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editor @obsfood , columnist @obsmagazine , author Plot 29, Morning, J Sheekey Fish. allan.jenkins @theguardian .com
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an earlier day at the Foundling Museum, in the week
@lemnsissay
inspiration near brought me to tears
Thank you
@krissakabusi
, Allan, and
@lemnsissay
also for joining and sharing your experiences of living in care. It’s so great to see the successes you’ve had.
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this woman, a giant in a world of tiny-minded men, speaks truth
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Girls of 13 don't have "lovers" you fucking morons. Fix this
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Rest her soul
18 June 1930 | Belgian Jewish girl Irma Andrie Jeannette Speelman was born in Wenduine. During the war she lived in The Hague.
She was deported to
#Auschwitz
in October 1942 and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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heroes without capes
Today I found out through Facebook that the overnight security guard at my work knits boots and mittens for premature babies at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He also posts them worldwide. MY HEART 😭❤️
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Rest her soul
Pearly Young, 77, was killed today in
#Buffalo
shopping for groceries.
For 25 years she ran a pantry where every Saturday she fed people in Central Park. Every. Saturday.
She loved singing, dancing, & being with family.
She was mother, grandma, & missionary. Gone too soon 🕊
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sneak peek of Sunday’s brilliant birthday issue, a feast of good things
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I slept in parks and derelict buildings when I came out of care. I will never forgive this govt talk of tents
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“Gross negligence”. Covid-19: UK test and trace 'barely functional' as 11 million face lockdown
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@JLewisland
Long ago, Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren, in J Sheekey: chips and bottle of champagne, in every night after the play
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from last year
I stand with the City of Orlando against hate and bigotry. My thoughts are with all the victims of this horrific attack
#lovewins
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Fucking monsters
Drug firm owned by private equity firm raises price of Lithium tablets for people with mental health issues from £3.22 to £87 a packet.
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Leave her alone
The Duchess of Sussex allegedly boasted about giving out marijuana as gifts at her first wedding, before she married Prince Harry.
@TheSpurrShow
asks: should she apologise for this or is this a storm in a teacup?
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"an owl a day"
The magnificent Great Grey Owl has a wingspan of 5.0 ft and weighs in at around 4.12 lb making it the world's largest owl.
📷 by David Hemmings
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car crash
An absolute masterclass from
@KayBurley
on
@SkyNews
in how to hold Government to account. In the process she completely demolishes this Government Minister over
#Partygate
& the fixed penalty fines issued & exposes the utter contempt in which the Government holds the public
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Winter solstice, the year and sun stops and thinks, turns toward light
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20 years ago today I started at the Observer, assistant editor on Life Magazine, no idea would stay so long, in that time have edited two great magazines, been part of the 200-year-plus history of my favourite newspaper, been lucky to work with brilliant contributors & colleagues
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Superhero
@marcusrashford
, the most powerful voice in British food, is our January cover star⭐
Out tomorrow, illustration by Jacquie Boyd
#OFM
#OFMSunday
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my hands are currently maybe 20 years older than me
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So here we go: first sight of Plot 29, my early life in flowers and family, be gentle with the boys, perhaps RT
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Shitshow
The car crash interview of the year as Justice Secretary Dominic Raab shamelessly defends the indefensible
Superb from
@susannareid100
@GMB
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to the doctors, nurses, delivery workers, teachers, the farmers, fisherfolk and cooks that fed us, the hospitality staff that made the unbearable bearable, the scientists that saw hope in hopelessness, to the writers and poets and painters, thank you all for everything
#2021
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My paper, proud
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my queen
New OFM with Sunday's
@ObserverUK
featuring an interview with cover star
@andisn16
and recipes from her new cookbook, The Pepperpot Diaries
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Hero of the day
We could all learn a lesson from this baby bear: Look up & don't give up.
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Best tweet of the day already
This stork couple celebrates their first egg. Wait for it. Sound on...
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hero
A full page in the Washington Post today about the witch-hunt against me. Cannot thank my colleagues and publication for having my back at such a crucial time for me. I promise to keep fighting the truth
@elopezgross
@washingtonpost
@wppressfreedom
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believe you misspelled refugees
Sky News has seen evidence of suspected migrants landing in Kent this morning
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hero, this man
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Toby Young, son of a baron, complains about privilege
Did...did her mother make a call to get her into climate change protesting?
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stop here for a moment, think, what an image
Three Jewish men who arrived at Auschwitz the same day. They were tattooed ten numbers apart. 73 years later they were reunited as part of the last eye witness project. May we never forget
#neverforget
#Auschwitz
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A Christmas present from all at OFM
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a small shaft of bright light
This is what a fully grown Least Weasel looks like. It’s the least amount of weasel one can be while still being a weasel
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not all heroes wear capes
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forest god
Rare black fallow deer seen in the Baryczy valley in Poland.
