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July 2015

writing

Getting back to what matters

When you have been neglecting your work in progress, one of the good things about writing draft one in longhand and being a bit late in the typing of it up, is that getting up to date with the typed…

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Thu, 15:01: 5 of 5 stars to The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge https://t.co/tpgolp04FV Thu, 15:09: A dark and mysterious thriller: #review of The Lie Tree by @FrancesHardinge http://t.co/iFvEcl5HJ6 #books #amreading Fri, 09:08: LIVE on #Periscope: It’s Friday! Unicycling in…

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A dark and mysterious thriller

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge This is a book about secrets and lies, and the truths they both can conceal. Set in Victorian England, on a remote island, this is a dark mystery that concerns science, academic research, and…

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Wed, 18:38: New phone cover. It had to be done! #MrTumnal #partofme @ Wren Hoe,… https://t.co/YUYH80LTn5 Thu, 09:28: Not a nice place to be! #STMpublishing #pastlife #timehop https://t.co/WvBYMJw77F Thu, 10:36: Just the kind of window from which Miss Leroy would…

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Tue, 22:50: Love gardens? Want to find out what it’s like to see the world differently? http://t.co/9gGhrHOFvS #autism #Aspergers #AutisticGardener Wed, 08:14: The silence and solitude of the #autumnal morning… @ University Parks… https://t.co/cQBYcdfX9j Wed, 08:16: Reflections in the river….

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Mon, 17:46: First blackberries from the local hedgerow! #AutumnIsComing @ Southwold, Bicester https://t.co/w6exfPTGo3 Mon, 18:02: Who would have thought back then that I’d now be writing the sequel… https://t.co/xpmAICmhJs Mon, 18:17: So that’s when my period of unployment came to…

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Sun, 15:08: Surely @GOVUK can’t be so shortsighted and profit driven as to okay a plan to plant bee-killing seeds across the UK? http://t.co/t6KCV0wDHo Sun, 15:15: I thought it was easing off, but no, not at all… #UKrain Sun, 18:47:…

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Sat, 16:57: Just rounding off an excellent exhibition of Great British Drawing at the Ashmolean… @ The… https://t.co/z4c0zfe30o Sat, 17:00: Exercising in the park… https://t.co/rXXcHn1RpF Sat, 17:01: Afternoon tea @ The Ashmolean Dining Room https://t.co/5Wvmlgwdkd Sat, 19:05: History and dramatic…

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Thu, 16:45: Why can’t I write neatly on the bus? :-/ #amwriting #writingfail Thu, 16:53: @Stagecoach_Ox the driver of 16:30 S5 bus to Bicester & Launton needs to learn when to use his horn and when he SHOULDN’T! #trainingrequired Thu,…

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Wed, 18:21: Last night I dreamed we arrived at a restaurant. We’d been looking at menu outside & uncharacteristically I’d decided already what to have Wed, 18:22: (contd.) The waiter showed us to our table where he confided with us:…

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A story of damplings and landlubbers

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan This is a book of big, powerful themes told through lilting, poetic language, but at its heart its a family struggle of thwarted ambition and family heritage. The story is set in a world that,…

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Tue, 15:41: Welcome to Narnia aka Harcourt Hill Campus… @ School of Education https://t.co/tmJKW21sPv Tue, 15:43: Lunchtime walk away from the desk and into the countryside… @ School of Education https://t.co/JXgB7MjufT Tue, 15:46: So @oxford_brookes has a golf course. Who…

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Mon, 16:11: Who doesn’t like trees? @ South Park https://t.co/TTpGIbeFcz Mon, 16:14: Meadow flowers https://t.co/Rsf2RdG3J8 Mon, 16:15: A study of summer colours https://t.co/HbH5cLSCwW Mon, 18:23: @hantom1 🙂 https://t.co/GKU8Sh4Uo6 Mon, 19:59: A year since my first #ArtInAction. I might have missed…

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Sun, 17:30: Watch again footage recorded on #HatchCam over the last week: https://t.co/BegIfPChG8 #chickennews Sun, 20:36: Proof that what #VirtuallyThere days need is live chicken hatching to get the numbers up… #university #recruitment http://t.co/Rf5ZqoUseG Mon, 09:16: A bit disappointed that,…

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Sat, 13:43: I scored 5 out of 7 on the BBC 7 days 7 questions Quiz http://t.co/4G4Vy8Ps5G Sat, 18:13: @becky_lturner Have you managed to get hold of any Brookes Tea yet? Sat, 23:36: RT @brookespoetry: Pls RT! Intrnationl #Poetry Comptition:…

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Fri, 12:36: Just eaten the most delicious potato salad lunch made for me by my lovely @EmmaEShepherd 🙂 xx Fri, 21:38: Not sure about this Baltazar’s Feast by Walton. Can see why it’s taken so long to make a #Proms…

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Thu, 13:20: LIVE on #Periscope: Popup https://t.co/uCBbqHXc1e Thu, 14:49: LIVE on #Periscope: Out of the grass… #popup #awayday https://t.co/jCNu6ExOiT Thu, 21:54: We have a new #Live webcam to enjoy of Salt, Pepper and Scramble in their nursery pen http://t.co/XKC3Ci6VBT #chickens…

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Wed, 18:40: These three little haven’t been together like this since when they were eggs… #chickens #hatching https://t.co/sAXf3oL9ef Wed, 18:43: It’s a tiring life being a chicken… #chickens #hatching https://t.co/HPUfY0o2F7 Wed, 22:30: One of the amazingly intense, brilliant pieces of…

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Tue, 15:56: Chicky #1 before her friends hatched… (Tuesday morning) https://t.co/XnNmwUqBi4 Tue, 16:32: Amused that live chicken hatching seems to be more popular than law virtual open day… #work #chickens #VirtuallyThere Tue, 22:00: Out of the incubator and into the…

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Mon, 21:23: RT @ChrisGPackham: Please RT https://t.co/kEELoMMPDj Mon, 21:33: Ooh, big stretch… this being born malarkey doesn’t half take it out of you… #chickennews #hatching https://t.co/r2SgG0DL50 Tue, 06:47: Little chickie-lickie is up and moving about… http://t.co/XKC3Ci6VBT

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