Laura Allan

Freelance writer. Linguist. Runner. Enjoy a bit of Am Dram.

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@jeffnewton1 Probably because otherwise people would come out with crap like "the usual suspects I presume...!"

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@BigAlTweeting @ShadowofEzra Pretty sure it's a clematis Montana. Mine has been out up in the North East for a couple of weeks.

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@MagnusCarlsen I'm sitting in Bar del Fico in Rome, Italy with my 12 year old. We've heard people come here to play #chess so we're waiting patiently to see if any locals turn up so he can play. He'd love it if you said hello to him. His name's Stanley ♟

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@DeputyGrocott Freelance writing! Former MFL teacher.

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@nickmohammed Just listened to this - my first ep of this podcast! Took me back to my Durham days! Haven't seen conductor sketch - is any of that based on Hill Orch days? Would love to see that 😆 Always remember you being presented with a toy dinosaur after we played Jurassic Park in Trevs.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you’re concerned about the erosion of women’s rights in the UK - the right to single sex spaces like domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres and prisons - sign the Sex Matters petition to make the Equality Act clear.
#InternationalWomensDay2023 https://t.co/elvo1IMiRL

[Laura Allan @lall83]

World Book Day 2023
My Stanley is Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2023 #wbd23 #flatstanley

[Laura Allan @lall83]

World Book Day 2023
Lucy is Evie in the Jungle by @matthaig1 🙂

#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2023 #WBD23 #matthaig #EvieintheJungle

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@ReviloNai @TicketmasterUK @Pink Same happened to me several times and I lost my cheaper tickets!

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@AbiBellxo @tmckie1 @Pink Same!

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@RussInCheshire Oh dear. Very similar experience with SP & my new home (Bellway). Bills, bailiffs, neighbours' meters billed to mine, threats to cut off my supply before Christmas, countless hours on the phone, compo & solved & changed supplier. Only for it to happen again a year or so later!

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@BenTaylorson Ah that's brilliant! 👏

[Dr Haili Hughes FRSA @HughesHaili]

What I personally miss about being a teacher is all the boozing we used to do in the staff room.

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@BBCPolitics How utterly insulting. As a teacher who worked through the pandemic, I can assure you I never popped to the staffroom for a drink after work. Actually, in my entire teaching career that never happened because it wasn't allowed. I imagine the same for nurses. #BorisOut

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@NicholasFerroni I left at Christmas and you're right, it's the lovely students (and their families) that kept me in the job for so long. It was the system and the management that pushed me to leave. Thankfully, there's loads of support out there at on fb - #exittheclassroomandthrive group.

[Sarah Roberts @sarahVroberts]

77 classrooms, 1335 children across 3 different continents! World book week was a monster for Somebody Swallowed Stanley and Somebody Crunched Colin 🌍❤️💯🙌 thanks to Stanley from Skelton for representing our Stan 🙌😎 @scholasticuk

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@sarahVroberts @scholasticuk Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@rawliwhite @Dad_will_fix_it @vicderbyshire @PaulBrandITV My husband shares a birthday with Boris Johnson. We certainly didn't. We treated ourselves to a takeaway for for the first time in the pandemic. It was just us and our children. Same for my 9-year-old son's two lockdown birthdays.

[Laura Allan @lall83]

@vicderbyshire @PaulBrandITV My husband shares a birthday with Boris Johnson. We celebrated his 2020 birthday with a takeaway for the first time since the pandemic started as we hadn't wanted to order food in previously. It was just us and our school-aged children. #PartyGate