Roberta Wedge

Is Twitter only for social media addicts, or could it mitigate the effects of the next tsunamii? I'm here to find out.

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"For last year's words belong to last year's language/And next year's words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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Oxbridge apocrypha #OTD. Spike Milligan phones Jesus College.
"Is that Jesus?"
"Yes"
<sings> "Happy Birthday To You"

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MT @robbieds: April Fools Day: lots of earnest, armchair commentators leaving indelible marks of gullibility all over the internet.

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RT @sfgnyc:
Roses are red
Gender is performative
Mass-market romance
Is heteronormative

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@farciminis Yes I listened to a bit but I don't get it.

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@mdwingfield Mentors are everywhere. Some come in distinctive packaging (eg talking to school kids). Some are harder to recognise.

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.@diva_ex_machina Some are, some aren't. Some people are embittered by hardship. Others with comfortable lives have generous open hearts.

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@VincentH112 Plenty of Google hits for "ironicon". Cf interrobang. The pleasures of punctuation! @wmarybeard @SarahVine

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@farciminis Leave all what behind?

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Some people climb up the greasy pole of life and are then really really kind and helpful to those attempting a similar journey.

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@noreenahertz I have no idea who you are, but I'm now following, because Mary Beard says you have ideas, and someone else dissed your dress.

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@genrentuk @victoriamoffett Straight man seeking woman. We've seen this before.

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@LynnCSchreiber I might be wrong but: my impression - schools do OK at biology and safety but not relationships or heaven forfend pleasure.

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@Simonablake Thanks Simon! @LynnCSchreiber

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@TheCraftCafe Yeah. All I can offer is ideas.

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@TheCraftCafe Parents? FreeCycle? Or ask @Lego?

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@TheCraftCafe OK. What about some old-school Lego at @TheMakeEscape? Not too strictly pre-formatted. Freestyle, make a rocket.

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@TheCraftCafe Can the playlist for scifi @TheMakeEscape include the singing astronaut? Commander Hadfield sung "Major Tom" and an original.

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@simonablake Magazine editor seeks tips. How to explain without embarrassment? MT @LynnCSchreiber: Writing about talking to kids about S E X

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@LynnCSchreiber She was in the back seat of the car, and I was concentrating on suppressing any audible laughter.