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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

Illustrious company. Just in time for Christmas 🎄😀

Sam Read Bookseller

@SReadBooks

2 years

#NorthCountry @SarabandBooks is here! An anthology of landscape and nature writing from the North of England, edited by @karenlloydwrite . Ft. @leeinthelakes , @jennashworth , @lemnsissay , @jallenpaisant , @LorenCafferty and many more...

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

10 months

We did a thing! We always planned the legal bit to happen in a little family service before the big blessing and bash in May… we just brought it forward! We got married just before Christmas, us, our parents and a massive Christmas tree.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

There so much going on in tonight’s #CallTheMidwife I can hardly keep up! Domestic abuse, drug addiction, professional conscience, disability exclusion, the lack of agency women have over their bodies. But all played without hysterical drama.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

1 year

SOME NEWS!! 💍💍 We’re not doing engagement rings so we had to use haribo as props for the photo, but @halekatie and I are planning to get MARRIED!!!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Sorry but anybody who dares call #callthemidwife anything but brutal, visceral drama isn’t watching. The writing is perfect and every performance nuanced. @helen_george is incredible. I’m broken.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Whilst I want journos to be rigorous it sounds like this one on #womanshour isn't listening and is just staggering from attack to attack.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

A tiny snapshot into the last half hour in the village. I want to know wheee they are all going. Has there been a tractor revolution?

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

It’s moments like this I truly love the BBC #ElizabethIsMissing The quiet attention to detail in Maud’s timeline. Jackson’s remarkable ability to convey desperation and frustration. The soft focus background filmography.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

@miss_mcinerney I just roared “it’s not a game” across the kitchen. If I were a parent I’d be livid, as a teacher I feel mocked. Imagine if we treated pupils like this - “you have huge amounts of work to do but I’m not telling you what the work is until the deadline.”

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

A kind colleague, knowing I was a rugby league fan, asked me today if I had any nephews because he had some child sized rugby balls if I wanted. I told him I would love them. For my niece.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

@XLNB @YouGov I suspect they’d be spelling it definately

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

I did meet a very interesting farmer today. Absolutely passionate about the sheep farm he works, the meadows he’s developing, the birds he helps rear, the dogs he raises. Inspirational stuff. His final words “it looks like this because of what we do.” @emily__ellis @herdyshepherd1

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

@paperghost @Rehune G.O.A.T?

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

I have DONE it!! Walked 1000miles in 2020. Achieved whilst most of the way round today’s super rambling exploration of Hutton Roof Crags. Feels pretty good!! #walk1000miles

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

Covid still battering me a week on, Ofsted, y11 and y13 mock exams, mum in hospital (but fine) - I am so very done with this week. And then a Y12 brings me homemade lemon tart and talks me through how he made it. 😍

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

@KirstieMAllsopp I think that’s part of my issue rather conversely. He’s clearly an intelligent, passionate man. But the rest of us are held to standards to which he is not being required to adhere (it appears). Offensive actions /opinions usually (should?) have consequences.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

@manytypesoftea @sujatin Why did that couple join us?

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

So excited to receive an email from #WriteNow @PenguinBooks - on the shortlist and not just because I’m 5’2” - over the moon! #AmWriting

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

David Bamber is a superb actor and this script is excellent. #callthemidwife

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

I watched #hidden for @Reese_Williams (who has a quiet intensity and sadness in this that is so subtle it is brilliant) but I honestly haven’t been this gripped by tele for ages! It’s so well scripted, shot, scored and acted I don’t want it to end! @BBCWales

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

The Witch Farm on @BBCRadio4 is unbelievably good!!!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

As part of my appreciate the stuff at the front door day I just watched the sun slip behind the the Lake District listening to lambs, thrush, blackbirds, lapwings and a distant woodpecker. Not bad.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

@BBCTheArchers I am so sad to read this. He was brilliant. And Lynda (Lindy) and Robert were an impeccable double act. The aftermath of the fire was truly superb radio. RIP Graham Blockey.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

I’ve had the most wonderful day. Thanks to the NHS I can now walk short distances again. I made it from Grasmere to Rydal. I almost wept with the joy and relief of it. And I had a catch up with @pollyrowena and @likewinterblue while @halekatie did her poet thing.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

@palookadeb @KirstieMAllsopp there is an element of truth here and perhaps some might dismiss the plentiful breast “jokes” as banter but writing about deceiving women for his own sexual gratification and calling working class stains? I’m not sure that’s ‘slight.’

