Penny Barr

I meant to tweet pithily impressive comments about my entirely unplanned but happy career in the digital world. As it turns out, it's mostly food and cricket.

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@Pingosaurus Good game! Also: Radiohead opening for Kingmaker, and Pulp opening for Saint Etienne.

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@jsdhenderson Great review - by which I mean I agree with pretty well all of it! (Do you think everyone spotted the “clouds” shape from the second floor foyer wall appearing in the set, along with the light shades and the wooden wall?).

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@HomeOfCricket hello - trying to download pass for a couple of days and it says “Your Pass is Generating This pass is currently generating - please try again later.”Is it me or is the system just very busy? Thanks!

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@TheStage The UK .... ?

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@SabeehaMajid Well, there are a LOT of independent England fans who didn’t get them either - the tickets just vanished in minutes as soon as they appeared.

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@Justmyforts @TheBarmyArmy @BarmyArmyTravel I’d like to know this too …

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@ArtyBagger A white rose is associated with Yorkshire, not England, and it's considered to be the "Rosa alba 'Semi-Plena', an ancient, hardy white rose with five to eight petals and a distinct scent." Whereas the English rose is generally red and white, or just red. I rose to the bait!

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Meanwhile, came across a @FIFAWorldCup stadium being smartened up in Vancouver on the way to our boat trip. Better watch the size of your clutch bags, @TartanArmyGroup and @englandfansfc1

#FIFAWorldCup

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@Biggreenbooks “Best before” is marketing. The only important one for safety is “Use by”. Enjoy!

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@kobo 2/2 What I want is for the book pricing model to change so that when I buy a real book, I get a unique code that lets me download one copy of the E-version. How about it, publishers?

@PenguinUKBooks @HarperCollinsUK @panmacmillan @FaberBooks

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@kobo 1/2 I dearly love my Kobo.I was that person who packed 12 books for a holiday and then couldn’t bear to leave any of them behind. I also dearly love real books. What I want is …

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@TheStage But many theatres actively encourage you to do so, and to share the pictures ..

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@DrDavidVernon Orchestral of course. Still basking in it.

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@jsdhenderson They showed us a piece of it in the backstage tour – it’s laser printed!

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@edin1981 @captheatres Agree with all of that! (We wanted to put the subtitles on, but it seemed to crispen up after 20’ or so.)

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@madebygoogle Thank you, I have done so. They don’t know if it has been reported to the development team and they don’t know if a fix is due. Would you be able to help by finding out? It would be great to let the thousands of Fitbit users whose health plans are on hold know. Thanks :-)

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@madebygoogle Hi. It isn’t me or my Fitbit. It’s your app - the last under-tested update ruined a piece of core functionality which thousands of people are using. “It really makes the nutrition tracking function of Fitbit worthless.” Can you show some pace here please, and roll back or fix?

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@CricketScotland Not against the idea as such, but when did Durham become a nation?

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@JournoStephen @AmbJapanUK @spectator This is my absolute favourite - presents for all the government cats!

https://t.co/c97NVFPzpp

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PM Takaichi gave PM Starmer gift box full of 🐈 goods for Larry, Jojo and Prince!! 😸

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@moniquephotos @bencooper So do I, but the driver gets a Thank You whereas the awaiter(s) get more of a Ta. Just in case they were constrained to wait rather than actively intending to. So as to plant a seed about what may have been a drive-by courtesy, but acknowledge it if it was indeed intended.