Having a puppy means changes to life. I can no longer yell at the guests talking bollocks on Keunsberg because it wakes him up and scares him

Meet Chester.
On his first day with us he has managed to pee and poop on his puppy pad, and decided that despite us buying ALL the puppy toys, his favorite thing to play with is the man’s shoelaces.

Ukraine has fought too hard for its freedom, only to have its future dictated by Putin and Trump behind closed doors.

Any peace must guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty and security on terms acceptable to Ukrainians, not just to Moscow and Mar-a-Lago.

I worked (part time, from home) for a year. I loved the work, but I developed 3 new symptoms of autoimmune disease (for which I am still waiting hospital appointments.
Work does not solve everything

I was also non consensually groped by:
The pantomime dame in my am dram when I was 14 (I mean he was dressed up as a woman but was totally a cis man)
The guy running a narrowboat charity for teenagers whilst teaching me to steer
My first boss in a pub in London.

I was once groped by a trans woman in the toilets of MGM nightclub in Nottingham in the 90’s. With my full consent though and she was super hot.

Or the purchase of newspapers to read on the train?

I think of it as like my obstetric cholestasis. The genetic propensity to it was always there, but it didn’t come to fruition until I got pregnant.
(And the result of the illness was worth suffering it)

Coming back to this to ask if you have tickets to Fresh Art Fair this weekend at Ally Pally and if not would you like?

Even better tip - get onto the mailing list of an out of London gallery. I get freebie tickets offered from galleries in Cambridge, Suffolk and Cornwall every year well in advance

At least 8 kids in her class of 20 at private ex-grammar school were similarly dyslexic/dyspraxic/autistic and above average IQ. Wonderful weirdos the lot of them

Yep.
At 7 my daughter had reading age of 3, maths age of 12+ and state school said no need (or capacity) to help her. Private school got her remedial help and more importantly made her feel happy at school. She also got extra time which compensated for her slow reading speed (in all subjects)

David Lynch was the reason I successfully learned how to tie a knot in a cherry stalk with my tongue, and unsuccessfully tried to learn to talk backwards .
He was also the reason I learned it was OK to be weird. RIP

He was my second ever crush (via whose line is it anyway) after I grew out of Tim Curry (worst witch) and before I discovered Tim Curry (Rocky horror show). Just SO clever

And you aren’t meant to wind up parliamentarians? Oops. Was not aware of that rule
(Also, mark is a parliamentarian now isn’t he? Genuinely don’t know if he has to do some sort of process first?)

The Conservative party is now using the grooming gangs scandal to raise money for itself.

A reminder that Kemi Badenoch's spokesman admitted yesterday that she hasn't even bothered to speak to any of the victims, and doesn't see the need to.

I did once refer to him as a self serving twat. In a message to him.
I think he’s forgiven me (and to be pedantic it was during a brief period when I was not actually a member)

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The Chelmsford Indoor Market team has made the shortlist for Britain’s Favourite Market 2025! 🎉

What an achievement by the team! You can find out more about the award below. The winner is declared at the end of the month. #shoplocal

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Or their journey to LibDems in a seat where they are the challengers to Tories.
Left/centre people seem far more willing to vote tactically

Pot:kettle

Bluesky needs to add unlikes…

Oh I’m well up for this. No problem appearing on stage as long as I don’t have to speak, and very happy to be scary

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please share. Picture of library aisle filled with books.

Channels my amazing therapist: Hmm. It’s interesting that you read better *at* relationships when I wrote better *in* relationships.

Seriously- I hope this is as transformative for you as it has been for me.

It is. But it gets better. And you don’t HAVE to talk about your feelings. You can just learn to feel ok about being in a relationship with your therapist, and use that to make you better at being ok in relationships with other people. And when that happens, life gets better

Apparently in rare cases pompholyx can migrate from the hands to the arms.

I’m pretty fed up of being rare

Mine is wonderful - I can fill in at any point 8-5 and get a message back within a couple of hours either with same day appointment link, appointment link for 2 weeks time for non urgent or time that a doctor will call me.

I’m sorry? I thought we were friends Mr da Costa

I tried to impress our dinner guests with a sauce made from vodka, gravy & nitrous oxide but all I've done is make myself an Absolut laughing stock.

Doctors on tv vs doctors in real life.

You know how on an episode of House how they work tirelessly to diagnose and treat a patient… yeah that’s not real life. It took YEARS to give me a diagnosis!

#iih #medicaltrauma
#chronicalyfabulous #chronicillness #ih
#spoonies #spooniesky
#mcas #blacksky #disabled #brainpain #invisibleillness