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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3h

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not watching #TheTraitors but I am enjoying my timeline.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 7h

For info - it was a commenter Esther Walker's substack and is absolutely the best anecdote I've read.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 7h

Substack comment - "I grew up next to Putney Common and Jilly Cooper was a neighbour. [...] I interviewed her for my school magazine. She answered the door with her two enormous dogs who I think were called Fortnum and Mason, and said "Darling, would you like a Gin and Tonic?" I was about 12."

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah there's a reason I try to go to stuff on Tuesday mornings in the hols and generally avoid installations.

(I'm still baffled by her coming up to you - the normal response is seethe quietly!)

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 8h

A) this is actuall bullshit Ben. I am sorry it happened to you all.

B) I genuinely don't understand what other people in the valley would be 'uncomfortable' about in this scenario??

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 1d

The very religious (and quite odd) RE teacher had a Prince Albert piercing.

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 1d

Fence #26 will be a special on all things print, and in tribute to the storied history of the UK gutter press, our letters page wants your GOSSIP & SCANDAL.

So, we're asking you all: what was the most scandalous (true or false) bit of gossip that dominated your school or neighbourhood growing up?

A photo of assembled paparazzi waiting to snap your shame for the scandal sheets.

A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 1d

I think pink a bit bright for English so Music/Drama.

(Or PE teacher promoted to SLT in charge of the new House system and personal development)

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 1d

My boyfriend says...

A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 2d

"In the 90s"

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 2d

Unrelated but the picture looks like a scene from a knock-off James Graham play.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 2d

There is very little in Mad Men that makes me think 'the past did it better' but air travel is def it.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

Ah the polari perhaps partly explains why it feels gendered to me. I can't imagine my 70 yr old Dad using it but definitely my Mum.

(Though my Dad def knows some Polari because he was a big fan of Jules and Sandy)

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

The rule in our house was, one cuts, the other chooses the piece.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

Those hops look beautiful!

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

I am so glad schools have moved on from the obsession with 10,000 hours.

A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

...but but this all seems sensible and helpful and potentially achievable* and pretty much at odds with all the bonkers things she says now?

*funding dependent obv

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

Out of interest, what did she do/say?

I feel like I hardly knew who she was then.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

I'm ashamed to admit it but it does make it look worse doesn't it?

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

Once again @manchestermill.bsky.social gets to the heart of a thing. I found this moving but also thought @ophiraophira.bsky.social 's honesty about her response to another community's fear important too.

Joshi Herrmann @joshiherrmann.bsky.social · 3d

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.

Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.

manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

manchestermill.co.uk

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

The Courtauld and the exhibitions on the top floor space of the RA would be instantly fucked. Absolute worst offenders for this.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 3d

This is a delightful Sunday morning read.

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 4d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 4d

Blustery weather somehow calls for moules.

A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 4d

Two cocktails before 7? Why not? It's Saturday and the day has been miserable.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 4d

The weather more than anything! Otherwise just a little dull.

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A Poor Player @apoorplayer.bsky.social · 4d

Two cocktails before 7? Why not? It's Saturday and the day has been miserable.

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