Joly Braime

Freelance writer and editor, occasional adventurer, man of too many hobbies. Lives in North Yorkshire with a tortoise, a lurcher and a lot of hats.

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I've realised I'm not on here much these days (my feed seems to be mostly shrill strangers picking fights with other shrill strangers). Much more active at https://t.co/fto9d4PCwq if you'd like to keep up.

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@RoyalMailHelp your customer service email just sends automated responses, your automated claims engine doesn't work properly, and your phone line threatened me with 'at least a 60-minute wait time', if it's actually even manned at all. It shouldn't be this difficult.

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@RoyalMailHelp hi, @RoyalMail. 3wks ago you destroyed my package. I filed a claim & chased, and have just received a garbled message asking for stuff I've already sent and telling me you've closed the claim. How do I speak to a competent human in a reasonable time frame please?

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@KGcounsellor @Summersdale @HachetteUK @Octopus Congratulations, Katy! You must be on pretty much a book a year at the moment - I'm so impressed!

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@JaneSAnderson15 Really looking forward to reading it!

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Love to remember the old man on his birthday. The old man on the left, I mean. I liked the old man in the middle too, but he was a leap year baby so his birthday doesn't come up often.

Life's come a long way & I wouldn't change the story, but after 18 years I still miss him.

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@englishgeek82 My new venture looks like something out of Fallout.

[Sound Affects Podcast @SoundAffectsPod]

I can't recommend @indy_jols writing enough. Personally, there's something really special about seeing friends succeed. In the 90s, it felt like so many of us had creative role models to aspire to. They taught us to make things happen. That magic ethic lurks in books like these

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@SoundAffectsPod I've just seen this! (Apparently I don't go on Twitter enough...) Thank you ever so much, Katy. You have a knack of saying exactly the right thing at the right time.

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@chrssgdn Absolutely superb news!

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@AkiSchilz Yes please!

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Continuing my pursuit of ugly concrete pillars in bleak spots.

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@AkiSchilz Am I allowed to take it as both? And thank you, on behalf of both human & canine. Maybe you, O & W could become trigpointers too?

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@Opera_North I enjoyed #ONaleko, though I was slightly distracted by Grandad's gigantic bifter. Must have been some good stuff for him to sleep through a double handgun murder.

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@mjdwaring That'll be it!

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Just out of interest, does anyone know why posts get randomly deleted as soon as you post them? Happened to me a few times recently, which is one reason I'm not using Twitter/X much these days (among others). Nothing dodgy obviously.

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A weekend in which companions both human and canine were very patient with my new trigpointing hobby.

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@JaneSAnderson15 That's a very good question! I'd like to say two, always assuming I can knuckle down and do some work. How about you?

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Happy New Year, everyone. Wishing you love, luck and adventures for 2024.

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@mjdwaring Not far off! It's looking north east towards Vietas & Satihaure. People have been telling me for years how horrible Rapadalen is, so I avoided it!