I’ve only gone and written a book! ‘To Stand and Stare; how to garden while doing next to nothing” is a celebration of what it means to garden with nature as a partner, rather than as force apart from us that needs to be contained, controlled and limited.
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@jonsopel John, re: this evening's @TheNewsAgents – weren't you a Christ's College boy (maybe a few years ahead of me)? I remember a whopping great menorah going up every year in Golders Green, and getting driven round Finchley on top of a car for Hanukkah! No one batted an eye
@lewis_goodall@TheNewsAgents Good grief they need to keep Bell behind his spreadsheets and away from the media rounds. What a catalogue of sophistry, spin and arrogance. Such a disappointment.
@spectator@michaelgove@Madz_Grant My Victoria sponge was turning to dust in my mouth as @michaelgove talked around the golden age of British crime writing without mentioning P.D. James. Thank heaven for @Madz_Grant who was able to deliver, deliver, deliver.
@katyballs Honestly I think Kemi is toast after this. You just can't
get on the wrong side of a sandwich in British politics, ask Ed Milliband. Wishing you much better sarnie experiences for the new year. Warm focaccia, crisp chicken skin, pesto – kind of thing. @KateAndrs has the idea
@ellygriffiths Marilyn Monroe in How To Marry a Millionaire. She's hilariously always bumping into things or reading books upside down cos she refuses to wear her specs.
@jonsopel you know who tried to do The West Wing? Rishi Sunak. I knew there had to be some half-arsed thought behind his soggy Downing Street speach and suddenly remembered Bartlett announcing he was running again, having been soaked in the pouring rain. Wasn't *quite* the same😬
@jackwallington broadly you're prob not wrong Jack. Since the last election, there's the boundary changes, but a considerable proportion of the Tory core vote will have been disenfranchised owing to being dead. I wonder if those will balance?
@kennyhiggs Cod sometimes gets the same treatment, doesn't it? Maybe somewhere there's a tuna horse and people didn't want to have to get their mouths round that in a sarnie.
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Lots of people asking me where I was when Sunak announced the election. I was inside, because it was raining. Only an idiot would have gone out in that... #GeneralElection