Cut my own hair, did my own make up. This is 58 and I’m off to impress no one. Just me. And that’s enough. We all need to remember that.

24 hours on the road, masked. Made it!

Another day, another flight.

Happy Birthday to me. 🥰.Chris hits nail on head! 🙌

As disability makes travel tougher for me, some folks balk at our friendship being nurtured on phone calls and zooms. Asked to compromise on method of contact, they walk away. Life is increasingly isolated for so many people like me. Questioning everything tbh.

When your gift is from a Japanese friend and you just know you’ll love it.

Reeling. Slightly breathless. A masterpiece that twists and turns. It’s left me with a head full of questions and a heart full of conflicting emotions. These characters with stay with me a long while I think. @LiamMcIlvanney done good, again! 🙌📚👍🏻

Where, and how, Bluebell chooses to be in the hot weather. 🤷‍♀️🐶🥰

Bandwagons: tempting, sometimes lucrative, yet flawed ways to avoid thinking for yourself or enjoying the pleasure of creation.

According to Pitchbook:. 53% of all global venture capital dollars invested in the first half of 2025?. 👇. AI startups. What percentage of these know what they are doing? . Versus what percentage of them will make the founders money irrespective of commercial value add? 🤔.

If you exited your startup to…your uncle, should you REALLY be up on a stage “sharing founder exit learning”? . Unless the learning is: make sure you have a wealthy and generous uncle. 😂.

First business forgot to mention “people”. Now politicians do the same. We’re just little units of production/consumption/votes. And when we’re inconvenient or non-compliant, we’re dispensable.

12 years ago today on the rooftop of Soho House London when I was a redhead.

I’m so sick of getting pitched to from folks who think they’re geniuses when I’ve seen better pitches for almost exactly the same tech solution to the same customer problem 5 times this year.

Fashion folks be like “this season is boho/nautical/preppy/floral” and once you’re over 50 you’re like “says who”? And you reach into your wardrobe which already has boho/nautical/preppy/floral from the last 17 times some waif declared it so. 🙄😂.

RT @bluewmist: i think we were meant to live slower than this. to grow tomatoes. to take afternoon walks. to cry without apologizing for it….

Second in the wonderful Borders series from @andynairn A rollicking ride through the Borders with royals, reivers and shenanigans aplenty!

Early morning coffee at #SpottesMill

99.9% of marketing chat on here is from self-declared experts about jobs they’ve never had/will have. 99.9% of political chat on here is conviction-led bullshit from all sides. 107.6% of statistics chat on here is hand-knitted woollen vests sold as battle armour. LI is worse.