Happy birthday, Marie!

sending love x

And everyone was also saying, shrewd move.

Thank you!

So in this new world order in which I agree with the pope and prefer teaching to writing, my barbershop quartet has selected Pink Pony Club as our next song.

I wonder how they got on.

And her children’s novels… Miss Happiness and Miss Flower is perfect.

Wise x

cocktail olive?

You know, between the dames and the horses, sometimes I don’t even know why I put my hat on…

I am sorry. I wish you had become a millionaire.

The tiny Queensland town of Cooladdi, population two, has a pub and a post office. It could be yours for $400,000 The new owner will serve as the Australian town’s postie, publican, cook and shopkeeper

Usually I dream of being by the sea, but this has sent my A Town Like Alice fantasies into full throttle www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Imagining an alternative reality where Dolly is a lovely, bountiful, peace-loving president and POSUS is an embittered country and western singer with cancer of the heart.

I’ll pass that on to- she’ll be thrilled x

It was. Of course your wonderful book was part of her research, but I had not read Perspectives before. And (bonus!) it was a brilliant essay.

One of my A level students wrote her NEA (non-examined assessment) comparing this with Wilde’s Dorian Gray - really wonderful.

Ah yes.

Smoked haddock, would be my guess.

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oh ok x will do x

Well I will NOW, obviously x

‘that soft, cozy, homemaker life’😂😂😂

I knew it was a mistake to return to teaching.

I take your knitting to Dad’s Army and raise you crocheting to The Archers…

My Mondays? Happy.

I’m so sorry x so very sorry. I love this, because it’s about life, and that, ultimately, is what we have xxx

thank you, Adam. It’s not this, it’s something else, but this’ll do. If it was mine, I’d write about it. But it’s not, and somehow I can’t write about anything else. I’ve gone back to teaching now, and that’ll do too x

Apocalypse. Now.

the brutal maths is that rejoining a customs union could provide 5 x the economic growth of the recent EU and India trade deals