Muriel Gray @ArtyBagger Twitter profile

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

Waiting in the chemist behind an addiction patient taking their methadone prescription (very common in Glasgow) struck me how kind the pharmacists always are. Call them by their name, ask how they are, treat them with respect. Pharmacists are front line and deserve some praise.

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3 years

That's it lads. Go easy on the illegal gatherings of anti-mask demonstrators and football fans. It's grieving women holding a peaceful vigil that really need taught a lesson.

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3 years

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2 years

Absolutely loving this make-up free picture the mighty Annie Lennox posted on her Instagram. Beautiful at every age. 💖

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2 years

Baffled why Conservative leadership debates are even on TV when it's nothing to with us, The Electorate, as we have zero power in this decision. Just tell us when Conservative party members decide who the new PM is and then the date of the next general election.

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4 years

Happy birthday to @jk_rowling A kinder, more talented, more caring, generous, principled , funnier or gorgeous person would be hard to find. Yes, I know what happens next on my mentions. I don’t care, because I know and love her. 🎈🎉🎂

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6 years

He’s going to be sitting next to me on the plane in a few minutes. I just know he is.

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2 years

I appear to the only person disquieted by Matt Hancock’s cheerful explanation of how politicians avoid journalists’ questions by ‘pivoting’, meaning talking about something else entirely to avoid the truth, and it being met by admiration by his camp mates. Feel very alone.

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

Today is the 70th birthday of the magnificent #RobbieColtrane We should show him some love.

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4 years

Only 33 days now until the shortest day and daylight starts beating back the night. We can do this. 😬

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2 years

40 years today a young art graduate had first go on TV on #TheTube commissioned by bold @mike_bolland doing THE worst Paul Weller interview ever. Who knew she would rise to be the person holding up the queue in Morrisons looking for coupons. Thank you for everything #channel4 💖

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Muriel Gray

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2 years

Uncomfortable with the dilution of the word ‘grief’ People can be saddened, sorrowful and feel diminished by the loss of someone they admired. But real grief is an excoriating, debilitating, agonising hollowing out of the heart. That’s why there’s a specific word to describe it.

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3 years

Could all the nasty embarrassing wee trolls just lay off the magnificent @martin_compston The man’s a legend, a credit to Scotland and his family, and I couldn’t give the wee donkey’s bottom how he votes. He’s every right to express his opinion if he wants.

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

Regarding the howls and pearl clutching about a modest £1.50 increase in the BBC licence fee. Netflix have just raised their subscription by two pounds a month.

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Muriel Gray

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22 days

Guys. This is my bird table. To attract and feed birds. Yes. Birds. You’re not helping.

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@ArtyBagger

3 years

I believe it should be unarguable that the west should accept and assist any Afghan woman able to escape as a refugee.

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@ArtyBagger

1 year

The most astonishing and beautiful ice formations on favourite highland river today. @theiaincameron Have you ever seen this?

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@ArtyBagger

4 years

Littering is the first signal to the world that you’re special and rules don’t apply to you. If parents didn’t hard wire how wrong it is into their toddlers the very first time they dropped a sweetie wrapper, then they’re responsible too.

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4 years

Thoughts with the council workers who’ll be cleaning this up in the morning...

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1 year

A friend described someone who’s had a lot of plastic surgery as ‘having had more work done than the Rest and be Thankful. Sadly this excellent joke is only understood in Scotland and doesn’t travel. I nevertheless feel obliged to share it.

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

As an antidote to fury and misery have a look at this exquisite otter I spotted in the river Kelvin, from the massively busy road bridge in Glasgow’s Milton. Unthinkable to see something like this in the city thirty years ago. What joy.

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4 years

This summer, when Scotland can welcome tourists back (and we NEED you!) a reminder that places like this actually exist. I know! Looks so beautiful you think I made it up. But it’s real. It’s Talla Ma Mara on Harris. Venue/ cafe/ shop. Anywhere more heavenly? The answer is no.

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5 years

Grumpy old woman request. Please don’t talk on your mobile phone while a shop assistant is serving you. You’d be furious if they did it to you. Manners Maketh Mankind.

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Muriel Gray

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6 years

When times are tough, a sweet picture of your departed mum and dad at a some long forgotten party can do wonders for your sore heart. ❤️

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4 years

Just squeezed the last out of the day. Do say if you’ve had enough of this beautiful view nonsense. I’ll stop.

