A fantastic Cloudbusting today Lozza Lauren Laverne BBC Radio 6 Music

I’m reading SMALL JOYS by Elvin James Mensah and it’s beautiful. Incredibly impressive debut novel.

Can’t wait for the Tories to implode.

I’m watching this new play right now and it’s TERRIFIC! Sharply funny writing & gorgeously acted & directed. Very proud of Maureen Lennon ❤️

Happy St George's Day

Hullo wise gardeners - my geraniums are suddenly looking like this. All advice would be v gratefully received. Thanks.

There’s a crow here going bananas right now.

Urged to by my GP, I applied to receive PIP 4 times, & was rejected every time. I also appealed every time to no avail. Was once asked during this painful process when I expected my cerebral palsy “to get better”.
FFS.

I really enjoyed Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan. Clever, frightening, very funny & wildly entertaining.

Looking at the state of this country, and of the wider world, it is impossible not to conclude that unfettered capitalism has been a catastrophe for the planet, for nature and for the vast majority of people. As a system it is unsustainable.

Marisa Abela is excellent in Back To Black.

Idle curiosity & a feeling of mild dread has propelled me to the Amy Winehouse film.

I am rather tipsy

Of course the best way to guarantee mid career film and TV practitioners don’t leave the industry would be to have a properly funded (both private and public) domestic industry in the first place.

My little brother is on holiday in Crete with his family. For reasons unclear, he gave himself a haircut last night. He’s had to find a Greek barber to give him a rescue haircut! Here he is. I told him he looks like Jason Statham 😂

The The Scolt Head pub is smashing.

I have an inability to look anything approaching cool or even normal in photos.

77 year old Mum at home in Devon right now

Just discovered the novels of Jeremy Cooper. Quite brilliant.