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Wife, Mum, Gran, Pagan, Reader, Genealogy, Music… Nottingham born… usually found at a protest, on a picket line or handing out leaflets 💕
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I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas

He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic

Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates

He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Excellent thread as always from Emma
🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

1/25
🧵
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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It's the first day of astronomical autumn. 🍂

The apple tree. Ink on Saunders Waterford HP.

A piece I did back in 2014 as a sample for Crabtree & Evelyn on an apple wassail theme. In the event, C&E decided on a different direction and I didn't get the gig (boo). Still, I got an artwork out of it.
September 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Jarvis Cocker is 62 today. He's 19 here.
youtu.be/mimTbzWkps8?...
My Lighthouse (Remastered)
YouTube video by Pulp - Topic
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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In case you’ve ever wondered how they do it…

www.worldofmoose.com/products/mum...
September 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done?
Thou art a pynke ponye girle
Yn the daunse at the clubbe!'
'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe
On the stage yn myne heeles
It ys wher Ich belonge:
Downe at the
Pynke Ponye Clubbe!
Ich shal keepe on daunsinge,
Downe yn West Hollywoode'
[lute solo] 🎶
September 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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NEVER EVER ANNOY AN OAK TREE
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Allotments in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens, 1947 (Manchester Libraries).
September 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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September 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.
Timeline cleanse
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#5albums50s60sfinal
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
A truly great album top spot contender.
Andmoreagain (2015 Remaster)
YouTube video by Love - Topic
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The world needs more Prefab Sprout. That's it, that's the message for today's choice: open.spotify.com/track/2HgD9I...
Orchid 7
open.spotify.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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"Your dad shouts at hotels."

Genius.
August 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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"Amber Hollow" This morning, in a lane near Glastonbury Tor.
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Aug 24th! St. Bartholomew's Day and weather patterns of St. Swithin's Day,the proverb stated, "St Bartholomew's mantle wipes dry, all the tears that St Swithin can cry," implying Bartholomew's Day could bring relief from excessive rain predicted by St. Swithin's Day. #Folklore
August 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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This.

Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.
Observer: it will launch in September this year, with a budget of around £2.5m and ambitions to raise £25m to spend 'on policy formation, identifying candidates and hiring advisers and spokespeople for Reform or a possible merged Reform-Tory party'
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
The Vance guard: the new right being cooked up in the Cot...
The vice-president shared BBQ and beers with allies whose thinktank has come to the attention of the Electoral Commission
observer.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM