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Antonia Honeywell

2 years

Someone on Wigmore Street, on the afternoon of Wednesday 25th January, took Santander bicycle and found a beautiful tapestry in a bag on the carrier. It was the goddess Flora. I bought her in 1999 and loved her with all my heart.

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Antonia Honeywell

@antonia_writes

5 years

And so, to everyone who ever defended the monarchy to me by saying it was an insurance policy against the abuse of democracy by power-hungry totalitarians, I say fuck right off.

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I don’t have @silverpebble ’s incredible skill, but every Saturday, the 14yo runs the bingo at my mother’s care home, and I make up mini bouquets from the garden as prizes, and it is helpful in the sadness of where we are x

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1 year

Today, this tiny bean enters upon his adult life as his grandma hovers on the brink of leaving hers. Happy eighteenth birthday, sweetheart. And mum - we’ll be ok. I promise x

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3 years

Twitter. Ivy has come to live with us, and would like to say hello.

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4 years

I am very concerned that eldest’s GCSE English Literature texts - Macbeth, Lord of the Flies, Great Expectations - are the same as my O level ones were in 1987.

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1 year

A moment, please, for the top the 16yo designed and crocheted, although no prizes for guessing who she was going to see.

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3 years

Twitter, meet Haven. Haven, this is Twitter.

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4 years

I was a little surprised when teen asked for an embroidery hoop and some instruction, but I needn’t have worried.

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1 year

Mum died yesterday evening. New 18 takes his first A level exam today. And although ‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well,’ it will take a little time, I think x

Antonia Honeywell

@antonia_writes

1 year

Today, this tiny bean enters upon his adult life as his grandma hovers on the brink of leaving hers. Happy eighteenth birthday, sweetheart. And mum - we’ll be ok. I promise x

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3 years

Our beautiful, imperious, magnificent glory of a beloved cat has been killed by a car. He owned everything in the universe, but he always came home. We love you, Bandito. Sleep well xxxx

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7 years

I'm ok for outerwear on my journey today, but it's good to know the railway station cares.

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5 months

A lot is written- quite rightly - about new motherhood. What about old motherhood? When the children become teenagers, the heady romance of early marriage evolves, infuriating parents become frail and untouchable, and none of the stories you burn to tell are you own to write?

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5 years

I am reading through a novel I wrote, that never found a publisher. And I’m sorry I can’t write that ‘I’ve got news’ tweet about it, because I’d have loved to share it with you. But I wrote it, and that has to count for something. Our words count. Love to all us brave tryers x

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3 years

The man who never wanted cats now spends his days walking around the house saying, ‘So, Meesteeeeeer Bondt.’

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4 years

It is with joy, delight and a slight sense of incredulity that I report that my extremely clinically vulnerable, immunosuppressed husband will have his first vaccine on Monday.

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4 years

The trouble with @TheDailyShow stealing from @MrMichaelSpicer is that they’ll see how brilliant he is and lure him to that America. And we simply can’t spare him.

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3 years

Haven decrees that no one has to get up this morning.

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4 years

Arriving in your new home is beyond exhausting.

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3 years

Parking at the hospital is a nightmare, but if you spend £5 the supermarket next door gives you 90 mins. And I’m always late and so bloody stretched and now my cupboard looks like this.

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4 years

Still can’t quite believe she a) exists and b) lives in my house.

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3 years

Boots and Ivy Friday.

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4 years

Is it possible your Monday needs a puppy meeting the sea for the first time?

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Antonia Honeywell

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2 years

View from my window right now.

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Antonia Honeywell

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3 years

When you finally get up the courage to ring your vet and tell them that your beautiful, beloved cat was killed by a car, wouldn’t you like to hear more than a cheery, ‘I’ll update that for you’? He wasn’t a number, he was our master and overlord, and I will never not miss him.

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1 year

Abortion is healthcare. Abortion is healthcare. Abortion is healthcare. Oh god that poor woman. What kind of country are we, to send a mother of three to jail for this?

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Antonia Honeywell

@antonia_writes

4 years

The cat has just come in from the garden to inform me that he wishes to go out into the garden.

