Claire Read
@readthewriter.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor – healthcare; public sector/not-for-profit; cycle sport – and, on Tuesdays, a House of Commons committee reporter. Apostrophes in all the right places. 📽️🎮📺🎶 fan. Also naps. I like naps.
You wouldn't know it from my whinging, but I actually have Xero 😆 The problem this year was that I couldn't figure out why it was spitting out slightly different numbers from one I had recorded elsewhere. The fault was, certainly, with my poor-at-Maths self 😀
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
You wouldn't know it from my whinging, but I actually have Xero 😆 The problem this year was that I couldn't figure out why it was spitting out slightly different numbers from one I had recorded elsewhere. The fault was, certainly, with my poor-at-Maths self 😀
I’ve flirted with the idea of handing it all over to accountant, and then realised their ability to help will only be as good as the clarity of my records – which brings me back to the initial problem 😄
January 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I’ve flirted with the idea of handing it all over to accountant, and then realised their ability to help will only be as good as the clarity of my records – which brings me back to the initial problem 😄
One of my favourite films of the year too. So pleased to see it do so well here.
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One of my favourite films of the year too. So pleased to see it do so well here.
Even I have to concede that it was a *deeply* strange film 😄
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Even I have to concede that it was a *deeply* strange film 😄
Well see now I'd *thought* you were a massive Christmas fan, so I was bemused by the fleeting belief that you might have come over to my no-Chrimbo-music-in-November team 😆
Of course completely with you on the chocolate front.
Of course completely with you on the chocolate front.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Well see now I'd *thought* you were a massive Christmas fan, so I was bemused by the fleeting belief that you might have come over to my no-Chrimbo-music-in-November team 😆
Of course completely with you on the chocolate front.
Of course completely with you on the chocolate front.
That's boycott-worthy behaviour.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
That's boycott-worthy behaviour.