Happy Friday!

It’s been a long time, here are some links

Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system, This is just awful, caring for mum is hard but I know it has an end point, caring for a child may have an end point but usually not and then parent-carers have to worry about what happens when they aren’t there to do it anymore. As a society, we are over reliant on the unpaid work of women (and look I know that it’s not always women but mostly it is!) and we stretch carers with no regard as to what happens when they break.

I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise. This isn’t enough money for the scale of the problem. I know he cares about it but rough sleeping isn’t just about homelessness. You need healthcare and therapy and addiction support and a decent place to live, not a bed in a hostel or B&B, that costs a lot of money and time and you’ll fail and fail again without that.

Calls for urgent law change as UK’s largest water reuse system cannot be switched on. Honestly, this is ridiculous…

Andy Burnham has barely acknowledged the climate crisis. If only Britain’s workers had that luxury

The Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here. It’s interesting, we have always joked that the family is on the spectrum, but I do think that society makes ADHD much easier to have, it’s the screens and the pace and the expectations. If I look back at my childhood, I could see that I would have probably been referred but I also think that I grew up with a parent who was similar and had coping strategies which I learnt and I have a friend who started their child’s day with an hour in the park before school because they needed the outlet. So I can see what he’s saying…

Swedish gummies, Parisian linens, and Moroccan mint tea: what travel experts always bring home from their trips. I’m not well travelled but things I brought back from Cote d’Ivoire, pottery and a wooden salad bowl and hibiscus flowers, from the US, coasters, and gin. Things I would always try to bring back from France, yoghurt, cheese and La Vosgienne and Rhodia notebooks (also wine!).

 Which plants will survive and can I use grey water? Gardening as UK summers get drier. I’m thinking about a huge investment in ollas and mulch for next year and also a way to make watering the mini orchard and blueberries slightly easier. It’s harder to save water as all the suggestions are for people with gardens at home, I can’t run a hosepipe from my bathroom to my plot!

Not a problem I have but something I’ve noticed. The Hidden Cost of Having a Husband

Has the Aperol Spritz Been Dethroned?

Another Spirit of ’76: George Washington’s Whiskey. I did know about the distillery at Mount Vernon but I didn’t get see it, honestly, I found Mount Vernon hugely disconcerting and sort of forgot about it.