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Antonia Honeywell

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4 years

Now look. I do a radio show about BOOKS- small, beautiful, local community station. I follow - and am delighted to be followed by - some incredible authors. If any of you want to choose 12 songs and talk to me about your books (which you KNOW I’ve read) all you have to do is ask.

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1 year

Today I am mostly making elderflower cordial for mum’s funeral this Friday.

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3 years

Twelve years ago this little snowbaby arrived - no midwife or ambulance could reach us, but she knew what she was doing. Still surprises us every single day. Happy birthday, lovely girl x

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4 years

Just in case anyone else needs puppy dreaming right now x

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3 years

It’s not fat bottomed girls who make the rocking world go round, it’s middle aged tired ones. Write me a song about that, would you?

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1 year

I was lucky enough to interview George Alagiah for ⁦ @Our_Bookshop ⁩ in 2019. He’d just had devastating health news, and we talked about it before the interview. And then, for an hour, we talked writing and craft and creation and his audience was rapt. Sleep well, sir.

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6 years

When is the right time to write about failure?

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4 years

The rise of ⁦ @MrMichaelSpicer ⁩ is a wonderful, wonderful thing and a talisman against despair.

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4 years

It was wet and muddy and I had to have a bath.

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4 years

And hopefully, created a home for a new friend to join us in lockdown.

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3 years

Turned out Ivy is a boy. No drama.

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4 years

This time next week she’ll have moved in for good.

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1 year

Flowers for mum’s funeral tomorrow x

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3 years

A moment, please, for the @taylorswift13 cardigan the 15yo designed and crocheted herself x

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4 years

I have had a good first day in my new home thank you

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7 years

I was a juror on a rape trial, and another juror kept saying, 'There's no evidence.' And I kept saying,'Her words are part of the evidence.'

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5 years

Introducing Small Ball of Floof. In eight weeks he will be moving in, so any sense you need from me will need to be requested before that.

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4 years

Ummmmm.... Twitter.... ten baby ducklings have just appeared in my cellar lightwell. What shall I do?

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1 year

I’m wading through grief treacle, I’ve failed at almost everything I’ve tried to do, and the effort to fail better might just kill me, but my Twitter corner is where I survive. I just want to thank you before I’m injected with 600 ads for fat burning pills and get shut down x

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3 years

An invitation to my birthday

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4 years

All the smol humans is gone to school.

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3 years

For reasons that I cannot share, this morning is going to be fucking awful and there is no way out but through. After it, James and I are going out for lunch. He has a blood test on Friday so cannot drink. I do not have a blood test on Friday.

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2 years

I always wanted a Vivienne Westwood dress, and I finally got one for my 40th birthday party. It still makes me happy. Goodnight, Dame Vivienne, and thank you x

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4 years

Just in case anyone else needs Boots in a box.

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Antonia Honeywell

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4 years

Boots would like you to know that, after the Daring Liberation of the Garibaldi Biscuits last night and a trip to the emergency vet, she’s feeling much better and would really, really like a garibaldi biscuit.

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3 years

Ivy says it is time to get up.

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7 years

Young man at hairdresser's doesn't vote. I've tried reason. Now I'm going in with home made chocolate and banana cake.

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5 years

My new shoes have arrived and I am going into the village to solve some murders.

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6 years

Bit panicked as was asked yesterday to play at a wedding tomorrow so 11 yo has presented me with inspirational breakfast.

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1 year

Nineteeen years later, you squeeze an anniversary lunch in between the solicitor and the psychiatrist, before he leaves for Paris alone because child #4 has a music exam tomorrow🤷‍♀️

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@antonia_writes

3 years

I find this thread astonishing - mine are Ballet Shoes, Cold Comfort Farm and anything by Dorothy L Sayers or Josephine Tey.

Brian Feroldi

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3 years

I asked, “What book do you re-read the most?” I received 441 replies Here are 20 books that should be read again and again:

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4 years

What I would like is to buy a castle or something, and to have people come and write safely. Or dangerously, or however they wanted, and I would bake them cakes and cook lovely meals. And - crucially - they could bring their children. Goodnight xxx

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4 years

They could have told me before I ironed the uniforms.

