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Co-editor of @nawrmag / Building people power with @LeicesterCitizn / ordinand training with Queens Foundation

Leicester, England
Joined February 2013
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@Anna_blaandd
Anna
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Barton in the Beans is the kind of thing I'd come up with if someone asked me to name a fictional place in England
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4 years
Peaceful picnic interrupted
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2 months
After enjoying 5 weeks of Scottish Right to Roam, gotta love returning to England and signs like this
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3 years
Volunteering at the beautiful Gaia Earth exhibition at Leicester Cathedral today. It's 10.30 and already three people have expressed to me their disappointment at not being able to see the UK... fascinating.
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3 months
People keep asking me how the pilgrimage is going and I feel like I spend 90% of the time getting torn to shreds by Scottish grannies for pronouncing place names wrong
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3 months
Helmsdale, a village in the Scottish Highlands, has a heritage and arts centre that is at least on par with, if not far exceeds anything I've seen in a large city.
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2 years
Someone asked me today about why more young people are praying/engaged in some kind of spiritual practice and I think it's for a similar reason: INK AND PRAYER IS ALL WE'VE GOT
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Jay Hulme
2 years
This applies to many things, by the way, not just tattoos. An understanding of this deep pessimism about the future is essential to understanding 'younger people'.
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Anna
4 months
Absolutely insane to be doing this. As Jay said, we're not creating 'content' but recognize that community will be part of our spiritual practice on this walk and our communities at home want to keep updated. Can't promise consistency but we will try!
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Jay Hulme
4 months
I'm setting off on Thursday for a six week pilgrimage (it doesn't start on Thursday, but it takes a few days to get to the beginning) My friend @Anna_blaandd and I will be walking from St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney, to Durham Cathedral, because they were built by the same masons
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2 months
Durham #Parkrun ✅ Even after walking 500 miles, I couldn't help myself!
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7 months
Ever been into the boiler room of an ancient church? 1/10 don't recommend 💀
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Anna
4 years
Things @JayHulmePoet says when he takes you on a tour of a church tower: "Don't be an idiot in the tower." "The ladder does have a broken rung but it's fine." "There might be a bit of squatting."
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Anna
2 years
Peace lilies are so dramatic! This is before and one hour after watering!
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1 year
Caught @JayHulmePoet 's Trinity Sunday trifle in the street, how the mighty have fallen
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Anna
4 years
Sunlight at 5pm
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@JayHulmePoet Queers. 🤝 church ladies Weird crafts
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1 year
Pride is community organising 💚
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3 months
The museum curators are clearly so alive to the history and struggle of workers and tenants, putting their stories front and centre. PLUS an exhibition drawing inspiration from ornithology to reflect on themes of human care and liberation. Stunning stuff @Timespan
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Anna
10 months
@JayHulmePoet The exact moment I fell in love with you:
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Anna
7 months
No, it's not the medieval cosplay convention. It's the Dean's Installation! (The day after International Women's Day as well, the icon that Karen is)
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5 months
@oldenoughtosay Candlelight because they were using up leftover candle stubs 😭 pure evil
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3 months
There is nothing more shaming to me, a lifelong Android user, than someone asking me to operate their iPhone. Not a clue!!
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2 years
Nothing like an Easter vigil at @StNicholasLeics - the middle of a busy ring road, music pumping from the night club across the street, Ramadan lights in the background 💚 Happy Easter!
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4 years
"What alternatives do you propose to the government's current measures?" idk, socialism???
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Anna
10 months
"But man at war with man hears not the lovesong which they bring. Oh hush your noise, you men of strife, and hear the angels sing." (Madonna y Niño, Kreg Yingst)
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Our estate agents arranged house viewings on my bday so very tempted to pointedly sit in the dining room eating croissants and drinking coffee and talkinh loudly about the terrible mould problem
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6 years
Want to stress yourself out for absolutely no reason? Walk up union Street in Bath on a Saturday and that'll do the job.
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2 months
@JayHulmePoet YOU'RE GAY?!!!
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Anna
4 years
Just watched protestors pull down the Edward Colston statue in Bristol. Likely one of the most incredible things I've ever seen
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3 years
On the other hand, people have been amazed at the size of Africa amd South America, which is usually distorted and shrunk on a flat map. And the sheer amount of ocean. Stunning.
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Anna
4 years
Re-reading Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Lives of Trees 💚
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4 months
Great evening at @CitizensUK General Assembly representing @LeicesterCitizn ! Powerful to see a broad based alliance of people coming together and organizing their voices to make change 💪
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4 years
Some rando found my degree certificate in the house I used to live in in Bath. All this time I could have sworn I had it safely filed away, but clearly not...
