Dame Bibi Lynch @BibiLynch Twitter profile

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

2 years

I feel I should apologise for the media training I gave her. I thought I was being funny.

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1 year

@MissPotkin I’m still gasping. But… If your friend isn’t interested…

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@MissPotkin

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Why doesn’t Nigel Farage just marry Dover?

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Best two sentences ever written.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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5 years

‘She had no children.’ Seriously go fuck yourself. Magenta Devine, TV presenter, dies aged 61

Magenta Devine, TV presenter, dies aged 61

The host of Network 7 and Rough Guides to the World was known for her sunglasses and stylish attire.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

‘Hello? Meghan? Oh you’re going to love this...’

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Would just like to remind everyone that this is @carriesymonds first baby, regardless of anything else. Let's be kind to the pregnant lady, shall we? #borisbaby

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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3 years

Remembering I’m rich. Remembering why.

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2 years

Sarah Vine listing the reasons behind Brenda’s tough year… Philip and Harry, apparently. Them. Them alone. No-one else. Which is Andy. HANDY. Which is handy.

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3 years

I find it extraordinary when children are used as the emotive trump card – but the very same kids didn’t factor in earlier decisions. #Resigned #MattHancock

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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Bus driver - bus still at stop but doors closed - watched me run up to his ugly vehicle and, knowing there wasn’t another bus till 1am, chose not to let me on. Woman. On her own. Till 1am. Some people simply shouldn’t work with the public.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

Parents complaining about #lockdown - with digs at ‘childfree’ - are a joy. Sure, some of us are battling loneliness, depression, anxiety, stress, poverty & fear TOTALLY ON OUR OWN, but, yes, of course it’s worse for you - with your family around you. OF COURSE IT’S WORSE FOR YOU

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

So *I’m* clear… *I* have to call 999 to check the policeman is legit? (Hope operator doesn’t accuse me of wasting police time.) *I* have to wave down a bus? (Hope *I* don’t get a driver that doesn’t even stop at stops.) Is there anything else *I* need to do? Be good to know.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

For a few seconds, I'll park my disgust at this society that allows so many people to be homeless - or live in tiny sheds - and instead I'll focus on the wonderful man that is Lou Macari. He's changing lives. And that is beautiful.

BBC Radio 5 Live

@bbc5live

3 years

Lou Macari runs a homeless shelter in Stoke-on-Trent, but when Covid-19 came along the former footballer was forced to shut it down. With 46 residents with nowhere to go, he came up with this solution. Read more from his interview with @StephenNolan

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3 years

I’m allowing you one lil’ peek at the new flat... This is the lift. 🧡🧡🧡

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1 year

@Claire_Tem @MissPotkin 😘 Prize goes to ‘knife and fork’, though

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

Want some good news, Twitter? I GOT THE GORGEOUS FLAT!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🥳🥳🥳🍆 I want you all* to visit!!!!! *not one of you** **okay, one of you...

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4 years

The Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford affair. I hate the photos. Haven’t seen one where he’s looking at her as she looks at him. 💔

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4 years

Look what I’m having for pudding. Bet I die tonight.

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4 years

Hello, @NUFC - your homophobic fans seem nice.

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4 years

I May Destroy You

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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3 years

Today is my dead mum’s birthday – and tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Childless-living-alone-no-bubble me is going to have quite the weekend. Please send love, lolz, and dick pix to cheer me. Meanwhile, here’s Birthday Beauty Bibi. Xx

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3 years

I don’t like Daddies sauce

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@NickC46

3 years

Best answers retweeted.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

10 months

I have been asking this woman in COMMUNICATIONS to stop emailing me for over a year. Haven’t included her name before. But enough is enough. Here’s a 🧵 for you, @4mediagroupUK . Maybe Fiona or Duncan would like to respond. (Hope okay to include your mention, @AlixFox .)

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3 years

‘Hello? Is that The Weather Girls?’

