ok i’ve been in scotland for a whole month now and it’s probably about time i made a proper effort to find friends. if you live in edinburgh and would be pals with a bookish, cheese-obsessed journalist then do say hi. i’m v friendly and far less annoying in real life than online

When covid cancels my Christmas lunch, there's only two things to bring the merriment home: prosecco and Susan Calman

This is Toulouse. He is a rescue cat from the R SPCA. He was in a bad way following a nasty encounter with a car. He still has ongoing medical problems but is happy and much loved in his forever home in Edinburgh .