Have had some feelings about aging. Wrote a couple down. open.substack.com/pub/notesonapa…

My friend, after having her baby, actually wanted to go back to work but realised that nursery/childcare costs would be the same as what she got paid that month and there was actually no point going back if everything she earned would be gone and she wouldn’t even see her child

For anyone who's read WASTELAND this won't come as a surprise, but this new report on the UK's waste incinerators finally puts their emissions into numbers. Plus, they smother recycling rates and only profit thanks to perverse tax incentives & greenwash. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Oh god, I love it already. #Rivals

Tempted by a camel for my next birthday party now.

When feminists talk about men being the default sex this is what we mean. Women outnumber men, but “the genetics of being a woman” are treated as aberrant and as “altering” the disease that is apparently in its most pure presentation on men.

The husband delivered a keep cup of tea to me while I was waiting at the bus stop across the road this morning. Nora Ephron would have had a field day. ❤️

“I’M NOT TIRED” yells the three year-old as I turn the light off, she sucks her thumb, her eyes roll in her head and she crashes into sleep instantaneously.

Genuine question - I'd like to read this. Has a single male newspaper columnist written about the Gisele Pelicot trial? About, for example, male responsibility?

A wee note, on autumn and how it’s delightful (and not a pumpkin-spiced latté in sight): open.substack.com/pub/notesonapa…

I am too old to be doing drinking that ends in port on a school night.

I can’t believe in only three days everyone will have to instantly go from being a polling expert to an election law expert

No, YOU’RE spending the whole evening panic-buying riding holiday equipment with little more than 2 weeks to go.

Reading the first Harry Potter book to the 7yo for the first time. A glorious thing to discover the whole world again through her eyes.

I go on a riding safari in Southern Africa in less than a fortnight and I am BESIDE MYSELF with excitement.

Just received two texts from my wife in quick succession. First said: "Plumber arrived." Second said: "Archbishop gone." I am not sure if they were connected, but it makes it sound like Justin Welby was blocking our loo.

You could submit writing of this standard to a mag and get it published. But you couldn't get this IDEA published, because in order to have an opinion on the Rachel Papers, a 50 year old novel, ChatGPT needs to have plagiarised human beings' opinions on that book.