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Ray French

@RayFrench15

Scribbler - I Wouldn't Start From Here: The Second Generation Irish in Britain; Going Under; All This Is Mine; The Red Jag; End Notes; Four Fathers.

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Joined February 2017
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Miranda is stitching her way through the year in aid of Hull Foodbank. This is a joyous thread. Please domate if you can.
Miranda van Rossum (@mirandamvr) profile pictureMiranda van Rossum@mirandamvr23 Aug 2024
HULL IN STITCHES A year-long stitch-based fundraiser for @HullFoodbank Between 01/03/24 and 28/02/25, I will be visiting 100 different places in Hull and stitching a small piece to represent each group/location I've visited. 1/
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Children in Maesteg burying their GCSE results. An ancient tradition dating back to 1976.
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Planning on visiting a castle in Wales? Did you know there are 2 types? Good Welsh castles and castles built by BASTARDS.... Here are 2 maps to help. Map 1 proper Welsh castles, map 2 built by oppressive BASTARDS. #YoureWelcome
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I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye.
Cartoon. A small child is playing with building blocks. Behind him on the left his dad stands, saying "When you grow up, I want you to buy land and build a mix of shopping, leisure and entertainment facilities on it". On the right the mum stands and says "Don't say that - he'll develop a complex".

ALT Cartoon. A small child is playing with building blocks. Behind him on the left his dad stands, saying "When you grow up, I want you to buy land and build a mix of shopping, leisure and entertainment facilities on it". On the right the mum stands and says "Don't say that - he'll develop a complex".

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Julie@julhat25 Apr 2024
Just saw this 😂😂😂
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Rob B@RobBfromDerby19 Apr 2024
“I’m afraid the sick note’s no longer valid - so back to the mill now”
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Really worth listening to this moving piece written by Walid Daqqa:
Palestine Festival of Literature (@PalFest) profile picturePalestine Festival of Literature@PalFest8 Apr 2024
Walid Daqqa, Palestinian poet and political prisoner, died yesterday in an Israeli prison. Last year at one of our events in Ramallah the director of the Sakakini Center, Hossam Ghosheh, read one of Daqqa's poems. Mohammed El-Kurd then read Dalia Taha’s English translation.

Walid Daqqa 'Uncle, give me a cigarette' read by Mohammed el-Kurd

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Brian Groom@GroomB4 Apr 2024
People attend the opening of a free public library in Ramsden Square, Barrow-in-Furness, 1922. Sankey Archive via @aflashbak flashbak.com/browse-a-fabulo…
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Over the years I’ve lost two friends, one Palestinian and one Lebanese, and nearly lost a third, a French cameraman, to the willingness of IDF soldiers to open fire even though they knew perfectly well who they were. But they felt sure their superiors would protect them.
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Replying to @fasc1nate
Kurt Vonnegut got it right.
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What's the true meaning of life, when death is just the beginning? Meet the 'Dead Man Talking' - and find out. Maybe. Available @JEBooksHull and @thewhitbybooks1 Or order online via bookguild.co.uk/bookshop/dea… #WritingCommunity #NewBooks #Humour #vampires #Whitby #AmReading
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Guardian letter writers are on a roll at the moment!👇🏻 👏👏
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.@jdpoc16 Feb 2024
French is good, my German is 'okay-ish' . Either way I'm not convinced by these translations ..
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Tom Gauld@tomgauld11 Feb 2024
A cartoon about #libraries for @GuardianBooks
Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts. 1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards 2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears. 3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern. 4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar. 5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past. 6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop 7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.

ALT Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts. 1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards 2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears. 3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern. 4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar. 5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past. 6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop 7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.

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I’ve been doing a writing-editing job. It involves getting rid of the expanded bits of noun phrases, the embedded relative clauses and the fronted adverbials. Oh dear. I won’t reach the KS2 ‘expected level.’ Good. Because it’s nonsense.
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I just want to congratulate that spell check ...
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BORIS JOHNSON spent £7,847 of OUR MONEY on just booze at his Brexit party at No 10 on January 31st 2020 Govt has tried to block giving out this information for TWO YEARS I am beyond fuming 😡 Are you? RT @DailyMirror mirror.co.uk/news/politics/c…
Cost of Boris Johnson's Boozy Brexit bash clear after two year legal fight

Cost of Boris Johnson's Boozy Brexit bash clear after two year legal fight

The cost of drinks served at Boris Johnson's party to celebrate the UK's departure from the European Union has finally been revealed after a two year long court fight

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☘️@katekerrigan writes on her show: @WhiteBearTheatr in March "I wasn’t just telling my story; I was telling the story of the whole hidden tribe of all those second-generation Irish kids who grew up in England calling somewhere else ‘Home’ all their lives" irishinbritain.org/news/am-i…

Am I Irish Yet?

By writer and performer Kate Kerrigan

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