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Gardening saved my sanity
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@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
@ZaraM01
@BBCSounds
super uncomfortable with this relentless insensitive questioning and for
@BBCWomansHour
to clip it makes it worse. am honestly keen to know your thinking
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so sorry to hear Mary Holbrook has died, Britain's best cheesemaker
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Blistering, brilliant
@NickCohen4
in the Observer today: Trump, lies and the whole damn thing
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the lag between ordering seed and it arriving, a little like falling in love. The lag between sowing and growing – fullblown love affair
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goals
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lovely interlude: Italy’s Saffron Harvest
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Repost
@andisn16
Apparently a lot of people have this confused ... sigh.. but here you go
#wadadlidiaries
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💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Tomorrow many nurses will be on strike for the first time in their lives
We've been left with no other choice
If you will be supporting striking NHS workers please reply with a 💙
#FairPayforNursing
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so today was supposed to be a long, maybe slightly boozy lunch after trip to the palace for Nigel Slater’s OBE, but on hold. we have worked together for 20 years: a gorgeous writer, a gifted gardener, a supremely…
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Gardening in an age of anxiety: sowing seeds of comfort at home | Allan Jenkins
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Heaven this!
@exitthelemming
Forgive me but I didn’t realise Thursday was
#NationalPoetryDay
.
If I’d have remembered I’d have posted this famous moment from ‘Parkinson’ in 1973... when Ken and Maggie Smith read John Betjeman’s ‘Death in Leamington’ in front of the great man himself.
Truly memorable.
Click⬇️
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Piers Morgan, who knew?
Piers Morgan rips Andrew Bridgen a new one for not understanding his own government's rules.
"You have just told me to do something that I'm not allowed to do."
#GMB
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Hero, obvs
"I've made a living out of making meals from thin air and hope - but you can't, you literally can't"
@BootstrapCook
has expressed their outrage at the food parcels which have been sent to families as part of the free school meals scheme.
#FreeSchoolMeals
|
#5NewsTonight
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will never forgive the vote yesterday. this please
"We try not to eat a lot in one day, even though most of us are really hungry."
Almost 1 in 3 children in the UK are now growing up poor, like Cameron and his two sisters whose family rely on a food bank to help fill the fridge.
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Ever the shit
Stay right there because
@Nigel_Farage
will join us from London to analyze the heartbreaking story of little Alfie Evans, the dangers of socialized medicine, and the death panels that come with it. Don't miss this.
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I almost don't recognise us
Almost half of Britons (49%) say they have little (22%) to no sympathy (27%) for the migrants who have been crossing the channel from France to England
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maybe best piece you will read today, better yet, perhaps pop out and buy a paper, stuffed with brilliant writing, thinking, recipes, all the good stuff
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goals
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of mothering and primrose
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slightly shaken, more than a little proud, nearly tearful
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rest her soul
Wow… this obituary. (In yesterdays NYT. Yes I read the tiny obituaries. That means I get to see amazing stories like this. It’s like micro-nonfiction.)
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maybe all twitter should be like this
Always refill and store watering cans in the greenhouse after use. The water temperature will rise and be less of a shock to seedlings when you need it, especially with squash. You don't want to lower the soil temperature of seed trays with ice cold tap water.
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planting bulbs to brighten dark days
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Fuck these people Gavin Williamson under fire over free school meal cuts during coronavirus outbreak
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this woman ...
"Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success, it is failure" Jacinda Ardern
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Happy day, OFM’s 20th anniversary issue, a feast of food writing, photography, thoughts, a few of our favourite people. Grateful to everyone who has ever supported us, it means everything. cover image by John Reardon, without whom ...
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quiet joy of falling leaves and failing year
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Seems appropriate
Edvard Munch's The Scream comes to the British Library in April
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something in my eye! inevitable
Kamala Harris will be escorted to inauguration ceremony by Eugene Goodman, Capitol Police officer who became face of the resistance to rioters who stormed the Capitol two weeks ago today.
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👇👇👇👇👇
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aware you don't have to have given birth to be someone's amazing mum
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while all around lose theirs
Take a look at how still this kingfisher keeps it's head while hunting, incredible! 💙
#Winterwatch
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worth your time
The former Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir David King, argues that austerity and Number 10’s communications policies have hindered the UK’s reaction to the pandemic.
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Instagram’s disabled my account as they were convinced I am no longer me. Fear they may be right
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grateful for your care
Me & twin bro Mo left our parents behind in Lebanon & arrived in the UK at 17 yrs of age
Mo was stacking shelves, I was cleaning floors
Today
Dr
@HankirMohammed
BSc MSc PhD is a neuroscientist
I'm Dr Ahmed Hankir MBChB MRCPsych an academic psychiatrist
Our dreams came true
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My humble homage to
@michelguerard
: 40 years holding three Michelin stars
#OFMSunday
#50ThingsWeLove
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cover of the year: Christmas with
@andisn16
@miquitaoliver
and fam, November OFM out tomorrow, 60 pages of joy
@ObsFood
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Hero
Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers: US Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship -
@eslavin_stripes
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ICYMI Marcella to Nigella, soba to spaghetti, OFM 20 best noodle recipes
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The end of the affair
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