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1 year

Robbie Coltrane won three BAFTAs concurrently for his TV work, setting a record yet to be broken. Might have been worth mentioning his passing during #Baftas2023

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Muriel Gray

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11 months

Not being lookist, because she is such a talented and professional journalist, but is it allowed to hold the opinion that Reeta Chakrabarti, nearly sixty, is one of the most beautiful women on television?

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Muriel Gray

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2 years

Does anyone know why Italian restaurants don’t trust you to grind your own black pepper?

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@ArtyBagger

3 years

Forget glamorous holidays. Looking forward to the simplest of things, a meal with a friend, a walk in the hills, a weekend trip to see the people you love, is the absolute core of mental well-being. It’s getting harder each day for everyone to live without plans and optimism.

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Muriel Gray

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5 years

I have raging toothache, and just got an emergency appointment with my kind dentist. It's at two thirty. I am not making this up. ( The receptionist didn't understand why I laughed. Honestly. The younger generation. Not enough exposure to Christmas cracker jokes)

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

Back in the day, used to stand in for the legend #janicelong on radio 1 when she was on holiday. She would leave me the sweetest notes. The loveliest, most positive, life-affirming person you could hope to meet. Let’s never forget what a pioneer she was in the macho DJ world. 💔

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Emboldened by having built The Worst Bird Table In The World I now present to you for your enjoyment The Worst Water Feature In The World. Some of you may recall this £9.99 solar pump from last year’s triumph. I throw nothing out.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

7 years

The moral courage of Martin McGuinness's victims talking today of forgiveness because they welcome peace is both breathtaking and inspiring.

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@ArtyBagger

2 years

@jk_rowling I’d sleep pretty well if I’d set up and funded anything like this. #Lumos

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

For those of us who like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing we like.

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1 year

Our 1st child was born dangerously prematurely so I lived in hospital with him for weeks. Then on this day the nurses put a Mother’s Day card to me in his incubator. I thought my heart would burst. Happy Mothers Day to to the wonderful 1993 nurses of Glasgows QMH 💘 #NHS

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

My unbelievably kind neighbours, who’ve only just moved here, just did my shopping again and now I’m going to cry. 💔

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

10 months

Farewell the absolute legend that was David McCallum. Was there ever a cooler Glaswegian? 💔

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

2 years

Trying to come to terms with the fact I am only 14 days older than Madonna. This is her on her birthday. I look like her gran, and sometimes forget I’m wearing gardening clogs when I go to Morrisons.

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

I think it’s high time we addressed the problem that Sean Bean should either be pronounced Shawn Bawn or Seen Been. Consistency is important. Amazed this hasn’t been dealt with yet.

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

Weather taken a nasty turn on Harris.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

I shall be wearing a mask in public places as long as I can. No makeup required. You can tell if your breath mings. You can pretend it’s not you if someone recognises you. Oh..and it also keeps vulnerable people safe. That’s the best bit. #WearAmask

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

5 years

The end of the #Erasmus scene is an utter disaster, academically, culturally and socially. Politicians have just voted to make our young people more insular, narrow and parochial. Heartbroken.

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Muriel Gray

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2 years

Scotland has demonstrated to the world what a a beautiful place it is this week, and not just in terms of our scenery. 💖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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2 years

A big thank you to the young man security member at Heathrow today who quietly pointed out the back of my skirt was tucked into my pants. #Hero

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@ArtyBagger

2 years

Just read the incredible story of what #AllisonBailey endured in her life and how she overcame almost insurmountable obstacles. How has such a brave resilient person ended up being forced into a ludicrous gladiatorial combat with people who were natural allies? Madness.

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

Found this weird object in the wardrobe while replacing moth paper. Cannot for the life of me work out what’s it’s for or what it does.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

5 years

Scotland was rubbish today. Why oh why do we live here?

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

I’ve got a joke about the pension I paid for all my adult like, but as a woman born in the fifties, I don’t get it.

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Muriel Gray

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5 years

Don’t care if it’s only weeks away until Christmas. Today was not one to be wasted at the shops.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Have always hated Christmas being about ‘stuff’. Buying stuff people don’t want. Panicking you haven’t bought enough stuff, or the wrong stuff.Throwing away stuff afterwards. This year it’s down to who you love and how you get to see them. Maybe give stuff to people who need it.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

About time. All that illegal drunken partying in parks and secret clubbing by the 50-70 year olds has got out of hand. If you see anyone out in the street with unripped jeans or comfortable shoes call the police immediately. We can shut this down.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Coronavirus: Millions of over-50s 'could be told to stay at home' to avoid second nationwide lockdown

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

Finding listening to the endless noisy celebrations out the window tonight still going on all over Glasgow, where large groups of people are partying together with complete impunity a tad hard to bear. Makes you feel a bit of a mug for toughing it out and following rules.

