Jennifer Louden

Brit living in US.

[Jennifer Louden @j_louden]

@axsmithsports @Xfinity Indiana, also

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@mistertea75 @PaulMcG01699714 @BBCsarahsmith @faisalislam Absolutely!

[Maryam @hell_line0]

The homeless man outside my University had a PhD in literature.

I only found out because I dropped my book walking past him one day.

He picked it up, looked at the cover, and said, "Ah, Virginia Woolf. Have you read her essays on consciousness?"

One medical bankruptcy and a series of cascading disasters later, he's been on that corner for three years.

"The difference between us," he said, "is about six months of bad luck."

I think about that every time I complain about my problems.

[Jennifer Louden @j_louden]

@XfinitySupport I need to speak to someone regarding my bill. I have tried you xfinity assistant and it is useless! Please contact me. I have been a loyal customer for 11 years.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.

'I feel all sleepy,' she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

Roald Dahl, 1986

[Jennifer Louden @j_louden]

@bam_weather Excellent information, Michael. Thankyou.

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@Ringham7 @neeratanden Very true!

[Jennifer Louden @j_louden]

@bam_weather Congratulations, Michael your Grandma would be so proud of you.

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@rbmarinelli @costareports I agree! Absolutely horrible! No, it's not too early for wine!!!

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@ChrisCalvin1908 @atrupar It is unbelievable!

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@leslsenior Yes, I have. Followed you as soon as you said you had joined. Thank you for following me.

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@js07073 @Lawrence Wow! Shocking!

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@leslsenior @leslemieux I just joined today too. https://t.co/5xgmdY91Jr

[Jennifer Louden @j_louden]

@leslsenior Sadly, not a joke! But I did laugh!

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@leslsenior Very interesting chat!

[Jennifer Louden @j_louden]

@leslsenior Yes!

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@leslsenior I don't understand it either!