My new substack on the latest Covid wave here and some thoughts about the ongoing Module 3 of the Covid Inquiry and what happened to the NHS. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Another Covid wave
GNU Dame Maggie Smith. My perfect Granny Weatherwax. Mind how you go.
Beautiful early morning colours here in Glastonbury today. Taken about half an hour before sunrise.
Hey folks, if you notice my absence it's cos the body of my dear friend Carol, who's been missing since January, was found in local woods earlier in the week, and... perhaps understandably I'm having trouble focussing on much. Normal service will be resumed etc. Take care of each other, be kind.
‘Politicians shamelessly chase votes from the Crime Fiction community’ (my cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian Books).
It'll be 12 years this fall since my mom died. Losing a parent is hard as hell. Let's help out. We're all just walking each other home, darlings.
Jessica Wick is one of my dearest friends; she co-founded Goblin Fruit with me, & is very much family. She lost her mother last month, & it's been harrowing to witness all the ways in which vicious systems essentially paywall the right to grieve. If you can donate or signal boost, thank you.
Hi there, friends. This is Amal El-Mohtar, Carlos Hernandez, J… Claire Cooney needs your support for A Gift in a Time of Grief for Jessica and Jeremy Wick