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catherine

@cmcql

‘A blank canvas in a promising postcode.’ Primary school principal. Wife & Mum. Sceptical idealist with a side of hot chips.

 Irish in New Zealand
Joined March 2009
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Anyway here’s Stay Another Day by East 17
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‘Dispute’, a quite impressive real picture captured by Polish photographer Jacek Stankiewicz, featuring two birds embroiled in what appears to be an animated argument.
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two years since the world lost Terry Hall 🖤 The Colourfield - Thinking of You - 1985
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Its crazy how if you get good grades they just let you raw dog adhd your whole life
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Gregg Wallace replaced by middle class woman of a certain age.
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I spent much of yesterday, and this afternoon going through these notebooks, and now I've started documenting the song evolutions. If you have a look, I'll also be opening Substack chat in a few minutes, to find out what that's all about 🤞 The 1996 Album Notebooks open.substack.com/pub/lloydc…
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i wrote a piece for @davidfarrier at webworm about the past ten years in Mike King webworm.co/p/rockstar
The Making of a Mental Health Rockstar

The Making of a Mental Health Rockstar

Does Mike King’s popularity come with a big dose of impunity?

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mary: you booked a room right joseph (playing on wooden xbox): yeah totally
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All of the other reindeer called him names. So he killed them. He killed them all. #Darkhumour
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Country That Stole Irish Passports For Use In Assassinations, Attacked Irish Peacekeepers Closes Embassy In Ireland Over Country's Opposition To Genocide waterfordwhispersnews.com/20…
Country That Stole Irish Passports For Use In Assassinations, Attacked Irish Peacekeepers Closes...

Country That Stole Irish Passports For Use In Assassinations, Attacked Irish Peacekeepers Closes...

SOMETIMES, brutal regimes with little regard for human rights go too far. This, it transpires, is true of the outgoing Irish government. "Just when you think a regime has reached the nadir of its...

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😂 – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Massive away win for the little fella.
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catherine retweeted
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@Hoopss12 Dec 2024
A news reporter asked Michael Jordan if he thought the ’90s Bulls could beat LeBron’s Lakers. MJ: Yes. Reporter: By how much? MJ: Two or three points. Reporter: Why so close? MJ: Most of us are almost 60 now.
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Head Coach 🫡 #CarolinaFootball | #ChapelBill
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Welcome to Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick! The eight-time Super Bowl Champion has officially been named our next @UNCFootball Head Coach. #GoHeels x #ChapelBill
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The atheism leaving my body when O Holy Night starts playing
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My column on the Assads' new life in Shit Creek theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde

Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde

The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Luckily parents who borrow or buy picture books for their children ignore this nonsense.
Warwick Mansell (@warwickmansell) profile pictureWarwick Mansell@warwickmansell5 Dec 2024
New: “Phonics first, reading for pleasure after,” say most of the Department for Education’s “English Hubs” educationuncovered.co.uk/new… research report on English Hubs finds support for the policy, but also the above finding, which is discussed in this piece.
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Yesterday was the anniversary of this tweet NEVER FORGET
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If they open the tomb and release an undead Santa and his zombie elf hordes that would be the perfect end to 2024
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@DailyTurkic6 Dec 2024
Archaeologists in Türkiye believe they have discovered the tomb of Saint Nicholas, famously known as Santa Claus 🇹🇷
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