Saffia Widdershins

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[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@KeruboSk I once asked if she wore a crinoline when she was younger, and she really laughed at that. Her dress style throughout the time I knew her was sort of 1930s, but at that time I think it was more common for women to stick to a style from their fifties than to keep up with fashion.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@KeruboSk Me. I’m sixty-eight. I’m old but not really, really old. My mother’s step mother was forty when she married my grandfather in 1924, and she lived with us until I was eight, and I saw her until she died when I was thirteen. So she was nearly ninety when she died.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs I will grant HP sauce is acceptable. At least you didn’t suggest mayonnaise (only works in a BLT). HP sauce is great in a Lancashire hotpot with suet dumplings too - adds a nice spicy kick.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@sweet_nector1 Sewing machine bovine. The spool goes in top, the bobbin underneath

[Victoria Coren Mitchell @VictoriaCoren]

I'm not saying we're elderly parents, but today when I told my 2-year-old not to drop her food on the floor, she sang "Don't drop your food on the floor, Mrs Worthington..."

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@RhonddaBryant 😀 I said this yesterday, and also referred to the Wee Frees and the Wee Wee Frees. In a word … “Splitters!”

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs One suspects that Restore is only the first split. Think of the Wee Frees and the Wee Wee Frees (joke names for evangelical sects in Scotland). Or, for that matter, the People's Front of Judea in Life of Brian with its war cry of “Splitters!”

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs @RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret And there’s the contrariness of the British psyche which, when offered the chance to name a super new Antarctic explorer ship (strongly hinting that Sir David Attenborough might be a good name), respond, “Well, we love Sir D, but it will be a laugh to go with Boaty McBoatface.���

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs @RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret Farage and his party are a big red button labelled, “Do not touch” so, of course, people want to press it for the thrill that comes from not just watching a horror movie but being part of it.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs @RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret People wring their hands and profess to be appalled at the “Tory psychodrama”, but the reality is we live in an era of outrage, fed by clicks. Mainstream media is in decline and desperate to grab attention where they can.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@Matt_Pinner Wondering what the hell happened to Europe and, to be honest, most of Asia. Those endless Russian Steppes, not to mention several rather large mountain chains, are between the UK and any significantly large body of water moving east to west.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@chefsevenn Shepherd’s pie is made with lamb (hence shepherds). Made with beef, it’s a cottage pie.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@hungarikee @Paw_Vibe Same here. She’s a Mabel.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs Of course, some English-speaking Americans are surprised to learn that English came from … well, England.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs Well, to be fair to her, American Spanish is diverging more and more from European Spanish - just as West African English is diverging more from European English, for example. Still, I agree that the word “Spanish” should have given her a Clue.

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs think about how we can stop the grooming gangs, stop the Epsteins and their cronies, stop the Dominique Pelicots and their internet groups plotting rapes

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs Indeed. Although if I see one more politician saying sanctimoniously, “we need to think about the women and girls,” before going on to make some entirely partisan political point, I may throw something at my television screen. We need to think about the women and girls and then

[Saffia Widdershins @PrimPerfect]

@archer_rs I’m sorry - I should have checked before posting. Certainly there are reports of sickening things happening in the 2024 report.