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My roomToday’s vintage find. Black 50s wiggle dress with peplum. £5.Bottling timeThe youth of today. I ask you.Stole this from the Met’s Christmas tree next to the spinning cheese yesterday. This is a lovely scheme, which meant hundreds of London kids in care and in need got Christmas presents last year. I’m doing it again this year. I hope you will too.Surprising PaddingtonTwitter
- Escaped hamster (again) located behind the washing machine where it was defending its new lair (featuring a water p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 12 hours ago
- No, please do tag me to tell me you bought my book on eBay, so I’ll have earned nothing. 1 day ago
- Me: Shall I write this lecture or shall I read the bloody excellent Blood and Sugar by @LauraSRobinson again? *opens Kindle* 1 day ago
- Today’s vintage find. Black 1950s wiggle dress with peplum. £5. https://t.co/0RHO4IZkYe 2 days ago
- Go, your mum! twitter.com/GillanRankin/s… 2 days ago
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The Carnegie Feeling
I have never been one of life’s winners when it comes to sport, barely even scraping third in the 1979 St Mary’s Primary sports day yoghurt-pot-and-umbrella race (actual race, involving running wildly around the field with an empty Ski pot … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony McGowan, Atom Books, Carnegie Medal, Everybody Hurts, Hachette, Joanna Nadin, Leeds, Little Brown, love, teen romance, YA
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The making of a mixtape…
Rob has it right in High Fidelity: “The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony McGowan, Elvis, Everybody Hurts, Leeds, mix CD, Mountain Goats, romance, The National, YA
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When John Hughes closes a door…
There’s a line in Paul Murray’s high school epic Skippy Dies that, on first reading, is less a lightbulb moment and more like being hit over the head with a giant hammer of the blindingly obvious, and, on subsequent examination, … Continue reading
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Tagged Joanna Nadin, John Hughes, Molly Ringwald, Skippy Dies, teen, YA
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