my local Puregym toilets at 9am on a Sunday. This is what happens when you close down provincial nightclubs.
Heidi Temple-Stephens
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Had lunch at my mum’s today and she showed me their emergency food cupboard. I was quite impressed. Beans, tuna, sardines, passata. Sensible quantities of everything you might need to see out a short-term national emergency. Reader, this was not the emergency food cupboard.
today's Connections has introduced me to the concept of a Catio. As a not-cat person, I was entirely unaware that catios are A Thing.
Shocked Surprised
ALT: Shocked Surprised
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Once again, Instagram is serving me ads for crap I inexplicably need.
so is everyone on Vinted just making pictures of AI models wearing their old clothes now, or do you all have glorious hair and perfectly lit bedrooms?
My dog took her dog for a walk and she was extremely happy about it.
cleansing your timeline with some mindful pottering down the Seine this morning.
as rivers go, the Seine between Paris and Rouen is really very nice.
never seen this flavour in UK, bought in a supermarket in France. Tastes like a really fancy, grown up Feast lolly, 10/10.
Can we just have like, A WEEK when dramatic shit isn't happening.
strongly recommend marrying a man whose brother married a woman whose family have a lovely house in Normandy 🇫🇷
just seen this on one of the mad local Facebook communities. I'm not sure the women of Cheltenham needed the warning TBH.
Another super-embarrassing day to be an American, I see. It's been like that for Brits for YEARS, so welcome.
last day in my current job today, which was mostly a long lunch with my favourite people. Cheerio South Bank - have a few weeks off, then a new job over there
this week's You Be The Judge is all kinds of Absolutely Not, festooned with bunting made of red flags. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
You be the judge: should my partner stop eating off other people’s plates?
Helen says grabbing friends’ leftovers is a no-no. Bill thinks wasting food is wrong. You decide who should eat their words
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PSA: bring a jumper if you're getting on the Elizabeth Line today, it's colder than a penguin's chuff.
rain in North Wilts is BIBLICAL this morning, train platform full of teens off to Reading Festival, already looking like drowned rats. Character building stuff.
Look, all this news is terrible BUT if we're losing 80-year-olds in groups of three the third might be Trump and maybe it will be worth it.
Guys I just did my tax return and discovered that HMRC owe me £1500. Quick, do yours!
On a visit to Ventry in the west Kerry Gaeltacht in 1990, Dolly Parton gives an impromptu performance in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub. Accompanied by Steve Cooney on guitar. What a woman. #DollyParton #RIPDolly youtu.be/NqdKrv1Vh-g
Coat of Many Colours - Dolly Parton, Ireland 1990
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Sunday night PSA: my new romcom (number 8!) is out on 29th September and you can pre-order it from all the usual places. If you'd like a signed copy, it's on the @bertsbooks.bsky.social website!
while we're banning phone speakers on public transport, can we also ban operatic busking of Andrew Lloyd Webber classics in train stations. THANKS
very niche reference, but the Elizabeth Line platform at Farringdon smells like the pool changing rooms at Centerparcs Longleat
everything is terrible, but I've just spent 4 hours on a sweaty Thames party boat with 350 gays and gals dancing to Kylie Minogue and it was marvellous 💖
Love this message from my son about the emergency warning. Come the apocalypse, there'll be a load of people in the valleys frantically using Google Translate.
We have a Prime Minister called Andy Burnham and I don't think that's a coincidence 🔥🔥🔥
when your hotel room has a four poster bed and a chaise longue, but absolutely no clothes storage whatsoever 🤷♀️
honestly Sweden I love you but having one manned immigration desk for a packed plane from London is an arsehole move.
I have just seen the trailer for Wicker and that looks right up my bonkers nonsense sexy Wurzel alley.