It's incredibly prevalent in adults who are struggling. Those people often have complex, overlapping issues that most support is only looking at one aspect of. V.Frustrating.

Our work supporting adults with basic digital skills includes a lot of service-users referred from recovery, homelessness, poverty, worklessness etc local support.
All our staff are neurodiverse and they recognise immediately when those service-users have neurodiverse traits.

Blessed are the cheesemakers??

By having neither cats, nor Christmas trees. We find this extremely effective. Not helpful?

Also, from my experience with young people at @techresort.bsky.social , employers very risk-averse to taking on young people with no paid work track record. As a result youngsters fall into the no-experience-no-work/no-work-no-experience trap

One of the tiny pubs in Bristol, I've seen the landlord intervene and ask hoggers to 'let other people sit down'. Hearty approval of this

Elements - really engaging (albeit about 10 years old) chemistry podcasts with Justin Rowlatt and Andrea Sela

Can also recommend leftover fish pie used as toast-toppers on sourdough toast. That was this week's revelation for me.

Mostly Chaotic Evil with my own books. Typically Chaotic Good with other people's.
A previous partner would dispute the Chaotic Evil stance because he always said he liked to see at what point a previous reader had paused - I liked that.

Hahahahahahaha! Fantastic, thank you

Unintended consquences: ex-ministers are dis-incentivised from seeking another position.
Perhaps requiring them to complete a "journal" demonstrating that they are seeking alternative positions, undertaking training or volunteering and reporting to a job coach on a regular basis could help?

Barley Mow or Little Martha are very convenient places to recover from travel. Martha also having a convenient pasty-annexe until 3pm

I wonder when the press will make it about another wave of defections to "Our Lady of the We don't like women in ministry". I'm an atheist, and I get tired of it...

If he does go to church, sounds awfully like he's not actually listening to what's being said...

Catholic Cathedral also a thing of loveliness - Cathedral Church of SS Peter and Paul

Oh! and the phone picked up a LOT quicker than expected. Still no resolution as such but I am armed with a few more facts, at least.