Hi @LNER, HUGE thanks to the platform and train staff on the 0910 from Leeds to London today. They helped my very stressed daughter board in the nick of time with her enormous student bags, found her a seat and luggage space and even comped her a bottle of water. 🫡
Hi @OctopusEnergy Shout out to Mohamed/Muhammed installing smart meters in N14 today. Professional, friendly, beyond patient with a tricky job and left everything looking better than he found it. Top class. Please make sure his supervisor sees this! DM if you need details 🐙🌟
Hi @Sullivanbuses When will 299 and 298 live countdown info be available again pls? Timetable for 299 has not been reliable. Also front route numbers not lit up so really impossible to tell if bus is coming in the dark!
@philipnolan1 It’s not too much to ask. Also on planes! I have children, I remind them it’s ok to take up space, but also to be respectful of others’. I’m fine with tablets (with headphones) at the table before/after food when expecting kids to be “well behaved” in a boring adult setting.
@stephenlondoner@CrimeGirI “How do you *feel* about the personal statement you wrote?” (Also when someone is on a rant about “they always do…”)
“How do you think *I* would describe…”, when helping junior colleagues to get unstuck writing self-assessments
@RevRichardColes New book is exactly as good as I expected. Read the whole thing in the garden today. The reference to the baby’s funeral… how kind. Felt like a truth borrowed from “real life”. I wept.
@RussInCheshire Exactly this. If the religious ceremony is that important to him, he could have had it in private in one of many private chapels on one of many private and vast estates.
@lauraewelsh This was my experience of a load of 15/16 year olds recently. Bin bag changed. Recycling done. Explained hoovering not done as downstairs neighbours had put up with enough and it would be done next day. (It was).
@SpotifyCares Please have a care for your neurodivergent users who cannot cope with the new UI. It’s so horribly overstimulating and impossible to find anything I can’t use it. 😭 If it’s supposed to have a tiktok aesthetic it’s a massive fail.
@Jarlath @irish_abroad Came here to say this. The difference it made for my kids (and me) when their school ditched homework. Also, if primary hw has any benefits, it’s only to kids in homes with parents who have the time and ability to help them. It creates inequality
Love the honesty. It’s said that a lot of Irish musical talent of the 70s and 80s was born of the welfare system being more relaxed. The unemployed had time to gig and a little money to support creativity. Not as helpful as a famous da, but more support than most artists get now
I didn’t expect to spend Saturday lunchtime crying over my phone; but I’m very glad I read this beautiful, powerful and honest column by @morwennastar. Thank you for sharing your story.
I bought a used copy of @Nigella_Lawson Domestic Goddess because I wanted to give someone notes in the margins of the same edition I bought so many years ago.
Jamie’s dad - I hope you saw this lovely note and iced the cupcakes with a peekan. 🥰