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Find novelist, shortlistee #BBCNSSA 2024 and editor with @CannyEdit/@JerichoWriters on Threads. So long Twitter/X, and thanks for all the fish 🐬🐬🐬 💔 🌎

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2000+ of you booklovers follow me here on Twitter 📚 Thank you all, but after hearing that musky millions have (again) helped a mad felon become president of the USA, it's over now 📚 #Threads is more like Twitter used to be 📚 So see you over there, same handle 🥲🙏📚

[Cauvery Madhavan @CauveryMadhavan]

I’m touched you took the trouble Dónal, really. 9000 Indian soldiers died in Flanders and 160000 gave their lives between the two WWs. Both my grandfathers served in Burma and were lucky to have survived. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Raphaël Erba @raphael_erba]

Walk for freedom...
Iran

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Je pense que #KamalaHarris va gagner parce que la majorité des femmes et des jeunes des Etats-Unis veulent une Présidente lucide - mais c'est comment #DonaldTrump va perdre qui me tracasse... c'est tout à fait la démocratie mondiale qui est ciblée. 💔 #USPresidentialElection2024

[Loic Lecomte @loiclecomte]

Demain, dans ce pays qui est perçue comme la plus grande démocratie au Monde… et la première puissance économique 🧐 #USAElection2024 #USAElections

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@LichfieldLore @ChurchMonuments You can't just say that and not say more!

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Last night in a lovely restaurant in @VilleStRaphael called #leBishop this charming #Chihuahua (name of Penelope, likes carrots) came to sit beside me, unprompted, for over an hour. Non mais. Have they ALL read #NiceDog? #BBCNSSA @ed_pr @BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4 @commapress 🤣 🇲🇫

[Attie Lime Poems on Toast coming soon! @AttieLime]

Proof that a good list poem isn't just the preserve of poetry for children. And also that children's poets write wonderful poems for adults, too. This from A Sentience of Sycamores by Roger Stevens @PoetryZone ❤️

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'Maman?'
'Oui, cheri?'
'Et ben qu'est-ce-qu'on fait de beau cet hiver?'
'On va passer un bon moment ensemble emmerder les touristes qui veulent acceder à la promenade et à la plage Beau Rivage de la @VilleStRaphael, chéri. Tu vas voir...' 🤭🤣🇲🇫

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What she said, and more 💔 👇

[Nicola Sturgeon @NicolaSturgeon]

Knowing for the past few weeks that this moment was fast approaching didn’t make it any less heartbreaking to hear the news early this morning that Janey had died.
Janey Godley truly was a force of nature, and one of the funniest people I have ever known. I was able to visit her in the hospice a couple of weeks ago and though she was fragile, she still had me in stitches.
Janey was also incredibly kind. And she made the world a better place.
A bond was forged between us in the darkest days of Covid when her famous voiceovers of my daily briefings went viral. In the toughest of times, she made people laugh - and that was precious. She did more that that though. In managing to project the serious public health messages of my briefings to a much wider audience than I would have managed alone, she helped save lives.
The photos on this post are from an event we did together last year - it was a special night.
I was so proud to call Janey a friend and will miss her hugely. My heart goes out to her family and many friends - they are in my thoughts today.
I know Frank will have been there, holding the door for her as she went - with a tear in his eye, as I have in mine. RIP my friend ❤️

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Over on @Threads I have shared an astonishing video of the @MonopolyUK board brought to life in a single day by my daughter and her fellah as they sprinted through the streets of London. Not sharing here because of the feeding trenzy the bots it would trigger 😡. See you there!

[Catherine Ogston @CatherineOgston]

Auchterarder Book Festival is on 9th November and this year it is on until 3pm (this is last year's poster 😅) I believe the workshops are fully booked but there are author panels and children's events available. #bookcommunity

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@IMcMillan My young daughters once put a plastic golden retriever in my herb garden🐕. Every year the herring gulls find it and take it to the roof for their chicks to play with. Their game is to rush about with it and steal it off each other. Every year it gets dropped and back it goes 🐕.

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Une écossaise bien surprise au port Santa Lucia @villesaintraphael par le temps ce weekend... juste comme chez moi, hélas!... mais aussi par les beaux cornemusiers de Toulon, la pour une soirée de la Confrérie du Whisky. Et oui, la Vieille Alliance va très bien, merci. Slaìnte!

[Dr Elizabeth Norton @ENortonHistory]

The crown of Princess Blanche, on display in the treasury at the Munich Residenz. Dating to the late 14thC, it’s the earliest surviving crown known to have been in England. It first appears in an inventory of Richard II and may have arrived in England with his first wife, Anne of Bohemia. It came to Germany with Blanche, the daughter of Henry IV of England, who married Louis III Elector Palatine. A wonderful survival #crown #crownjewels #munichresidenz #crownofprincessblanche

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@beingvarious @BBCRadio4 @chris_power @frankcottrell_b @aminattaforna The end of an era.

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@ebirdwriter @ssharadmohhan @museumchd @DalrympleWill @ranjona @Arthistorian18 @dpanikkar @PrasunNagar @vijivenkatesh @msteckchandani @Chemburstudio @calijignasa @hemantsarin @Indicaa02 @MohdMuzzammilK @IndiaArtHistory @Go_Movie_Mango Oh that's a lovely one. I have used another portrait of the Drummond Family in the rose book I am working on.

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@ebirdwriter @ssharadmohhan @museumchd @DalrympleWill @ranjona @Arthistorian18 @dpanikkar @PrasunNagar @vijivenkatesh @msteckchandani @Chemburstudio @calijignasa @hemantsarin @Indicaa02 @MohdMuzzammilK @IndiaArtHistory @Go_Movie_Mango Perhaps it's because Papa would go abroad to colonise the unwary...

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@ebirdwriter @ssharadmohhan @museumchd @DalrympleWill @ranjona @Arthistorian18 @dpanikkar @PrasunNagar @vijivenkatesh @msteckchandani @Chemburstudio @calijignasa @hemantsarin @Indicaa02 @MohdMuzzammilK @IndiaArtHistory @Go_Movie_Mango True, and it's sweet, but it's two little girls holding hands. Parental affection just does not seem to be such a thing in western art? A dead cat in a goldfish bowl or a rotting head in a nice pot of basil, now...