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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

5 years

I’d owned cats but never ‘got’ cats. For years and years I was an out and out dog man. Then Seb arrived. He was an absolute dude who we all adored for 8 fantastic weeks; Humbug even liked him. Last night, out of nowhere, he passed away. Give your pets big hugs people. ❤️

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4 years

Don’t watch Bridgerton with anyone who went to Uni in Bath. “That’s Bath. That’s Bath. That’s Bath...”

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2 years

Another ridonculous sunrise in Swindonia. 😍 #nofilterneeded @BBCWiltshire

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5 years

Off on holiday tomorrow which means we all have to hoover/scrub/polish the house “so that it’s nice when we get back.” Every bloody year.

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4 years

I generally arrive home around 1345. I’m told Humbug has his head through the cat flap from 1230. ❤️ @BBCWiltshire

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3 years

Morning! This is the content I need on a Wednesday. @BBCWiltshire @SWNS @thetimes

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7 years

Listening to @BBCRadio4 and the tale of Digby the guide-horse who likes to go in to a Blackburn cafe for tea and a slice of toast. I repeat, a slice of toast.

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2 years

How could anyone knock Swindon when she looks like this?! @BBCWiltshire 🤩

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5 years

Respect the kicker please Sebbie. #ENGvAUS

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2 years

@ian4downton @scottygb @juliasuzanne76 @BBCWiltshire Cheers Ian. I was primed and raring to go but sadly we missed out. I did win the last local fete raffle I entered though so these things balance out.

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4 years

Big day today. First sun rise of 2020 to warrant pulling in to a lay-by. 📸 @BBCWiltshire

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4 years

One thing the last few weeks has reminded me is that it’s probably time we were all a bit less demanding of ourselves, especially at home. If your family wants to eat cinnamon swirls and watch Frozen 2 in pyjamas at 2pm you bloody well go and do it. We just did and it felt lush.

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7 years

Right that's it, @ErosPisano is my all time favourite #BristolCity player. Living the dream in ☀️ Weston Super Mare. ❤️

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5 years

Pretty chuffed with the new🎄 decoration to be honest. 👌

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6 years

Today I took my broken toilet seat to Cirencester to ensure I bought the correct replacement. Sadly, the shop didn’t have anything the same shape or size so I brought my broken toilet seat home again. The kids loved our day out.

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5 years

And as emails filtered through that tomorrow’s kids football, netball and rugby matches were cancelled, parents across the land grabbed wine bottles and started dreaming of lie ins and long boozy roasts.

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2 years

Now that’s what I’m talking about! Morning @BBCWiltshire fans. 😍

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3 years

Morning @BBCWiltshire fans! It’s a big day. My first 0445 lay-by stop of 2021. 🌅🚙❤️

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4 years

Friday! @BBCWiltshire 🌅

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2 years

Not saying my career has peaked but somebody at the Three Trees farm shop at Chiseldon just recognised me from the way I asked where the toilets were. Back of the net.

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Ben Prater

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6 years

My lad is watching the 2008 Gavin and Stacey Chrimbo special for the first time. Ten minutes in.... "What is talc?"

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3 years

I honestly think this is the best photo I’ve ever taken. 👮‍♂️ 👮🏻‍♀️ 🚓 🍩

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5 years

Wiltshire needs no filtering this morning! @BBCWiltshire

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4 years

We’re all set! @BBCWiltshire Breakfast from my house from 6am tomorrow. You’re all invited. #selfisolatorsunite

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@benpratershow

4 years

Well that didn’t take long. Sal has succumbed to a fever already which means it’s lockdown at Chez Prater. Just a sore throat and aches for me so hoping to maybe do the show from home when that subsides. Take care folks. Right, Homeschool starts in an hour kids... @BBCWiltshire

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4 years

Corn Dog. Wiltshire looking mighty fine. @BBCWiltshire

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4 years

I was born in a council flat: my kids clearly weren’t. This morning I found them playing ‘spot the John Lewis plate.’ After that the 9 year old asked if his egg was a Burford Brown. I’m sickened.

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4 years

My wife is a kind, clever, fun, caring and thoughtful person. Unless you open a new box of Dove soap when there’s still a sliver of the old one left in the dish. Then she goes absolutely apes**t.

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6 years

Packed lunches. I sometimes feel bad putting in yet another ham sarnie and orange juice carton. Then I remember I was brought up on Billy Bear luncheon meat and blue Kia Ora and my guilt lifts like a fluffy cloud.

