This is not reported widely. It’s very important people know about it, because everyone can join this consultation, you don’t have to be an expert. So let’s share and continue to share

‘Call for input: Incorrect guidance on single-sex spaces and self-ID’ gov.uk/government/pub…

'Delivered with flamboyance, [The Stalin Affair] features a sparkling cast of chancers, charmers, egotists and eccentrics with a ringside seat to world events... a fast-paced tale full of surprising details.'
A 5* review from Katja Hoyer in Telegraph Books John Murray Press Henry Holt & Company

I saw the opening of 'Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves' the other day, and the sight of that sycamore (which was just one day's journey from the South Coast in those days) was really painful - like seeing an old, long-lost friend...

The 'moment' Catherine mentions took me about a month to write!

Lots of people are ridiculing this as if it’s a big duh statement. Actually it’s like the Flat Earth Society announcing the Earth is round, if the Flat Earth Society were also the nation’s biggest employer and provider of geographical services

And, I am proud to add, first prize funded in the memory of my lovely husband Mark Jones. #Sondheim We first got together when we played truant from work to go to a matinee of Into the Woods.

Lissa Evans The dummy makes this so memorable.

From a short story called Goodbye, My Love by Mollie Panter-Downes - a wartime couple in the painful last hours before the naval husband embarks for God knows where. The image of the clock!

WeeJake Lissa Evans Now a real word!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Lissa Evans Carl Bovis Mark Smyth Dan Richards Also, follow twitter.com/SoSSwifts

The swifts are returning, hurrah! (this extraordinary photo is by Carl Bovis) and I want to recommend two riveting swift-obsessed accounts, run by swift-fans who have encrusted their houses with swift-boxes equipped with swift-cams: Mark Smyth and Dan Richards

First Swift back for the 2024 season 😍 and 25 hours earlier than last year, although if it wasn't a leap year it would have arrived on the same day and just 1 hour earlier. #DealSwifts

Lissa Evans Here’s mine

I've deleted a tweet about an illustration from a book for teenagers, as the picture in question (a young woman with mastectomy scars and facial hair) has been removed from the book since @Macmillankidsuk won it in a six-way auction in 2022. Which is interesting in itself.

Lissa Evans I do enjoy this one.

If you’re watching Shoulder to Shoulder on BBC iPlayer and would like a copy of the book of the series - I do have one for sale in my current catalogue womanandhersphere.com/2024/01/29/boo… £10 +postage. DM me if interested

Favourite Gary Larson/Far Side cartoon?
Here's mine, regularly quoted in my own life, as I tug fruitlessly at doors that open the other way....

Broom and brick.

Smiling that a friend reading The Ha-ha over breakfast has just reported that she's snorted her tea through her nose. Similes are working!