Breastfeeding in a pub full of Millwall fans ✔️

Signed off an email with ‘all the armrests’.

Up til 2am terrified at Trump’s nuclear threat, followed by dream of sharing crudités with Jacob Elordi.

My disco auntie was so excited to meet the baby for the first time that People from Ibiza poured out of her before she could stop herself.

I can say it now that it’s gone, I had a Wikipedia page for 3 months in 2025, before its author was deemed a controversial user and it was taken down. No it wasn’t me.

Just seen Pete Townshend tenderly regarding busker doing rendition of Robyn’s Dancing on My Own for voice and guitar in Trafalgar Sq.

Missed a trick not calling my son Quokka as a middle name.

Excellent round-up of small press leaders on the current crisis, interviewed by @lucymercer.bsky.social @twoseriousladies.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including my publisher @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social lithub.com/life-giving-...

Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis

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Are you even a translator if you haven’t partaken in a Found in Translation panel discussion.

Caught Francesco addressing the baby as Slavoj Zizek. This is getting out of hand.

Down n out in Pisa and Livorno.

Two of the nicknames we have found ourselves using for the baby are Google and Vevo.

Made a start on the baby’s Halloween costume.

Arcane Millennial motherhood is soothing your son to the Duck Tales theme tune.

Had not foreseen the baby would be such a Sinatra stan.

The Bible warns you about bringing forth children in pain, but mentions nothing about having to suck the snot out of their nose with a thin tube.

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The more ungenerous a contemporary novelist is the better the reviews.

Partner says the baby looks like Pope Leo XIV.

My son’s hunger cue is Beavis laugh.

Logged back into Facebook for a hot second and I’m getting friendship suggestions for both Faris from The Cribs and Gad Lerner.

Dream that Eddie Vedder was playing saxophone in a mall in Canada but the stair system was really complicated so when I got there his slot has ended but he told me everything about this ‘star wrap’ he was imminently planning to order from KFC.

Between Oasis stans and Lana fans I’m no longer sure I have any true friends.

Nobody talks about how Gilles Deleuze and Christopher Lloyd are played by the same actor.

The British urge to misspell ‘definitely’ as ‘defiantly’.

The man got back home by breaking the glass with his elbow. He tidied the tables made a coffee for the women asleep in the corner. ⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑ circumferencemag.com/five-apartme...

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Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini

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Dream I dated Mark E. Smith and he made me peaches and cream and set alight a bottle of sage green nail polish inside an empty packet of pickled onion Monster Munch in an underground parking lot to impress me.

To think we’re sending Katy Perry to space but couldn’t come up with a better invention against rain than the humble umbrella.