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Melissa Cox

@mmdotcox

2 years

Once again wondering how I can get that 101 Dalmatians lifestyle

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Melissa Cox

@mmdotcox

3 years

when you’re staying in a hotel and breakfast is included

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

my entire vibe from now until spring

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

Imagining the Vardy household right now, Rebekah shrieking blue murder, Jamie's on his ninth Red Bull of the morning, kids are crying

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

trying to get through November like

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

While I am heartbroken about Judith Kerr, I know that to escape Nazis, build a life and family in a new country, create a wealth of books that generations of children and adults adore, and to go to parties in great frocks well into your 90s, is a well-lived life.

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Melissa Cox

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1 month

Heading to the polling station like

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

Summary of my thirties so far:

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

Never forget Eric, the best #Crufts dog of all time.

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

One of my favourite genres of children’s book illustration: cosy animal houses under the snow.

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

also as it is September, 90s kids, do you remember what lunch box you had? A lot of us in the office had THIS beauty

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

My favourite genre of unexpected wikipedia paragraph is definitely So Then Werner Herzog Turned Up

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

It’s a lovely Dominic Cummings press statement in the rose garden, and you are a horrible goose

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

No one: Timothee Chalamet in Little Women:

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

The answer to seasonal depression is bringing back the wind in the willows lifestyle

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

...very sorry if this Richard Scarry illustration from a book that isn't actually about hotel breakfasts does not exactly replicate your own personal experience of hotel breakfasts

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

And why not

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Melissa Cox

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3 months

three day weekends are so

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

Every year I watch A Christmas Inheritance on Netflix and every year I lose it at this bit

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

A tiktok with vine energy is surprisingly rare.

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

No but seriously

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

trying to make a cup of tea in 2021

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

I’m in Ireland and the breakfast show had the hosts blindfolded??? and playing guess the sex toy??? at 9:30 in the morning???

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Melissa Cox

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7 years

It is a truth universally acknowledged that THERE ARE OTHER BOOKS OH MY GOD SO MANY OTHERS

Radio Times

@RadioTimes

7 years

#Poldark producers Mammoth Screen to adapt Pride and Prejudice for ITV!

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

This is the plot of an Inbetweeners episode, not a policy.

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4 years

Pubs and restaurants can only serve alcohol in Tier 3 areas if the customer buys a meal

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

🚨this is the fun police🚨 Stop taking pictures of strangers and putting them on the internet to get your numbers. People are trying to live their lives and this bizarre surveillance culture is toxic.

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

The idea that you can “save Christmas” from a pandemic is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard in a year full of them

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

I’ve watched so many Channel 5 Christmas films this week every time I leave the house I expect to get stranded in a small town during a snowstorm with a gruff but handsome local who sees through my city girl ways.

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

I never get sick of retweeting this, my only bookmarked tweet.

david

@_elvishpresley_

6 years

the world: [at the edge of apocalypse] me: [oblivious, headphones on]

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

Get in everyone, we’re going sports bra shopping

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

Me logging on to Twitter

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

When you’re enjoying a biryani then bite down hard on a cardamom pod

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

I am thinking constantly of Sarah Everard and her family and friends. I am thinking of all the women and girls who now feel more afraid to do ordinary everyday things, like walking home from your friend’s house.

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

Whenever I see a horse up close I’m impressed by the first human who thought ‘i’m going to sit on the back of this giant monster and make it take me places’

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

mmm...awful cake

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2 months

the British summer I dreamt of and the British summer I am having

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

such a strange time of year to have November

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

My fave instagram genre is “willing to risk a house fire for likes”

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

Me to anyone who will listen

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

So I have to shave my legs every other day but I only had to pluck my eyebrows slightly too much that one time in 1999 and that’s that? Cool. Cool.

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

If Naive by the kooks makes you remember an extremely specific summer then you’re middle aged now sorry pal

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Melissa Cox

@mmdotcox

5 years

I think about this tweet every single day.

Paul Haine

@paul_haine

8 years

Lately it feels like a parent caught us reading some news & now won’t let us out of a locked room until we’ve smoked a whole packet of news.

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

sorry about this

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Melissa Cox

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7 years

Very close to prowling the Tube with a pair of sewing scissors and forcibly removing the vent stitch from people’s coats and suit jackets.

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

Nobody: Me walking into school after the six weeks holiday in 1998:

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

All I want is for Ruth Wilson to wink at me in a conspiratorial manner while we’re both wearing ballgowns.

Ryan Love

@RyanJL

5 years

Loved this little moment between Ruth Wilson and Keeley Hawes #BAFTATV

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

Things you can make and keep in the fridge so you don’t have to use your oven/stove this week 🧵

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

At the end of this month, after 11 moves in 14 years of renting, I'm finally moving into a flat in London that I own. I get to choose my own wallpaper. I'll have a study. I can walk to the River Thames in minutes. My friends live round the corner. I... I can't believe it.

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

Weekend plans.

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

I’ve just remembered the time I was the only one in my class at school to know the answer to a question about Karl Marx and one of the popular girls complained loudly “yeah but she only knows that because she read it in a book”

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

Guys it’s a cartoon based on a children’s book please stop telling me that Roger and Anita are privileged, their puppies have been kidnapped to make a coat!!!

