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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · Aug 31

Morning! New substack is about GOSS thatwriterjennycolgan.substack.com/p/one-should...

One shouldn't really be telling one...

Ooh, I do love gossip.

thatwriterjennycolgan.substack.com

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 5h

This is missing ITALIA!!!! But yeah, we're out in lots of places :) :) :)

Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 5h

This lovely thing today is out wherever books are sold, keep an eye out for it...

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 6h

Can't be the only huge new @catburnsglass.bsky.social fan this morning

Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 1d

Notes on the GOAT open.substack.com/pub/thatwrit...

Jolly Super Too

Loss of the Boss, Notes on the GOAT

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 5d

why are there hedgehogs on the walls though?

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 6d

The way she timed a line was perfection. "A shifty looking youth in plimsoles waggled my aerial and wolfed my gypsy creams but that's the comprehensive system for you"

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I love Taylor's new album with utter unironic joy. My spotify wrapped is going to be a mess again :)

a woman singing into a microphone with a thumbs up

ALT: a woman singing into a microphone with a thumbs up

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 6d

[Listening to the Taylor Swift album at 2.5x so I can get this review out before everyone else] I have to say, her pitch is too high on every single song. Disappointing. Incredible breath control singing that fast though

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 6d

oh Joel SO well deserved!!!!!!!!! congrats!

Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 6d

it's SO GREAT

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 8d

Sitcom idea: ventriloquist couple living together, relationship frosty, discussing divorce, but their dolls are deeply in love and do what they can to keep the couple together.

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 9d

I hope that is Rian's deli and they think you are a big loser right now :)

Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 10d

I feel you could omit 'in the third person past tense' and still make perfect sense some days. xxx

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Peter Anghelides @anghelides.bsky.social · 11d

A blog by @jennycolgan.bsky.social that’s worth a read.

Plus, now everyone will want to do the ‘Test Your Jenny Colgan Novels Knowledge!' quiz.

open.substack.com/pub/thatwrit...

Cult books

like normal books, but boys like 'em

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 11d

:) :) :) :) ;) xx

Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 12d

...whilst remaining unconvinced that legal action is the best course here

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 16d

OUCH

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 17d

She's so gross. I think of all of it it was her endlessly bleating on about being a mother while having five nannies all the time

a cartoon of stewie and brian throwing up in a room

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 18d

ha ;) xxxx

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 18d

In light of the unastonishing repeat news that Sarah Ferguson is a wrong 'un, here's my substack on the issue substack.com/@thatwriterj...

One shouldn't really be telling one...

Ooh, I do love gossip.

substack.com

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Guid Reads (Ruth Galloway) @guidreads.bsky.social · 19d

Friday evening at the Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival sees
@jennycolgan.bsky.social & Lucy Mangan teaming up with
@michaeljbooks.bsky.social to talk about their brand new "The Mermaid Collection" showcasing some forgotten gems!
Anyone else heading along?

#booksky

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24d

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 25d

aw thank you!!!!!

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The British Lichen Society @britishlichensociety.org.uk · Sep 5

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · Sep 5

me too!!! It's a sweet wee estate cottage, it didn't ask for 20 hectares of parking and Jet 2. And, shortly, 30,000 West Town houses in that pretty field they've put in the pictures.