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ruth waterton
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Here's to the ones who dream Subversive starter of school libraries. Very difficult to get rid of once installed. Lover of Shakespeare, Moomins and Doctor Who
Proudly Manchester, England
Joined July 2009
@MichaelRosenYes From my own experience as a children’s librarian, long-ago classics were over-represented among donations, with well-meaning grandparents fondly remembering their own reading habits from a pre-digital age
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@Mr_PaintPots Sounds like we need a national network of drop-in centres for parents and young families, oh hang on….
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@fillthewhole @pollyrowena I thought treating illness was what a health service was for, am I missing something?
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@adelegeras I loved it too. The scene where he premiered Times They Are a-Changing at Newport was electrifying.
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@jennyeclair Love Boden’s stuff but their hyper-aggressive marketing drives me crazy. Have asked to opt out multiple times and been ignored
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@Adrian_Hilton Every time I consider becoming a Christian again I think about the Church of England and change my mind.
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@herdyshepherd1 Good luck with that, we’re a country who can’t even come up with an electronic tag to fit a 78 year old lady’s wrist
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@LBFlyawayhome Got them all. One thing that takes me right back to. my 1960s childhood is children being offered cups of tea (though mine was always diluted with plenty of milk)
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@NatsWoodward It’s also difficult to approach medical staff with these questions when you know they are run off their feet supporting new cancer patients, because you’ve been there and you know how necessary that timely support is
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@HiddenYorkshire It teaches you how grammar works, which is useful learning modern languages and helps you to write clearly
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RT @DPJHodges: I get Labour’s strategy of getting out the bad news early. But there comes a point where the weight of the bad news becomes…
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