I spent £150 in one of Brum's Michelin star restaurants (Adams) to see if it was worth the hype and the cost.
I got high and cried. Here's how it went:
I'm common as muck and spent £150 in a Michelin star restaurant to see if it was really worth it. Here is me, shortly before I cried.
Feature to follow! Stay tuned.
When I was a teenager, I was homeless for a time. I was dropped off at a YMCA with just a sleeping bag and I cried and cried and cried, for the journalism career that I felt slipping away from me and into the Never. Writing is all I ever wanted.
Thank you for reading my stuff ❤️
A few people have messaged offering to pay for my Adam's dinner, or asking if they can treat me to dinner at other places. While I am super touched by this, and I bloody love money, can I instead suggest that you consider donating to
@Sifafireside
instead? Pass on the good vibes.
this is just the LOVELIEST. And goes out to all the moaning-faced, stupid-poncey-food-what's-wrong-with-home-cooked-or-a-pie-and-pint brigade
Go you,
@bozzers
OK bab. Look, I have some pretty significant news to share and writing didn't seem like the best way to say it and so here's a video. I cry in it, so I'm sorry if you don't like crying.
When I die, I hope I get buried in the centre of the best city in Britain where they can build a helter skelter pub on top of my grave to blast I'm Every Woman by Chaka Khan at 4pm. It's what I deserve xx
Just a warning: David Starr is back online giving it the "I have had tons of help and now I'm doing better" shtick.
Not today, sir. Not ever. We will not forget.
Four years ago today, a total stranger coached me through one of the most awful anxiety attacks of my life in Boots on the High St in
#Birmingham
. He might have been called Dan but I'm not sure. Is it you? I would love to say thank you.
Just for more information. Pete is one of very few men involved in these discussions at this time. He is using his knowledge of the industry to help.
He is an ally to the women behind this movement.
Working with a variety of people to try and put something in place. Very early stages, literally just discussions at the moment but I hope people can find it reassuring that conversations are happening about how to move forward with safety for everyone as a top priority.
I am still getting loving messages about my food story, a week later 🥺
I just wanted to tell you that I have never felt so much warmth in all of my life.
I could never express to you how much I needed to feel this just now.
Thank you so much for giving me love and hope ❤️
I love writing a lot, but I hate putting myself out there to just be ragged on for being fat in comment sections. Give me a break, I'm trying to survive out here, to make a living and to just exist. What would you rather I do? Die? Just die? I don't get it.
Guys 🥺 guess where I am going?! I am on my way to
@RestaurantAdams
! They invited me to go and see the kitchen and I am so excited... 🥺🥺🥺
...for all the finger limes I am going to steal 😂😂😂
I jest. I won't steal, I promise. I'm so excited though!
I am so hype 🥺❤️
A few months ago, I decided I wanted to try something new: I wanted to ring announce, proudly declaring to a wrestling audience just who they were about to watch, and who the victors were. I have felt for a long time that I didn't have the voice, the face or the body to ever...
The
#BoneyardMatch
was so much fun. I felt like little Bozzers again. It invoked a real, child-like sense of excitement. You didn't even have to be a wrestling fan to understand the nuances of the story. It was so well told. What a journey. And the hand at the end? Ace!
Harborne Waitrose is getting rid of the deli counter and replacing it with a sushi counter and it's all kicking off in the community group. Big time.
Unsubscribing from Hulu and just watching this instead xo
Think about what you are saying when you suggest that the answer to someone's mental health crisis is "just reach out" or "check in on your friends". Think of the suffering that contributes to, right now.
We need to talk about mental health more deeply. This isn't enough.
@TheProductDS
How dare you? How dare you come here and tweet this, when so many didn't have chance to unfollow you before you snuck away and disabled your account? How dare you trigger our pain?
If you want to do the right thing, stay away. I can barely believe this behaviour.
A strict PR once arranged for me to interview
#PaulOGrady
but we crossed paths early, in a smoking area. He greeted me with: "I LOVE YER FROCK!" 🥰
He was warm and... normal (?) for a celebrity. I guessed it was the Liverpool in him. We nattered on like two babs at a bus stop.
I'm taking my friend Dolores out for coffee today before I go to London for the wrestling. I am excited to tell her about the story going viral! She is 80 and doesn't have the Internet! ♥️
Women's rights campaigner Mary MacArthur led female chain makers in Cradley Heath in a demo to get a living wage in 1910. Those brave babs secured Britain's first ever minimum wage! Leftover funds from the strike built a Workers' Institute. Visit it at the
@BCLivingMuseum
!
#IWD
Here is my girl, Janka! 🥺❤️ I couldn't stop cuddling her 😂 I was so happy to have the chance to tell her how the service she gave made so many people joyful. I will never forget her for all of my life. Those wines behind me are £,£££ but Janka is more rare and precious!
I went behind the scenes at the Michelin star restaurant that changed my (culinary) life! Did you know they don't even have a gas hob?! Thought that was mental!
@RestaurantAdams
Shall we go out for a succulent Chinese meal later to honour my guy? Where in Birmingham would you suggest for this endeavour. Asking for votes because it's democratic x
No 10: 'The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer have today received notification that the Metropolitan police intend to issue them with fixed penalty notices. We have no further details, but we will update you again when we do.'
Hi
@Twitter
. You need to get a handle on this fucking Smethwick thing, and fast. I didn't come on to your platform tonight to watch a young man die. Why are you leaving this content up? This is so damaging. Get it sorted, immediately.
Do you want me to write about it, maybe? Y'know like, tell you what their bloody big massive cooker is like etc? I have a four ring electric number that I barely touch because it makes me angry. I bet their microwave is impressive!
