Rachel Summers @curiouswilds Twitter profile

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Rachel Summers

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3 months

Someone brought this lost kitten to my door. I am kitten sitting until it can be scanned. Kitten is asleep 🤫 My to-do list now reads KITTEN.

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4 years

@alisonstenning @edarcherthinks That’s what gave me the idea.

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2 years

My nine year old wrote a sermon for his daddy today (his daddy's a vicar).

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1 year

Youngest kid has just finished a term at the PRU (for challenging behaviour). His reading has improved by over a year since Easter 😱 It's almost like putting a child in a situation where they are supported and can better regulate themselves, improves their ability to learn? ;)

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4 years

I’ve had a few people asking how they can get to know trees. Start off with just one tree. Check and double check, then make a point of saying hi to each tree of that species when you ‘meet’ it. Then build up from there. Sniff it. Stroke it. Taste it if it’s edible!

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4 years

@KevinStanley42 @edarcherthinks I think you’re looking at one person with slightly chaotic handwriting who struggles to keep things looking consistent over different surfaces ;)

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4 years

@edarcherthinks @chewytheleftie Of course, that’s fine by me. Thanks so much for noticing my graffiti and sharing the tree 🌳 love! It was obviously just what people needed.

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4 years

Trees are looking so stunning against the blue April sky. The Pillar Apple just up this road was buzzing with happy hungry bees 🐝

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4 years

@mwahmwahdarling Be the chalker you wish to see in the world.

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4 years

Good morning Twitterverse! Jobs for today: 1. Chalk more tree labels 2. Learn to use Twitter better!

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4 months

I bought a beach hut today!

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4 years

Late evening chalking round the block. Somehow kneeling in front of these beauties as I scribble my scrawl feels only right and proper, and entirely what they deserve.

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4 years

So, I did this today! Missing my trees in the woods, so deciding to enjoy the street trees that I *can* get to. 🌲 🌳 #trees #streettrees #walthamstow #stjamesbiglocal

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1 year

If you're the praying sort, I would appreciate them for today as I'm ordained deacon at Chelmsford Cathedral, along with a whole bunch of other lovely folk.

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4 years

Four years ago, I took the refugee I was hosting into hospital where she had a crash c-section. Today they have leave to remain, and that baby is a fantastic four year old. Giving thanks that I was able to play a tiny role in giving her life, and the blessing she is to the world.

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3 years

Small boy serving, Xmas morning style, in Simpsons pyjamas, and wellies.

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4 years

Walthamstow people- there’s some socially distanced poetry for the queues outside Sainsbury’s and Wilkos, if you are that way inclined. Enjoy!

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4 years

Hornbeam- the Romans used this for their chariots. Sometimes when children at forest school come to me with wood they want to whittle, they’ve picked up hornbeam. It’s hard going with a knife and little hands- you can see why it got its name.

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4 years

Completely over the moon to hear that my scribblings uplifted none other than @ChrisGPackham - a total pleasure, sir.

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4 years

Just heard back that I got a 67 for the essay I wrote a sentence at a time interspersed with naps while I was sick with covid! (And a 73 for the one I wrote with brain fog.) Feeling proud of myself :) Only first year undergrad level, but all the same :)

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4 years

@chewytheleftie @edarcherthinks Keep your eyes peeled. I have a lot of streets near my house, and a big box of chalk.

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3 years

My fabulous eldest, 8 years ago today, doing her maths homework: 'Why can't the farmer find out how much fence he needs himself? Why is he making little children do it?'

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4 years

My daughter says, ‘I can’t wait for Spring lockdown. That one is nicest.’

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3 years

My cat is home!! After a week missing. I'm so very very glad.

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4 years

The world in one street. Chalking at dusk, a Tibetan cherry and a Swedish whitebeam, while the sound of the call to prayer echoes all around me. And breathe.

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4 years

We made Elderflower Turkish Delight today and if the White Witch promised me more of it, I think I could be just as tempted as Edmund.

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4 years

A sad one today. Sorry. Someone had stripped the bark right around this poor tree, and even though spring has sprung, this Turkish hazel is left forever in winter. Seemed right to mark that it had lived, and give it a bit of a hug.

