It’s unnerving when you’re in full view of Vesuvius and keep hearing explosions #NYE
Gemma Thomas
@gemmathomas.bsky.social
Film and series awards strategist. Occasional writer. Makes a killer martini. Views my own.
Remember sending the 11am group text to wish everyone a Happy New Year “before the networks get jammed”
My favourite thing about southern Italy is the 75-year old absolute divas going out to do their shopping in fur coats and sunglasses
In a change to our scheduled programming of roasting The Holiday, today we’re going to talk about how Uncle Frank is the real villain of Home Alone / Home Alone 2, and an all-round POS
Second trip to Paris this awards season, but in 2025 I’m finally going to do what I’ve been saying for years and come here for fun
There should be jail time for people who don’t pick up and move their tray at airport security and instead stand casually at the conveyor putting on their belt and watch holding everybody up
Have this theory they do Spotify Wrapped at the end of November to avoid all the listening to Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) on repeat up to Christmas skewing the data
Yesterday I had my first in-person experience of somebody defending the television presenter who’s in the news a lot at the moment. Their feeling on it was “you can’t say *anything* anymore, you can’t even say good morning.” Even though I felt it wasn’t the place to get into it (a funeral wake)
Rivals getting a second season is the news we all needed right
Big up anybody who was drinking wine at the RTS Craft and Design Awards last night and survived the day
Now it’s December we can basically just replace milk with Baileys right
On a flight to Madrid and the seats don’t recline. I’m pretty happy about this, the guy in front of me, less so
There is no greater gift to the tired, slightly hungover commuter than the pret cheese and tomato croissant
Please can somebody create an advent calendar for December with an antacid tablet behind each window because we’re over 40 now and still expected to booze
Drunk guy with his shirt off re-enacting the rain scene from The Shawshank Redemption in the street outside: cut it out you nutjob, it’s late #stormbert
I only went to the gym because this is across the street
People’s mad behaviour over the overhead storage compartments on a flight makes me check my bag in every time. Just witnessed a fight over a backpack that is the kind I’m just never prepared to have.
I’m in a hotel that replenishes the stack of stroopwafels every time they service the room. I’m moving in.
“Hey everybody, let’s take a group selfie outside the Anne Frank House” and then they all did these 🤘🏻hands 🤘🏻 NO.