Dude, no evidence of cancer in my intestine! That's nice news isn't it? Had six biopsies to be sent to pathology but overall I'm just feeling really glad that I got super high today on drugs and didn't have to pay for them. Thanks, NHS.
When you hoped you'd be forged into a mace or a sick ceremonial sword or a mighty warhammer and then you just become a piece of track for the London Underground...
Do you think I'm fat through choice? In this world that treats fat people like this?! Why would anyone?! But I have trauma, and medication, and depression, all of which make being *not* fat really, really hard. Give me a break, man. I'm just trying to live.
I was chatting to an American earlier who is temporarily staying in Birmingham. I asked where and they said "downtown".
My question to you guys is: where do you reckon they meant? Where is our "downtown" would you suggest? 😊
If you’ve not read this super-viral and beautiful piece by
@Bozzers
then do so! Then please join me in doing all we can to get her on
#Masterchef
as a guest judge/critic.
Hiya bab. This is just a little reminder, in case you needed to hear it, that no good can come of beating yourself up about things that happened today. It's almost midnight - we med it through. Tomorrow is a new day and a fresh chance to try again x
Today I went into an army surplus store to buy a waterproof jacket and I was so uncomfortable and anxious that I panic bought this red jumpsuit and nothing else. Going to work down the arches now and I'll fix your car if you want, it's up to you xxx
I just referred to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens as 'Botty Gards' and honestly, I am on borrowed time because I think the police are coming to get me. If I don't see you, keep out the 'oss roads xx
I'll shut up in a minute but I just want to say how proud I feel of that closing ceremony. I feel like it really encapsulated all that makes Birmingham special. Its diversity, and the strength of the sum of all of those parts. It was just so good. I'm made up.
#CommonwealthGames
I'm thinking of writing more, outside of the work I'm hired to write for other outlets, so I don't have to get caught up in snappy headlines or thinking about analytics. Just from-the-heart sort of stuff. Would you be interested in reading that maybe?
Found my first piece of silver with my metal detector today! This S Morden & Co piece of (what I believe is a) mechanical pencil. Sampson Morden invented them back in 1822! The family continued until 1941 when their factory was destroyed in the Blitz.
Some find for a writer! 😍
Today I queued for TWO HOURS to get a jacket potato in Tamworth. TikTok famous spud slinger Spudman is shifting 1,500 taters in a day. Tuber-tter believe I'm going to explain whether I think it's worth the hype. Brace for thrilling journalism xxx
I have spent hours on the phone with
@drillamoloney
these past few days. I have know him and his family since he was a child. He burdened himself by putting his head above the parapet when others were afraid to. He spoke out, with no concern for how doing so...
If you've already donated, I just want to say thank you. We are passing joy through the universe, between each other, plate to gob to page to website. It's beautiful, especially at a time that is so bleak and sad. Love xx
I'll shut up about it in a bit but now I'm home, I can take in what Jacqui said. Writing, to me, is a calling. I try my best to answer it every day. Warmth is what I feel for the community I serve, this beautiful city. I'm so happy it comes across in my work. To hear this?! 😭♥️
Hey so I know that this is putting me in the line of fire but I wanted to write it anyway. I went to Alton Towers a while ago and on the first ride, staff struggled to fasten me in because I have a fat body. So, after a big cry, I went back.
Bozzers' big adventure!
I've never announced at an independent wrestling show before! 🥺❤️ It's a trip!
Thanks for having me,
@ThisIs_Progress
, and for all you have done to make me feel so welcome and supported.
Looking forward to
#SSS16
TOMORROW! 🥰
On my way to see
@joelycett
! I'm so pleased to be going. I know it's daft, but I just feel so chuffed that a TV show is being filmed in Brum. As much as I respect them, I feel like people still only think of Lenny and Jasper when it comes to Midlands light entertainment. No more!
Man. I cannot stop thinking about this lunch. It gave the whole world a filter, colours were brighter, somehow more vivid. How can that be? Is it a chemical thing?
It's OK to care about historical injustice AND the state of the world AND ALSO be sad that the Queen died. People are complex and capable of caring about more than one thing at a time. Grief shaming is a weird flex 😖 You don't know what people are going through do ya? 😕
BREAKING: The tension is palpable in the dairy aisle at Selly Oak Sainsbury's this afternoon as they run out of clotted cream on Jubilee weekend. Middle class white couples are being more passive aggressive than usual as scones are abandoned near the milk. More at eight x
Can someone at Reach please offer a significant cash lump sum to the genius engineer who has added that big gap between SAVE and PUBLISH on the content management system? Because they're a genius and must be treated as such.
And if you want to support me, maybe ask the editor of your favourite publication to check out my work, I'm open to commissions and desperate to write. Lots of love and thank you again for all of your sweet messages and tweets xx
Regardless of whether you think Russell Brand is an abuser or if there's some big conspiracy against him, calling women liars when they speak out about abuse is damaging to the women in your real life. Your moms, sisters, friends, daughters. Please think about it.
I have BOOKED TO GO FOR LUNCH AT
@simpsons_rest
! I am extremely excited to try their plant-based tasting menu 🥺❤️ And to take someone with me who hasn't eaten posh food before to blow their bloody mind. I am so jazzed!
Look who made us dinner tonight! 😍 Shortly before this photo was taken I said: "Aldo, bab. Do the book face for me, will you?" 😂❤️
Thank you for having me
@AldoZilli
😊
My ex-fiancé and his new girlfriend are coming to my house to drop off a "care package" to me, which is the most beautiful display of British solidarity I have ever heard of.
It's been 20 years this month since I first experienced homelessness. Absolutely the most life-alteringly frightening time, I feel like my actual brain is a different shape because of it. I wish that kid could see me now. And, well, she's still alive in me so, I guess she can.