Roberta Fox

Actress, singer, simultaneous interpreter. Love the arts, politics, food, nature, books....life in other words.

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

I second that emotion

[#MoreInCommon #ProudlyWoke #FascistsOut @mspjmason]

When is someone going to give @CliveMyrieBBC his own current affairs prog? Watch the iPlayer to see last night's #DatelineLondon on the News Channel. He is excellent! Good ep, with #EuniceGoes 🇵🇹& #ThomasKielinger🇩🇪 'Johnson is the Speaker's parrot"🤣

[The OED @OED]

OED Word of the Day: almuce, n. A hood, cape, or similar garment made of or lined with grey fur and worn by a member of a religious order (esp. a canon).

https://t.co/Fa0BiTzH3F

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

Not to mention Barrack Street - horrendous

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

Hardship of Life
by Mehmet Aslan

This little boy’s father Munzir lost his right leg when a bomb was dropped as he walked through a bazaar in Idlib, Syria. His son Mustafa was born without lower or upper limbs due to drugs his mother Zeynep had to take after a nerve gas attack.

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@Poplak Nah - you're all getting it wrong.
The original woke oke was Jesus - always being nice to prostitutes, tax collectors; helped out paraplegics.
Made sure everyone in his community got on social with free fish, bread & wine.
Wrote a long book about it for @helenzille to read b4t.

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

Totally love this

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Drawing by cat-loving British poet Stevie Smith (1902-1971) #WomensArt

#Caturday

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

Exquisite

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Daisy Makeig-Jones (1881-1945), UK pottery designer for Wedgwood, best known for her 'Fairyland Lustre' series #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Deer and Autumn bracken' by Angela Harding, UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Waterloo Sunset' by contemporary UK artist and printmaker Gail Brodholt #WomensArt

[Cape {town} Etc @CapeTownEtc]

Three Capetonian women were among the first group to successfully qualify as plumbers from the ground-breaking trade skills development programme run by React 24 Training College – the first black women-owned trade institution in the Western Cape.
https://t.co/l9rXcWUeJC

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

🤣

[Grethe Fox @FoxboxGrethe]

Same applies to actors banging on about “their process”

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

Exquisitely poignant

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

Gerhard Richter's "September " is I think the only great work of visual art yet made about 9/11 https://t.co/L8MXt1QaRj

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

Here’s a book I wish I didn’t need to read.

[Grethe Fox @FoxboxGrethe]

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel is funny and furious - and it made me feel wretched https://t.co/gnoYQ7KEFr

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

👏👏👏😃

[Tom Eaton @TomEatonSA]

Starting a petition, which I will send to the president, asking that he bans forever the phrase "Cry the beloved country", making its use in headlines, op-eds or captions under Facebook pictures punishable by 15 months in prison and/or writing a 15,000-word essay on Paton's novel

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Months have allegedly passed in which just over 90 households have been forced to live in darkness in Boomtown, Soweto. "Our grievances are electricity. Since 6 July 2021, we have not had electricity," community leader Elvis Rikhotso told News24 this week.
https://t.co/yR9GAKlyEh

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

What fantastic ideas - and so practical. A win win situation

[Roberta Fox @soupandsong]

@Irizaurus @mercylounge Don’t even try..