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5 years

Can’t wait for you to hear my chat with Normandy veteran Mac on @BBCWiltshire from 0600. He turned 96 today. He celebrated his 21st with a pint and two rock buns and then went and got on the boat. 👌🏻

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4 years

Morning all! @BBCWiltshire Breakfast live from my kitchen once again. One or two of you told me it was a bit echoey so I’ve pimped up my ‘studio.’ #coronacosy

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@benpratershow

6 years

“Daddy, does anything stay the same for ever?” “Not really cupcake. Everything changes at some point. Apart from Tess Daly, she will always be truly awful.”

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7 years

14 years ago today I first kissed the now Mrs P never once thinking we would one day be swearing at our kids in the Chippenham B&Q. Blessed.

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@benpratershow

3 years

Shopping with my youngest in Aldi. Perusing the wine when Arch pulls out his Harry Potter wallet, lifts a tenner and says “Here you go Dad, Happy Birthday for Tuesday.” I think I’m proud but I might be appalled. 🍷

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@benpratershow

9 months

@char1iewatts Lots to go at here. Is he taking credit for knowing Covid was coming? "We were proved right." Next, it was 2020 not 2017; So it would have had 3 years of business under its belt. And if you're going to try to make a point badly then maybe drop the agressive tone?

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3 years

Brought a Viennetta home for the kids who’d never had one before. 16 year old came home first and ate the whole thing thinking it was a max size individual choc ice. Siblings didn’t get a sniff. 🍦

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@benpratershow

4 years

Up and at ‘em @BBCWiltshire fans! Another dreadful commute to endure this morning. 25c today! ☀️

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

4 years

Oh my days. Getting serious grief for not doing enough roasties. Let’s sort this right now. 2 adults and 3 kids. Is this acceptable? @BBCWiltshire

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@benpratershow

5 years

So sad to see all my kids’ ⛄️ excitement wiped out when they realise today’s the day Dad turns up at their school dressed as a fake Pudsey pulling an inflatable 🐦. @BBCWiltshire @BBCCiN #stuffthebustard #ChildrenInNeed2019

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@benpratershow

2 years

Just been to interview a Ukrainian family in Swindon and they all wanted my coat. Hadn’t thought about it until today. 🇺🇦 @BBCWiltshire

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

4 years

Found Pablo Whiskobar pulling an all nighter. Dirty stop out.

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11 months

Swindonia Sunrise. @BBCWiltshire

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

4 years

PM presser at 8pm then. I can handle pretty much anything he throws at us. JUST DON’T TAKE AWAY TOMORROW’S BIN COLLECTION. I beg you, not that.

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Ben Prater

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2 years

Weird skies Wiltshire! 🌈 @BBCWiltshire

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Ben Prater

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3 years

Up you get @BBCWiltshire lovers. It’s lush out. 👌🏻

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Ben Prater

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5 years

Random little tale. Just finished a long run and was warming down, contemplating how lucky I am that the surgeon at the GWH did a decent job on my broken ankle a couple of years ago. Then blow me down, at that exact moment, he walks up the street DRESSED AS SANTA 🎅

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1 year

And this is why I love my job… 😍 🛒 @BBCWiltshire

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1 year

Eldest has just taken his last A-Level. 28 years on I remember how good that felt. Reckon I was on about my sixth pint of Caffrey’s by now. Brannigans Beef and Mustard crisps. Baby D banging out of the speakers. Davidoff Cool Water versus fag smoke up your nostrils. Glorious.

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7 months

Fair play to Jonathan Pearce who has delivered the entire post-war histories of Bristol City and West Ham within 64 minutes of this compelling clash. #FACup

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5 years

This is brilliant. Look at how comfortable she is around people. Arms straight on the bed frame, leaning in like she actually wants to be there. 👌🏻

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5 years

New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, visiting a man who was severely injured in the New Zealand Mosque shooting. She enters using the Muslim greeting As-salāmu ʿalaykum "Peace be upon you" with a Hijab on her head. 😭 THIS IS WHAT A LEADER LOOKS LIKE. Retweet ❤️

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Ben Prater

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4 years

Forget 14 days, when you spend £166 at Aldi you can self isolate for 14 months.

