Spent the morning reading and had a pedicure, then went on a dog walk with a friend, dyed my hair, faked tanned and had a takeaway. Now watching Geek Girl (Holly Smale 🦕’s fabulous). I’d call that a pretty great Saturday.

The constant ignorance from your party that far too many people cannot afford electricity to keep their lights on as it is.

Thank you BRICKS for speaking to me for this brilliant piece. 🫶

Read here: bricksmagazine.co.uk/2024/06/01/awa…

Gone are the days when authors could write about a kid bunking off school in a book. It’s now too unrealistic without the isolation booths, safeguarding procedures and fines.

reading a book and putting it on Goodreads but being on page 5 is so embarrassing

Half of these photos feel like a different lifetime ago. Six, seven, eight years ago I was living a life trapped in a cycle of crisis. I could see no way out. It’s not easy to learn to react differently. It’s not easy to learn to think differently. It can require support,

this answer to what you would say to your 14 year old self should be sent to every teenager- such wisdom and empathy from Sara Pascoe Hay Festival

My fatal flaw is that I will never understand how these big furry teddy bears are dangerous and would most definitely ask him for a hug.

Does anyone else who didn’t have a rebel phase as a teenager suddenly feel the overwhelming urge for it to be let out as an adult, except now it’s too late because it’s not just lunchtime detention at stake but actual responsibilities.

In a cost of living crisis, families are often forced to spend money they don’t have on clothes a school policy dictates they should have.

There should be no excuse when schools like Simon’s have shown it is perfectly possible to cut costs and not require badges/branding.

Another young woman from our community, Sophie T, has died. My thoughts and love with her mum Leisa, Sophie's friends and family, and all patients locally. #RIPSophie I wish you had always been treated with the respect and care you so deserved.

Everyone should listen to this. Zarah Sultana 👏🏻

Autism shapes everything about how I interact with the world. How I interpret things. How I move through life. You cannot separate my autism from me. It shapes who I am. So yes, it does define me. That isn’t a tragedy.

Cannot tell you happy this makes me. This is Levelling Up.

The Tories’ unforgivable record on the NHS, encapsulated in one tweet.

Over the last 14 years, they’ve bullied, smeared, attacked, underfunded & understaffed the NHS.

This is the result. Sheer, life-threatening misery for patients. The NHS in tatters.