The BBC Weather App is not doing so well today... they give us a sunny thumbs up and we have torrential rain

Anyone got any hope out there? If so let's hear it...

Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall Street Economists say levies of between 10% and 50% have dramatically added to the risk of a worldwide downturn

Make America Great Again he said....
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Book Launch - Gorillas in our Midst An illustrated talk from Alan Toyne celebrating the release of his book Gorillas in Our Midst: A Zookeeper's Tale of Hand-rearing Baby Gorillas, his memoir revealing the funny and fascinating realitie...

We can't wait to celebrate the launch of Alan Toyne's brilliant new book Gorillas in Our Midst with @wshed.bsky.social in Bristol next month! Head to the link below for details and tickets. Hope to see you there!

www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1316...

So... this is happening. Thrilled for Al.

The joy of a line of record cards laid out on a table outlininh a scene by scene breakdown of a new script and realising it all makes sense...

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This is the latest in the Clark household
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Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social 👏

@govpritzker.illinois.gov
Very fine speech sir, very fine indeed.
The rest of the world thanks you.

Elon has a son called Techno Mechanicus.
Blimey.
That's strong.

Home for a weekend of old slides and photographs and much history

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

Three coloured prints laid out next to each other on a wood surface - showing re-imagined portraits of women in science. Henrietta Vansittart, Caroline Herschel and Florence Nightingale

I finally have a limited run of prints available for a project I made in the last couple of years. It’s a series of re-imagined portraits of women in science from the 18th and 19th centuries. imaginaryastronaut.xyz/shop

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

So Oedipus at The Old Vic is £150 - £210 per ticket in the Dress Circle... Really? And what if people from outside London want to see it so have travel costs on top? I thought theatre was supposed to be opening itself up to new audiences? Challenging stereotypes of it being elitist? Obviously not.

Social Media? I just can't anymore...

Someone suggested that the word which best encapsulates my place in the world at the moment is untethered.
I am delighted someone has put their finger on it.
I am, indeed, untethered.

I listened to Radio 4 for 20 years but during lockdown could do no more due to their strident news coverage where everything was about how we were heading for hell in a handcart as a nation and as a species. I switched to Radio 6. I have not switched back. Music calms the savage breast...

Great creative meeting with a theatre was the way to kickstart 2025... 2024 is looking at me shamefaced.

So long, farewell – exiting X From Fri 20 Dec we will no longer be posting on Twitter/X.

Last day on Twitter / X for @wshed.bsky.social. Please support us in this conscious uncoupling by giving Watershed a follow and a boost - SO much of our business has come through that channel its a bit scary. www.watershed.co.uk/news/so-long...

Somebody Somewhere series 3 has me weeping in recognition...

So Elon is now grubbing his hands in UK right wing politics.
For the love of God stop...

For new Year's Eve I am staying in a cottage in Duntish.
One letter from how I'm feeling right now.

In Cornwall dealing with a parent in law with Alzheimers - frustrating, often funny, truly sad and provoking in so many ways. We took a moment to watch the sea in peace before being whisked away again into 1953...

The word you are reaching for is... pain

The main question today as I start a new play...
Why the fuck would I do this?

Starting a new play - absolutely terrifying.
Send snacks and whisky.

Have deactivated toxic X... a marvellous lesson in how to f**k a brand in just two years.