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If you ordered smashed avocado on toast in a café, would you assume it would be actual avocado? I’ve just been served the sort of green slop that comes in a squeezy bottle and I can’t decide if my expectations were too high 😆

Here’s a conundrum: my 16 year old leap-day twins want to start driving lessons as soon as they turn 17… but will that be Feb 28th or March 1st? I phoned DVLA and they were a bit stumped 😆

Winter in a house with ‘character’…

Snow day = stay at home and read a book day, no? ❄️

Is there a single TV/film app where you say what streaming platforms you have and it tells you everything you could watch? Because otherwise I fear I will be trapped in a Netflix/Disney/Prime/Paramount/BBC etc scroll loop until I die

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you’re doing now.

1. Plant waterer
2. Cigarette packer
3. Waitress
4. Receptionist
5. Office temp
6. Bilingual P.A.
7. Police Officer

Sure there are things I’m meant to be doing today but the newest @claremackwrites.bsky.social #ffionmorgan is calling my name - such a brilliant series and #otherpeopleshouses is another winner.

Staffing Santa’s grotto at the school fayre. I guess I should be relieved they couldn’t find an elf costume. Anyway, it is altogether *too early* for the C word imho

Watching one of my favourite 90s films, Jack & Sarah, and sobbing as much as I did the first time I watched it. Imogen Stubbs, Richard E Grant, Judy Dench, Ian McKellan… amazing cast! @itvx.bsky.social

I joined the gym today and I already regret it

I have opened all 24 doors on my Bird & Blend tea advent calendar so I can choose what to drink each day. How do we feel about this? Totally practical, or absolute savagery?

OMG there is a woman next to me in the hairdressing salon reading one of my books - do I say hello? Offer to sign it? Keep quiet? What would you do?

Nothing makes me feel more like an adult who has their shit together than when I bleed the radiators 💪🏼

Fully funded writer residencies in Dorset. Please share

Well hello! What’s everyone reading? I’m halfway through #EyeForAnEye by MJ Arlidge and GRIPPED