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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

This cover! 😍💦

Hodder & Stoughton

@HodderBooks

3 years

It should have been their dream. Now it's her nightmare. The Wedding Night is the intoxicating new thriller from @harrywalker1 . Coming in July. Pre-order >>

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3 years

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A moment please for my friend who checked into a hotel with her young family just now and opened the wardrobe to find a couple in there shagging

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Breaking: scientists discover what women already know

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Harriet Walker

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3 months

Best election look so far 💥

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Keep it moving 🇬🇧🌹 #VoteLabour #jovanforclacton

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Harriet Walker

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So glued to the news I burned my tofu

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Your uni boyfriend’s shit mate

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

The wardrobe (pictured) was actually a door into a very small, next-door room available for bookings by the hour 🥴

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Being shamed by posh girls about your John Lewis habit has a real Freshers Week energy to it?

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Harriet Walker

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2 years

In love with the cover of tomorrow’s @thetimes magazine and my interview with @VivianHoorn about fighting the return of Noughties diet culture: 📸 @dankennedyphoto

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

10 months

Angela Rayner poses for British Vogue in an outfit that was borrowed and sent back just like they always are

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

10 months

🔴 Angela Rayner poses for British Vogue in an outfit worth £3,570

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

1 year

The differential between these outfits is quite something

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Monday mornings in fashion

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Okayyy just back from doing kids bedtime and this tweet went further than I expected! Details coming up…

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Shout-out to the amazing orthopaedic/anaesthetics team at Kings who not only fixed our 3yr old’s broken arm but also gave her bear a covid makeover in theatre yesterday 😭😭😭 hooray for the NHS and all the wonderful people in it

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Nothing like an imminent second lockdown to bring out the “why are you writing about clothes at a time like this” below-the-liners. Errrr because all the rest of the paper is about Covid and recession and bleak and PLEASE GOD JUST A BIT OF TIME OFF FROM IT???

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Working on a rotation of three outfits at this point: the self-pity one (evening), the pull-yourself-together one (morning) and the one I put on to look normal in the park (afternoon)

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

A brilliant feminist said to me recently that if we thought too hard about how men treat women, we would never leave the house. But this month alone: Andrew T*te, Carrick, Epsom, female MPs being physically intimidated in Parliament by male colleagues. I am so so full of sad rage

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

It isn't an "isolated incident" when women are killed in their homes twice a week

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Remember when we were encouraged to think of flashing as a sort of comic foible? Remember when we were prudes for feeling weird about how much porn there was everywhere? Remember when we were supposed to just accept that our boyfriends watched it because, yknow, men?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Don’t want to distract from the main event but there’s a concerning necklace situation 🤢

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

My phone just autocorrected 'fucking hell' to 'fucking hello' and I can't think of a better way to start greeting people this winter

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

Just a reminder that Farage’s kids have German passports so will keep their rights as EU citizens after tonight

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Been a bit busy looking after my child to reply to the men telling me I'm entitled for writing about looking after my child, but thanks to all the women who got in touch to say they feel exactly the same way. I hope you can all manage a nice quiet sit-down at some point today

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

On the same note, the assumption that women will go part-time is why nobody has bothered to fix childcare

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

I'm a fashion editor and even I can't summon as much outrage about TB's off-the-shoulder Parly look as the many men piling in on her. Are these the same men who so regularly get in touch to tell me clothes don't matter, I wonder?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

We’ve segued into the angry men phase of replies to this tweet so I’m muting it now, but thank you (most of you) for understanding it properly - amazing graphic and amazing work, @SVCCork 👏

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

Nerd no longer! In today’s @TimesMagazine , I speak to @sixthemusical and personal heroes @Lucy_Worsley , @AlisonWeirBooks about how the my obsession with the Tudors became cool, honestly 👑

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

Just seen a woman doing her tax return on her phone. Doesn't everyone save stuff like this to do on "the big computer" at home? Or am I officially a massive fogey?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Informed by my husband that I “do not know how to make a sandwich” because I lay the cheese on the bread in chunky slices rather than grating it in. Does this make me a.) a monster or b.) just a Northerner?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

@Janroweljmu @SophieRunning Yes, parents. But scientists regularly “discover” things that people simply haven’t paid attention to for years because they have been perceived to be female work and therefore pointless/not of interest. And this is a classic

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

It is my birthday tomorrow and I am fully accepting this as my present

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Ok I would really really really really like to see my mum and dad now 💔

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

How can a baby who sleeps with loud white noise on (like a plane taking off) also jerk awake at the tiny snap of a nursing bra being re-clipped?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Wry smile at the memory of around this time last pregnancy efficiently getting a pedi + bikini wax and knowing now that this is a bit like painting the fence before you burn your house down

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Errr so you can wash it at 90 to get the shit out?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Just filling in my maternity leave form and omg are we still calling it CONFINEMENT?! 😂

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

1 year

Feels absolutely on-point to read this with a butterless sausage baguette and tea “breakfast deal” that cost £9.70 🥲

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

UK publication day for #thenewgirl ! Thank you everyone on here who has liked, retweeted and tolerated me wanging on about this for nearly two years now!