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

A great evening for the launch of #NorthCountry from @SarabandBooks hosted by editor, @karenlloydwrite - a great range of thoughts and voices about what makes the north unique, including mine!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Several people have told me how sad they are that I am alone. Alone and lonely are not the same. I’m “proper” blessed. Merry Christmas everybody.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Stealing this for my Year11s

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

Name me a single prime time drama that has knocked it out of the park as consistently as #CalltheMidwife - incest, immigration, homosexuality, being intersex, religious tension, infertility and on and on and on. All underpinned by love and cake. I’ll wait.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

Absolutely delighted at being published in @Intrepid_AdvMag this month. It looks great and it’s a special story for me. #onelifeliveit

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

Impressive bit of writing (and delivery) #thearchers The muted horror in Lillian’s reaction to seeing Lynda and her subsequent unravelling. Very well done. Radio drama is so subtle and when it’s done well it’s so very powerful.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

I’ve experienced the highlands of Scotland today for the first time and my mind is blown. Pictures do not do it justice!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

As a Cumbrian teacher I am devastated by the news about Newton Rigg. For some kids it’s a lifelong dream, it sustains them through the last few months of school. I’d say it’s unique in that sense - there is no plan b for those students. Gutted.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Kian’s dad doesn’t understand this awful system of test too soon. Very difficult to watch. #generationgifted

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

Lake District Monopoly with my mum is beyond brilliant. She passes comment on the planning regs, relative value of properties and her utter outrage at prices for maps and boots.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

What I really love about #TheArchers is the long story arcs. It must be years since it first crossed my mind that Alice might end up with an alcohol addiction. And the climax (possibly) of those years tonight was incredibly sad, compelling, emotive and superbly executed.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

So pleased to be reading from my piece about the Forest of Bowland at the Lancaster launch of North Country; an Anthology of Landscape and Nature. Come along! @Eventbrite

Book launch of North Country; an Anthology of Landscape and Nature

This event is now sold out, however you can watch on line for free. Live streaming links below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubhaNnikEA

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Had all kinds of plans today but ended up spending the morning in a mounting spiral of anxiety inducing doom scrolling and was then rescued by a good friend and a snowy hill.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Early morning village life.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

Just getting out of my car and witnessed my village’s version of Call the Midwife. Quad bike racing down street, woman on back cradling huge, pregnant sheep. Last heard saying “You’re doing well lass” so clearly channelling Phyllis.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Absolutely amazed by my talented mother who has used the material from the COVID masks she has made to represent all that was best of this year!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Hahahaha. David’s “no, no,no” was brilliant. As was Ruth’s “shut up!!” Cracking episode. @tim_stimpson #thearchers

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

If the next series of #CallTheMidwife is as superb as this one and it turns out it’s the last I am going to be absolutely inconsolable at roughly the same time as my 40th birthday 😱

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

@Mrs_DY6 @RogersHistory Rolling boards!!! Oh yes!!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Lemongrass? What kind of village shop is this? I asked for balsamic vinegar in mine and practically got chased out. #TheArchers

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

There are tiny moments when you realise the world has shifted slightly during covid and you haven’t noticed. This morning the church bells rang for the first time in months and it stopped me dead in my tea making tracks!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

1 year

Literally just chilling out at the top of garden. Incredible.

Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈

@halekatie

1 year

Oh what a night!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Sheep block!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

We did it!! #NC500 complete via obligatory John O’Groats sign, sea stacks, a final beach picnic and a celebration drink in Inverness. What a trip. Thank you @halekatie and thank you Northern Scotland. Just need to get home now! 🛤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

I have walked 15miles and up a sizeable hill today for the first time since covid and the resulting inability to make my heart behave. Today I seemed ok. Tired but very happy. Best day of the school year.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

