Amber Coakes

Writer, maker, plusfashionista; collector of books, shoes and photos; wearer of colours; singer of nonsense; mother of cakes.

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

Re-tweeting my own tweets because two years later I still have at least this many loo roll inners in the under-sink cupboard and I'll be damned if I'm not going to do something stupid with them

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

Behold, I have reached peak recycling tomfoolery. I call this piece ‘the loo roll inners of quarantine’

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

Astonishingly (because I log on approximately once every three months), I have just discovered that today is #MyTwitterAnniversary - 7 years of occasionally tweeting into the void. See you all in July!

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

Had a proper Lynne Truss moment while sub-editing, when I read 'her father taught her to shoot fish and ride horses'. A couple of missing commas could have started a new sport.

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

@paulwdavey Ah yes, that's another one that's trickier than it ought to be!

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

32 years old and I still can't spell Caribbean correctly. I had to amend this twice. What words do you struggle to spell?

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

Found this a really good read, it's helpful to question our motives at times

https://t.co/2uwMBwtBDt

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

You know you're too past it for Twitter when you can't even figure out how to log out (and yes, I am writing this myself, it's not a lame hack)

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

@Rosieroundface This is fantastic news, Rosie; I'm so very pleased for you!

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

@plusequalsuk I watched this yesterday after @L_F_F_L shared it and I wept. I know I have to do more than just emotionally react but letting this in is a start. I’d never seen it like this

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

@kittyrambles Thank you Kitty for the reminder to unfollow, I only saw mention of her comments this evening and had just come on here to do that.

[Fiona Longmuir // Freya's Gold is out now! @fionalongmuir]

Of course people should be encouraged to learn and grow but we need to start taking responsibility for answering our own basic assed questions and examining our own thoughts and assumptions, rather than putting a drain on an already overburdened and straining community.

[Fiona Longmuir // Freya's Gold is out now! @fionalongmuir]

The amount of time and resource black people have to spend assuring deliberately obtuse white people that yes, of course, all lives matter but black lives are the ones in imminent danger...I can't even imagine how exhausting that must be.

[Stephen Mangan @StephenMangan]

I know they’ve told us to move on but two quotes stand out in today’s Sunday Times piece “Boris has always been clear he doesn’t ever say sorry” and Cummings’ reaction to the Durham story going public - “They can go f*** themselves”. #StayElite

[Oakes Media: Games @TrivialWarfare]

Call me crazy, but I actually want to live in a country where all people are created equal.

I still remember the pledge at school - "With Liberty and Justice for all."

We all learned the same things.

Liberty, Justice, Equality. If you don't like these, you're the bad guy.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

That’s a whole different kettle of fish:

5. These are figs from a different basket (Catalan)
4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French)
3. This is flour from another sack (Spanish)
2. These are another pair of shoes (German)
1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

It me

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Tale as olde as tyme
Song as olde as rhyme
Boughte anothir book

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

My lute crate came yn the mayle. Surprise: anothir lute.

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

"Two people died in separate incidents along the Cornwall coastline on Monday after warnings RNLI lifeguards would not be able to patrol Britain's beaches." - Has England abandoned social distancing? Parks, beaches and beauty spots packed https://t.co/E1y2UPLk97

[Gav Topley @gavtopley]

@Cadmarch @DeadlyDentist 🤣

[Amber Coakes @amberinred]

In case you hadn’t seen this: yes he really did say that

[American Journal News @AmerJournalNews]

Trump says doctors and nurses are "running into death just like soldiers running into bullets" and that "it's a beautiful thing to see."