🌱Catherine Appleton

@DreyfusJames People who don't like dogs are missing a part of their soul - fact

Yes. There ARE bad & irresponsible dog owners. No. There are NOT ‘dog friendly’ places everywhere. Bottom line. Dogs are integral to this country. Here before you. Way before. Always have been. Always will be. Most people love them. You don’t? Too bad. Cope. 🤷

@jk_rowling Rio 2026 800 metres - 3 non-women steal gold, silver and bronze from 3 women

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.

@bunsenbernerbmd not all heroes wear capes 💙

Bunsen is in the news! USA Today! usatoday.com/videos/pets-an…

@DailyPicTheme2 I love my summer harvest from my polytunnel - this photo brings back that wonderful warm fresh picked tomato aroma of summer

Tuesday 10 March Today’s Daily Picture Theme is ‘Bountiful Harvest' RT or reply with your own photo Tomorrow’s theme will be 'Candle Light' #DailyPictureTheme #Bountiful Harvest

@LissaKEvans @ChountisFabbri yes it's wonderful, fascinating - I could've spent days there

@ChountisFabbri It’s one of the most fascinating, extraordinary (and, in my case) inspirational places I’ve ever been to.

Blue Peter, 1984. Calke Abbey, the Derbyshire mansion where, when rooms filled up, they closed the door and moved to the next one. When the money ran out they shut the house. The BBC once made mini-documentaries of this quality for children’s television. youtu.be/s6iMF03aUMs?si…

@LissaKEvans My husband described one piece of modern "classical" music on R3 as sounding like someone throwing a piano full of cutlery down the stairs ....

Radio 3 featuring a ‘difficult’ vocal album that has had me lunging for the off switch, shouting ‘Thank you, you have delighted us enough’.

@cmclymer @1goodtern he was booed, long and loud - good!

To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow: Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too. Signed, the American people

@babybeginner where are schools sending classes of children to antiICE protests? I can't find anything online about this.

These aren’t protests folks. Look at all these people assaulting those officers! These riots are no place for children. Schools are now sending whole classes of kids to “protests”. This is so dangerous now. Don’t let them take kids to protests!

@_caswel @forwardnotback you need to look up the definition of a "Karen". Because what this woman did was NOT being a Karen 🙄

@forwardnotback Karens are the dividing line between civilization and barbarism.

I frowned I sighed I eventually said “excuse me, someone has to sit there after you” I was ignored The woman who barked “FEET” was not!

@LissaKEvans @OctaviaEvans_ And this is why women go into toielts in groups, thank goodness they did. And hurray for them!

@OctaviaEvans_ Well done to these young women and to the security guard.

Two men in the women's toilets at the Hippodrome after the (fantastic!) NAG Awards. Picked the wrong evening to break the law, that's for sure.

@OctaviaEvans_ These young women behaved magnificently and bravely in the face of 2 massive men - hurray for their bravery and determination. And thank goodness the security staff upheld the law.

@scruffy_jack @LBFlyawayhome oh, me too! exactly the same words used 😂

@LBFlyawayhome Got thrown out of the Brownies for being a ‘disruptive’ influence 😹

Now this takes me back

@billykayscot Shark is brilliant, best vacuum ever - lightweight, works brilliantly, lift away top etc - wish I'd bought mine years ago

The sad news is that my hoover has reached the end of its days. The good news is it’s a Dyson so good riddance to any association with that charlatan. Any recommendations for a replacement though, peeps? January sales bargains welcome. Any make but Dyson please.

@LissaKEvans I am Woman, sung by Helen Reddy, is one of my all time favourite songs to sing very loudly - and it's about women being fabulous, whichmakes it all the more marvellous 👍

Heard ‘Try a Little Tenderness’ playing in a charity shop yesterday (the Otis Redding version) and if I were miraculously granted a marvellous singing voice (no false modesty here - I sing like a gnat trapped in an ear canal) that’s what I’d choose to belt out to the world. You?

@LissaKEvans Happy New Year! I've started the year with the usual dog/puppy wrestling going on next to me on my bed 😂

Happy New Year! Let tomorrow be a lovely day....

2 weeks ago Blossom (aged 8 weeks) joined our family - this is the morning after she arrived. Eddie adores his baby sister!

@LissaKEvans I absolutely loved this book, it's a delight 💙

I've been shown a lovely substack review of 'Small Bomb at Dimperley' which contains the phrase 'I admired Evans's ability to make competence a sexy character trait' and this has made me extremely happy.

@LissaKEvans now this made me laugh so much, the dog sat up and stared at me

A recipe in today's Guardian food supplement involves peeling walnuts, so I'm setting it aside just in case I have to spend 10 years in solitary confinement.

@DuncanHenry78 @jk_rowling aaaaahhh the old male "whataboutery" ... 🙄

But there’s no evidence. Or insufficient evidence. Or if there is that’s for a different reason. Men and boys are also assaulted. Why don’t you talk about that instead? Why are you labelling all men predators how does it even affect you you’re rich omg it’s just haaaaaate!!! 😭😭😭😡 Etc.

Bear with me here, but it's almost as though girls and women who want female-only spaces aren't scaremongering, hysterical, lying bigots after all. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/0…

@LissaKEvans @juxtabook oh yes! Except that Mattie would have all her girls in a line behind her, sliding in harmony

It’s been pointed out to me by @juxtabook that the lady with the briefcase feels like a glimpse of Mattie from Old Baggage..,