Provincial bluestocking. Not waving but frowning.
Joined January 2014
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16 Jul 2024
Discussed putting Christmas decs up with son yesterday because it is so gloomy 🎄
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10 Apr 2024
I'd be a TERRIBLE maiden aunt.
10 Apr 2024
Sally answering phone on train to PA:
PA: "Hello dear."
Sally: "You sound like my maiden aunt."
PA: "I'd be a terrible maiden aunt."
Sally: "I'm not going to speak long cos I get embarrassed speaking on trains.
Maiden Aunt: "If only everyone got embarrassed." @Compleat_Reader
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17 Feb 2024
Tastes like mouthwash.
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17 Feb 2024
Citrus & spirulina kombucha. In France. Whatever next?
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16 Feb 2024
Heading off for the weekend. Something for the journey.
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24 Jan 2024
I posted a photo of my pedicured toes on insta & Miss R said I should take it down before it ended up on a fetish site and now I’m wondering if it’s something I could monetise? I do have very nice feet.
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Compleat_Reader retweeted
24 Jan 2024
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23 Jan 2024
Miss R: Just had a lobster roll!
Me: They mate for life you know.
Miss R: That’s ok, my friend just ate its mate.
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23 Dec 2023
On the long trek north to the ancestral homelands, kids (24 & 22) delighted to see A1 Sex Superstore still open. Miss R: .’it’s a landmark’
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22 Dec 2023
Wonderful thread - thanks @lauravarnam for drawing attention to it!
10 Dec 2018
There's a fleeting scene in Brief Encounter when Celia Johnson nips into Boots the Chemist to change her library book: “Miss Lewis had at last managed to get the new Kate O'Brien for me. I believe she’d kept it hidden under the counter for two days.”
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Compleat_Reader retweeted
21 Dec 2023
If you get stuck in a charity shop because you can't get limb lift-off sit by the boots on the chair left there & if you fail to sell as "The Boots Lady" (nearly sold 1 pair) read PARADISE LOST on your phone until you find your divine "raise and support @Compleat_Reader
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20 Dec 2023
It’s nearly that time again.
21 Dec 2021
A new festive tradition - rereading The Dark is Rising through the solstice & Christmas #TheDarkIsReading
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16 Dec 2023
Why is it that no matter how much I need everyday basics, I always end up looking at frocks like these?
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15 Dec 2023
My review of @L_Vardiashvili’s superb debut Hard by a Great Forest in this month’s @Perspective_tw. @BloomsburyBooks @helenkupton
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