Finished at 50227 @amwritingmemoir Hurray!

should be #amwritingmemoir Is that a thing?

Woman who hasn't had a day off in 10 months attends funeral of colleague where she's stalked by fucking ghouls from the Sun. #AlternativeHeadline #DontBuyTheSun

With people expected to work from home, and children to learn from home, everyone must have access to broadband. The time for free broadband for all has come.

I'm trying to come to terms with the sequence of information and decision-making over the last week. Scientists presented evidence that a lockdown was necessary. Teachers listened to the science. The government finally acquiesced. Would scientists and teachers govern us better?

£40,000 per year pay rise for Dominic Cummings. £3.50 per week for NHS nurses. The mask has slipped.

We must stand in full solidarity with the farmers' protests and strikes in India. They are on the right side of history. Peace & Justice Project

Nurses have given 100%. The Tories are giving them 1%. RT if you'd rather your taxes went to them, rather than Serco.

When I was in an induced coma, night after night nurses watched over me to see that I didn't need emergency attention. In the morning they wrote me a 'letter' which went into a 'Patient Diary' which they gave me when I came round. This is only worth 1%?

April 2nd 2021 palostickland.com/2021/04/02/apr…

Camp Nanowrimo Day 2 palostickland.com/2021/04/03/cam…

My writing group - Bearsden Writers - secured funding for a day long festival on 21 August. Check out "Bearsden & Milngavie Community Writing Festival" eventbrite.co.uk/e/bearsden-mil… Eventbrite UK

I've started a Facebook Business page called Bearsden Writers Events. Supposed to be linked from Eventbrite to sell tickets but you still have to go to Eventbrite for them so that didn't work for me. Always learning!

'I was always the Sikh part from birth.' New on our blog: Palo Stickland looks back on her Scottish, Punjabi and Sikh upbringings and how they shaped her writing! scottishbamewritersnetwork.org/a-scots-punjab…

Booing and racially abusing the fine young men that play for our country and have given us so much pleasure and joy over the last month is not being an @england fan. That goes for the pathetic fighting at the ground too. It’s a minority but it’s a loud one and it’s embarrassing.

Food preparation in progress for flood affected areas

westreamit.co.uk/somasundaraml?… This is the livestream link to Leela Soma's funeral on Thursday. We lost her (in three short months) to pancreatic cancer. An enormous loss to her family, her friends and her writing world. Miss you, Leela.

We're deeply saddened by the loss of our founder, Leela Soma. She was an inspiration and a joy to work with, and will be missed by many writers.

Happy Winter Solstice! The days get longer from now on… This is my watercolour of the Nebra sky disc - dating to the Bronze or Iron Age - depicting the heavens. May the next orbit of the sun hold peace, health and happiness for you.