Sometimes, when you're sleep deprived and working all over the place, and in your mid (alright, late) 30s, you go into a local pharmacy and buy a box hair dye on a whim, in a desperate attempt to look a bit more... anything.

Wish me luck.

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Most recent ⁦Farming Today⁩ production, with the excellent ⁦charlotte smith⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The woman stabbed in Bradford Kulsuma Akter had prior contact with West Yorkshire Police (it’s referred itself to police watchdog as a result)

#Newsnight can reveal thro FOI requests to the West Yorkshire force, 18 women who’ve had previous contact with their officers, have

Thank you to Farming Today for featuring my farmsneaker.com workshops on today’s show as part of their “materials “ week bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
The enquiries started rolling in before breakfast. #regenleather #pastureforlife

2 weeks ago our children’s excellent nursery announced it was closing because it couldn’t make the new childcare funding model work and it was losing money. A 30 year old, ofsted rated outstanding nursery.

Meanwhile…

theguardian.com/money/2024/mar…

First year of World Book Day. Contrary to popular discussion, I don’t find it pressurised and competitive, you know why?

I don’t post about it on social media.

Teachers are way too busy to make judgements about parents, and 5 year olds don’t judge each other.

Today is the final day of my cattle routines. Last day of feeding and checking, the last week has been the final week of scraping out, bedding up, TB testing ( not that I’ll miss that ).
Tomorrow morning the last of my cattle are off and the first time in 30 years of not having

Did a wolf write this?

All those people finding a meaningful connection to the BBC in their local community. BBC Music Introducing is magic. Well done Daniel Pascoe

Want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Jenni Hicks, who lost her daughters at Hillsboro; Karim Mussilhy who lost his uncle in Grenfell, Glenda Caesar who was told she was an illegal immigrant - she was part of Windrush, & Tracey Merritt who was wrongly accused of theft by Post Office

Proper twitter this. Ah the good old days

It’s been reported that thousands of parents are being warned they won’t be able to access the government’s offer of free childcare.

Neil Leitch, Chief Executive Early Years Alliance, and June O'Sullivan OBE, CEO of LEYF Nurseries, join @EmmaBarnett to discuss.

Listen now ⬇️

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted there have been 'practical issues' with a free childcare expansion but insisted the new scheme will roll out as planned in April itv.com/news/2024-01-2…

Will I ever get over having a producer credit on BBC Radio 4 ? Unlikely.

(hence sharing this like a loser)

Brilliant Andrew Hawes asked a couple of weeks ago in a post-defeat interview asked the genius question 'When are you and I going to have a different conversation?' - turns out, never.

Right now there’s a woman in Gloucester telling a mate ‘a stranger came up to me while I was desperately trying to get a hat on my toddler and said ‘well done’ - how weird is that?’

My friends, I was that weirdo stranger. And she did deserve a well done, all Mums do.

This is what the evacuated victims of #flooding face when they return to their properties. A sincere thank you to Matthew for allowing me to film at his house in #Tewkesbury . And to all the residents of Abbey Terrace, a tight knit community who look out for each other.