It’s definitely autumn. After dinner tonight I had a proper hankering for a hot pud…

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

.Laura Boyle's 'Nobody Knows' has me sobbing every time. Stops me in my tracks.

Sure, 'schadenfreude' is cool, but did you know that there are also two words in English that mean ‘the joy one gets from another’s joy’? (They are ‘confelicity’ & ‘macarism’)

.Gagan Mohindra MP Can you please let your constituents know who you are supporting for the next Tory ‘leader’?

I particularly enjoy tutoring when the student turns up with a bag of delicious farmers-market baked goods!

British Medical Association issuing a statement, describing her actions as “not only potentially dangerous, but also against the law”. theconversation.com/health-secreta…

May all who exercise authority and influence in our nations give particular attention to the needs of those who are suffering the most, that all might flourish...

#braverman is back - let’s build the resistance to #StopRwanda and say #RefugeesWelcome End the racist #HostileEnvironment

Ah yes, the 'second chance'. Do people sanctioned for being 5 minutes late for a DWP appointment get a 'second chance'? They do not. Consequences are only ever for the poor. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella-b…

275 people helped at the foodbank today, including over 100 children. Perfectly normal people, often in work, just not able to manage on poverty wages with rising prices. Utterly shaming for our country.

Rishi Sunak It doesn’t HAVE to be cuts. Business Fraud costs £20bn a year. Go after that. Tech like Amazon / Google owe us £1bn a year. Go for them and backdate it. Name and shame the companies that cost us £9bn in useless PPE, or who defrauded Furlough Scheme by £4bn. (1/2)

Should be out tonight with Mr C celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary (hoorah!). Instead, wrapped in a blanket and heading into day 3 of hideous bug which has completely floored me (boo!). Fed up.

Sometimes we are too scared to make a decision in case it’s the wrong decision. But making no decision is still a decision and it may be the wrong one.

You know? The phrase “ladies in the office” makes me cross. You mean, “the hard-working staff without whom this whole institution would crumble”?

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… “The trouble with square pegs is that by forcing them to fit the system’s round holes, you end up damaging the peg, not the hole.”