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Awesome human, multifaceted interests and talents, modest too. Personal interest in skeletal dysplasia and lots of other stuff too

Shrewsbury, England
Joined May 2015
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Replying to @Ryanair
@Ryanair I’m having an issue with payment for flights. Every method is being rejected. Can you advise?
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Rewatching Broadchurch with my now 18 year old. That cast was amazing.
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Driving through Oxfordshire, multiple bins in every lay-by and the verges largely free of litter. Good! Derbyshire has been the worst, Shropshire also looks grim. More public bins, a deposit scheme to return bottles & number plates printing on drive through orders. Please!
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr… David Lloyd bought a local gym and pool, announced an £11m refurbishment and then made the building inaccessible All 139 branches will have height restricted access from changing room to pool. This isn’t Equality
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“I’m sorry you feel that way” is not an apology. It deflects from accountability and shifts focus from what went wrong to how the complainant feels about it. It is legitimate, and sometimes necessary, to say: that is not an apology.
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Peter Dinklage’s concerns about the @Disney remake are shared by many others within the dwarfism & skeletal dysplasia community. I’ve got achondroplasia myself, same as Peter - and so do my children. Thread 🧵
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Before the Snow White film of 1937 - there were no 7 dwarfs, they had no names, there was no Snow White panto (that came after the film). Indeed much of the public awareness of the story of Snow White now is based on a film from 1937 - not the fairytale.
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Wordle 201 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Foo Fighters - last seen in 1998 - will see again in 2022
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People with underlying health conditions need blue badge spaces, seating and public toilets. Without these - public spaces aren’t accessible to many. Removal “because of Covid” is disingenuous. Equality Impact Assessment needed
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Snowflakes falling in Shropshire. Sledges have been placed by the door by optimistic children❄️
Somewhere in this house, there are 6 pairs of scissors and 3 rolls of sellotape playing sardines - and they’re not in “the kitchen drawer”
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Yay Bill & Oti - loved watching them #StrictlyFinal
Many families in landlocked Shrewsbury have been affected by the local hospital. But MP didn’t attend House of Commons for statement about Ockenden report and tweeted about fish. Different priorities
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The casual announcement that U.K. will break international law is not even sharp practice negotiations. It’s wrong and the breakdown of trust in all treaty negotiations is inevitable. U.K. parliament please do your work & challenge government
In more than 30 years as a diplomat I have not experienced such a fast, intentional and profound deterioration of a negotiation. If you believe in partnership between the UK and the EU like I do then don't accept it.
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Replying to @jackwhitehall
@jackwhitehall I thought you were one of the good guys, but your “dwarf” jokes on BBC2 tonight are ableist, offensive & hurtful.
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We’ve lost so much - I wish my children could have the ladybirds, caterpillars & beetles I did in the 80s. Or a riverside walk with no Himalayan balsam. What have we done 😢
I love these Ladybird Books, the illustrations by Charles Tunnicliffe are charming. But if his illustrations were true to life, flicking through their pages in 2020 is a stark reminder of what we have lost from our landscape in just 60 years. (THREAD)
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The appearance of fairness has not been achieved for the 2020 generation of A level students
A levels...short thread If anyone doubts who the winners are this year, here's a random selection of independent schools and the % of A*-A grades this year. 2019 figures follow in brackets. Mayfield Girls' 66% (55%) Sherfield School 70% (37%) Leweston School 51% (37%)
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Loved #UmbrellaAcademy2 and wishing for #UmbrellaAcademy3 Black suitcase, anyone?
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Interesting reading
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