Louisa Whitton
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Louisa Whitton
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Obsessions include cricket, transport, music, poetry and remembering useless facts. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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No matter how broken & tired your brain may feel you’re a valuable human.
I’m saying this to myself as well as you 🌿
You've got a 7 day all line rover ticket... What 7 stations will you be visiting?

For me it will be:
London Waterloo*
Salisbury
Sea Mills
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Nethertown
Wemyss Bay
Dunrobin Castle

* the only major London terminus I've never visited!
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If we switched to #renewableenergy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because they're just carrying coal & oil & gas!! buff.ly/dpTrSpO

We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateAction #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal
1. Backstage on the "Bake Off" she was known as "Beery" due to her drunkeness
2. She compulsively bakes custard pies for use in her pranks
3. She was Serge Gainsbourg's first choice of partner on "Je t'aime..."
4. She was once clocked driving at 173mph on the M3
5. Her real accent is Glaswegian
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
"The Asians coming was the best thing that ever happened to this place", she said, "we've learnt so much from them and they've learnt so much from us".

How far we've fallen.
Many years ago, when I was a student in Leicester, I got talking to a wonderful woman who had lived all her seventy-odd years in the city.

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The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
Top three Hitchcock:
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Rebecca

Then there's about a ten-way tie for fourth place
Top three Hitchcock:
North By Northwest
Shadow Of A Doubt
Rebecca

There was a lot of competition for the third spot but Rebecca has George Sanders entering a house via the French windows, so it wins.
Top three Hitchcock:

Notorious
The Lady Vanishes
North by Northwest

Give me love and light and sex and occasionally a refined Nazi with a wine cellar
Another reason to hate the clock change
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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The showbiz level of #F1 podiums has come a very long way. Here are (1) last weekend’s Austin podium & (2) the Fuji ’77 podium, which only the 3rd-placed driver bothered with, & about which chaotic race I’ve written my latest #MotorSport column. Click the link in my post below.
In the Dales village I have to drive through a couple of times a week the St George's flags have been looking sorrier every time. And last week, someone had strung a line of little flags of multiple nations to the fence beneath them.
She's clearly not yet caught up with Mrs Beeton's book, which includes a whole section on Indian food
Are you really Ingerlish if your entire autumnal wardrobe isn't poppy-themed?
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NEW VIDEO!

We start our epic 200-year journey through the history of British women in the air with the very earliest days of flight - the age of hot air balloons and gliders.

youtu.be/Rd0ILLtjk84
Women Who Made Britain Fly: Getting Off the Ground, 1785 - 1900
YouTube video by Catherine Warr
youtu.be
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[The swimmer] said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was. It said 9.30am. So we were out on that side and then as soon as you come back over it was literally completely different. A lesson learned for me."