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

2 years

Happy #WorldBookDay everyone! Thought you might like to see what my Mum rustled up at the last minute back in 1987. Feel free to show off your creations…. @BBCWiltshire

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3 years

‘Hi, just ringing to see why Archie’s not in school today?’ ‘Because he left in July.’

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Ben Prater

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3 years

Morning @BBCWiltshire fans! Nice out. 😍

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5 years

1/2 OMG. A RAJAR person just knocked my door. An actual person asking me to fill out a real radio listening diary. In that brief moment I could have said yes, got my magic marker out and single handedly guaranteed posh cakes for the @BBCWiltshire newsroom come August.

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Ben Prater

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2 years

Just heard that Sal took Archie to school today when they don’t start back until tomorrow. Definitely won’t ever mention this again. 😂😂😂

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5 years

“Mum, what did we do on my 9th Birthday?” “Oh I knocked one of your front teeth out in your first ever game of tennis.”

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Ben Prater

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5 years

1/2 Sal lost her Mum a couple of weeks ago. It’s been tough, many of you will have been there. What we’d never experienced is how utterly lovely it is when friends bring food to your door. Shepherd’s Pie, Cakes, Lasagne, all sorts of yummy gifts...

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@benpratershow

5 years

My poor kitten Pablo Whiskobar is having his 🥜 off tomorrow. Let’s hope he gets some respect and dignity. When I had my vasectomy the two trainee nurses knew my Nan and the doctor listened to me on Radio Bristol.

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

5 years

Still genuinely struggle with the fact that my wife and three kids hate the Muppet Christmas Carol. I’ve resorted to telling them I’ll turn the WiFi off if they don’t watch it with me.

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5 years

How could anyone think this is anything other than a Great Big Bustard? Really. How could they? 👀

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

4 years

There isn’t a weather warning alert system on earth to rival the one my wife sends me within 9 seconds of moderate to heavy rainfall. The message is direct and clear. GET THE OUTDOOR CUSHIONS IN 🚨 🚨 🚨

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@benpratershow

5 years

They don’t mess about in Highworth. #getsthejobdone 🎄 @BBCWiltshire

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5 years

2/2 When things are a bit shitty and out of sync, there’s something incredibly human and life-affirming about eating food that somebody else has made you without being asked. So thank you to those kind souls and we promise to do the same for others when the time comes. 💕

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

3 years

Just driven my Mum back to Bristol and there was no need for the radio. Not when you can listen to her chat about The COViD, Sainsbury’s Red Label tea bags, the Cuban Missile Crisis and retraining your bladder.

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6 years

In 1977 I was born in a flat on a council estate. 41 years later my daughter has just asked if she can take the Brabantia bin bags to school camp. That is social mobility right there.

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3 years

Devastated to learn I’ve not been asked to open the new Malmesbury Aldi. Seems I’m good enough to cut the ribbon at the town’s loos but not its much anticipated German discount supermarket. 🚽 🛒

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5 years

Went to the supermarket to get Charlie bin bags for his Duke Of Edinburgh. Came home with a bottle of whisky, two bottles of Rioja, three beers and no bin bags. I am a bad bad parent.

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@benpratershow

7 years

"Tell you what Dave, let's get a goal each today. Sort this sh*t out." #BristolCity

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@benpratershow

8 months

Merry Christmas! This turkey’s certainly ready. Stick @BBCWiltshire @BBCSounds on now if you fancy a cheeky bit of Christmas Day company. 🥳😘

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3 years

A friend told me he’d lost 8kg just by eating slightly fewer biscuits. I let on I was happy for him but inside I was seething. How is it so easy for some people to shift the timber? Ten minutes later he corrected himself, 0.8kg not 8kg and it was the best part of my whole day.

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@benpratershow

4 years

Really quite moved by the #clapforNHS in my cul-de-sac. Amazing turnout on the doorsteps and more saucepans and bells than an episode of Ski Sunday 😍😍 @BBCWiltshire

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@benpratershow

4 years

Morning! How’s this for a great start to your day? 💓 @BBCWiltshire @theipaper

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

5 years

7 jobs done and at least another 10 to go. My wife knows how to play me on a Six Nations day. 🏉

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@benpratershow

6 years

Today at Westonbirt a woman asked me where they could find the Gruffalo. “Silly thing. Why didn’t you know, there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo” was obviously my reply. My kids had sick in their mouths but I’ve explained I had absolutely no choice and would do it all again.

