The commitment to it. He’s loving it. Unlike Noakes who is awkward as hell.

I thinking I now fancy Peter Purves

There is a...magnificence...to this