Inelegantly Waisted

...in which a mid-life crisis is licked into submission by the triumph of hope over experience.*

*Perhaps. Eventually...

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@skimblejones Sending much love to you all xxx

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...& esp this: 'Meeting Alex had also given me hope for the future; she and I were trans female people born only one generation apart, yet the world she is growing up in seems to have far more space in it for trans people than the one I knew' - still a long way to go, but...

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𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘦 'Do you think it might just be a bandwagon thing?' (ffs). Good stuff all round, @shonfaye. https://t.co/RwqbRlOXvn

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@RobertsMartinO @TheGozfather Hurrah - bravissimo!!

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@KB_Neal Nice! Another friend's students made her a decorated motte and bailey cake. Despite my mentioning that to mine at the time, mine didn't. But I did get the occasional bottle of wine or gin. Can't think why...

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@KB_Neal Love to you both x

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@KB_Neal It can't be said enough

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@RozierHistorian Amen, brother! I *knew* you were a nice young man, the minute I first met you!

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@skimblejones @yorkmedieval @UoYBorthwick @YorkHistoryDept Oh gosh. I've only just seen this. Truly a wonderful one-off woman. Vale, Ann.

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@DrRachelSwallow Rightbackatcha

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Trying to teach my new ducking phone to swear. Only a complete ducktard would get a new phone at the same time new laptop, keyboard, & broadband while designing 2 websites, right? #duckssake

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@KB_Neal Nawww... thanks, darling! I'm trying to gently ease myself back into the world. Glad that nowt's happened while I was away. Mwah!

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Also... hello. 'sbeen a while. Have I missed anything?

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Serious kudos to all involved. I was blubbing passim, and would not have been able to be coherent (looking at you, @skimblejones. Total h/t). And extra special kudos to the lovely Richard. I wish I knew him well enough to say that to him directly

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Raising a glass of champagne to the memory of the lovely Mark Ormrod, with inevitable tears during his memorial event

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Dontcha just love it when good things come to good people? Many many congratulations to Team @LeCochonAveugle! x

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WOW!!

That was unexpected! Huge congratulations to @chefoverington for winning this year’s Chef of the Year! We are so proud of you!

🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

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@LeCochonAveugle @chefoverington Woohoo!! Many congratulations - & well-deserved ones at that x

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Htf has it taken us so long to come here? Shame on us #cowtastic @TheRythreArms

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Dr Wright does his first ever Ottolenghi recipe. He's still doing the standard-issue wtf-how-did-it-take-so-long thing. Whatever. It was fucking delicious,

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Unseasonable sunshine + sitting in King's Square +listening to the best busking I've heard in a long time: @HydeFamilyJam = #AGoodDay