Drinking fizzy water: recreation/fun Drinking flat water: chore/medicine #hydration

Get #MMR if you have the slightest doubt about your immunity to measles. That might be Wakefield cohort, over 60, anti-vaxx parents, anything. Doesn't even matter if you are immune, just ask GP. Friends have already done this after my ghastly experience last summer.

Interesting expert opinion on BBC Radio 4 this morning about crime stats. Participation by women in nightlife is a major factor in falling violent crime, while sexual offenses increase. ie, we go out, we calm and civilise, and are groped, molested and assaulted for our pains.

#ADHD all over my family. These are brilliant people, and diagnosis, understanding and the right medication either has made a huge difference to their lives, or they were born too early for this to be a thing. As a single mum, it was a struggle to get this help even 10 years ago.

It doesn't matter if you did have a measles jab (no MMR until the late 80s) - you can have #MMR now. This also goes for people who may have had measles and forgotten. The #measles outbreak is growing and I don't want anyone of any age going through what I did.

Having been coughing and feeling ill for nearly two weeks, and the sky is grey, and I cannot run for wheezing, I sank a bit and thought this poetry is really not good enough and maybe I should end it but then this amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-re…

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I'm very interested to hear what people think who have no interest in real French cooking. Trigger warning: braised lettuce. I loved it, but then I was cooking sweetbreads while still at university.

Dylan Thomas' villanelle about dying is masculine, dark and achingly moving. I wrote a lighter, feminine version - be sure, it is also about death, part of every life.

One Apple Tasted, narrated by the extremely handsome and caramel-voiced @rich_trinder, is 99p at the moment with Audible UK 🎧 membership today. 'A bit of a One Day vibe - 80s nostalgia and long delayed love...' amzn.to/4b4Dm1l

I was thrilled to find my poem Shit Villanelle was shortlisted in Culture Matters in the Bread and Roses Poetry Award Anthology 2024.

I love the sound of this book Polly Vernon

Calling all UK creators, please go to the government consultation about AI theft of our work, and fill it in. Maggie Alderson spent a day going through this document - which privileges AI developers, and wrote a brilliant guide. I used her guide and added more. maggiealderson.substack.com/p/calling-all-…

Salted caramel: Why doesn't anyone like me any more? Pistachio:....

Beetle (c) Josa Keyes #poetrycommunity (in British English nappy > diaper)