Melanie H
@meliorateh.bsky.social
English teacher, school governor, charity trustee, do-gooder. The woman in the German car.
A nice mention for one of many brilliant sentences written by @jayrayner1.bsky.social this year. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
Opinion | The Best Sentences of 2024
An ugly year in politics was a gorgeous one for words.
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December 27, 2024 at 8:59 AM
A nice mention for one of many brilliant sentences written by @jayrayner1.bsky.social this year. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
British women who solve @nytimes.com connections puzzle are recoiling in horror this morning at the news that Americans call a Mooncup a Divacup.
December 14, 2024 at 9:46 AM
British women who solve @nytimes.com connections puzzle are recoiling in horror this morning at the news that Americans call a Mooncup a Divacup.
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We have £15,829 left to raise by midday tomorrow (Tuesday 10th) to unlock the rest of our match funding. Can you help us reach our target by donating or sharing? Thank you so much 💚
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December 9, 2024 at 11:07 AM
We have £15,829 left to raise by midday tomorrow (Tuesday 10th) to unlock the rest of our match funding. Can you help us reach our target by donating or sharing? Thank you so much 💚
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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I am buoyed by Krugman’s optimism. I hope he’s right. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
Where have all the good vibes gone?
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December 10, 2024 at 7:31 AM
I am buoyed by Krugman’s optimism. I hope he’s right. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
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Only available for one more week this year! Then not until next February. If you want to get, or gift one of these for Xmas, don't dilly dally! loydcole.myshopify.com/collections/...
November 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Only available for one more week this year! Then not until next February. If you want to get, or gift one of these for Xmas, don't dilly dally! loydcole.myshopify.com/collections/...
I hope that MPs will vote in favour of this bill. We should all have the right to decide what happens to our bodies. #assisteddying
It’s outrageous that religious faith is being brought into the assisted dying debate | Simon Jenkins
It’s outrageous that religious faith is being brought into the assisted dying debate | Simon Jenkins
Britain is a largely secular country. Those who oppose the bill before parliament should not be interfering with other people’s right to choose for themselves
I recently attended memorial services for two friends. Both died after long illnesses, and the…
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November 27, 2024 at 8:17 AM
I hope that MPs will vote in favour of this bill. We should all have the right to decide what happens to our bodies. #assisteddying
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Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee
Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee
I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have to
The time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour…
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November 26, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee
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Hey. Writing/comics bsky could you share this around? (I’m judging & want to share BEYOND my circles!)
This is a prize for if you’re working on an unpublished YA book:
- Submit a short extract
- Win money/ feedback
- Open worldwide till Feb
- INCLUDES YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
This is a prize for if you’re working on an unpublished YA book:
- Submit a short extract
- Win money/ feedback
- Open worldwide till Feb
- INCLUDES YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
November 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Hey. Writing/comics bsky could you share this around? (I’m judging & want to share BEYOND my circles!)
This is a prize for if you’re working on an unpublished YA book:
- Submit a short extract
- Win money/ feedback
- Open worldwide till Feb
- INCLUDES YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
This is a prize for if you’re working on an unpublished YA book:
- Submit a short extract
- Win money/ feedback
- Open worldwide till Feb
- INCLUDES YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
Reposted by Melanie H
Reposted by Melanie H
When politicians and media foghorns demand that we don’t talk about Brexit, I always remember these wise words from Martin Samuel (Times journalist) and pledge to honour them.
August 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
When politicians and media foghorns demand that we don’t talk about Brexit, I always remember these wise words from Martin Samuel (Times journalist) and pledge to honour them.
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A print for that special family member who's into pre-Christian supermarket sex
Link to shop in bio
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![Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.
BECKY [on phone]:
Yeah, hiya...
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BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.
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BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?
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[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility
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BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.
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VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?
BECKY:
Becky
PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -
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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -
TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…
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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?
TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihuxlwy7zv6afavzdq2fdv4aprful7rl4w4pnzj5jvefkftfl77wm@jpeg)
November 17, 2024 at 12:43 PM
A print for that special family member who's into pre-Christian supermarket sex
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