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2 months
I get that farmers have gotta farm but this feels a bit... Bull
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Anna
2 years
Please send prayers / good vibes to our Ornothologist is Residence as he travels to Australia to literally save the lives of countless birds with his bare hands
@StNicholasLeics
St Nicholas' Church
2 years
Here at St Nick's we're all praying for our Ornithologist in Residence as he returns to field work for the first time since the pandemic began We're praying for a safe journey for him, and for all of the @AdriftLab as they continue their important work studying plastic pollution
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Anna
2 years
It's "idle and blessed" not "productive and stressed", sweety
@bookishseawitch
the moon’s wife
2 years
the irony that when mary oliver asked “what are you going to do with your one wild and precious life” she was simply going to pay attention to the world! simply kneel in the grass and watch a grasshopper! and now it’s used in the context of productivity as ~a motivational quote~
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4 years
The submission the celebration
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1 month
28 and looking more like my mum in 1994 every day
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Anna
7 years
I've spent 2 weeks in the @springharvest Hub which was jam-packed full people who 'do' in order to make the world a better place. Don't believe the news... It's not all bad.
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Anna
3 months
Me "engaging with difference"
@Whotfismick
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Real
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2 years
Finally learnt to crochet!!!!
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2 years
Sunday 💫
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2 months
We didn't put this in the update, but this is the only picture we took crossing the border and apparently this is my Jay Is Getting On My Last Nerve forced smile
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Anna
4 years
Decided on a design for a new tattoo. Gonna get "remember to backup your work" on the back of both my hands, gonna look so sick
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4 years
Finished a tiny cross stitch today, framed it, and now I feel soothed
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3 years
C'est fini
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Anna
4 years
I'm knitting a jumper for myself, and after a week of deciding what colour to make it I've decided to go for 7 different coloured yarns and commit to this jumper being completely unhinged.
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3 months
To be fair, as someone with my own Real Life Scottish granny, this is something I really should have expected
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4 years
One of the things I don't mind about the heat is that the butter doesn't mind going on the bread
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4 years
@JayHulmePoet Behind the scenes, literally inside a bush
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5 years
"Vegan plus Salmon" is the name of my new album to be released on all music streaming platforms in 2020
This woman
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7 months
@freddieandfaith A lot of dead spiders in spider church :(
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Anna
5 years
Errr, when you email the vc asking him to respond to strike demands and he can't even manage to send a reply himself!!?? #WheresColin @CardiffUCU
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Anna
7 years
"I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode." (Angela Carter... Obviously) Here's to the women who explode old bottles. #IWD2018
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4 years
Took a break from work to stroll down to harbourside and admire her
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@Anna_blaandd
Anna
4 years
Still cannot believe that my sister's friend (18) asked me (24) to model (lmfao) the bikinis she's been making because she needs more pictures of 'older women' on her insta feed W H A T
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4 years
My sister just sent me this picture of a letter my mum stuck on her bedroom door. Glad to see that signature passive aggression is alive and kicking
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2 months
I know I should probably do something worthy and prayerful to decompress after the pilgrimage but the way I'm going to play tf out of Animal Crossing when I get home...
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2 years
I wasn't hopeful about this dodgy roll of film but the imperfections made it xtra magic
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2 years
Another Christmas, another year of grandad writing my name with quotations marks. I'm the only one in the family he does this to!!!
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4 years
Think I'm done reading emails for today
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5 years
Oh to be a book, chilling on a bean bag in the @CUSpecialColls
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3 years
@JayHulmePoet "Wanna lick the bone?" "No, thanks."
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Anna
8 months
Big up to the amazing people involved in this! People power really does make change and I'm excited about where this campaign is headed 💪
@peterogers_
Pete Rogers
8 months
Humbled and blown away by the courage, expertise and organising acumen of the @LeicesterCitizn @CitizensUK Access to Healthcare campaign team 🧵1/4
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4 years
Ratatouille for dinner
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Anna
4 years
A level result day, and sixth form in general, was not a good time for me. My thoughts are with the students who have been extra screwed over by an algorithm as brutal as the system
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4 years
Getting excited about the amount of natural light in the new gaff
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Anna
6 years
Coming for ya graduation! @EnglishBSU #bathspaforever
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Anna
7 years
I am proud of myself 💕 #angelacarter #BSU #disso
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3 months
Moo from the Highlands (still)
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Anna
5 years
Drunk guy "flirting" with me on the train (boo) turned into me convincing him why he should turn up to vote (yay). Ended up missing my stop (big boo).