Boozy hot chocolate after a solstice dip in Grasmere with the Dead Cardinals. I love you all (mince pies, dressing support 😂 and best deer spotting locations) Merry Christmas to the best of people @halekatie @pollyrowena @ange_harker @likewinterblue and Nala the Wordsworth cat.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Thrilled that my podcast “The Magic Cattlegrid” has been selected to be part of the @Litfest #WalkingSolo project. It was a real joy to create. Listen to my feelings about the #ForestOfBowland here:

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

10 years

Coniston Water picnic earlier today. #lakedistrict http://t.co/8GxHJVJp5z

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

I think I might be in love with the person who put the Macbeth workbooks on @LitdriveUK

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

I respect democracy, I understand it needed to happen, but I am heartbroken and so disappointed. I sincerely believe we are making a terrible mistake #leavealighton

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

So proud of my mum. It’s fair to say she had a tough time when I came out. And now we are here at Shibden Hall and she is championing Anne Lister and shipping Lister and Walker. #GentlemanJack

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

Finished two amazing books today. Found myself surprisingly rather emotional at the end of @AnneChoma #therealannelister which has to be the most engaging, well written and erudite tv tie-in ever.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

I’m going to bed. Have been toying with sending my Y11 and Y13 an email to tell them it will be okay,that I am really proud of them and they have worked hard and learnt so much. But I can’t quite find the words. I know there’s a much bigger story here but I really feel for them.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

I have to admit that the absolute gales of children’s laughter, when they see my scarecrow is making me genuinely smile. #wrayscarecrowfestival

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

After a lifetime of thinking about the Wordsworths it has been a privilege to get to know Dorothy better thorough @pollyrowena upcoming #RecoveringDorothy - I can’t believe how much I didn’t know! #AmReading

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

1 year

What a cracking evening! A stroll with @pollyrowena and McK to a sun drenched swim spot.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

@hollyamfreeman I’ll never ceased to be amazed by CTM. Unusual that I am weeping happy tears at the end of an episode. Kudos to you, the scripts, the director, the casting director, the whole lot of you! #callthemidwife

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

10 years

So many folk are disparaging of soap operas. Direction and writing in @emmerdale tonight both superb.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

It’s just so, so good. Third time @pandpsortof . Still howling at every beautifully timed joke. @isobel_mcarthur you were right, the touring cast has NAILED IT.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Just received the most glorious email from a child. “Thanks for all your help. Enjoy your Sunday roast, Yorkshire puddings make everything better.”

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

Please check out my latest article, donate and share!! @StreetHeartsBG @Lamb_Tales

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Read how a couple from the north of England turned a sabbatical into a mission to save street dogs in Bulgaria, which has actress Kate Lamb as their patron

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Buying ethical meat/fish is so expensive it makes me shudder to think what makes all other meat/fish so cheap....

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

Last lesson today a lad said: 'I don't understand why girls reject their stereotypes and boys don't.' I asked the class what male stereotypes they could think of; strong, powerful, brave were the first three. Female stereotypes - weak, silly, shallow. 'Oh, okay, yeah,' 💡moment

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

Today something magical happened (teaching is ace sometimes!). A year 7 sprinted over to me. “Miss, I got given this book and it’s the best thing ever, and I thought you’d love it too.” It was ‘A poem for every day of the year.’ He leaned in. “There’s 365 poems in here.” 🥰

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

Oh dear. The roof of my shed has taken out next door’s Grecian naked lady statue... full body tackle.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

The most incredible swim in the Lune surrounded by sand martins, but best of all joined for the final ten minutes by a darting kingfisher.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

I realise this is a dull tweet but when you are as hopeless as me at DIY then you can’t help a not so humble brag when things go well! Reclaimed wooden furniture set and an almost finished writing shed!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

1 year

Well this place is a bit special. Here I am @gladlib apparently just sailing through a very tricky chapter and 1000words after an exhausting week at work! #AmWriting

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

And she is OUT! The biggest Snow White in history 😂 at Wray Scarecrow Festival!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

I’m really impressed by Andy Hockley as Philip in #TheArchers - the sinister edge that has entered his voice now the Mosses are under pressure. And his very complex characterisation feels very believable.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Really pleased to have been awarded a place on the New Writing Northwest fiction workshop programme with @YBattleFelton - many thanks to @Litfest for the opportunity. Can’t wait to get stuck in! #AmWriting

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

I’ve had a completely wonderful day. Feel like my head has had a much needed reset. I look horrific in the photo but it captured a moment of joy - honest!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

