Tara

Transformation Delivery Team Manager at Nottinghamshire County Council. Very Welsh (except when Forest play Cardiff). Views my own.

[Tara @paganpie]

@Broughton1984 Jesus was an obvious pen too.

[Tara @paganpie]

@AmazonHelp My elderly father has somehow rented a film on Amazon Prime - I don’t know how! How can he cancel it? His bank has told him to contact Amazon.

[Tara @paganpie]

@Roblox username D4ED4M3 just invited my daughter to join a community and showed her a YouTube channel to prove she wasn’t scamming. My D didn’t join. She has still had a ton of legendary items stolen. Have reported. How can this happen?

[Tara @paganpie]

@RTarlinton @HaydenHewitt £27 for a printout of the prescription. Insisting doesn’t get it for free.

[Tara @paganpie]

@HaydenHewitt I just paid £27 for a copy of my cats’ prescription. A printout.

[Emma Dolan @JustMissEmma]

Dear UK Media:
No, Disabled People Aren’t Getting Free BMWs — And Here’s the Truth You Keep Ignoring

By Emma Dolan Horlock
(Chronically ill, slightly sarcastic, and extremely tired of correcting you)

A thread 🧵

[Terry Galloway @TerryGalloway]

Everytime I'm cooking and hold a knife I think of my sister Hazel

[Tara @paganpie]

@JDWFashion my 76 year old mum was unable to access her account so called your customer support line. Lovely chap fixed it for her, but she now has a £20 phone charge for the call. This is scamming, keeping people on the line to increase profit. Disgusting practice

[Tara @paganpie]

@RachMillerNotts I’ve blocked Elon and it makes a massive difference

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

@theAliceRoberts Me too - just dropped by 600 in the last few days.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Quick story about Sven-Goran Ericksson (RIP). Such a good man, open and easy to talk to. You needed humility being the first “foreign” England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 manager, but one night we realised just how humble (and witty) he was.

At a charity dinner after the World Cup in 2006, when he was no longer England manager, I was lucky enough to be on his table. Finding my moment, I asked “why did you include a 17 year old Theo Walcott in the World Cup squad when he hadn’t played a single game in the Premier league?”

I didn’t want to upset him because it was a controversial decision at the time - he took an injured Wayne Rooney and a struggling Michael Owen but left out a fit and well Jermaine Defoe. But he replied “no, it’s a good question. Many would like to know. I could not say then, but I can now…” and explained his thinking with a measured response:

“You know, the countries that do well at World Cups always have a ‘secret weapon’. A player unknown to the other teams, to bring on as a substitute to help win a game in the latter stages. This was Theo. And we agreed to use him only in a semi-final or the final.” He and his assistant Tord Grip had seen Walcott in a reserve game at Arsenal and said Theo had “lightening pace” and was “extremely skilful.” Theo was “the perfect unknown quantity to surprise teams and steal a goal and win a championship. That’s why we took him, not Jermaine” he concluded.

I then offered “but Sven, in the quarter final v Portugal we lost on penalties. After Rooney got sent off, surely that was the time to bring on Walcott - not Peter Crouch as you did - to use Theo’s pace and score an extra time winner when we were down to 10 men?”

He looked at me as if it was the first time anyone had ever suggested the idea. He looked ruefully at all of us on the table and said “well now that you say it, yes maybe I should have. In retrospect, this was a mistake.”

The table went silent. We all seemed to be contemplating what could have been, for England and for Theo Walcott. Sven broke the silence with “Omid. Tell us a joke.” I laughed coz it was a delightfully off beat way to deflect, and without thinking, I did. A really inappropriate joke that got absolutely nothing. With a wink and a smile Sven then said “you see, it’s not always easy to think of the right thing to do in the moment, as Mr. Djalili just showed us, and so well.” Cue big laugh.

We understood at that moment, sometimes even the best laid plans can go to cock. And that’s life. It was new information and no one judged him.

Personally I was just thrilled he knew my name.

#SvenGoranEriksson

[Tara @paganpie]

@yourdcsnotts 😬

[Tara @paganpie]

@nottmtails @foxy219 So sorry for your loss. Agree about D58 staff, they’re amazing. Glad you had their support.

[Tara @paganpie]

@birrell_julie Oh no, bless him, he seemed like such a lovely man. So sorry for your loss x

[Tara @paganpie]

@MillieTipping3 Happy birthday 🥰

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Never even liked tennis anyway.

[Joanna Borysiak @JoannaBorysiak]

My daughter's Y3 teacher is the absolute GOAT. She single-handedly crocheted a mini-me of each kid in her class as an end of year gift. Approx. 8hrs per doll. Even the hairstyles and clothes are spot on. What a legend.

[Tara @paganpie]

@RevRichardColes Pretty, but a pain in the arse.

[Tara @paganpie]

@yourdcsnotts @NottsCC @Ofstednews Congratulations to an excellent team.