Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mum, EFL teacher/trainer; associate lecturer; reviewer. Lover of Glasgow, Scandi noir, Marmite, cats. Likes: grammar, words, Prof David Crystal.

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@The_East_End Yes, my parents brought me a crinkle-wrapped bottle in hospital in 1972. I used to love that orange cellophane

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@SoVeryBritish Love them all!

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@Catsillyness Beef hula hoops

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@Christo03770888 Blake’s Seven, no?

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@WriterHannahBT Mice one!☝️

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@Christo03770888 I have literally just devoured one from a pack I bought last week

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@Matt_Pinner Vegan cookie

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@ColeTheBlackCat By fetching and carrying for them, as per usual. But getting furry cuddles in return ❤️

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

Does anyone know this moth? In my garden this morning.

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@OUPELTGlobal Because I’ve always had an affinity with languages. They were the only subjects that made any sense to me at school. And my mum was an EFL teacher when I was a child. Later, we worked at the same school together!

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

#thejetty I’m halfway through episode 3 and I’ve only just realised that two different time frames are in operation. Amy and Caitlin are ‘decades earlier’. But are Malachy and Mack the same person? Is the hand cut from Amy or a bap-related incident? Huh?🤔

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@ELT_T2W Lex-cellent reading 👍🏻

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@ArtemistheCat10 @AMAZlNGNATURE Me too. When those ads come on the telly, I cry.

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@theartsdesk @BBCTwo @SweetingAdam I don’t get why two Turkish blokes (Det Ikmen and the industrialist, Ep 3) are speaking to each other in English?!

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@susie_dent I know ‘absquatulate’. It means flee, abscond, leave abruptly. If you absquatulize someone, they absquatulate, right?

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@_XDogs Cocoa Bean

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@HedgehogCabin Brilliant. Thank you 🙏 ❤️

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@OED Mega enjoyability here, thank you.

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@ColeTheBlackCat I think ‘Don’t be naughty while I’m out’ is lost on my two.

[Clare H 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Chimphands]

@OED It’s A very binge-worthy read 😉