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1 year

The pips don’t lie

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@ThePopTingz

1 year

Shakira deduced Piqué was cheating on her after she returned from traveling to find that her strawberry jam was eaten. Piqué has never eaten jam in his life.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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3 years

Don’t know why Cat Stevens is trending — but prepare for the drops! He went to school w’ my mum & her siblings; was in a band w’ my uncle (rehearsed in Nan’s front room b4 Uncle got jealous & broke Cat’s nose); &, apparently, was not a little in ❤️ with my mum. Well, look at her.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

I viewed a flat. It’s beautiful. I love it. Please send me the great vibes.* 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 *grow up

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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2 years

It is my dead mum’s birthday. Behold her alive beauty. ❤️

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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4 years

My mum - Bibi - died 32 years ago today. A lifetime ago. She was 40. Almost her lifetime ago. Wonder what ‘old’ her would’ve been like? Apart from cool AF.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

Like a twat out of hell

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@NME

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Meat Loaf denies climate change, claims Greta Thunberg has been “brainwashed”

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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4 years

Someone is tired of top-deckers looking in. #Hove

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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5 years

Okay. What's your favourite joke EVER? Mine? Mickey Mouse is in court. Judge: 'So you want to divorce Minnie because she has big teeth?' Mickey: 'No. I want to divorce Minnie because she's fucking Goofy.'

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8 years

I'm not emotionally-prepared for #beardsfrombelow

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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3 years

You wanna hear something brilliant? I still have some furniture and art to buy – but I have unpacked now (well, one box left) and the flat is absolutely gorgeous. I love her and think she’s going to change my life. 🧡🧡🧡

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3 years

The Eric and Ernie school of training

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3 years

Can eating apples improve your core strength? HAHAHAHAHA! Don’t leave me.

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4 years

Hove today has blown my beautiful mind

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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2 years

It’s today! It’s my special day! I made it! 56! I’m alive! We’re witnessing a miracle! 🥳🥳🥳🍌

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3 years

This time tomorrow I’ll be in the new flat. I’m not going to unpack immediately - that joy can wait - but I will spend approximately 4 hours in a steaming hot bath that I didn’t have to fill by boiling water in a kettle and pans.

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3 years

This is happening – and I could weep.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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1 year

My beautiful mum would have been 75 today. Blows my mind. She died when she was 40 and, for years, didn’t feel ‘around me’. But for the last few weeks she’s felt so present. I don’t know why that is — but I know it feels wonderful. Happy Birthday to the original Bibi Lynch ❤️

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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2 years

This makes me want to vomit. All love and strength to this creature’s daughter.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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3 years

Chatted to the loveliest man at the bus-stop who had admired the flowers I was carrying. Told me he’d been married for 65 years. ‘Oh my God. How? What’s your secret?’ ‘I don’t know. Someone just turned on a switch and I love her.’

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

5 years

Or really bad thrush

So Fain

@sofain

5 years

A look inside a tree that has been struck by lightning.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

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‘He never married and had no children.’ Fuck off. FUCK OFF. If he *had* married/had kids, they’d be named in the obit — so why write this bs line? Are we mentioning everything he never did? ‘He never climbed Everest.’ ‘He never sang Tosca in Swahili.’ ‘He never rang Bibi.’

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

So I’ve found a flat I love... 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

What’s the worst ‘compliment’ you’ve ever had? I’ve had some joint worsts... ‘If you dropped a couple of stone, you’d be a stunner’... ‘You’re a very handsome woman’... (About me, in front of me, on the phone to his dad) ‘I bet she can get them in her mouth’...

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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4 years

I've written about Lockdown. And how bloody tough it can be if you are on your own. Would love you to read the blog. xx

The Lockdown of Bibi Lynch, Aged 54¼ - Bibi Lynch

How’s your Lockdown going? Baking brownies with your toddlers? Hot-kitchen tabling with your partner by day, then sobbing over Normal People with them by night?

bibilynch.com

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

2 years

Putting a giant cock on the box was a poor move

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@thehistoryguy

2 years

John Harvey Kellogg was born today in 1852. He invented Cornflakes in 1878 in the hope that plain food would stop people masturbating.

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My mum died 35 years ago today. How is that even possible? She was 40. She left 7 children and far too many impossible questions. Have never wanted a conversation with her more. 💔 #TheOriginalBibi

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

5 years

Diana Athill wrote me this beautiful letter. Cannot tell you how much I needed to read these words today - and then I read she’d died. Rest in peace, you inspirational woman.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

This will send them over The Edge. #Bono

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@RollingStone

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Bono Posts Song for the People of Italy in Wake of COVID-19

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2 years

There’s no need for that language.