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4 years

Getting too big for my bed is thing that is not happening.

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4 years

Boots hopes your week gets off to a flying start x

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5 years

My sister has just sent me this picture of a squirrel with a whole piece of toast and I thought you might like it.

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4 years

Lockdown Birthdays are hard to make special. So first, I made this box out of an old wine crate.

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4 years

No I have not seen your pencil.

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3 years

And so begins what will be a fraught, emotionally complicated and logistically insane week. If middle age is when you’re squashed between your children and your parents, then I am a PANCAKE. The tissue thin crepe kind, not the lovely soft pillowy kind.

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5 years

I think writers are actually quite open about pre-publication rejection. It’s rejection post-publication I’d like us to open up about, because just maybe, that’s normal too.

Rejection is the norm for authors. So why do we hide it? | Sophie Mackintosh

Almost all writers suffer setbacks – they’re part of the creative process, says author Sophie Mackintosh

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

If she’s with you, please let me have her back. She can’t bless you until she’s finished with me. And if she’s not… well, thank you for reading. The glories of the world pass soon away, but love and words remain. I love you, Flora, and the space I keep for you, I’ll keep x

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3 years

Excuse me look what I grew in my garden!

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3 years

Happy birthday to ‘no cats, no way, not ever’ James x

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3 years

Ivy will have her breakfast in the box, thanks.

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3 years

Dear God Cabaret was fucking BRILLIANT. No theatre for two years and then you see this.

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4 years

Ummmmm....this happened.

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4 years

Suppose two people who’ve never, ever owned dogs find themselves listening to the dreams of their four reasonably well-trained children and decide a dog might be a Good Thing? What would these purely hypothetical people do next?

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1 year

Face of an unrepentant cat who has just sauntered in after three days missing.

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5 years

I have finished the y5 science homework and am torn between bitter resentment and abject pride.

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3 years

Ivy hopes you have had a good day and will have some tuna now please thank you

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4 years

Me: come on darling, it’s bedtime 10 yo: that’s just a lie sold to you by the government

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6 years

She said she’d go to WW2 day as a bombed out house, and she’s going to WW2 day as a bombed out house.

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3 years

You can keep your Valentines, I just rolled a Swiss roll without cracking. Me or the roll.

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8 years

@Leilah_Makes @samatlounge Oh, money doesn't buy happiness. It buys you a place from which happiness is possible. Those who don't know that have never not had it.

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6 years

A robin has made a nest in the greenhouse and there are four eggs.

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4 years

BBC have pulled all programming? What madness is this?

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3 years

Ivy thinks it’s time to stop working now.

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3 years

It was meant to be a vegetable patch, but I got distracted.

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3 years

I had so much to do today that I made a lemon meringue pie from scratch, and now I’m really stressed, but at least I have a lemon meringue pie.

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Antonia Honeywell

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4 years

We need more dogs in the White House. Nominations please.

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@antonia_writes Bertie will take care of the Education Department.

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3 years

Eldest taking the Cruella screening this evening VERY seriously.

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5 years

I love her even more. Didn’t think that was possible.

Letters of Note

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5 years

Here’s Doris Lessing turning down a damehood.

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8 months

I’ve never had a Mother’s Day without a mother before.

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8 years

This is my US cover. I hope you love it as much as I do. Thank you, @orbitbooks .

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4 years

Happy ending.

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Antonia Honeywell

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2 years

Youngest (13) carefully prepared a meal and ate it alone - complete with candle and gold-dusted chocolate mousse - to celebrate Valentine’s Day with herself.

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3 years

Good morning minions.

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3 years

11yo and I have watched all of Downton and are finishing up with the Downton film with afternoon tea and fancy dress.

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3 years

Thank you so very much for all the good wishes and lovely messages yesterday. Sorry for being cryptic but sometimes the stories that dominate our lives simply aren’t ours to share. But please do share these meringue ghosts (I’m the one that got dropped and eaten by the dog x)