Lissa Evans
@LissaKEvans
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
No, I am not dreaming and my Mum did not write this review of #SmallBombAtDimperley: theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…
Charles Pooter in his bucket hat. Son Lupin clearly more of a Blur man…
*Good personal news klaxon!* Delighted to say I've been asked to join The Scotsman as a regular columnist, every Monday, starting next week. Enjoyed writing some pieces for them last month and looking forward to a regular column. Onwards! x
How many times have men used the “but we have no Ladies toilet” excuse to keep women out of the workplace? The Carnegie Institution tried this in 1965 with Woman of the Day astronomer Vera Rubin when she applied to observe at the Palomar Observatory. She cut out a little paper…
Listening to an A&E consultant Kate Searle in the Peggie v NHS Fife claim she knows she's female because "she was assigned female at birth" and then say "she's not an expert in it". Absolutely excruciating symptom of how gender ideology rots medical & scientific knowledge.
Hey @nhsfife - Can you at least try and vaguely aim at medical accuracy on your website? This reads as if you asked a random 13 year old who didn't have his phone on him and who just made a guess. And it's an insult to those people with DSDs.
NHS Fife says that intersex is a "gender identity". archive.ph/706yG
"Did anyone else complain?" "No, just the woman who was immediately suspended, tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets of her home town, everyone else was totally fine with it..."
The echinacea are getting a bit bored oh me taking pictures of them - but they’re SO gorgeous…
Watson on his usual walk, happily oblivious to the surveillance team:
Bore da A first for the season, all five ospreys on the same perch at the same time last night. This was just before 10pm, a whole-family gathering on the same perch like this doesn't happen very often.
I quite enjoyed the latest ‘Jurassic Park’, but despite the bazillion dollar special GC, it doesn’t have one single shot with the imagination and simplicity of this one:
Nice, damp morning on the River Wye. I saw dippers, sand martins, a water wagtail and a heron…
Bore da Idris Breaks Another Record - how does he do it??
Unless someone gets a grip of this, Sandie Peggie will own most of Fife by the time this is over.
The people dealing with Upton's complaint about Peggie did not, for a moment, consider her feelings about getting changed in front of a man who is decades younger and about a foot taller than she is. It is literally only about his distress and tears 1/
God Bless @WaterstonesKids and @WaterstonesChi - speaking truth to browsers
Magnificence from @alexmassie:
"The Peggie case is but a microcosm of the macro failings apparent across a public sector where immovable stupidity meets unstoppable incompetence." ✍️ @alexmassie thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
This may be of interest to @SurreyPolice
The judge totally got it. You cannot police a counter demo when your Chief officer is banging the big trans drum. @northumbriapol