I've just got on a Cross Country train, and it actually has 9 coaches and plenty of seats, and this is a minor miracle

Another month passes, and still no sign of a care assessment from Somerset Council which was due back in January

Just heard on the news that UK Readers Digest is closing, I hope Susannah Hickling still gets work with them. Definitely end of an era

Find your way to our festival starting on the 8th May.
Baroque, jazz & opera music; talks from Simon Osborne of Black Adder, Rosemary Griggs, 2 of the talented Waley-Cohens, Ella Ravilious, Nicola Turner Inman, Curator of the Royal Collection Trust & more.
simonsbathfestival.org.uk

No-one warns you that disability involves a vast amount of admin

Just made butternut squash risotto, chucked in a handful of fresh herbs, looked great, tasted better, cost very little, required no skill, healthy, what's not to like? Don't really get ready meals, Deliveroo etc

Isn't it possible, if you're in power in Scotland, to say, yes, I have views on many things including Gaza, but they're nothing to do with the job of running Scotland so I'll keep them to myself, thanks?

So #Rwanda opens up yet another lucrative opportunity for the people smugglers, across the Northern Ireland border into the Republic, and threatens the delicate balance in NI, it really is the gift that keeps on giving

Wait till Kit Chapman MBE sees his seat is behind a pillar

That feeling of relief when you've been sent 2 bundles for a one hour hearing, each over 300 pages, and you realise they are duplicates, and anyway you only need to read about 50 pages

Waiting for a prescription so popped into Hatchers for a coffee, expecting to be transported to the 1970s, but it has been smartened up

Here we are CICCIC good crowd for some Friday jazz

We hear a lot now about the #PostOffice Inquiry, bit what has happened to Grenfell, Infected Blood, and Covid? They seem to have vanished

Interesting after every defence review and cost cutting exercise that:-
-horses
-fancy uniforms
-bands
none of which have any military value, always survive unscathed

Walked through 2 sets of wide open gates at Exeter Combined Court Centre today, security man rushed out shouting at me, asking if I'd just gone through the gates, but I'd say the best way to stop people going through gates is probably to keep them closed.

Sunak has now staked reputation of his government in the hands of decisions made by desperate people and criminals over whom he has no control, an odd thing to do

Have the boats stopped yet?

In the past 3 days I've listened to 3 pianos, a Bechstein, a Bluthner and a Steinway. Even to the untrained ear, you can really see, or rather hear, why Steinway is the leading brand

Interested by the use of the term 'embezzlement' in context of Murrell, is it a different thing from theft or fraud in Scottish law?

Bit low over a built up area?