It’s five years since I was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. I wrote a big piece for Saturday magazine about the worst year of my life - terror, grief, miscarriage - and how it has led to some of the happiest

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow @GoNUJ93 and @NUJofficial or visit 

@jennylandreth I’m not sure what the plans are - I think it could still come out x

@JamieBowman77 I had the same thought

For those enjoying Orbital: wonderful images of astronauts/cosmonauts taking off for the International Space Station - and returning to remote grassland in Kazakhstan in their little pods

@DavidBrazil Ha thank you!

@DSProudfoot @LeBeaujolaisltd Thanks so much Douglas - I’ll look forward to visiting there again, had a nice vibe (and if Barry Miles says it’s soho then it’s soho I guess!)

@VisitDusseldorf Nice! Well I’d like to come back as I loved Dusseldorf. Also - is the traffic cone outside the old Kling Klang a Kraftwerk reference or just a traffic cone?

@VisitDusseldorf So there IS a walking tour? I stand corrected

@maxrushden I tweeted and Blueskyed a piece I wrote yesterday - I have over 40 times as many followers on here and yet the engagement on Bluesky was much better

@spinal_bap Where would be the iconic, defining route of the National Express do you think?

@Wummpaa Thank you!

RT @NTFabiano: A scientist treated her own cancer, then published the findings. 🧵1/12

Some very sad news

I’m also escaping the fascists, transphobes and porn bots onto Bluesky - same name as here

RT @Justom29: David Coote's next set of fixtures

RT @JonnyGabriel:

RT @AndrewDesiderio: Scathing statement from Bernie Sanders on the election results “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic…

@SethAbramovitch Thanks for speaking to me Seth