Lisa Carey

Professional explainer of things, pro-choice parent, Jimmy Cake noisenik, full-time procrastinator, @docsydocs wrangler, awful menace. Occasional presence.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@Viriconia Ah that's so hard. Much love. xx

[James @james_j_bailey]

Since the winner of the Booker Prize will be announced tonight, a reminder that Muriel Spark helped spread a rumour during the 1994 ceremony that Iris Murdoch’s husband was stealing potatoes from guests' plates 🥔

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@Viriconia NOOOOOO HE IS .... shiny

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@CethanLeahy I am 52 and I am fairly sure I look the same age as he does, minus the weird iridescent pallor.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@robpalkwriter Ah that's a fabulous choice though. Well done your Dad and his excellent taste. (mine had Hearts & Bones and When an Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease, which was .... tough but lovely)

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@robpalkwriter Ah Rob I'm so sorry, he sounds lovely (and that he would have got on well with my own Dad who died last year). xx

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@Viriconia Noooooooo

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@JPierreCoyle I brought my visiting manager from the US there a few years back, on the company dime (his PA informed me he liked "meat and two veg" food and I figured that would do it). It was pretty nice but almost entirely full of middle aged men on expense accounts.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@ErisLovesMovies I also made Boat Friends with some nice academics from Genoa when we were in Sicily.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@oceanclub I get the impression that a lot of Dublin new builds are entirely designed around the principle of "how can I build this as cheaply as possible while cramming as many rooms in as possible, given how much the land cost". You do get the odd nice one, but ... yeah.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@JPierreCoyle That looks DELISH.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@_emilyoram I looooooved tap as a kid! I can still do a semi-respectable Manhattan time step....

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@lrbobrien Oh yeah, incredibly dull. Bleurgh. And I speak as someone who likes Sam Stephenson.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@SueKirk @SaMcDuff @cianginty Is she the one who makes cornflakes from scratch in a ballgown, etc.? I always assumed it was some kind of weird performance art project.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@legionoftwo Look at you TINY BABIES. I had also forgotten how much ye olde Point looked like a shed.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@Viriconia Ah boo. I hope the rest of it is better and that you have a nice Birthday Weekend (or week/month, I fully believe my birthdays should be as long a festival as possible).

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@_emilyoram Oh god those mandatory training videos. We have one on workplace discrimination and it is basically THE SAME ONE EVERY YEAR AND IT GOES ON FOR AN HOUR.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@Viriconia Urgh, sympathies. 14yo and I had what I presume was the same filthy cold and it was very, very cough-y. I am just getting over it now and am a being of pure Lemsip/Exputex.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@sarramanning I am very close to not getting it as I have only one guess left and can't for the life of me think what it might be.

[Lisa Carey @msleedy]

@shockproofbeats My late great-aunt used the (possibly self-invented) "bulliphants", which I feel is in need of a revival.