Dr Nicola Clark

Did I?! I don't remember 😂

Haha I do occasionally sell some when the basket overflows!

Oh good shout!

Hmm so I usually make little knitted animals but also have a bigger 'knit in straight lines' project on the go as well. It's the latter I'm after at the mo but that's a great suggestion for next time the animals pall

I need a new knitting project. Nobody close to me seems to need anything knitted for them but I have so many jumpers already 😂

I know me too! But I thought it was cool that apparently it was already an idiom in 1538

He was writing to Cromwell asking to update his will because he was worth less than when it was written - can't have your cake and eat it, apparently.

Embroidery with a blackwork border and words in the middle saying 'A man cannot haue his cake and eate his cake', a phrase from a letter by Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, in 1538

OMG. Was fishing for the button box and found another box I thought I'd lost. More things to frame for the new house 😁

The average waiting list time in West Wales for an ADHD dx is anecdotally estimated to be 55 years. But sure, Wes, any distraction from the fact doctors are about to go on strike again eh?

NYT spelling bee game showing 'yeeted' is not in their word list

Keep up, NYT

Same same. Won't somebody think of the sensory issues 😂

'honey oak' flooring going down in hallway

We gots floor 😍

Anyone replaced their front door lately? Where's a good place to go? Based in south-west London if that makes a difference.

we could do with a few more vice-chancellors making this case in the UK

Today, still on voice rest, I think the second round of antibiotics is helping? I think? A good time for some peer review and a shoe clearout because things are getting ridiculous in the shoe cupboard.

Ooh and I haven't shared any house reno stuff in a while, because neither I nor the builders were there for a bit (illness in tandem). This weekend I promise!

If I can't talk and therefore can't teach (tonsillitis) I shall at least start Christmas

Picture advent calendar showing a snowy Victorian village

Three tiny knitted stockings pinned up on a bookshelf above a bowl of red baubles

Little wooden German snowman with beads on string for legs, perched on top of the TV

Money tree draped in red tinsel

Feeling festive! Happy advent 😊

Still tonsillitis. Improved but not gone, as I thought. Another week's antibiotics, another week's cancelled classes because I was warned if I use my voice too much it'll flare and all take longer. So bored of this.

Plague plague tonsillitis plague. You know it's not good when the doctor takes one look at your throat and says 'oo yeah'. I am the joyful recipient of a course of penicillin and under orders to rest yet more 🙄🙄🙄

What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.

And yet it isn't covid 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Ears ringing. Golf ball, apparently, in throat on right hand side. Hedgehog in lungs. Today gets a no from me.

oh no now look what you've done 😂

I guess there is also the fact that the space around me has a genuinely huge effect on how I feel, and so I'm basically decorating with my autism lens on?! Which means not too many things screaming at one another or I will literally hear screaming.

Hahahaha oh god. Yes. It hasn't happened *yet*....

*Obviously* it doesn't matter what sort of bloody curtain poles I put up so long as they hold curtains. And yet I do still have to pick something. It's a fine line between, this is pretentious and daft now, and oh yay I get to choose a thing.

I often find myself torn with house stuff because it's such first world problems and none of it really matters does it. It's such epic privilege to do a renovation.

Horribly full of cold AGAIN. Researching house stuff instead of working. Who knew there were so many kinds of curtain pole.

Who's that actor you like again 😜