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

Please may I show you my favourite pot in the garden this year? There. There it is. Thank you for your time.

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Muriel Gray

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2 years

In childhood I was considered to be a ‘tomboy’. Meaning I preferred doing things boys did rather than those things girls enjoyed . The predilection has persisted into middle age. I’m a heterosexual woman and mother. How am I considered in the New World Order?

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Muriel Gray

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2 years

Thinking of the decent hard working people, often people at the very centre of their community, whose lives were devastated, and lost, by the post office scandal. How can any compensation repair that damage?

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Muriel Gray

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6 years

Wearying of people complaining about journalism being ‘behind the paywall’ as though it’s a new evil elitism. Papers used to be in a shop called a ‘newsagent’ and if you wanted to read the news you bought one. Radical.

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Muriel Gray

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5 years

When Scotland is this beautiful you can keep your abroad style thing. There is nowhere better.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

Big congratulations Italy. But I tell you now, if anyone dares abuse @MarcusRashford I will take a crash course in witchcraft, and you will always burn your toast and eternally get your bin collection day wrong. I’m not bluffing.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

Ben Luskentyre demands to be taken seriously this evening.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Unbearable that #stanleybaxter has been living in solitude, afraid that people would stop loving him if came out as gay. Mr Baxter, you were one my childhood icons, a Scottish legend, and absolutely everyone loves you. 💖

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Lockdown lift city escape joy. Look at this little wonder drying it’s wings. 💖

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

If you enjoyed the Netflix film The Dig don’t forget that when @britishmuseum opens the doors again you can see the treasure up close and personal, in the magnificent gallery entirely devoted to the find. Put in on your bucket list.

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

I’m the same age as Madonna. Didn’t win the same DNA lottery so have never been beautiful. Her choice entirely to hold back ageing. But with such talent and beauty I’m sad we’ll now never get to see that lovely thing of an exceptional woman grow into a different type of beauty.

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4 years

The 3 faces of a girl who just Voted!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Get out there and take responsibility people!! #bidenharris2020

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

This exam paper shows what 13 year old school children in Inverness in 1945 were expected to know. Try it. 😬

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1 year

To start your week the right way, the goddesses Annie Lennox and Joni Mitchell meeting. 🌟You’re welcome.

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

Just to correct this headline for foreign visitors. There are no private beaches in Scotland. None.

10 of the best homes with private beaches to rent this summer in Scotland

Enjoy summer in Scotland at one of these holiday rentals - all of which have access to private beaches.

www.scotsman.com

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Muriel Gray

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1 year

Having no skin in this game but been an activist for gay rights all my adult life,I am disquieted by the monstering of Kate Forbes for honestly admitting what she believes. Easier always to debate against positions of belief, than against lies that blow with winds of fashion.

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Muriel Gray

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6 years

There are few moments in life that cannot be substantially improved by having a tiny frog on your hand.

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4 years

Been nagging me for ages who it is that Matt Hancock reminds me of. It’s Simon Cadell from Hi Di Hi.

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1 year

A person would have to demonstrate exceptional moral fibre to resist the fish and chips on the @CalMacFerries Ullapool to Stornaway trip. I do not posses such restraint.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

5 years

Keep calm Mr Farage. Now before we can get the stretcher or administer pain killers I’ll be needing your credit card or your private health care insurance policy number.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

2 years

Pretending it’s already spring with a bunch of £1 daffodils and some sticks. Don’t try and stop me.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Accept I’m alone in this, but this Maldives pic is held up as the epitome of luxury to be had on earth. I’m seeing two people perched awkwardly in a ludicrous architectural mash up of international spa bollocks when they could be camping by a loch in Assynt. Yes. I’m wrong. Sorry

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Muriel Gray

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6 years

Thank you so much to everybody, from the bottom of our hearts, for all your beautiful messages of support following the terrible event on Friday. The team here at GSA have been working day and night since then. Cannot tell you how much we appreciate it x

The Glasgow School of Art Media Centre

@GSofAmedia

6 years

17 June 2018 : new statement from The Glasgow School of Art on the Mackintosh Building fire now on the media centre

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

The world is mad. But everything’s going to be ok.

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2 years

Huw Edwards is a magnificent broadcaster.

