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I'm going to a party (yay!) getting to which involves a reasonable amount of train and tube travel. I am therefore wearing my favourite party dress and some extremely sensible Clarks velcro sandals. I am, verily, all class.

Something weird with the thermostat and I managed to TURN THE HEATING ON BY ACCIDENT. AGAIN.

An absolutely glorious trip to the seaside with two of my oldest and dearest chums today. I'm a very lucky girl.

This is the most beautiful thing. Reading it made me rather emotional (in a good way). Tremendously grateful to @anna-orridge.bsky.social who linked to it yesterday.

Well played, people of Grays. Grays / Thurrock / Sahf Essex in general is major Reform country.

Oh for goodness' sake it's like 2003 all over again.

Rather wish I hadn't seen Katie Lam's nonsense about Project Spire quite so early in the morning. Has not got the day off to the best start.

I'm a straight woman and I have never felt at synod the way I did after that vote. The ask was so tiny, I was genuinely shocked the motion didn't pass. I felt like I'd been taken for a fool. viamedia.news/2026/07/21/t...

The End of the Synod: Grieving for Love - ViaMediaby Charlie Bell, Fellow in Public Theology and Medicine at Girton College, Cambridge, Associate Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington, in the Diocese of Southwark I will admit that the defeat at thi...viamedia.news

Lovely day out with Kid C yesterday in which he navigated a top notch gallivant around London on as many tube lines as he could manage. Then slept really badly and have that total exhaustion I remember from having tiny kids. Like someone's put a sheet of glass in front of you.

Kid C (aged 14) is Doing His Bit for church by making the order of service into a PowerPoint. I am providing, er, support. "Darling, that's not how you spell Gospel. Or Jesus".

Good to see a "work of great evil" (per @ifbookspod.bsky.social ) going cheap in WHSmiths today.

A sunflower is out in my front garden! Isn't it lovely? #TinyJoys

"All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica". 😍

Honestly, weeks of back and forth with the bank to provide satisfactory documents for them to certify my identity, and I am ready to give somebody a very hard stare indeed.

Ah good. I see the pre synod nerves have arrived. Managed to nearly leave all my pills behind also. 😬

Nicely done, the Presbyterians of the US.

I have vanquished the email section of the to do list! (The rest of the lost remains intact but never mind that now). Well done me!

The whole SSPX story, and this glorious commentary, has brought me much joy. Stayed up way past my bedtime last night reading about it.

I think bcc emails are some sort of OCD nemesis for me. Bcc emails where exactly the right thing must be sent even more so.

Work study day. I have concluded that I do not like being networked. I feel I may be an actual dinosaur.