Wow 😬 may I recommend the staple gun. It’s my go to clothing fixer. Hope you feel more you soon .

I went to a gig last night, on the bus home a poem came out of me, I polished it up this lunchtime after having a cry... then I cried again.

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A musician with a guitar, sings into a microphone. The stage is set like an old living room, with a piano, fireplace and grandmother clock with 80s wallpaper

Cathal Murphy and Imelda May at St George in Bristol. I do enjoy a solo gig night. Especially when I’m the youngest person here (other than Cathal)

I wrote about AI, play and keeping it weird.

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The new Malcom in the middle is actual laugh out loud funny. It feels rare and like some lost memories have been unlocked or something… and I had rewatched the OG series before starting this.

A while thermoplastic splint over my middle finger on my left hand. The splint goes down my palm and straps with Velcro over my finger and the back of my hand. The edges have recently been remoulded for my thumb to wiggle more.

I get a little smug when I walk out of Southmead hospital and the bus turns up, no waiting. In, shake my finger all about and out! That’s 5 months of almost fortnightly appointments done! Keep your fingers out of those dog leads people.

I’m feeling brave and posting about my writing. I have this blog that’s doing some soothing for me. It isn’t work related, it’s life related. The most recent post is about how I’ve realised I’ve been making myself smaller and a promise to myself that I’ll stop: www.by-justine.co.uk/confident/ma...

Forgot how much I love Shrinking on AppleTV. Harrison Ford chef kiss funny and now Micheal J Fox being insightful and human. More please. Always.

Oh what fun Christmas movie poster.

Home alone and planes trains and automobiles vibes but for the forgotten ones… mums. As someone whose mum has passed away, there were tears of guilt but this film was very 90s nostalgia fun! 🎄🎄🎄🎄

All because the bus that’s ready to go is going to your stop does not mean it’s the fastest bus! I should have waited… I really should have waited. But it nice to know there’s some redevelopment work going on in Lockleaze. The 24 is not for me!

To be clear. I had nothing to do with the cloudflare incident! Them folks are probably hiding under their covers too. I feel ya peeps, I feel ya!

Me in bed hiding under the covers, just an eye and some hair poking out.

It finally happened, that big mistake on a website that would cost you your job… but it happened when I own half a company. Cool. Just gonna hide here and wait for the reply to my report.

We are the same here. Thundershirt, chicken bits for distractions, tv uncomfortably loud, long walk today, smelly stuffs. If we weren’t so scared of the vets I’d be getting him a cocktail to trip on too. I find it’s the one off loud bangs set off by the yoof that really trigger the anxiety loop.

Urgh just watched the last The Great North without realising it’s is the last one ever. I am sad. Though will be seeing Nick Offerman at the Bristol Beacon at the end of the month so woop

/me stands up and throws back out.

Yeah feels about right!

Spent all my career fighting hard to prove I can do it. Probably fighting even harder these days but it's a different kind of fight when it's towards potential clients rather than bosses. Feels like there's much more control and power to adapt our business rather than pushing my career up a hill.

Started this week hoping to win at least one of the two RFPs we recently bid on, lost both but potentially got two entirely different projects to work on from much warmer leads. This business life is a rollercoaster! Gotta get quicker at proposals because last month over 13 days were spent doing em

Me in a hot tub squinting into the sun. Trying to be relaxed but clearly not!

When we were dreaming up what we wanted @wearechicken.co.uk to be 3 odd years ago we half joked that we wanted Away Weeks like the ones we had at TBX - fuelled by a hot tub and a glass of bourbon. What I didn’t expect was having the chance to take Away Moments. Now I just need the glass of bourbon!

A new CMS meant 160× uplift in web conversion for fostering hub In just eight weeks, our LocalGov Drupal microsite overhaul transformed LBHF’s “Fostering with West London” campaign from 0.2% to 32% site‑driven conversions.

Catching up on some case study writing whilst work is a bit light (for Justine at least!) wearechicken.co.uk/work/a-new-c...

If you need someone to do some design or frontend work, she's got some availability and hates writing these things, even if we're really proud of this work.

47 minutes, a lot of online apps, 2 people, 3 failed attempts. 3 screenshots, 4 FBombs, 9MB of files downloaded. Just to say I raised an invoice and signed a contract.

Uploading G-Cloud sales details to CCS, that's a fun joke.

Because “there are other drugs starting with U but who has time to scroll through all of this?”

So, my life is changed depending on how much you’re bothered to scroll. Cool.

The interface was shitty and inaccessible and it makes me so mad that companies can get away with software like that.

Whilst logging in to the 2FA to prescribe the drug she told me it’s easier to prescribe opioids, this one is locked away because it’s expensive. Then when narrowing down the drugs by reasons (IBD > Crohn’s) she tells me that pharmaceutical company’s are clever to name their drugs with A

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Today I had my first gastroenterologist appointment since moving to Bristol (after having a Crohn’s flare up in May that I couldn’t shift). The consultation was 7 minutes. Without more than “how are you doing?” “Yeah feeling pretty good” she prescribed me Adalimumab.

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My inner elbow with two big black and blue and green bruises. I’m wearing a flowery shirt, rolled up and green velvet trousers, the colours match, everyone says the bruises look bad but they don’t hurt

If you’re gonna have colourful bruises from a stay in hospital you might as coordinate your outfits to match, right? This has been a very strange week but hopefully it is the start of better ones with more energy and less actual poop!

Got my phone out mid project to do something, got wildly distracted by social media, sat down to share my thoughts on the matter (previous post) found myself sat in my newly made no dig bed. I guess it’s always good to test these things out…

I’m pretty rubbish at all sport but I’m pretty tempted to do some kind of inclusive games where trans people can just play their sports and be done with it.

Like a big old test cricket match full of queers and wheelchairs and fat unfit cis people like me - everyone but bigots and nazis.

Made some stickers for the next LocalGov Drupal camp. Looking forward to the next one. Hopefully somewhere in London can host us!

So Monopoly, the game made (by a woman) to warn people of capitalism, now has expansion packs where bribery and corruption are fun new features... I guess that feels inline with the world but gah!!