ugh. much sleepier and in more pain today than yesterday (seems unfair??) hit me up with your favourite fun things to watch that are maybe no more than 30 mins long I like sewing bee, talking parrots, Bronze Age civilisations, stationery unboxing, cricket highlights, all the usual things

good morning PSA don’t sleep through your oxycodone evening slot

also delighted that they have put Mark Wood on the Hundred coverage for me specially

I am most charmed by my own personal sharps bin

I am HOME with my qualified nursing staff. Specialist skills: inspection and look of concern respectively

now with added technology

apparently I am now a person who drinks tea, no milk, one sugar. before they put me to sleep yesterday I did not drink tea at all.

there is an In Our Time for every occasion (eg sleepless in hospital at 3am)

came out of anaesthesia and accused two separate people of being Nicholas Pooran 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m sure my actual knee surgery will be the worse but right now not having eaten for nine hours and also being out in public with bare toenails is definitely the worst

some kind of truce on the dark side of the fan

end of an era (end of a parkrun tourism streak)

good morning Ottershaw!

early #ConfinedCocktails (#ConfinedMocktails) with @toastteacake.bsky.social - a YSL and a Punch Story (no I don’t know either)

Penny checking my phone to see where her birthday messages are

disappointing to be at the receiving end of this but Ben Coad’s figures 👀

oh look here is my salted pineapple ice cr… 😭😭😭

planning on having salted pineapple ice cream in Bloomsbury about 5.30 tomorrow to celebrate what is possibly my last day in town for x months if anyone would like to join (other flavours are available)

of course the most important pre-surgery prep is making sure that my volunteers don’t get any rest

fyi potential customers of this nonsensical company – nobody is "already inside" unless you're hiring the archivist. everyone has to make an appointment and email the, uh, "registrar"

Bryony Hooper@bryonyhooper.bsky.social · last wk.

The NRA archive listserv has an advert for a research service. That's fine (if there is a need, someone will monetise delivering it). I just find the company a bit "funny" as it A. Insults the archive services its business model relies on (archives don't respond to enquiries apparently)

can’t: sleep can: assemble quality midnight snacks seeded baguette • mascarpone • roasted apricot • honey • maldon • pine nut • kashmiri chilli

one of my colleagues has mice in her flat and it has just taken all of our willpower to talk us out of Malka going on a 1.5 hour journey across London to have the time of her life

you can now type “small pig” into our archive catalogue and receive this “5 c pigge” (actually from 1849), accompanying St Anthony (his top label says “thys bee 5 c scapular”, in case you’re wondering) [SAL/01/03/014/077]

in addition to soon only having one functional leg, I also only have one useable hand

almost completely forgot to post some of the highlights of King’s Lynn with @girlinthe.bsky.social from yesterday. details in alt text!

T-1 week for any last minute recommendations

Kat@byekitty.bsky.social · 4w ago

if you had 3.5 weeks to prep stuff before knee surgery which will take you out of action for ~2-3 months - what’s on your to do list? (not hypothetical 😬 surgery scheduled for 3 August)

@jamesvt.bsky.social

I am on the train to Lynn and second this request for recommendations

Katie Birkwood@girlinthe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyone have any coffee/ice cream/lunch recommendations for Kings Lynn?

fyi someone is reading all your emails

drinking miso caramel matcha latte so you don’t have to 👎