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3 years

All my socks have holes in them. Guess that's better than the other way around.

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6 years

Just did some calf stretches. Those little cows will thank me when they’re taller. Hahahahaha. I’m so alone.

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3 years

It’s lucky he’s pretty

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3 years

“Misogyny is absolutely wrong, whether it’s a man against a woman, or a woman against a man”

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#RuinAMovieQuote You had me at 'chloroform'…

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4 years

I wrote about my experience of Lockdown. I thought I'd be fine with a solo lockdown - I was wrong via @MetroUK

I thought I'd be fine with a solo lockdown - I was wrong

I can’t stop eating or I can’t eat. I can’t stop sleeping or I can’t sleep. I can’t stop crying or I can’t cry. The Lockdown has freaked me right out.

metro.co.uk

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Maybe this is easier to share...

I'm 55, with a successful career — and about to be made homeless - Bibi Lynch

I used to own a home, but a seriesof events made me one of Britain's 'hidden homeless' - and it could happen to anyone

bibilynch.com

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Jack Elsom

@JackElsom

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Rishi Sunak says he will crack down on people who "gang together and cause disorder and disruption"

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4 years

Just coughed and sneezed at the same time. First orgasm this year.

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4 years

I’ve written to Mariella... @guardian

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4 years

Bloke in Co-op just shouted ‘Get your vegan tits out!’ at me. I didn’t. Mainly because he didn’t say ‘please’. Manners cost nothing.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

Another PMQs; another 8,000 mentions of 'families'. You know, @Keir_Starmer , the word 'people' exists: not as sexy or emotive, sure, but accurate and inclusive. Which political party do you suggest those without/not in families vote for? Does one exist? #Pronatalism #AsAMother

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

5 years

I was one of the ‘hidden homeless’ for 10 yrs. The experience was humiliating, debilitating and devastating. It almost destroyed me. So God (doesn’t exist) knows what sleeping on the streets does to a person. Pls RT Bibi Lynch's Sleep Out fundraising page

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

God, I haven't stopped crying. (Except when I put eyeliner and a tight top on — in the hope of chatting up a letting agent.) Thank you all so much. Twitter gets a bad rap — but you have made me feel safe and loved. I've had my cry. And now I'm going to sort this shit. ❤️❤️❤️xxx

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

Before you leave for fireworks and Dubonnet, please let me say a huge thank you. This decade has been brutal to me - but 2019 proved thrilling and I am SO psyched about 2020 and beyond. The shift and excitement is down to many of you. (And my fabulous hair, sure.) TY. Love you x

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

I cannot tell you how much joy finding furniture for this flat brings me. Was without a home for so many years and these bits and pieces - all cheap! - are priceless to me. They make my soul happy. Please meet Moira. I shall be sitting at Moira as I write my book. I could cry.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

2 years

I hate lots of people. Do you? Guested on a radio show once and said I hated someone — and the other guest was all ‘Oh I don’t hate *anyone*!’ Immediately added him to the list.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

4 years

I’m on @Telegraph ’s front page. (Not Princess Anne.) Thank you for beautiful quotes, @gatewaywomen . #Grief #Pronatalism #AsAMother #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek

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@BibiLynch

2 months

Birthday flowers. (I love you, Els.) Birthday Bibi. Birthday horns. IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!! I AM 58!!! OH MY GOD!!! Please send cards, cake, and a flux capacitor. Thank you. Xx

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Dame Bibi Lynch

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2 years

You think this will be bad for single, lives alone, self-employed me? *You’re* the ones who’ll be reading the tweets. (Genuinely upset about getting ‘Rona — truly believed the post that said really attractive people were immune.)

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

Barrowman?

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@RevRichardColes

3 years

Is there anyone nakeder at work than a swimmer (save an artist’s model)? #Olympics

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I regularly called the police out to the fighting/screaming/then silent couple upstairs. Not because I objected to their politics - but because I thought she was going to be killed. Allison Pearson has a history of being a dick.