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6 years
I was given my grandad's 1960s Praktica 50mm film camera and have been testing it out on a roll to see if it still takes good pics and oh my goodness
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4 years
Was just accosted in the street by the BBC and interviewed about the lockdown. They asked if I was frustrated about living under restrictions for so long?????? No, I actually love them 💕💕💕
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2 months
Off to my second festival since returning from the pilgrimage... Definitely making some sensible life choices here...
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1 year
@e_m_clark Not ordained (an ordinand) but love seeing all these inked women of God! This is one of mine: Anna the prophet (my namesake).
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5 years
Just drove straight into the middle of the doc Martin set as they were filming and they had to cut and get security to escort us out lol
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Anna
1 year
Visited Bath and discovered that @ToppingsBath has not in fact closed but has MOVED and is as lethal to my bank balance as ever
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1 month
@JayHulmePoet People who aren't even Christian have said to me how bizarre it is, because they see how much of a community hub it is alongside the cafe. Aside from the Cathedral, it's one of the most visible signs of Christian presence in the city centre.
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4 years
Yes I made this and it wasn't bad (peach upside down cake)
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Anna
7 years
I saw her across the club wearing jeans and a top with her hair pulled back. She looked like she was having fun with her friends, so I knew it was time for me to intervene. I put my arm around her and she told me to "piss off", so I knew she was keen.
@whitneyarner
whit
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@kateleth new twitter challenge: describe yourself like a male author would
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2 years
"This isn’t to say that Wales is a homogenous, left-wing nation, but simply that any radical change in a nation will naturally cause the people who live there to take stock of their national identity." Great article by @marthalobrien about @nawrmag
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4 years
I'm knitting a jumper for myself, and after a week of deciding what colour to make it I've decided to go for 7 different coloured yarns and commit to this jumper being completely unhinged.
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3 months
@JayHulmePoet Every time we walk across a beach
@TheShadowsOOC
what we do in the shadows wwdits out of context
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this could actually be the scene that wins matt berry his emmy
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2 months
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5 years
From young, innocent baby fresher with lots of hair to agèd postgrad
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5 years
*Sat in the cinema about to watch Little Women* Mum: Julia Roberts was so good in the original, this just isn't gonna be the same. Me: mum, wha... do you think we're seeing Pretty Woman? Mum: .... Me: .... Mum: I... what are we watching?
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1 year
Joined the ducks for a morning swim :)
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Anna
5 years
Wow, amazing seeing wildlife being able to wander freely and nature beginning to heal 💚 humans really are the virus
@marthalobrien
Martha O'Brien
5 years
ok thought pandemic couldn't get weirder but on today's walk in CATHAYS i saw a CHICKEN
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5 years
My last three brain cells coming together to write my essay conclusion
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Anna
4 years
This... thing... has appeared in our neighbours' garden I think I might cry
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7 years
Serving 19th-century theatre realness, we're crafty bitches. #mybathspastory
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Anna
4 years
Very interesting that the same people saying 'I support BLM but I don't agree with the criminal damage to public property' remain silent over the far right 'protests',,, very interesting indeed
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4 years
Selling on fb marketplace continues to go really well lmao
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2 years
The most Eastery of Easter pilgrimages is when you reach the bottom of a mountain and are welcomed by extremely new baby lambs
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3 years
Not our priest trying to flog her tickets to an Elbow gig during church notices 😭😭
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Anna
2 years
Sorting out all of my 35mm photos, and I am so glad I have this camera. The depth of field, the colour... film just adds something to images that you don't get with digital
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2 months
We're having dinner with some hosts and they rescue injured and sick animals, Hedgehogs, doves, bats etc. Halfway through conversation they go "and there's a bat in that box just behind your head" 👀 anyway this is Nora Batty
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Anna
5 years
Fella in the bar I'm in just stood up with his trumpet and played last post... genuinely feel like I'm mourning.
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1 year
Nawr's final online issue is here!Suitably, our normal hosting platform let us down this time. I have read some of the submissions in here multiple times by now and I'm blown away every time! Eyes peeled for print phase Nawr coming soon 👀👀
@nawrmag
nawr
1 year
✨NAWR ISSUE 010: GROWING UP✨ It's finally here! We're so grateful for your patience with this one while we've been working to get everything perfect, and we hope you'll agree that the wait has been worth it.
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Anna
6 years
Just waiting for Alex to realise he's gay and start cracking on with Idris #loveisland
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Anna
5 years
I've been waiting for someone to release a song giving Linda McCartnies the recognition they deserve
@feetband
FEET
5 years
Merry Christmas everyone x
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4 years
The classic triple-fan set-up
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