English Teacher. ‘For what it’s worth: it’s never too late, or in my case, too early to be who you want to be’ - F. Scott Fitzgerald 📚📽️☕️🇺🇦
Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Joined May 2013
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Memories from your school days did you put brown paper or wallpaper on your school books
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R.I.P. Paul Auster.
"If nothing else, the years have taught me this: if there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it." In a piece from 1995, Auster answers the question "why write?"
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'We Stand With Ukraine: An Anthology of Poetry, Prose and Protest'. Edited by John Farrelly, Helen Dwyer & Julian Vignoles. Available now in all good book stores.
@mercierpress #WeStandWithUkraine
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Read this cracker Assembly, a debut novel in one sitting last wk (only 100 pgs) about a successful Black woman, exhausted trying to live within colonial structure of modern Britain. Sharp, subversive & shocking.
The Garnett Girls looks like a fun, breezy read. Looking forward most to The Bee Sting, a sizable tome do it might take a while to get through. The Mick Herron book is really for my husband, meant to be one of the best spy novelists out there. He’s read Slough House, this is 2nd
Sorry for my ignorance but does anyone know what this is? Is it a stoat? Like the scene of a crime outside our house!Large enough rabbit dead in driveway, magpies flying over head & this fellow roaming around perimeter of house. Looked as if limping. Finally loped off into hedge.
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Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
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Just started The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller. It’s going to a page turner if the beginning is anything to judge by! Morning after a dinner party & two lifelong friends 1/2
have a tryst while others are inside the house. Following 24 hours after the incident & the life Elle has led that has brought her to this decision are told through flashback & present day narration. Writing is slightly abrasive but the characters feel very real.Will report back!
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'Anything you can do, I can do bleeding.'
Meet the politician fighting to reduce period shaming in Kenya. Senator Gloria Orwoba is driving a campaign for free menstrual products in a country where period stigma still prevails.
Read more: rte.ie/b/1398142
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To celebrate #Home🏚️ hitting the fabled ✨100 reviews✨ on the river site, I’m going to do a #giveaway!
👉🏻 RT and follow for a chance to win a signed copy (U.K. & Ireland only)
📚Bonus - extra entry if you pop your favourite gif in the replies below!
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#breastfeedingweek Just remember some children are breast fed but via a tube. Pumping is hard when you have a sick child but so many parents do it. It’s exhausting & it’s not the same but knowing you are giving your child your breast milk which will enhance their immunity helps❤️
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A tanker of gin, a tanker of tonic and we're sorted. 🍹
A tractor trailer has overturned and sent lemons spilling across a New Jersey highway.
The container with lemons dislodged from the trailer and broke open after the vehicle crashed into the overhead sign.
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