Vicky

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@joannerharris I don’t have tickets to this, but I do have tickets for next spring for Jonathan Bailey as Richard II and Tom Hiddleston as Benedick. And I’m v much looking forward to both!

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@scottygb I was there for the full dress rehearsal on the Monday. Going in I was slightly nervous. Coming out I was bursting with pride and thinking “they’ve totally smashed this”.

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@Samfr I’ve seen a few mentions of Rukmini Iyer and I totally agree.

This is a personal favourite. Normally I don’t really like feta but in this it just works.

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Seriously @RoyalMail? Doing this on bin collection day? Madness. Thankfully for my upstairs neighbour, I got home and rescued their parcel first.

@RoyalMailHelp

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@paulbayly Textiles?

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@tspadventure @snorkfr0ken @PassportAndPix Totally. 13.5 years and still going strong. I think we must be up to abou 130 books?

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@tspadventure @snorkfr0ken @PassportAndPix That is the conclusion we came to too. We also had a really interesting discussion about the nature of love, and whether it is possible to love somebody deeply even if they’ve behaved badly and you haven’t seen them in decades. To which my answer was an unequivocal “yes”.

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@tspadventure @snorkfr0ken @PassportAndPix Page 42 is where we leave the modern day reporter behind…this was Book Club’s hot take on 7 husbands…

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@PassportAndPix @hunstantonsmith I’ve got tickets to the TTW musical in October. Which I simultaneously want to see, hoping it is good, and yet fear the worst about…

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@hayley_eu @PassportAndPix Whereas I found it a page turner! I finished it within 36 hours of picking it up. Which when you are dyslexic is pretty good going 😂

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@hayley_eu @PassportAndPix I re-read it a couple of years ago. If anything I loved it more than I did the first few times around.

This is why I love my book club. We can have totally different reactions to the same book. And those books make for the best discussions.

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@hunstantonsmith @PassportAndPix I guessed the ending after the scene in the woods. I cried ugly tears.

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@jonathansimons I had one when I joined DfES in 2004. Mainly used for post, by senior folk would also used it to feed back handwritten comments on draft submissions.

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@Politax3 As a properly history geek thing, you can get back up to George III in one fewer generation if you go up the Teck/Cambridge line…

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@Samfr @mcleodp The cafe in the acropolis museum itself is actually not bad and has a decent view of the acropolis.

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@kprescott I really like Rizzio by Denise Mina, which is historical crime non-fiction fiction.

As somebody who lived as a late ‘90s teen I loved Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls - a nostalgic and adult telling of a summer romance.

And currently reading and enjoying Robert Harris’ Conclave.

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@EllieDibdinPR @kprescott Health warning on Seven Husbands. The first 42 pages are the worst written I think I have ever read. I only persevered because it was a book club book. It got better, and I did enjoy it after that.