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

50 percent off! Can’t imagine why this look didn’t sell at full price

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Overpaid men choosing to wear either a Wife shirt or a Mum shirt for IWD is absolutely perfect

Tom Woods

@woodstome

2 years

"Wife"

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Please, one final World of Interiors shoot of the flat, please

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Just seen someone describe themselves as a TWAT (working Tues, Weds & Thurs in the office) and please can this become official parlance

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

I think my pal speaks for all of us here 🏊‍♀️

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Just put two kisses at the end of a reminder, for myself.

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Thank god he’s a human, rather than a woman

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Me in the hospital waiting room, rocking my 1 mth old to sleep in my arms in a way that, this week at least, seems to work Old woman I have never met before: YOU SHOULDNT DO THAT, YOU’LL RUIN HIM, HE’LL NEVER LEARN TO GET TO SLEEP BY HIMSELF

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

Keen to put a stop to the Rich Remainer stereotype on the March today, so I’ve gone with “False Consciousness is not a shade of Farrow & Ball” for my placard. See you there!

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Just watched original Snow White with recuperating 3yr old and delighted at how much more taken she is with the witch, a woman with a science lab in her basement, than with SW, whose main interest seems to be sweeping

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Coffee breath inside your own mask has a real chemistry-teacher-leans-over-to-help-you-with-an-equation vibe

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Tweets grow up so quickly these days! You barely even get ten minutes before the whatabouterers arrive!

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

1 year

In today's @thetimes , how the childcare crisis is costing women their careers and letting families down, and why last week's budget won't help:

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

@HadleyFreeman Ahhh simpler times - go out with bastards, eat shit pizza

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Oh no this is our fault too!

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

📚Books!!! Real, hardback books with my words in them and everything! #thenewgirl is out 9th July 🇬🇧🇬🇧 and available to pre-order here: (please do, it really helps authors!) @UA_Books 📚

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Looking at the many warm layers adults wear to run in this weather and remembering how PE teachers always wore full tracksuit and coat while they made us run around a frosty field in shorts

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

The fact they were all whats apping vile, dark porn to each other - this is just a daily fact of how men think & talk about sex, and it relates directly to how they think about & treat women. & yes, not all men but if you think this isn’t representative you are totally deluded

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Senior men horrified to experience life like women. Great piece in today’s @thetimes2 by @Damwhit

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

Very excited to share this razzy trail and the 🇬🇧 cover of THE NEW GIRL from the fabulous @HodderBooks ! Out in July and available to pre-order here: with huge thanks to @kimberleyatkins @L_Macdougall 👐📚💫

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

In today's Times, I have learned that men are doing more housework and no longer writing novels. Only another 50 years until they can put things in the dishwasher amirite

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Always surprised by how snidey other female journos (who clearly like clothes, enjoy getting dressed, shopping) can be about fashion pages - obviously they’re as much geared around a “thing” or a “story” as pieces in any other section...

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

I am so so angry this morning. They carry us all in their phones when they look at this stuff, and they begin to treat us the same way in real life. When will someone fix what you can find online? And when we will stop being told that it’s normal for them all to be watching it?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Just heard my daughter's reception Christmas show - in which she plays a journalist - will now be online only, the words every print journalist used to dread

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Is it because we are all paying for it?

woman&home

@womanandhome

4 years

Prince Charles and Camilla are extending their summer break for this surprising reason

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Daughter has worked out that if she asks enough 'why' questions ('why is that orange orange?' or my fave today: 'why are spiders?') I will eventually put the telly on

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

@LindseyKelk @emmagannon *nervously butts in* depends on taste, of course! but I am mid-30s and brands I like include arket, kitri, damson madder, maje, ganni, stine goya because cool but comfortable, versatile, practical, “bit different” as Mary Berry might say 😘

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Squeal!! #theweddingnight is out in June and I am OBSESSED with the US cover 🇺🇸available to pre-order and now up on @NetGalley for review 📚 🧡 #amreading #thriller #newbook #tbr

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Seeking an exorcism service for an author who looked at their Goodreads, anyone?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

How have I not engaged with Homes Under the Hammer - and it’s very literal soundtrack - before now? After a segment on party walls, they played Fight for Your Right by the Beastie Boys

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

My almost-four year old got home today and said she wanted to put her best dress on and dance to loud music so I presume the northern Friday night gene is dominant not recessive?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Such an enormous Facebook in 2007 energy

Ben Riley-Smith

@benrileysmith

3 years

Breaking: Scotland Yard just said they've been handed more than **300** photographs as part of their partygate probe. Wow.