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3 years

Sorry. I can't do anything. A kitten fell asleep in my lap.

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4 years

First tube ride since March, and look what was in front of me. Poetry with a plane tree in. Just perfect. Thank you, @MichaelRosenYes

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4 years

Black Leaf Plum- extremely tough, apparently. Tough, pink, and floral 👍

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3 years

I interrupt your scrolling to bring you Babies in Michaelmas Crowns. You're welcome.

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4 years

Husband missed his graduation in Jan as was in hospital with pneumonia. He decided to do a birthday eve lap of honour round the block resplendent in gown, hood, bow tie, tabs, and with a Betsy the dog accessory. Everyone came out of their houses and applauded. I do like it here.

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3 years

The best pumpkin we saw when we were out trick or treating tonight. 🐈*

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2 years

My daughter crocheted her pancreas 😵 She's asking for permission from the pattern designer to make these as a fundraiser. (She added the pancreatic duct and 'cross eyes' face herself 😵) #T1diabetes @JDRFUK

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4 years

My tree chalking has been immortalised in a station roundel 🌳 🚆

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4 years

At one point every sunny day, half a shadow tree joins together with the top of a tree poking over the roof, to create one whole new tree, in my friends view from her window. Isn’t that fab?

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@curiouswilds

4 years

@JeremyCom I teach small children to light fires and use knives. And sometimes I tell them all to hide in the woods.

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@curiouswilds

3 years

An Autumn rose for you all.

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4 years

@alisonstenning @edarcherthinks @ForageLondon shared something similar he’d done, a few months ago, inspired by something similar he’d seen in France.

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4 years

In Finnish folklore lime trees (or linden trees, same thing) protect us. Thanks @AndrewTMackay for fact-checking me on this. Glad the chalk got it right!

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4 years

Nobody was weeing behind this elder today! (That’s quite unusual! It seems to be the unofficial wee tree for Walthamstow high street.) So I finally got round to annotating it. Flowers are starting to come out already- I love elderflower champagne. Have a go! Pick above wee line!

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4 years

Excited to find a ginkgo (spelled it wrong in chalk, sorry!)- what a cool tree to have outside your house, lucky people.

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4 years

@matthaig1 Why not have open air schools whether it’s summer or not? I’m a forest school practitioner and teach outdoors all year round. Hugely motivational for children, supports them to drive their own learning and inquiry, helps them become resilient and surely this is what’s needed now?

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4 years

I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed watching spring appear in the trees this much, ever before.

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@curiouswilds

4 months

I'm so delighted about this! 🌳🌳🌳🌳

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4 months

We're delighted to announce that the MA Mission Prize 2024 winner is Mthr Rachel Summers @curiouswilds Rachel's MA thesis is about how Ethiopian forest churches might inspire churches in East London. #intercultural #MissionShaped #ForestChurch

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3 years

I have been a parent for 18 years. My youngest is 8. For the first time EVER I am the first person awake in my house. Parents of smalls- I promise this will be you one day.

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4 years

I went down to visit ‘my’ wild patch today. First visit in a month, and I’m normally there for hours and hours each week. It was full of birdsong, and cow parsley, and smelled of green growing things. Missed it so much, I nearly cried.

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4 years

Happy birthday to my twelve year old, who asked for an anemometer, a barometer, a hydrometer, and a thermometer, and is now taking measurements in the garden so he can chart climate change. Same kid took on Swithun as his confirmation name. He’s pretty cool. 😎 🌦

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4 years

This yew is only a whippersnapper. I wonder what it will have seen by the time it’s classed as ‘ancient’?

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@curiouswilds

4 years

Origami leaf sparrows, anyone? 🍁 🍂

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5 years

🆕桜の茶色い落ち葉でスズメを作りました。今日行った公園では桜の落ち葉はほとんど茶色になっていました🍂 茶色も可愛かったのでスズメを折りました。五羽くらい折っているとだんだん形が決まってきて、結局十羽くらい折りました^ ^

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4 years

Two trees having a chat? A pair of lungs? A portal into another world? @EnglishHeritage Old Sarum, Salisbury.

