Brass band out on a dreich night playing carols around Olney 👏👍🙏

#MoneyBox BBC Radio 4 claims that almost half the population now runs “a side hustle” for extra income. Seems highly implausible tbh. Is everyone monetising all their spare time? 🤔🙄

Took our Mum into respite today OSJCT #WellfordGardens, what a wonderful welcome she received from lovely warm and kind staff. Such a relief to know Mum will be so well cared for.

Regrets show some humility and a desire to learn; “no regrets” is pure hubris.

#KemiBadenoch on BBC Radio 4 Today impossible to listen to this woman’s patronising know it all pontificating.

Great 12 Days of Christmas jigsaw completed yesterday #WentworthPuzzles

Oh no! #JohnnieWalker has died aged 79. What a legend. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I’m off. Can’t stomach things here any longer. Hoping to find more X refugees over on #bluesky Thanks to lovely people I have delighted in following; goodbye forever to those who have made it toxic here. Happy 2025.

I’ve been trying to migrate to #BlueSky….but my pals are still here! 🤔🙁🙄

Farage today said in Commons that Keir Starmer has the look of someone going to a family funeral. Utterly crass and tasteless even for him given that Starmer’s brother died just after Christmas. Completely insensitive and callous.

#SocialCareCommission letters The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

ipc.brookes.ac.uk/publications/t… Very proud that my former university colleagues have pulled together my published papers in one place to mark my retirement!

I've spent the last few months going backwards and forwards to South Yorkshire to take a fascinating look at what the future of the NHS might look like, and where the care system fits into that. It's for BBC Panorama BBC1 8pm tonight or on BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Extraordinary story of Catholic charity, far-right and Islamist sentiments and £30k of gold bullion

Marriage

#AddToPlaylist bbcr #annaphoebe Jeffrey Boakye Jerome Weatherald starting with Bruce Springsteen #BITUSA you can’t go wrong. 👍👏

Understandably furious reaction from The Care Workers' Charity 🧡 thecareworkerscharity.org.uk/news/the-care-…

"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good