Book nineteen of 2022. What the trumpet taught me by @kimmoorepoet - a quirky, oddly moving read that’s been a friendly companion on my London trip. I like the idea that our lives are bound to traditions and routines in a way we might never realise. #AmReading

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

This driverless beast has been roaring outside my window for so long I’ve pretty much mapped out the children’s story where it gets bored without its farmer and goes on adventure round the village.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

Feeling very content in so many ways as the year draws to a close. I am grateful for love and friendship and support in negotiating the trials of a plague year. So much to be angry about, but much to be thankful for too. Happy New Year tweeple.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

2 years

Recovering from an exciting opening night @KendalPoetry - Joelle Taylor was electrifying, I got to fan girl at Imtiaz Dharker and the Dove Cottage poets showed that the future is shaped like stanzas of brilliance. Bring on day two! #Poetry

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

10 months

Book twenty-four of 2023 is Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and it is exquisite. Totally immersive, began yesterday, finished this morning. Perfect treat. Powerful, hopeful, beautifully written. #AmReading

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

I finished this last night; it is one of the most wonderful, funny, gently moving and beautifully written books I have ever read. Thank you @MumblinDeafRo for a book I can recommend to everybody and to @Ofmooseandmen for telling me about it! #leonardandhungrypaul #amreading

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Waiting for sunset at the highest point in Lancashire with a brew. Not a bad way to end the day... #onelifeliveit

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

3 years

I read this and am incensed that our government thinks the BBC needs to “compete” with Netflix et al and that the British people are tired of spending the 44p a day. Because I haven’t seen the cast of Bridgeton on a Ukrainian balcony wearing a flak jacket.

BBC Press Office

@bbcpress

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New figures show people in Russia are turning to BBC News in their millions for factual independent information about the war in Ukraine.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

There is not a single drama on television that has maintained this level of quality over such a long time. #CallTheMidwife superlative writing, acting, direction and music. Every. Single. Time.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

I have had far fewer adventures this year than usual but 2019 has been important. I made the huge decision to walk away from the career ladder and I’m so much happier, devoting time to pursuits and people who make me a better person. I’m living proof that poorer can mean richer.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

5 years

Salma Hoque is brilliant in #callthemidwife tonight. She looks absolutely haunted!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

I am bursting with pride for my school after this morning. After slogging all weekend this morning a fully functioning covid test centre sprang up. Teachers, librarians, sports technicians etc guiding hundreds of people through the procedure. Informal staff briefing in queues.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

I am getting really worried about my emotional state. I actually shed a tear at the end of episode 3 of #Ghostsbbc

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

1 year

A great day strolling the moors above Slaidburn with @TLWforCumbria - what a glorious sense of shifting spring into summer.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

Can’t help it, I love Lillian and Matt in the same scene. #thearchers

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

@RainbowSkies71 @CallTheMidwife1 @VictoriaYeates I laughed outloud about five times! Winnie, Nurse Crane and the Turners were hilarious too!

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Well that was a surprise - I preferred Martin Freeman to AB in #ChipInTheSugar This Graham felt so close to the edge, spiky and more sad. The scripts are just mammoth as well, at one moment I thought he was going to go right through 30mins! Big kudos to the actors! #TalkingHeads

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

6 years

Well done @BoothsCountry ! No more plastic veg bags. #sproutbag

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Amazing haul of thank yous from my NQT. Somebody knows me 🤣

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

7 years

@KirstieMAllsopp it’s a fair point. Yet I strongly suggest if I had EVER published an article about attempting a wilful deception/sexual assault, or suggested some kids are stains, or that allowing kids in wheelchairs in schools was not ok then I wouldn’t be allowed to teach.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

The power of poetry shining out of @KendalPoetry tonight with @HodgsonWrites performance of perfect light and shade. Incredible stuff. Then @AndrewPoetry broke my heart. #KPF2021 #poetry

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Would it be wrong to make, bake and eat an entire loaf in one day? Asking for me.

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Loren Cafferty

@LorenCafferty

4 years

Some of you know over lockdown I put my ancient teddy in the window everyday from March until September with a new activity each day. He made a comeback for Christmas and today he got this! #villagelife

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