Kate Denham

Unnecessary small print: Tweets are my own views. Except retweets, they are someone else's views, obviously. If I share something it doesn't mean anything other than I shared it. Any resemblance of GIFs to real life people or events is purely coincidental/adorable.

Hello lovely twitter network -I'm trying to find out about hybrid working models in the post-post-pandemic times. Would love if you would take 5 mins to fill this in or share it. I will share openly all the data! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Someone told me yesterday that everyone who passes by takes a photo of this @OfficialTfGM mission statement. Plain english and simplicity more powerful here than a 30 page document for engaging and unifying staff, partners and stakeholders.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you will always spend 6+ months procrastinating over online training that turns out to take ten minutes

Dear @Ocado can i confirm that when this bit of card is out of stock you refuse take my foodbank donation? This is the second week - surely entirely within your power to print more? Not a great time for foodbanks to lose out on donations for the sake of a bit of printing

And yes this essentially sums up my return from maternity leave to 1000 rage inducing spam emails which i have to sort through to find the 5 important ones.

Is there any way of stopping all the business spam I seem to get offering me irrelvant marketing and training support. I have tried replying / asking them to stop / unsubscribing and it just keeps coming. (@MissIG_Geek this feels like your domain...)

Appointment through from @KingsCollegeNHS with stark (&stern) warnings about cost and consequences of DNA. Have been trying to cancel for three weeks and have been unable to get through on any of three provided numbers. I have time and energy to persevere. Many wouldn’t.

Urgently paging @HackBlackburn - I think it’s time to activate the Queen (or our next best option now even that is lost to us). Please?

Will never question whether the gamification of everything works after my 61 year old mother just looked up from her @duolingo to say that she needed to collect her night owl chest before noon so she could double her XP 🤣🤣

I can’t be the only one thinking this calls for a one off reboot of @TPpodcast_? Jeez louise.

Congrats @RachelBurnham, particularly impressed that you’ve achieved this designation *before* they’ve even seen your Cher impression.

BA have cancelled our flight with less than 24 hours notice. We are travelling with two small children, we have non refundable accommodation, car hire and activities booked. My mum will be stranded in rural france. Our new flight requires us to get a baby and a toddler up at 2am.

The good news is the visa for our Ukrainian sponsee (?) came through in 9 days. The bad news is my mum’s ukrainian sponsee family have been waiting since 31st march and despite all interventions including support from the MP we are no closer to a resolution @ukhomeoffice

All of my sons pyjamas keep falling down which is incredibly irritating (the beginnings of a challenging life as a beanpole). My plan was to buy some more pyjamas. My three year old had a cleverer idea.

I need to do a tweet thread update on this #ukraine visa application process but the whole thing is so, so exhausting I cant bring myself to do it. Suffice to day despite super helpful MP office and every tool in my disposal we are still no further on after 4 weeks.

Canvassers of all persuasions take note - I will usually politely decline a chat so you can move on. But if I answer the door whilst breastfeeding, negotiating with a toddler, or manhandling a screaming newborn and you don’t immediately apologise and leave I WILL TAKE YOU DOWN.

Anyone wondering how this is going, i tried the helpline (cuts out with no answer after 2 rings), have emailed the outsourced evidence collection website, the home office and the relevant MP. Meanwhile a scared child has had her birthday stranded in Germany. Watch this space.