My granny was very proud of making gravy from scratch but one year my mum and aunty asked her for it and she'd made about a drinking glass full for 9 people. Mum and aunty had to stretch it out with bisto. For yesterday granny talked about how lovely that gravy she made was.

My uncle got asked to do the shopping for Xmas one year and then turned up at my granny's house on Xmas eve with a few bags of frozen vegetables and a deep frozen turkey

me watching the uk try to figure out how to ban trans people from bathrooms without inconveniencing any cis people

But yeah. You want to seize family heirlooms from vulnerable people? To ‘pay their costs’? Where have I heard that before? Darker forces indeed.

What did you think of Wide Sargasso Sea, if you've read it? I felt like it gifted a lot of depth to Jane Eyre - I reread it right after reading WSS and I enjoyed it a lot more