PhD research opportunity alert 🚨 The RSC is excited to announce its first Midlands4Cities Collaborative Doctoral Award which will be a sustained investigation of the RCS’s “Fine Art and Sculpture” collection in Stratford-upon-Avon. More info here: midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

Gosh and wow! Ladybird books floor to ceiling 🤩

Actually sorting things out.

Working full time depositing rent cheques 🙄

Splendid. Goals. Putting on the list.

This makes me chortle, I don't know why

Heather Thomas I’m one of the old women who remembers what it was like. My own mother miscarried when I was 18. A D&C was necessary to save her life. Girls in my class had lives upended by unwanted pregnancies. Police would not arrest domestic abusers. We were told to be nicer to our abusers.

I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?

Threads is SO ANNOYING. Can it please leave me alone.

Evil, evil men sending children to war. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

For some reason I'm reading Eat Pray Love. Have reached a bit where white American woman and American man make fun of dirty India.

Other people seem to think it's because all kids' books are now about farting. Not sure this argument is any more convincing.

This account is probably the best, most enlightened, thing left on Twitter.

When I'm not writing, I'm in a band playing around the UK.

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.

Right, definitely off to the other place when this seems to be what's promoted to me.