Flora Baker

Travel & grief writer | Author of #TheAdultOrphanClub guide to parent loss | Memoir in progress | She/her |

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

Sitting on the sofa with coffee, crumpets and my first newspaper byline in the @Telegraph this morning, where I've written about the loneliness of grieving in a pandemic and why I wrote #TheAdultOrphanClub book. Thrilled doesn't cut it.

https://t.co/DN99VpHEZK

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

What does it mean to be an adult orphan?

Playwright Naomi Westerman was writing about death rituals when she lost her family in quick succession.

She joins @claremcdonnell1 to discuss processing her grief alongside author of The Adult Orphan Club @FloraBaker.

Listen now ⬇️

[Magma Poetry @magmapoetry]

#FindGboyegaOdubanjo. Keep the news active, the flood of posts, the retweets, especially anyone who was at @ShambalaFest, or if you know anyone who was. Esp if they might not have seen the appeals. Someone somewhere will surely know something that could help 🙏

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

Is there anyone you know who was at #Shambala who might have seen Gboyega? please share to help find him #FindGboyegaOdubanjo

[Richard Kadrey @Richard_Kadrey]

Buzzwords synergistic cloud based ninja opportunities! Global technobabble something something potential!

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@MichaelRosenYes Oh how beautiful 💛 Eddie's shorts were fab!

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@santanderukhelp This is a generic customer support number. I'd like to be directed to the specific line for house insurance complaints please.

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

Morning @santanderukhelp, I need the contact info for house insurance complaints. I've been treated horrendously since 24th March & will be going to the ombudsman asap. Six weeks w no functional bathroom & zero financial support is unacceptable.

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@jesshopeevans That link doesn't seem to work for me, Jess - but this sounds like such a good idea! Def considering your London event 😎

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@miss_magpie_spy Maybe have a chat with the lovely @Breathedreamgo?

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@FourthReserve Fantastic news!! 🎉🎉

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@electra_rhodes This reads like poetry. Pink sounds like a beautiful person - and your collective friendship sounds equally beautiful 💛

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

Can you help #SaveGorneWood in SE London? I regularly walk past this ancient woodland - but it’s at risk of being destroyed by developers. @FourthReserve urgently need £3k to buy the area for community use🌳
@RobGMacfarlane @Right_2Roam @vickyfoxcroft ➡️https://t.co/w6eCRi9q7k

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@JoannaCannon I adore In The Dream House (Carmen Maria Machado). The plot is about an abusive relationship & stylistically it's so imaginative – each chapter reimagines 'the house' in a different literary genre, trope, character etc

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

The Netflix cancellation policy is utterly ridiculous. To cancel a mind bending, thought provoking & multi-layered show like @1899Netflix while the vacuous Emily in Paris gets season after season?! https://t.co/5xNR7wHfle

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

Absolutely floored by @NatWest_Help, who've sent out new MasterCard cards with no fanfare, requiring a mass scramble of every direct debit to be changed before my original card inexplicably stops working. I keep getting 'we can't process your payment' emails. CHEERS GUYS.

[michael mezz @michaelmezz]

listen to her explain the Van Gogh soup protest.

she’s got a point, no?

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@thetrainline you've cancelled the middle part of my three part journey tomorrow, making the other connections redundant. Now I'm stranded. No email to let me know. Any solutions for what I'm supposed to do? Refunds?

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

@thetrainline I need help with a booking next sunday. It's in three parts and the first part has been cancelled. No idea what I'm supposed to do to reconnect with the rest of my journey now.

[Flora Baker @FloraBaker]

As it's #WorldMentalHealthDay, it's worth mentioning that it took me 3 therapists and 14 years of grief from both my parents' deaths to finally decide to take antidepressants. I've been on sertraline since Feb & it's given me a part of myself back. It's never too late to get help

[Refinery29 @Refinery29]

It's taken four years since my dad's death for me to acknowledge the damage his volatile behavior inflicted on my childhood. Now I can call it emotional abuse, but it's still difficult to say out loud. https://t.co/irPG2nAAYy