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

*aggressively taps the sign*

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Melissa Cox

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7 years

Me on January 1st 2018 and me a decade later on January 31st 2018

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

He’s a ten Hag, but you’re 2-0 down to Brighton at home

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

All I want is to live in a house like this and for all the children in the neighbourhood to be afraid of me

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

I think about Jamie Vardy's double espresso and three cans of Red Bull pre-match routine every single day

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

I don’t know why anyone following me would need to hear this but I cannot say it enough: treat anyone working in retail, food service, your office cleaners, any person in any kind of service role at all with some fucking respect.

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

imagine being david beckham and it was just your job to turn up to watch incredible sporting events while being well-dressed and handsome

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Melissa Cox

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17 days

This is going to be a charming movie starring Alfred Molina, mark my words.

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Melissa Cox

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7 years

Mine is that people who prefer Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet over Jennifer Ehle basically don't deserve Jane Austen.

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

I must once again tap the sign

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

Making everyone I know find an alternative government approved career via this assessment

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

Pretty Woman is not a romantic movie. No movie can possibly be romantic if the guy is reading this to you.

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

Today I met a puppy called Buddy. He is nine weeks old and his likes include cuddles and whimpering.

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

thank you tiktok for making this completely normal - extremely fine to just film a stranger, make them into a meme or a joke and make sure they never feel entirely comfortable *existing* ever again

Melissa Cox

@mmdotcox

6 years

🚨this is the fun police🚨 Stop taking pictures of strangers and putting them on the internet to get your numbers. People are trying to live their lives and this bizarre surveillance culture is toxic.

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Melissa Cox

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1 month

My only general election theory is that Ed Davey’s campaign was based on a series of Richard Scarry books and a dream.

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen.

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Melissa Cox

@mmdotcox

4 years

there is no rain quite like Shirley Hughes rain

Shirley Hughes

@ShirleyHughes_

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Taken from Out and About on this dark and wet morning

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

If you can, offer your delivery people cold drinks or water this week. They’re out there getting heatstroke for your asos mistakes.

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Melissa Cox

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7 years

When I don't agree with someone on Twitter

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

me waiting for 8pm

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

Un-normalise the demand for only likeable characters in fiction

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3 years

Greatest YA trilogy of all time.

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

@rickburin my favourite genre is definitely “weird sociopath takes issue with thing you thought no one could take issue with”

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

Being in your thirties is just a series of events where you start looking around for an adult to help you then realise that the adult is supposed to be you

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

Got in a flap because in a VERY out of character move I only brought one book for the weekend then finished it on the train up here. Went out early in search of a paper and instead found this...

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Melissa Cox

@mmdotcox

6 years

Monday: It’s Monday, I deserve a nice lunch from Pret Tuesday: Ugh. The worst day of the week. I’ll get a cookie when I go to Pret Wednesday: I forgot my lunch, wanna go to Pret? Thursday: Almost the weekend baby!! Pret yourself! Friday: Yes! Pret Friday!

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Melissa Cox

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7 years

Day One of the Brexit negotiations

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3 years

Re-normalise being embarrassed to play a video on your phone without earphones

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7 years

Hey Mum, I made it to the big time!

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

@honeythrone @OteghaUwagba 👌🏽

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

if even one of you laughs at this as much as I just did then it was worth posting

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Melissa Cox

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3 years

North and South is so good because it’s nothing but people dying of industrial revolution malaise and terse conversations about business then, here you go, the most romantic ending in the history of the universe.

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

I’m not saying I struggle to function as an adult in 2018 but I do often find myself wishing I could live inside a Shirley Hughes book.

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4 years

This woman must be protected and perhaps also rewarded?

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4 years

I cannot believe that Florence Pugh made me fall in love with Amy March after thirty solid years of extremely committed dislike, what POWER

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

the unplanned, accidental after-work rager is a better night out than any twelve months in the planning hen do with a dedicated whatsapp group and budget spreadsheet. that's just how it is, no one knows why.

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@mmdotcox hahaha. I definitely miss “just one drink” with workpals after work and the subsequent stagger of shame to the flat at 2am.

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

Do you sometimes see a picture of a dog living a life so much better than yours, it causes you to have a brief existential crisis?

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

Woke up in a flap because I thought it was Monday and I’d overslept. Imagine my delight when I realised it was not only Sunday, but a rainy Sunday with nowhere to be.

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

@Rob_Madge_02 absolutely lost it at "thanks dad I shan't out of respect"

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4 years

my brain whenever I think about the timeline of 2020

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

Major about to lose the Euros on penalties energy building on UK twitter

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

I am April O’Neill, reporter and human ally to the teenage mutant ninja turtles. I am in an on-off relationship with Michaelangelo.

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Melissa Cox

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5 years

the timeline

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Melissa Cox

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6 years

My long-suffering flatmate can confirm I just shrieked with excitement at realisation the iPlayer archive has a 1960s documentary about how they dug the Victoria line.

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Melissa Cox

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4 years

There has to be another way of ending the working from home day that isn’t just sloshing scotch into a glass like Don Draper if he wore sweatpants and his hair in a topknot

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Melissa Cox

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2 years

I love booktok but I just feel so ancient when someone is like “an underrated forgotten classic” and it’s The Time Traveler’s Wife.

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3 years

I am waiting to have my vaccine in, of course, an old library.

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