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4 years

Those who like my chalking, might like my socially distant labyrinth outside my house.

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4 years

English oak is a symbol of strength. This one is adorned with home made face masks, offered free to anyone who needs one, because Walthamstow is great.

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2 years

My best quote from holiday club today comes courtesy of my thirteen year old helper. He'd spotted a little boy sitting alone on a log, and asked if he'd like to join their game. 'No thanks', the boy replied, 'I'm counting up to an hour. I've never had the time to before!'

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4 years

Hawthorn- known in Ireland as ‘The Fairy Tree’. Irish ☘️ people, can you confirm this is true? (Another place I’ve never visited- Ireland, not fairy land, though maybe the two aren’t so dissimilar?)

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2 years

The Ukrainian is moving out at the weekend. I am going to cry so much. My kids are going to cry. The cat is DEFINITELY going to cry. 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Don't ever host refugees, it's too sad when they go 😭 (If you too want to have awesome people in your life contact @RefugeesAtHome )

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@curiouswilds

11 months

I made this flower between St James Street and Wood Street, and left it on the train to hopefully bring a bit of autumnal joy to someone's day 🍂🍁

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4 years

This made me smile today.

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4 years

I am stuck in bed, feeling a bit rotten. My friend sent me this gorgeous tree her son found on Hampstead Heath to cheer me up. It worked :)

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2 years

How to spot a forest school practitioner on the tube? I crafted this out of a handful of autumn leaves on the Bakerloo line. 🌹🍁👌

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4 years

Aspen- a crown made of aspen leaves was believed to let you visit the Underworld safely. Plus they sound so great when they rustle.

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2 years

Curacy announcement klaxon 📢 I will be serving my curacy at @StPeterE17 from the summer as a full time pioneer curate, with @elizabethlowson at @StMarysWoodford as my training incumbent.

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1 year

Walthamstow is full of such generous folk. Here's our rail of donated prom wear. If you have a teen who needs clothing for prom, come and check out our Prom Pop-up at @StPeterE17 tomorrow 12-4. #walthamstow

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3 years

I interrupt your scrolling to bring you Babies in May Crowns. You are welcome.

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1 year

This summer I start as a pioneer curate- like a baby Forest Vicar. Prayers please, if you pray, but all good wishes of all types also gratefully received. I'm excited to be stepping out on this forest path and seeing where my feet take me!

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3 years

My house with elastic walls is back in business 🥰 Stanislav arrived on the train this evening, to stay with us for six months or so. The children talked at him all the way home. He's cuddled the dog and eaten pizza. Wishing him many peaceful nights and purposeful days. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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4 years

I went to @AldiUK today, but squeezed in a little bit of chalking as I queued.

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4 years

I have finally impressed my children. @theweekjunior

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4 years

London Plane- makes beauty out of pollution.

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4 years

Rowan- used to be known as ‘fid na ndruad’, meaning ‘wizard’s tree’. Thanks to @WoodlandTrust for that fact today!

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4 years

I didn’t label any trees today. It was my daughter’s 13th birthday (not this one, that’s actually my son despite the long hair), so we went to the bluebell woods and oh my they were wonderful.

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@curiouswilds

4 years

My seven year old brought me breakfast in bed, complete with, and I quote, ‘middle class napkin’. This was two squares of loo roll. Super posh.

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2 years

We visit these bluebell woods for a dinner picnic every year. Each year I convince myself I must have imagined quite how spectacular they are- but I didn't.

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@curiouswilds

4 years

So, I had fun today doing some stealth chalking near to the house of a young friend of mine. She’s one of my favourite forest school regulars. Last year she had a brilliant Harry Potter party in the woods. This year the woods came to her. Happy birthday April!

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1 year

This is a huge tragedy for the world. Not only are these extraordinary resilient kids rendered invisible, but the amazing work done by the staff in these places isn't feted like it should be.

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4 years

English Oak (supports more life than any other native UK tree), and Holm Oak (an evergreen oak).