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@benpratershow

4 years

This bloke has just made every other mum or dad in the UK feel like a complete fraud and embarrassment to parenting. Fair play.

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4 years

If anyone doubts that #WeWillSkiAgain , check out this determination to ski... 🎞️ @revolution_snowsports /

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3 years

After spending half an hour looking for a code, it’s just dawning on me that I’ve booked a holiday cottage with NO WiFi. I’m off to tell the kids. 😂😂😂😂

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@benpratershow

4 years

Love sunset Walkies in July! @BBCWiltshire

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2 years

Hope your day is going better than mine: Just ate a mouthful of cat treats thinking they were the remnants of dry roasted peanuts. Won’t be having seconds. @BBCWiltshire

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6 years

Forget the game, I’m welling up already after watching Bobby Robson’s widow reading out his coaching notes. ❤️😢

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2 years

I’m no Druid but today always feels like a reward for all those dark and dank mornings. We’ll have all the drama from Stonehenge and Avebury. This isn’t either of those places: It’s a layby in Brinkworth. @BBCWiltshire ☀️

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@benpratershow

4 years

Not everyone has made it to midnight. Happy New Year folks. Love to you and yours. Xx

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@benpratershow

4 years

Who’s underdressed, who’s overdressed? It matters not; together we got the big job done and didn’t crack under the pressure. 🚽 🚻 @BBCWiltshire @wiltscouncil

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@benpratershow

2 years

When your 17 year old doesn’t want to come on holiday with you anymore. 🥲 🇬🇷

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@benpratershow

5 years

Say what you want about the UK but nobody does a 30 mile stretch of 50mph average speed zone when there’s not one bugger working on the motorway quite like we do. 🚗 🚧 📸

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1 year

Morning @BBCWiltshire fans! Met this friendly fella on the way in. 🥰

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1 year

No messing. Somebody in my village has raised the stakes (and the white flags) in the war against dog poo. @BBCWiltshire 💩

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3 years

Echoes of the Suez Canal in my hallway. 😱🎹

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@benpratershow

4 years

I wasn’t particularly in the mood for a double scotch and foot spa but Archie needs money to buy a Nintendo Switch, this was the service he was selling and nobody likes a tightwad. Oh well.

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@benpratershow

5 years

Hi Wiltshire peeps. I need to share some very important news with you on this last day of January. February’s a no Council Tax month! You’re very welcome. 🥳 🎈 🎉

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4 years

Generally not a fan of snooping apps but I’ll make an exception for the one that tells me that my kids have been buying school chicken wraps and cookies on a day I’ve made them packed lunches. Winner winner fraudulent dinner. 🧐

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2 years

My mum has done me two massive favours over the years. Bringing me into the world was pretty decent but buying me this hat is also up there. Merry Christmas you filthy @BBCWiltshire animals!

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6 years

I’m working with people so young they have never heard of 🌈. I realise the slow passing of time means things like this will happen but I’m still struggling to deal with it. RIP Geoffrey.

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9 months

For a man who gets paid to talk rubbish on a daily basis, this is me living the dream. @BBCWiltshire @SwindonCouncil

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4 years

Evening all. I’d just to like to clear up some rumours that are circulating suggesting I’m off work for a whole month. I thought it was important for you to hear it from me that this tittle tattle is 💯 % TRUE. 💤 🍺 🏖 @BBCWiltshire

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@benpratershow

4 years

Traded this old boy in today. Not let me down once in 8 years but his back wheels were starting to go and I could tell he was in pain when his windows jammed. Come the end, I held his wing mirror, remembered the good times then turned and walked away.

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Ben Prater

@benpratershow

4 years

Just ran past a primary school playground and the sound of hundreds of smiles was simply beautiful. Mind blowing to think of the collective happiness the nation’s children are experiencing right now. 💕 🏫

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2 years

‘And as she switched off the bedside lamp to bring an end to the 14th year of marriage to her husband, Sally Ann reminded Ben of his importance in her life by telling him to buy some kitchen foil in the morning.’ 💕

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@benpratershow

4 years

Looks like 4 defeats in a row then. Awful to say it but I just don’t care any more. I’m not mad with you @BristolCity , I’m just really disappointed.

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6 years

Finally home from the @GWH_NHS Kids A&E. In at 6 and out just before 1. Long waits for us and long waits for others but didn’t hear one complaint. Seems most people get how tough it must be to keep grafting and smiling in those conditions day after day after day. Hats off.

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