F.L. Everett
@fliceverett.bsky.social
Author & journalist. Writing more books. 🎄MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR 🗡️THE EDIE YORK MYSTERIES 🏰 DREAMS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Is Burnham Cometh the hour, cometh the man... or is he overpromising on great ideas that can't so easily be delivered? I hope it's the former, I really do.
#journorequest I'm looking for stories of wedding day disasters. If you experienced torrential rain, delayed guests, ill fitting wedding clothes, or tragic food poisoning - or anything else - please message me as I'd love to include it in the piece I'm writing for a broadsheet. Please repost! Thx
'Ow. OW! No, it's not time... I've still got ten minutes. Get off. OFF! You're standing on my... oh my God alright, FINE, I'm getting up..' Every single morning when you share the bed with a spaniel.
I think the best thing we could do for British politics is ignore the media.
A drug up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl and 500 times stronger than heroin is increasingly being detected in the US. Bellingcat produced the most detailed account yet of how nitazenes are infiltrating US borders and destroying lives. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...
Super-Potent Synthetic Opioids Spread Across US Amid Fentanyl Crackdown - bellingcat
New deadly drugs up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl and 500 times stronger than heroin have been found in 48 of 50 American states.
bellingcat.com
In a past life, the Croatian goalie was the flippers on a pinball machine.
I like how both goalkeepers have come as Stabilo highlighters.
I'm looking for someone who used AI to help write their wedding speech or wedding vows. If you know anyone, please do send them my way and message here. Thanks so much. #journorequest
Yesterday I baked a 3 tier wedding cake for a friend. Today I will do the marzipan. Next week, I ice. That's the bit that terrifies me. Though the bit that REALLY scares me is getting it from Scotland to Bath via car, train, and car. 'Congratulations! Have some crumbs!'
I'm back. I forgot my password. *mic drops, rolls into a dusty corner, emits wail of feedback to empty room*
This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says
Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’
theguardian.com
I've submitted this to Weekending but no reply as yet. Maybe the second post?
David Quantick@quantick.bsky.social · 4mo agoAudience numbers for this week's @SNLUK were in the region of 250,000 although the Metropolitan Police put them nearer to 25,000.
Governor Tim Walz, in Minneapolis at the NoKings rally, introduces Bruce Springsteen to the packed crowd in Minnesota.👏👏👏😎💙💥
It's funny I am writing my sixth published novel, have been well reviewed in the Times and sometimes appear at literary festivals talking about writing. But whenever I read writing advice on here, I feel as if I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. My advice is, don't read writing advice.
