Mary Manley

Began one of largest 2ndhand bookshops in Britain. Home of Keep Calm and Carry On poster. Likes job, husband, and cat a lot. (Most days.)

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Am still at work - 20 minutes to get everything under control (as if!) before we leave for the States. Better start with myself first!

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Got my renewed Passport with ONE DAY to go before leaving. That's called cutting it short. But @americanembassy was great! Thank you.

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And how's this for a view? From the Ladies Room in the Parcel Yard at Kings X. Check it out!

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Right now I'm writing this in the wonderful Parcel Yard in Kings X. You don't know it? Well, now you do!

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About to leave Kings X again to go home & w a renewed passport so I can return a 3rd time on Wed & go to America. It's been a trip already.

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If the Embassy won't renew my passport tomorrow so I can leave as planned Wed, I shall have no recourse but to throw myself into the Thames.

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Attention fellow American citizens w dual nationality: if you were born in the USA, you can only travel there on yr Am passport. Be warned!

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Why am I in #Alnmouth Stn? Off to the USA Embassy in London. Why? Going to USA this Wed. Last Thurs checked passport. Expired. FREAKING OUT!

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@moustachewax Jimmy McNaught! Where were you @BarbaraMcNaugh1 party I want to know? Wanted to engage you in heated discussion of tv serials!

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Tomorrow, the annual (since 1762, wow) Shrove Tuesday Football Match. Begins 1.30 @alnwickcastle Barbican for 2pm kickoff in the pastures.

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Next book on my list? H is for Hawk by @HelenJMacdonald and both books by @eviewyld a total rising star. Have a look: http://t.co/waLAZLSmZz

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Thanks to a train trip to London was able to read The Road to Middlemarch by @Rebeccamead_NYC - so good! George Eliot's story & the author's

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Waited tables. Like it. Get to meet you, ask my usual question: "Was it OK?" Today I got the answer to die for: "Really good- as always" :-)

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Tonight a new TV series of Robson Green's #TalesFromNland. As #Northumberland tourism really benefited frm the last one, this is good news!

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#DogOfTheWeek: meet Meg. Jack Russell. Lives in Appleby, Cumbria. V interested in photography, insisted on close-up. http://t.co/aw9C23dVwi

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In #Oxford went in the great @blackwellbooks. Bought "The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union". He did? To what effect? Want to know!

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However beautiful the Cotswolds are, #Northumberland is hard to beat. And those who have been here, know it, eg, traffic jams? What's that?

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Been south for friend's bday party in great little18th c coaching inn http://t.co/ISJFG5GuCG. Nearby woollen shop too http://t.co/pYbMKRlG5L

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Job alert! Full-time cook needed in our Buffet (8hr shift between 8am-7pm) incl either Sat or Sun. Pls email CV to [email protected] :-)