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What an amazing night in Liverpool at the BBC comedy festival, interviewing the brilliant Diane Morgan and wonderful Sue Johnston about the new show Ann Droid, in which Diane plays Sue’s care robot. It’s a beautiful/funny show and was a pleasure to talk to them about it (while also being a little terrifying- was v fortunate to be on stage with Diane and Sue who make it all look easy). @missdianemorgan

What an amazing night in Liverpool at the BBC comedy festival, interviewing the brilliant Diane Morgan and wonderful Sue Johnston about the new show Ann Droid, in which Diane plays Sue’s care robot. It’s a beautiful/funny show and was a pleasure to talk to them about it (while also being a little terrifying- was v fortunate to be on stage with Diane and Sue who make it all look easy). @missdianemorgan

What an amazing night in Liverpool at the BBC comedy festival, interviewing the brilliant Diane Morgan and wonderful Sue Johnston about the new show Ann Droid, in which Diane plays Sue’s care robot. It’s a beautiful/funny show and was a pleasure to talk to them about it (while also being a little terrifying- was v fortunate to be on stage with Diane and Sue who make it all look easy). @missdianemorgan

What an amazing night in Liverpool at the BBC comedy festival, interviewing the brilliant Diane Morgan and wonderful Sue Johnston about the new show Ann Droid, in which Diane plays Sue’s care robot. It’s a beautiful/funny show and was a pleasure to talk to them about it (while also being a little terrifying- was v fortunate to be on stage with Diane and Sue who make it all look easy). @missdianemorgan

I reviewed Emma Southon’s excellent new book, Servus, in today’s @timesculture @emmasouthon

I reviewed Emma Southon’s excellent new book, Servus, in today’s @timesculture @emmasouthon

I reviewed Emma Southon’s excellent new book, Servus, in today’s @timesculture @emmasouthon

I reviewed Emma Southon’s excellent new book, Servus, in today’s @timesculture @emmasouthon

I reviewed Emma Southon’s excellent new book, Servus, in today’s @timesculture @emmasouthon

I so loved talking to Jodie Comer for @bazaaruk what an incredible talent and inspiring human she is. And we should all do more gardening in our underwear. Thank you@jodiemcomer for the chat, and @lydiasmag for the commission. Here’s to wise women 🌷

I so loved talking to Jodie Comer for @bazaaruk what an incredible talent and inspiring human she is. And we should all do more gardening in our underwear. Thank you@jodiemcomer for the chat, and @lydiasmag for the commission. Here’s to wise women 🌷

I so loved talking to Jodie Comer for @bazaaruk what an incredible talent and inspiring human she is. And we should all do more gardening in our underwear. Thank you@jodiemcomer for the chat, and @lydiasmag for the commission. Here’s to wise women 🌷

I so loved talking to Jodie Comer for @bazaaruk what an incredible talent and inspiring human she is. And we should all do more gardening in our underwear. Thank you@jodiemcomer for the chat, and @lydiasmag for the commission. Here’s to wise women 🌷

I so loved talking to Jodie Comer for @bazaaruk what an incredible talent and inspiring human she is. And we should all do more gardening in our underwear. Thank you@jodiemcomer for the chat, and @lydiasmag for the commission. Here’s to wise women 🌷

I so loved talking to Jodie Comer for @bazaaruk what an incredible talent and inspiring human she is. And we should all do more gardening in our underwear. Thank you@jodiemcomer for the chat, and @lydiasmag for the commission. Here’s to wise women 🌷

The 1986 Mexico World Cup Panini sticker book is mentioned only once in today’s excellent new issue of Times Luxx @thetimesluxury

The 1986 Mexico World Cup Panini sticker book is mentioned only once in today’s excellent new issue of Times Luxx @thetimesluxury

The 1986 Mexico World Cup Panini sticker book is mentioned only once in today’s excellent new issue of Times Luxx @thetimesluxury

‘All these buzzwords like resilience, I think, are you crazy? I was forged in fire, nothing can touch me.’ I talked to the incredible @emmagrede for this weekend’s @thetimesmagazine

From the top of Mystras to the bottom

From the top of Mystras to the bottom

From the top of Mystras to the bottom

From the top of Mystras to the bottom

Wes Anderson archive exhibition at the Design Museum really is fantastic. Hebe usually hates being taken to museums (my fault, apparently, for taking her on too many museum jaunts when she was younger) but she loved this, particularly the annotated musical scores and of course the puppets! @designmuseum

WFH with cats (some more helpful than others)

WFH with cats (some more helpful than others)

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

The most significant thing I wrote this year. Goodbye 2025, goodbye mum x

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

My beautiful mum, Jan Hodge, 1947-2025. She was born in Woodford, left school at 14, came to London and met my dad (there’s a pic of him here too). There was much sadness in her life, but she was always joyful, optimistic, buoyed by her faith, her friends and her family. We miss her and will celebrate her life this weekend at St Mary The Boltons, the lovely church where we held my father and my sister’s funerals too. It’s a lot for me to carry, but for some reason it never feels lonely. They are somehow all three with me. Do let me know if you would like to come on Saturday, it will be a Hodge-y celebration

Me and my queen…this was the penultimate stop on our walking tour of Women Writers in Early Modern London for the Society of Neo-Latin Studies as part of the @beinghumanfest and thank you to @charterhouselondon for letting us escape the weather in your glorious grand chamber

I am currently £3.99 on kindle, which feels like a bargain and is less than a pumpkin spiced latte