Alice Gray

Imagine an episode of Real Housewives but Miss Piggy is part of the cast and no one acknowledges it.

It’s always such an honour to judge the #WalesSTEMAwards - each year, without fail, I’m blown away by the entries and the fantastic STEM businesses, projects and activities in Wales.

I have been joking that Mabli is now Spanish because - with her new haircut - she looks like a-spaniel (español)

A very typical day in the life of Alice Gray - I had a tonne of errands I needed to run at lunch but I got sent on a side-quest because I found a baby hedgehog. It’s safely at the vets, fingers crossed it’s okay 🤞

@kate_cluett Oh Kate! You are a mature cheddar cheese with a balsamic onion chutney, maybe some rocket in there. You would be on crusty white bread with salty butter, cooked on a sandwich press xx

@AliceJaneGray Ooh what am I?!

You know some people have synaesthesia and can tell you what colour your name is? Well I can tell you what kind of cheese toastie you are based on your personality.

A kind man stopped me on my dog walk this morning to check if I was okay after a man catcalled me. In response, I awkwardly congratulated him on being a nice man. More of this please. (If you know a nice man with a moustache who frequents Claude Rd, tell him well done)

Living in Roath/Splott means there are more seagulls here than there are by the sea. And at this time of year, they’re all fighting to protect their babies - there’s a lot of gull-on-gull action 😏

We are big fans of democracy 🗳️

A short summary of how I got her:

BBC Wales Today - How researchers are using beeswax to help families living in war zones 🐝 Available on iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Cardiff in the summer 🌞:

If you just saw me and my dog fleeing from three swooping seagulls and you thought it was *funny* then you are *wrong* and I think you'll find we were being *brave*. And YES I did shout 'I don't want your stupid seagull babies' as we ran. What of it? That’s NOT embarrassing.

I’m going to start putting Real Housewives taglines as my instagram captions. It’s like the millennial urge to put song lyrics as captions, but more bewildering.

I just saw three parakeets flying around Waterloo gardens - it was very Kensington.

As someone who both works in PR/marketing and is single, so is using the dating apps (as little as I can) - I’ve been watching this with frustrated fascination. For a brand that says they are ‘women-focused’, Bumble has fumbled.

Instead of focusing on changing the app culture for the benefit of their female usership (which are essential to their business model - because they are very much the product they ‘sell’ to their majority male demographic), they shame women for not accepting poor behaviour.

It’s interesting seeing the dichotomy in the coverage of Bumble’s new marketing campaign, comparing the coverage from just days ago, which is clearly based on Bumble’s press release, verses the real-time reaction from women to a poorly informed campaign, targeted to women.

Enjoy the visible aurora borealis, I hope it makes you very happy