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Harriet Walker

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3 years

She’s heeeere! #thenewgirl is out in paperback on Thursday and holding a copy is still the most amazing feeling. Also, this new green edition is ZINGY 💚💚

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Rhiannon Davies’ tenacity after heartbreaking loss is amazing. I spoke to her for today’s @thetimes about 13yrs of campaigning for justice for her baby Kate & the battle to rid maternity care of dogma, targets & a culture that belittles women in pain:

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Portaloo / I was defeated / EU won the war

Lisa O'Carroll

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4 years

NEW: Govt to install portaloos for drivers on Kent roads in case of Brexit congestion Transport min Rachel MacLean: "we have detailed plans that we've worked up for provision of not only portaloos but other facilities for drivers"

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Eating a freshly made banana bread as he announces this lockdown - how far ahead of the curve is that??

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Parents of children older than mine: am I now destined to always have several bags of grown-out-of clothing on the go that I must at some point remember to give to friends with younger kids? I feel like I am constantly running a stock take in my head

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

My parents are having their jabs today at 15.42 and I’m so happy about it that taking the piss out of their weirdly precise timeslot wasn’t even one of my first three reactions

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

The point in the pandemic when the baby has learned to dance to the doctors hold music 💔

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Like a haunted pile of cushions with some knickers and a duster lying on top

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Um, I think the only thing left to say is... my book came out this week! It's a tale of friendship and revenge set in the south of France - but alas, no coitus in wardrobes:

The Wedding Night: A stylish and gripping thriller about deception and female friendship a book by...

What do you do when the wedding of your dreams turns into a nightmare?When Lizzie calls off her wedding in the south of France only a week before the big day, not even her closest friends know why....

uk.bookshop.org

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

@wijnands Some men. But scientists regularly “discover” things that people simply haven’t paid attention to for years because they have been perceived to be female work and therefore pointless/not of interest. And this is a classic

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

I haven’t wished so hard for a birthday present since I got a MegaDrive in 1992

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

The place where I had breakfast today was so fancy they brought me a little stool for my handbag and I couldn’t stop laughing so I guess I am not fancy enough/you can’t take me anywhere

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

All my daughter’s Duplo efforts now include these two pieces set aside as sinks “to wash the birus off” 💔

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

So glad I realised this January that you have to reduce your Lindt intake slowly, so you don’t get the bends

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Happy fists

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

My daughter asked me what mummies do after children go to bed and I slightly bitterly said tidying and laundry and it has now become her favourite new let’s pretend game 🥴

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

5 years

First UK proof and matching notecards 💅 so exciting to meet THE NEW GIRL in the flesh at last!

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

Will I be finding facemasks in pockets I'd forgotten about for the rest of my life now? And why are they never in the pocket that you really need them in?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Suitcase of actual nightmares 😱

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

3 years

I managed a launch party this time round! #theweddingnight is out now 📚💫💃

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

can I borrow Penny M*rdaunt for the next time I have three glasses of wine and then feel too anxious to leave the house the next day?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

@dollyalderton I could drink a case of this, darling, and still I'd be on my feet

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

Eating chocolates from a box that says “resealable pack” and a bag that says “love to share”. I will do neither of things, do fuck off

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

@PINsykes @hattiehattie am I being a conspiracy theorist when I say it feels like they want us to make our own mistakes with it so we can't blame The People In Charge when everyone is ill again?

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

Will they claim non-vom status, which is when yes you are at a party but you're not drinking

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

4 years

@jessbowie That’s you cut out of his then

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

I wrote my first Thunderer for today’s @thetimes about new research from @CCDHate brilliant @sophwilkinson that found Instagram doesn’t act of 9 out of 10 reports of misogynistic abuse:

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

@eridukid Yes, parents. But scientists regularly “discover” things that people simply haven’t paid attention to for years because they have been perceived to be female work and therefore pointless/not of interest. And this is a classic

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Harriet Walker

@harrywalker1

2 years

@jessbowie @our_je55 Labels or no, I remain deeply jealous of anyone with a dedicated utility zone

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