Lucy Lamplight 📚

For the love of God when is January going to end, surely it’s been 3 months already

What a weird cartoon for The Times - obviously designed to be alarming with vague nonsensical implication, it’ll certainly appeal to the people shouting at vapour trails in the sky

I feel seen

Why is the discredited CBI always R4 Today’s go to on business and employment? Their Victorian attitudes like poor business owners not being able to afford to pay a living wage always represent the Tory party more than business owners like me and those I know

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

Susie Dent must be one of the UKs most reliable employees - has she missed an episode in the last 30 years.

Colour

Twitter more of a binfire than usual tonight with the standard theme of the most ignorant of a situation shouting the loudest - the current US political model of giving the hate-filled the environment to be openly hateful seems to be gaining traction here

Thank you for all the work you do for the most vulnerable women and children in our society. Empty vessels make the most noise.

Saw some of Willard Wigan’s microscopic sculptures - literally you have to view through microscopes - at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham yesterday. He uses eyelashes as tweezers!

Nottingham, centre of the known world for 250 million years

I can’t believe the flintstones is that old!

Boxing Day will be bouncing #NFFC

What is it with Millie’s cookies, no ones bought a giant iced cookie since 1992 but there’s one in a prime spot in every single shopping centre!

Popping open a tub of Roses is a depressing experience now - I want to pop the lid off a beautiful tin and see those individually foil-wrapped gems

So excited I have finally got my own little library

R4 saying the start of the Labour gov “has been turbulent to say the least” - has it? I remember turbulent from not very long ago and it felt very different to now

Not Channel Island Jersey 🇯🇪 then where adding “with all due respect” would be sufficient to let the other person know how offensive you were being

The only feature I’m missing is the UK trends - I’d have liked to have seen “women of a certain age” at the top

I’ve been the young woman in older male dominated workplaces having to put up with the “bants” making me feel v uncomfortable having to create a caricature of me to protect me and my career

I managed 60+ blokes (often ex-miners) in bookies in small Welsh villages 20 years ago who knew not to behave like that in the workplace - not possible for a Londoner whose worked for the BBC for decades to be unaware - he’ll have known and enjoyed making women uncomfortable

Gregg Wallace taking crisis management classes from Prince Andrew?! His misogyny really shining through - as it did in his cringey “day in the life” - he really doesn’t need to keep showing us who he is

Some people are a bit giddy that they’ve learned the phrase “echo chamber” - every social group is an echo chamber

Argentine Tango and Six is a perfect fit #strictly

It was absolutely a 40

Gertcha

I did have an existential moment when I realised I was following the wrong God

Shirley’s Trunchball is tremendous - she had us debating whether it was really her when she was walking on #Strictly

Who killed old Twitter?
I said the muskrat,
I make everything shitter

Yes and Trump’s boasts about sexual assault were just “locker room talk”. Minimising sexualised, discomfiting “bants” and behaviour enables it and creates the environment where it escalates - and where sex offenders start believing they’re the victims