Lizzy Bell

When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.

Enough with the AI generated fake footage of 9/11. It was the first ever terrorist attack with camera phone footage. It was so grainy, watched it so many times in the Home Office in the aftermath. So disrespectful to fake it for clicks

Mum has discovered AI generated cat videos and is very happy.

Whoops, on holiday so forgot to post this. Two great jobs as head of delivery for CPS, one profession, one programme. Multiple locations England and Wales, relaxed hybrid working, lots of great stuff to do. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Have just amazed my family and friends with this picture of AN UMBRELLA DRYER in the lobby of the Manchester office.

Sometimes a service design mindset is not helping when all you really need to do is surrender to the ‘recruitment form which is slightly but critically different from the process in your last four departments’ But on the positive side: we are hiring 2 x g6 delivery managers, ads out v soon

- Why did this civilisation collapse? - Some of its finest minds were driven to madness by endless evenings refreshing websites to book their children's after-school activities. - But why did they not simply have websites that worked? - No one knows. Scholars differ.

Come and join our growing team at CPS. We’re seeking an experienced head of product to lead and grow our product team and profession. We work in dozens of locations in England and Wales and have a very flexible, fully hybrid approach. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Soft launch when everyone is distracted recovering from the England game...Product for the People is back on the 3rd September in Bristol. Less unconference-y this time - more corridor conference-y with three brilliant speakers and some lightly facilitated conversations. luma.com/rjsq2i36

I love polling so much yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Hiring - lovely job working with the fabulous Kate Ivey Williams and leading lights of gov design. Dozens of England and Wales locations, committed to flexible, relaxed hybrid working. Come and help our UCD practice grow even bigger and better www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

North London is hideous. I don’t remember Man U paralysing the whole of Manchester’s public transport when we won the treble

Everyone in the house except me has a fan. God damn middle aged altruism

How good are these? And yes, they are toast-its! I am disproportionately happy

In my career I have organised stuff involving PMs, celebs and royalty, in remote prisons and in freezing car parks with vehicles too large to travel on public roads. none of this compares to trying to corral 15 groups of y7 parents to one campsite

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Very pleased to see Ted Crilly as dummy account owner in a prototype today. It’s the small things

Two weeks in at the Crown Prosecution Service. Great people, proper mission, great design led thinking. Oh and this is the view from the kitchen…We are going to be hiring a lot of people in the coming months, starting with senior product and delivery roles.

on a hotel balcony drinking cold beer from which I can ‘actually see into’ Pompeii ruins. 5th? time here and it never gets less exciting. my family are mostly very nicely tolerant ‘look guys, it’s only a 45m walk to the villa dei mysteri!’

Naples tube stations are nearly as good as the Pompeii mosaics

why do female Olympic athletes who do international standard ice dancing have to do it in their pants? Didn’t we get over this a while back with the beach volleyball thing?

Wow, so they actually bothered to replatform civil service pensions into a service which ‘doesn’t actually tell you how much your pension is’. love to see the early user stories version for this and the rag-rated critical path to go live.

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

This is amazing! How did I not see this before!

Mojo thoroughly back via #SDingov. Great couple of days with inspiration from new voices, old lags and colleagues past and present. Oh, and a magician.

I’m confused. Why did far right protestors circle the IMAX? What has the imax ever done to them, etc..

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Austria rocks but Verona has actual gladiator mosaics

Less than a week away interrailing feels like about three. Space time continuum truly disturbed

I am so brain dead with Covid that last night when The Last of Us finished and auto-played a different programme straight after, I didn’t notice for 20 mins. Thought it was some sort of crazy epilogue.

Absolute definition of spring today, hares running in the fields along Stonehenge and a great bustard in the middle of the stones

That thing where you are finally writing that end of week pithy email which summarises multiple meetings and next steps and then Windows does a forced restart.

I am once again on the ‘usual levels of insanely overheated’ Avanti back to London and I want to put a middle aged woman in charge of all thermostats, ever, in the world

Well that was a bit of a day.

This is how I want my cold February to be

Just spent three hours on HMRC’s pension calculator service and want to cry. I imagine it went something like: ‘no, content designers, annual allowance IS the same thing as pension input amount, it’s totally clear’ during a year long argument between CS pensions and HMRC legals

Waiting for a routine NHS appointment, unlike others I love this as reminds we how much we have to give voice and power to the non-clinical workforce…. and better tech.

@jukes.ie thanks for the repost! Hope your train is chill

I’m also shortly looking for a new G6 head of digital portfolio and ops for our 48-strong digital team, DM me if interested. Leeds and London based

Just re-upping this for the #ukgc25 crew

What a fabulous way to spend a Saturday in January. Blue Monday can bob off. Thanks to all the organisers, campmakers and sponsors #ukgc25

Have we got #failcamp yet? #ukgc25

My other half knows my love for #ukgc25 so much that he has made me stickers

@stephenmnewport.bsky.social we have an NHS Hack Day coming up at Cardiff Uni nhshackday.com on March 1/2 - it's a bit different to other hackathons. Do you think you could share with your networks? Here's a great post about what makes it special medium.com/@lauren.m.be...

Man, I really need to import my Twitter list..but also, govcamp! squeal

We are building a new digital business partner team at DHSC. Cracking job in a friendly team. Leeds and London www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...