Sausage rolls with that je ne sais quoi special ingredient.

New family in the hood.

Fab time at Slung Low Shorts at the Yorkshire Festival. My play The Uncivil War was performed by a super cast: Ellie Pawsey, Richard Galloway, Tara Daniels + Rik Thorpe with our equally super director Keeley Lane. Special thanks to our producer, the marvel that is Lisa Holdsworth

Official FIFA photo. Thank heaven for photoshop.

Something about this email just seems wrong.

Hard not to take personally, HBO Max.

Just what I want on a hot summer's day!

For grown up children everywhere.

Save UK children's television! Come along to our free online event on 29 June to hear from special guests Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sangita Myska, Nigel Plaskitt, Emma Reeves, Gail Renard + special appearance from Pipkins star Hartley Hare! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

I was just downloading my new treatment when AI told me, totally unbidden, that my script has a unique comic voice and is very marketable. Haven't I always told you I love AI?

A Stolpersteine is a "stumbling stone", placed outside the last residence of Holocaust victims in remembrance. These were some I stumbled upon when I was last in Berlin, in die Mitte. It would be wonderful to link them with their families.

Obviously placed for cats to spread the word.

A perfect summer's evening on the Terrace of the House of Lords, lobbying with @writersguildgb.bsky.social and BEAU (Broadcasting, Entertainment and Arts Unions) for creatives' rights.

I spotted this tribute to Elspet Gray and Brian Rix in Richmond Park. In true Rix farce fashion, I think you're supposed to fall backwards over it.

Two of the most iconic icons that ever there was.

You may only sit in the London Transport Priority seat whilst you are pregnant, carrying a small child and doing an impersonation of Charlie Chaplin.

Went to see new Banksy in Waterloo Place, London. Installation in middle of the night brilliantly masterminded. Best Banksy yet.

Never been so glad to be inside at the dentist when this hail storm hit. London in May!

"Beats me!"

Schrödinger's Recycling Bags.

At the age of 100, Sir David Attenborough springs out of his seat like a Jack-in-the-box.

My roses are eager this year.

In honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth, I'm showing the photo where Her Majesty photobombed me. She was always doing that.

I had a much loved Victorian apple tree in my garden, which grew the best Worcester Pearmains. Sadly the tree died a couple of years ago. The next spring, I noticed something growing a few feet away. The tree had thrown out a spur. It had left me a baby apple tree. And now...

Sorry, Trump looks nothing like Dr Finlay.

"You boy! I never had a relationship with Epstein."

Little did we realise that all this time Anne Boleyn was not dead, but hanging around Waterloo Station.

Back from Series Mania in Lille, where FSE (Federation of Screenwriters in Europe) launched new Report on Freedom Of Expression; a.k.a. Censorship, currently taking place in Europe and America. Bravo to Carolin Otto + David Kavanaugh for their hard work federationscreenwriters.eu/fse-publishe...

I think these spices might perhaps be past their sell by date. Maybe.

I saw the new British noir musical, Ruth, about Ruth Ellis, and thought it outstanding. An unlikely subject, but it works. It's on at Wilton's Music Hall in London. Catch it if you can.