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@ArtyBagger

4 years

The bin men are still collecting the bins. They’re fab. #BinMen 💖

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Not sure how much big families confined to tiny homes with frightened demanding children, anxious about having no money or food, appreciate celebrities in big kitchens singing to them or suggesting bizarre hobbies.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

All this plastic for some fruit. Hope we live long enough to look back at this in disbelief that is was the norm.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Don’t you just love how raindrops act like mercury on nasturtium leaves? Or possibly that’s not high or your agenda right now. Sorry.

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Muriel Gray

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3 years

Scottish waterfall pool swimming today. Maybe no foreign travel will make us all appreciate how lucky we are . What a country we live in. 💖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Muriel Gray

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6 months

A letter from Tom Stoppard. Exquisite.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

I’m Scottish. My maternal granny who I loved with all my heart was Indian from Moldovan parents. Should I get my coat?

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

5 years

I will never, ever top this Twitter triumph. Just noticed Monty Don ( Yes! I'm not making this up!) liked my tweet about leaf compost. I'm going to lie down now for a few days and work out how to cope with this lifetime achievement. #Swoon

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Muriel Gray

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4 years

Everyone I know has been compliant, respectful of rules throughout this. Some lost loved ones they couldn’t visit in their last days. Weddings off. Not able to attend funerals. Mental health deterioration. Harsh sacrifices. This appalling last minute shambles is heartbreaking.

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

All home carers tonight, calming distressed confined and challenging loved ones you look after alone .You’re already stronger than anyone knows because you do it every day and night under a social invisibility cloak. After this maybe people will notice you. Much love xx💖

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

4 years

Man expresses distaste when after dog whistling abuse onto a woman the wrong sort of abuser answers the call.

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4 years

An absolutely rancid front page, providing a mass platform for an abuser, which will undoubtedly cause immense distress to JK Rowling and to all women who have suffered domestic abuse from men. Park your views on Rowling's recent comments: everyone has to unite on this.

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6 years

Heart going out to the hundreds of parents, including those of poor little Alfie Evans, sitting right now by the bedside of their terminally ill child. Loneliest place in the world. Thank you to the wonderful NHS workers who try every day to make it bearable.

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7 years

View from a train today. ❤️

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

5 years

Making children learn by rote is now frowned upon in teaching. But isn’t it gorgeous when someone, usually of my generation, pulls out a portion of a poem or long quotation they’d forgotten they’ve always known by heart when the conversation calls for it? I love that.

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3 years

Main hobbies. 1# Wandering aimlessly around in the Atlantic.

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@ArtyBagger

3 years

Guess what this is. A person walking home after getting their SECOND JAB! Thank you, you brilliant #NHS ⁦ @AstraZeneca ⁩ 💖💕

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2 years

No apologies for being the proudest parents in the world today. Thank you wonderful ⁦ @UofGlasgow ⁩ for such a joyous day 🥲💖

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

3 years

I doubt our GP has ever worked harder, longer or under such stressful conditions as these last 18 months. Attacking them is an utter disgrace. #LoveYourGP 💙

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Muriel Gray

@ArtyBagger

5 years

Just want to say , before bedtime, what we all know. The NHS is brilliant. Thank you darling physicians, surgeons, nurses, auxiliaries, cleaners, consultants, technicians, radiographers, cafe workers, doctors, porters, electricians, volunteers, and hundreds more. We love you. ❤️

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4 years

The serious mental health epidemic that is going to ensue from this lock-down will be horrific. Particularly amongst those shielding. The absence of any practical help, plan, or even acknowledgment of it is terrifying.

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4 years

Because my lockdown means I’m not allowed out even to the shops or pharmacy, my darling GP posted something I needed. And included these! My GP is better than any GP that was ever a GP anywhere. #MyGP 💖

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Muriel Gray

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5 years

Not often provoked by attention seeking junkies but @giles_fraser ...I cared for my gran until she died when my parents couldn’t. Cared for my darling ill mum until she died. We care for our special needs daughter every day for last 23 years. If thats your utopia, try it mate.

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Muriel Gray

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2 years

The Duke of Sussex interview was soundly beaten in viewing numbers last night by both Call the Midwife and Happy Valley. Great that the enjoyment of top class drama is still our nation’s favourite thing.

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Muriel Gray

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6 years

Desperately wish the magnificent, beautiful Alan Rickman was still with us. #ALittleChaos

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4 years

It’s clear to anyone out today that everyone is now just doing as they please. With no public confidence in leaders and no prospect of enforcement, what next? These ludicrous minor differences bewteen various parts of the UK are a joke. Vulnerable people are really struggling.

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