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3 years

We did egg dyeing at forest school today. Leaves held on with old tights, and then boiled with onion skins over the fire.

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4 years

Went to visit Grimston’s Oak in Epping Forest. Very roughly we estimated its age by measuring round it with our arms. We think it was a sapling in the time of Queen Elizabeth the First :O

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@curiouswilds

2 years

Happy two year anniversary of one of the most fabulous joyfilled things I've ever done 🥰🌳

Elizabeth Archer

@edarcherthinks

4 years

To whomever is chalking names and descriptions of trees on the pavements across Walthamstow. I love you. This made my heart sing today.

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4 years

@RosalindinKent @edarcherthinks I love it!!!

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4 years

@mouthwaite @edarcherthinks If anyone is reading some of these comments and thinking, well, yes, actually, I *would* offer them a room to stay in, in my house, take a look at @RefugeesAtHome We have hosted around ten guests through this organisation and it’s fantastic. Charity begins at home. In my home.

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6 months

Curate's first baptism 🕊️🕯️ Yes, we are both as delighted by this as we look ☺️ @StPeterE17

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@curiouswilds

4 years

@MichaelRosenYes As your nose keeps growing throughout your life, it grows further away from the heat of your body, and the nose hairs keep it warm. ;)

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3 years

Surprisingly emotional to see Little Amal @walkwithamal at St Paul's cathedral, and to have the chance with a large crowd to voice what we wish was true, that refugees are welcome here.

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3 years

It's the season for elderflower fritters, here in London at least. Tempura batter (flour and sparkling water), dip the heads in, fry, nibble the battered flowers off the stalk. Sweet, fragrant, delicious. Thank you elder trees!

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@curiouswilds

4 years

If you’re in Walthamstow, come to Northcote Road and walk your way through the solar system!

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4 years

Loving the gnarled trunks of the hawthorns. I can’t believe I’d never noticed how craggy and magical these trees looked before, just minding their own business by the side of the road.

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3 years

My kid blagged himself a piano solo at his school concert. All very lovely, apart from the fact he doesn't actually play the piano. Yes, he sat down and did random 9yo non-piano-player impro. In a concert. He's all kinds of awesome. I wish I had half his confidence!

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3 years

Had a nice cup of tea and a spot of pavement chalking today.

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@curiouswilds

4 years

So my thirteen year old walked in, wrote out one hundred digits of pi from memory, then drew me a little heart because she loves me.

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@curiouswilds

4 years

Just turned our porch into the garden of gethsemane ready for tenebrae, a service of increasing darkness ending in near despair. Sounds depressing? I’m finding the ache of Holy Week is a good place to be in right now. #HolyWeekAtHome

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3 years

Who wants to see cute babies and funny toddlers with butterfly wings? Aren’t they *brilliant*?!

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2 years

Still find it incredible that when I go to the @FSAForestSchool conference, I am one of the Cool Kids. And I wish I could go back 30 years to tell that awkward lonely weird kid that it was never actually me that was the problem, and that I have in fact been Cool all along.

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3 years

My very intelligent teddy bear Woldy has just been dropped off at university for the second time round. He came with me to Leicester in 1996 to study History and Archaeology, but is now tucked up in my daughter's bed in Cambridge to help her with her Asian Studies degree.

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4 years

Woodlice do cube poo. I did not know this and now I do, and I freely pass this amazing piece of knowledge on to you.

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4 years

Nature is like a huge amazing treasure hunt that’s open to anyone and free to access. Spotted these hiding behind the fence by the train tracks.

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1 year

All schools could benefit from taking on board whatever magic is in that place. All politicians should visit to see what supportive child focused education could look like. What a world we could make together.

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3 years

I will get back to posting trees and children-in-nature soon, I promise. But look!

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4 years

ITV today. They’re coming to film anyway; not sure when it will air. Disadvantage of telly: you have to wear clothes that are not pyjamas with holes in. Advantage of telly: yay! Film crew! My family are suckers for a film crew, with all their exciting techie gubbins.

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4 years

Name me a meal that DOESN’T begin with you frying an onion and some other veg in a little oil in a pan. I think basically everything I cook starts off this way.

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