MsCellany

I emailed my (now Labour) MP this morning. Here is the body of my message: Dear Liam, I hope you’re well. I was on our LibDem stand in Beckenham yesterday and at one point found myself standing up for you as our MP when a visitor to our stall

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

We have at least our fair share of junk and clutter knocking about in our house, waiting to be sorted out... somewhen. Three or four whole rooms are bedecked with the stuff that one accumulates over a lifetime of having parents and children, with mess that you're left

I quite like this newsletter format and it enables me to write about diverse topics so it suits my butterfly mind. On the doorsteps We have hit the ground again with our loooong Beckenham campaign, and the intention is to resume talking to residents as often as possible. Instinctively I

Of late I've heard dark rumblings about Substack being funded by Nazi-sympathisers, and its algorithm being loaded towards white supremacy and whatnot. I don't know about that but I do know that I want to distance myself from that sort of drama - though Amanda points

I need to mark the occasion and share it. Today I finished all the Apple Fitness + 30 minute Treadmill workouts, all 126 of them. From my first few, mid-menopause and recovering from anaemia, where 6.0 km per hour was an achievement and I had to stop at least