Southerner stranded in the North East. Nerd, parent, film lover, breastfeeding peer supporter, ex tutor, queer.

Peace walk through Sunderland this afternoon #Sunderland #SunderlandProtest #SunderlandRiots
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Happy birthday Panda! 🐼🎉🎁🎂
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Replying to @Otto_English
It’s grim up North. City centre hellhole.
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MAFS Australia

ALT Oh Okay GIF

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Replying to @Joannechocolat
Phew, I should be ok.
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Replying to @RevDaniel

ALT Freddie Mercury Vocal Improvisation GIF

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Replying to @xoxoRoeTheHoe
52 this month. Love over hate any day 😀
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Labour reshuffle going well… #BBCNews #Labour #reshuffle
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@RyhopeJuniors thank you so much for teaching Autumn for the last 4 years. She’s had a lot of fun and learnt lots along the way. She will miss you all. 😔
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Happy Pride 2023 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Pleased to win the blue hamper at the summer fair this afternoon. The children really enjoyed themselves. @RyhopeJuniors
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Last day at school and last Shine assembly I’m attending today. My youngest two children aren’t so little any more. 🏫🎓
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My 11 year old thought Jenny Eclair was actually a famous fashion designer…
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Happy 11th birthday Panda. 🐼🎉🎂🎁
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Love #PetShopBoys night on BBC2. Real nostalgia. I took this in the Hacienda, Manchester in 1992. Great memories.
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Replying to @NoContextHumans
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@RyhopeJuniors Autumn loved getting their signed book by Kylie Dixon at Seven Stories today as a prize for the illustration competition last month. ✍️🎨
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Happy 16th birthday JP. Not the day we’d planned but when we’re all over Covid we’ll celebrate properly. 🎉🎂🎁
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Erm, I think it’s actually Rishi Sunak #bbcnews #PrimeMinister
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One year ago today we lost you dad. So sudden and awful. Miss you. I’ll have a beer tonight (school night!) just for you. 😢
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Happy birthday to my 51 year old husband. Time flies when you’re having fun. And married with kids. #birthday
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Happy birthday up there in Heaven dad. First away from us. Bet you’re nipping out for a fag and telling stories about 80s pop stars still. Miss you.
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New t shirt for Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone. #StrangerThings #Christmas
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Our local church, St Paul’s Ryhope, looks beautiful tonight. Merry Christmas everyone. ⛪️ #ChristmasEve #Christmas
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#WorldCup2022 Socks chosen carefully today…
1984 school netball team me looks uncannily like my eldest son. 😬 Wonder why nobody was surprised when I came out. 🤣 #photo #80s
10 months vs 10 years.
Memories of Halloween past. 🎃👻
Ready for Halloween. 🎃👻
Love these two 😍
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Wtf? I’m in my 50s and mostly wear superhero t shirts or dresses like in this photo. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Apparently my son is fine to go to school with this test result now. Hard to keep up with these changing rules and guidance. #CovidIsNotOver
Celebrating my 51st (how the actual f am I 51?!) while wanting to crawl under a duvet with the lurgy.
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Happy 11th Anniversary to my darling husband. Life flies when you’re having fun. 😘
So she was the daughter of a woman who’d been in the workhouse and had children out of wedlock in a scandal, working through World War 2 and moving into a council house? Yep, just the same.
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Replying to @EveAinsworth
My kids (in the distance) at the beach this weekend.
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Can’t believe you’ve been gone a year already. We all miss you, especially Panda.
I brought some of my dad’s paintings home with me. He loved painting. 🖼
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We came home in shorts and flip flops to this. #NorthSouthdivide
Holiday 2022. Heat and animals.
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My 10 year old yelled “I’ve found Jesus!” in a Cathedral today. Amused some tourists and elderly people.
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I think the retail assistant ordered the wrong size school shoe - baby 5 not adult 5 🤦🏻
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Can’t believe I missed this at the time. (Can’t quote tweet cos we’re not exactly best mates). 🤣🤣🤣
My kids look like they’re on an album cover for a strange retro pop group.
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I think this taking things literally thing runs in our family. 🤣
When you find a long forgotten box of hair bands.
Carol and Andy’s roses are blooming on the day of Bailey’s inquest so we’re feeling a bit emotionally drained today. RIP.