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3 years

I call this one ‘Unexplained Weight Gain’

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4 years

I know lots of you really want your family Christmas. Me, not so much. I hate Christmas. The only recent Christmas highlight was the big festive lunch when my gay brother said to my other gay brother: ‘Do you remember when Grindr told me you were close by?’ #Lockdown2

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My friend and a group of her friends have formed The Mince Club. Every fortnight one of them hosts a dinner for them all - and the main course has to be a mince dish. Shepherd’s Pie, lasagne, moussaka... I think this is the best thing I’ve ever heard. #TheMinceClub #FirstRule

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

I think I speak for everyone when I ask: WHEN WILL THIS FUCKING PANDEMIC BE OVER?! MY LIFE IS FUCKING SHIT AND IT NEEDS TO NOT BE FUCKING SHIT! Thank you for your time.

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Dame Bibi Lynch

@BibiLynch

3 years

Haven’t watched #TheUndoing yet. Which is naughty because I do heart Hugh Grant. He doesn’t ❤️ me, though. That might be because, about 88 years ago, we were at the same party and I made my friend push me so I landed boobs first on him. That shit works in the movies.

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4 years

I’m in today’s @telegraph . The piece is a tale of flat ownership, the 2008 recession, losing everything, being ‘hidden homeless’ for 10 years, getting my life back on track, and @LloydsBank derailing it. Please read/share. Xx @glassdoorlondon @shelter

I'm 55, with a successful career — and about to be made homeless

Bibi Lynch used to own a home, but a series of events made her one of Britain's 'hidden homeless' — and it could happen to anyone

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@BibiLynch

4 years

Can’t get out of bed. Can’t find another flat. (For many reasons I really can’t.) Can’t cope. I had 10 years of homelessness and it’s happening again. This is devastating to me.

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1 year

This country is making me ill. Like, really ill.

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4 years

How ridiculous is this? I actually gasped. 🧡 #Hove

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4 years

It didn’t take long for the ‘we’re in this together’ to be usurped, did it? Can the #AsAMother lot just not help themselves? WTF is wrong with them? They want the monopoly on EVERYTHING?!

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@BibiLynch

3 years

Is there a word for that anxious period between getting a new phone and when you inevitably damage it?

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4 years

Drank last night. Drank today at lunch. Drinking tonight. White wine, too. Good luck, everyone.

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3 years

Stop blushing. I don't know how I'd have got through the pandemic without the friends I made on Twitter

I don't know how I'd have got through the pandemic without the friends I made on Twitter

Twitter gets a bad rap, but it can be a warm, caring space where true friendships can be formed - and we need them more than ever right now

www.telegraph.co.uk

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4 years

Viewed a flat I'd rather kill myself than live in. Felt v low. Bought myself a baked plum and ricotta cheesecake — and then saw a van with 'Ant & Decorator' painted on it. Feel bit better.

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2 years

OH. MY. GOD. SCAFFOLDER IS REPEATEDLY SINGING THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 'MAMA' BIT. Which is ironic because I, too, am just about to kill a man.

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1 year

Just found out today is International Day of Happiness. Almost choked on my Sertraline.

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3 years

Had to leave a shop because they were playing Queen.

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4 years

Think I’m regretting writing the grief feature. Getting lots of ‘my heart breaks for you’ comments. I didn’t want pity - just people to know what it’s like and to be less bigoted against the childless. Perhaps the piece should’ve been a polemic - perhaps it was too polite.

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5 years

Me being fabulous for @GuardianLabs 😉 ‘I’m 53 and my face finally makes sense’: how I learned to stop worrying and age gracefully

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1 year

Been feeling so low for weeks now — but actually leaving the flat during daylight and seeing *this* has lifted my freckly soul 🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡

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What are depression/suicide numbers of the childless not by choice? Because as well as ‘living’ with the visceral pain of not having our babies, of our grief being disenfranchised, we have to suffer this ‘othering’. Yes, my therapist is on speed dial — because of cunts like this

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It’s so important for women to start families. With very few exceptions— women that don’t start families transform into angry, bitter, maladapted, shrieking sociopaths with their therapists on speed dial. Fighting biology never ends well. Women are meant to nurture.

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I have a new love. Nathan. Here is Nathan. Nathan needs a rug, I know. #Nathan

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