Sarah Slade
@sladey.bsky.social
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Middle-aged, middle-sized, recovering Gen X workaholic, ARMY, OT7, INFJ, PTID, embarrassing parent, Archers Listener. Truly I am Everywoman. Also jazz. And cats. And yelling at the Today programme. If I don’t know you, don’t DM me.
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That is such a brilliant work. The Giant O’Brien is also marvellous but my favourite is Beyond Black.
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Henry Cotton was from Nunhead #antiquesroadshow (waiting for the Sally Wainwright)
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Pierce Brosnan is in this so-bad-it’s-good afternoon Marple??
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It’s about a cat! A black cat that looks like Missy! That’s all you need.
Photo of a black cat with an injured paw. Looking evil
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Absolute scenes in the garden as a gang of parakeets try to scare off the blue tits on the bird feeder.
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Yeah but that’s Dulwich College for you. He wasn’t the worst of ‘em (pretty close though)
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Even when he’s a faithful, Mark Bonnar looks a bit dodge #CelebrityTraitors
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Just spat out my coffee
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Is this real or am I in a coma?
Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.
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Yeah that’s it. Only with better food and the villains have to wear groovy cloaks while they’re villaining.
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And they get taken out every day to do weird tasks in the woods. Or on lakes.
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And it’s in a castle
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It’s more “Picky Bits” than tapas.
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So my point is, it’s a structural issue that forces people into boxes at an early age, restricting their choices and valuing received knowledge over actual skills.
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It also didn’t help that she couldn’t do a degree in Korean because her Korean was too good and she didn’t have A-level French.
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Little’s decision to do a business rather than an academic degree was based on pragmatism. She could learn transferable skills and get a job doing dull stuff, get a bursary, pay off her student debt and also study what really moved her.
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…and a story about how they’re really mixed race because their great gran was from Cork.
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Racist nonsense and p*** jokes, until they realise they’re talking to a a pale mixed-race person and then the fun really starts, usually with “Yeah, but…”
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That whiskey had better be Bushmills #gbbo
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THAT’S MY CLADDAGH RING!!! #gbbo
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What would we do, sit and grumble at Russians?
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Managed 27 mins of #r4today and switched just in time to catch the birdsong on r3, much to the cats’ confusion.
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Another poor sod who was forced to polish the silver and brass tchotchkes as a child! #antiquesroadshow
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Dump the fash! #strictly