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[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

I won! I bloody WON!
Thank you so much to the judges @bluepencil_edit @bethunderdown
@Nelle_Andrew.
And thank you #writingcommunity, especially @kirstylogan and @helensedgwick for your support!
If you need me, I’ll be over here, doing cartwheels 🤸‍♀️

[BPA First Novel Award @bluepencilaward]

🎉🎉🎉 We are so pleased to announce the winners of the #BPAfirstnovelaward!

Read the announcement here:
https://t.co/QPfkpryynN

[Strathclyde Inspire @StrathInspire]

The Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge is open to all @UniStrathclyde students now!

It’s a fun way to learn new skills and become more employable. Plus you could win £2k!

Sign up here: https://t.co/1Hz4ZLNk3B

[Gutter @Gutter_Magazine]

Our submissions window for Issue 29 of Gutter is now open!

Send us your wise, weird, wonderful, wandering words by the 17th of September!

Head over to our website for guidelines, and a link to our submission portal:

https://t.co/hxNqcFqRxW

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Don’t land on the big pencil at the #cyclingworldchampionships

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Every night in the summer holidays is tottering into the living room when the oldest is finally asleep only to realise that you dismantled the sofa to make a den four hours ago and now you have to summon the strength to rebuild it before you get to sit the hell down.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Celebrating super 70 with Dad 🎂

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

When did there start being 30 types of plasters?

The first aid aisle is all: fabric, waterproof, kids, faster healing, anti-scar, antibacterial, with added zinc, moist healing, dry healing, low adhesive…

No-one needs this level of anxiety about what type of wound they have.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Crossing the road back home after an early morning walk and enjoying the roofers who have just turned up the radio to max so they can more thoroughly enjoy Beyoncé. Live long, dance hard, and always remember to instal plenty of vents, gentlemen.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Good morning. Today, in home grown tomato news:

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Mums who drop off chocolate with their kid who is coming over for a playdate are my favourite kind of mums.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

@francescasteele My 8 year old loves the daisy books. Also the Clarice Bean series and Maddy Yip series.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

@KrisHaddow 😂

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

I have a cut that got infected and I had to buy TCP to wash it out and the smell is giving me traumatic flashbacks to that time in school when the teacher brought in a bucket of recorders soaking in the stuff and we had to take turns to put those things in our *mouths*

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

@KrisHaddow Eeek. Whhyyyyyy.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

@stefsmith Ouch! Hope you heal up v soon.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Bob, our pet pumpkin plant. He’s always up early, scratching at the back door to go out.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

💀 My 4yo wants me to do *everything* for him but NO NOT LIKE THAAAAAT!

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

I have held onto hope for as long as I could but I *think* this might be the moment I call time of death on our camping plans for tonight.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

@GordnAdam It would be. If I had one.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

Advice. Don’t grow pumpkins with your kids. Don’t nurture a seed into a sprawling flowering beast in a pot that your youngest will name Bob after an elderly neighbour he adores and then spend your life hauling all 40lbs of it into your house to protect it every time it rains.

[Kate McNair @ourkaty]

@verbisan An avocado baby? That sounds both adorable and…frustrating.