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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 3d

Me: Darling, last week the swimming teacher said you did 10/10 listening. Do you think you could do that again this week?
The Preschooler [proudly]: I’m going to do ten out of NINETEEN!

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 8d

“It’s not sad that he died. He’s gone up to fly a kite with Jesus.” Clergy child watches Mary Poppins.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 15d

Right, so what if you were the Billy Elliot of figure skating but you’ll never know. That’s the point: what if you were naturally amazing at something you’ve never tried, because of lack of opportunity?

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 15d

Do you ever lie awake wondering if you could have been a figure skating prodigy?

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 16d

I read VOGUE so you don’t have to!

Here’s what’s in with the high fashion crowd this season:

1 TIGHTS WITH NO TOPS just tights on their own
2 STANDING IN CORNERS
3 Standing on a giant plate
4 Crawling along the floor with one hand out and your head making contact with the floor.

You’re welcome!

Vogue advertisement of ladies only wearing tights with bags artfully covering their boobs

Miu Miu advertisesment of a lady in a coat

Cartier advertisement of a lady in a red dress on a giant white circle

McQueen advert of lady with a leather jacket looking weirdly uncomfortable on the floor

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18d

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 23d

Imagine being so excited for the Aldi wooden toy event that you arrive two Thursdays early 😳.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 23d

Planning coffee with a baby mum I met…
Her: And I go to this baby group in the morning as well do you want to come?
Me: Wait no this is my one thing a day.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 26d

www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/events/littl... book launch tonight at the University Church, Oxford

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 27d

Me: Goodnight, my love (hugs my 3 year old).
3 Year Old: I don’t like persons squeezing children.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 28d

There must have been some schooling going on, because I got straight As at GCSE and A-Level 🙄

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · 28d

Catholic private schools round the country are closing: my Alma Mater, Aton Convent and Our Lady’s Abingdon both closed this summer. But I’m carrying on the Catholic School energy at children’s church today, with a rousing rendition of “God said to Noah, there’s going to be a floody floody..”

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 19

Tobias is maintaining his perfect track record for enthusiastically participating in a free trial class and then, when I sign him up and pay the term’s fee, rolling on the floor crying and declaring I DON’T LIKE THIS.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 17

Happy Hildegard of Bingen day to late bloomers! She didn’t start writing until she was 42.

It’s not too late to pursue your dreams 🙂

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 15

Me, when I find a great babysitter: Thanks, this has been great. We should do this again sometime.
The babysitter: Actually I’m moving to New Zealand on Friday.

Kind of reminds me of back when I was dating!

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 15

My childhood self cannot cope with the fact that someone on our local facebook page is giving all this away for free.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 13

I thought so but then I doubted myself.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yeah that’s what I should have said.

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yes that makes sense. In this case they didn’t mention a specific country, but being from a place where this ingredient grows if that makes sense?

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 13

would you then see that as an invitation to ask where they’re from? Because I did because it seemed to be how the conversation was flowing but then I thought maybe I shouldn't have? 2/2

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 13

Question: it‘s well established that it’s a racist/xenophobic microaggression to ask someone where they’re from. But if someone you are chatting to alludes to being from another country, e.g. mentions they always used to cook with a particular herb that doesn’t grow in this country 1/2

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 5

#writeCBC She ran her hand through the soft balls of cotton socks. One felt jagged. The sharp corner of a cardboard photograph was sticking out. She carefully unpeeled the image from its innocuous wrapping. It was a grainy, black-and white-picture of a child. She held it up towards the light.

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our #WriteCBC runners-up are @petraglover.bsky.social and @sorrelmay.bsky.social‬‬! 👏

Huge congratulations to you both, you’ve each won a £50 course discount!

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · Sep 5

You can't catch autism

You can't become autistic

You can't develop into an autistic person because of environmental or medical reasons

It's not a disease

Vaccines save lives, they do not create autistic people

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Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social · Sep 5

As soon as Keir Starmer said Angela Rayner had his full support I knew she was toast.

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