Safe to say the book wasn’t what I’d expected! It’s brilliantly written (the silences/gaps in the narrative do a lot of talking) - it just left me feeling life is futile…

The house I grew up in is for sale and I can see they’ve put chunky black sliding doors into a 17th-century cottage 😭😭😭

Just finished Flesh by David Szalay (won the Booker, effort to be cultured). Good but depressing!

Do they chat to you, though? Sometimes I wonder if following me is just some baffling kind of statement of something – 'I follow an English poet'

That’s hilarious 😂. Hope the flat was nice! (And I’m relieved it wasn’t anything more sinister and I wasn’t cheering on some felony 😁)

It was such a relief for me when I could stop obfuscating around Santa Claus.

I also have an inhibiting sense of integrity. Good luck!

Yes. Most innovations will need finessing once they're actually out in the world, but it's just such high stakes with AI.

Ha. It happens so fast though. My youngest teen can't compute life without a smartphone. 'What am I supposed to do?' they ask if they don't have access to it for twenty minutes. Chilling. The generation of primary school kids who were forced online during Covid consider that the default. AI next.

I think the worst bit is knowing that in years to come we’ll wonder how people ever used to manage to stay married without WhatsApp’s relationship advice to turn to… LOLSOB

Gladly!

Accessible, wry, uplifting, occasionally laugh-out-loud short poems for anyone who’s ever felt lonely or fatigued or needs a boost 💛🩵😅

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/189958782...

It’s so hard, and so difficult to explain to people who haven’t experienced it.