Because the joy of print never dies

Back from an idyllic 10 days in lovely Cornwall and straight back into the fray uk.news.yahoo.com/live/general-e…

I’ve had two hours sleep and should be in bed ready for more reporting later but I can’t help myself

Four days of election reporting, UK and French, and I’m happy to get back to writing about cakes and restaurants 😂

Spent today running in a box at 40 degrees for a feature. You can’t say I’m not thorough

Absolutely over the moon to hear that Aaron Stokes, who I was lucky enough to help mentor as part of the scheme at BCU Journalism, has not only got a blimin first but has also been nominated for a journalism prize. Amazing 🙌

When the word count is 1200 words and you accidentally wrote 3000. Idiot

Me with another hat on needs some voting help for anyone who wants to go and do a good turn

Week 2 lecturing at BCU Journalism is a go. Having been helped no end by various people at the start of my career it’s such a privilege to be able to pay it forward in a small way

My toxic trait is starting all my emails with: “Sorry to be a pain but….” - then having to delete and rewrite because me doing my job isn’t actually me being a pain

When you’re so tired it’s taking 3x as long as it should to write everything

On the hunt for a hospitality expert to talk to me about why a particular restaurant group is so successful - a bit of commentary and analysis etc. For a piece obviously. #journorequest

Hey X, am on the hunt for an etiquette expert to chat to me for a piece on party food. What’s posh, what’s not, what does what you serve say about you? For a piece. #journorequest

My beat is nothing if not varied these days…

Last day of my first term as a lecturer. What a privilege

On the hunt for someone who might be planning to go camping in a tent for Christmas…. Anyone? Or anyone know anyone? For a work thing

Freelance journalism is a lot of fun, then there’s the weeks of anxiety and worry of having pitched a piece, put a shitload of work into it, and being left hanging not knowing when it’s going to appear, with all the pressure from all sides that entails. A dark cloud for sure

#Barclays people desperate for payments badly let down - is it time for banking regulators to investigate whether the sector is investing enough in IT systems? Will Barclays refund people facing fines (including HMRC) for this banking fiasco?

So Barclays UK Barclays UK Help basically put the final cherry on the cake of January. Pretty bad for all of us, but for some people the shitshow of today has had utterly devastation consequences. And apparently an adequate response is to keep churning out the same automated msg