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Richard Coles

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4 years

Six months today since David died. Someone, kindly, asked me if I’m getting over it. No. It’s not that sort of thing. It’s more like losing a limb. You adapt, rather than recover. And limp.

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4 years

I cycled to mum’s to fill the bird feeder. I looked through the french windows to where she sits, but she wasn’t moving, the Daily Telegraph scattered around her. ”Mum!” I said, knocking on the window, “MUM!” And she opened her eyes and mouthed ‘fooled you’.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

It’s my birthday: fifty-eight, widowed, lonely, locked-down, straitened, and fat - but NO ONE can take my kippers.

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2 years

RIP David Coles, died two years ago this night. Loved, missed; I still can’t work the central heating. Here he is doing roly polys at Milton Keynes shopping centre because I dared him.

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3 years

Don’t worry about saving Christmas. Christmas can take care of itself. In fact don’t worry about anything except doing right by the people you love and care for and who live and care for you - and try not to be a nincompoop.

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4 years

It was @RevDavidColes ’ funeral today. Thanks to everyone who came and contributed and took care of us. And to everyone here in Twitter for your kindness and support.

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Richard Coles

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3 months

Mum died last night. Here she is on her wedding day, laughing. No mummy’s boy (hello) could have wised for more. RIP.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Bumped into a friend. We talked about D and how much we loved him and how good he was at sorting out those parts of my life in which I am deficient. Then she said, “you know, he’d never have let you out in that shirt and jumper”. First proper laugh since widowhood arrived.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

To see mum. I asked if she was frightened about getting the virus. “Not really. I’ve lived my life. And there’s only so much Flog It one can bear”.

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Richard Coles

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1 year

It’s #WorldAIDSDay and I remember sitting in the Chelsea and Westminster in 1994 with my friend Steve wondering how long his boyfriend Michael, just diagnosed with AIDS, had to live. They’re coming to stay this weekend.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Could the King, within his powers of course, FIRMLY ENCOURAGE the calling of a General Election, for the good of the country?

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2 years

“I asked you all, whatever your religion, to pray for me on the day of my Coronation - to pray that God would give me wisdom and strength to carry out the promises that I should then be making. I have been uplifted and sustained by the knowledge that your prayers were with me.”

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Richard Coles

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6 years

Oh gosh I think I love BTS.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Here’s a lesson in widowcraft: cook proper dinners even if it’s just you.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Police called this evening, sympathetic and professional, and my hateful correspondence is now evidence. Thank you @NorthantsPolice

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Utterly destroyed now.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

My lovely sister in law @lozaamandine died this afternoon with COVID19. She made lots of people very happy, not least @RevDavidColes , with whom she went on extravagant and unauthorised expeditions to her beloved North Africa. RIP, darling woman.

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Just vaccinated with the AZ vaccine by my GP Charles, volunteering his weekend, whom I have known since childhood, when we both went to Sunnylands Kindergarten in Kettering, where we were taught by Mrs Gilbert, mother of Prof Sarah Gilbert, who developed the AZ vaccine.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Have I got this right? After seven years of training, fifteen years in ministry, four degrees, a Fellowship of King’s College London, a university Chancellorship and a respectable showing on Masterchef I am officially unskilled? #underthethreshold

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Ten years since London 2012. I remember watching the opening ceremony and thinking “we’ve cracked it — progressive, inclusive, outward looking, and everyone’s cheering”. It’s the most wrong I’ve been since predicting in 1987 that London house prices could not rise any higher.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

“He has just gone into the next room” Check. “I know that my redeemer liveth” I know. “Grief is the price we pay for love”. It sure is. I JUST WANT HIM TO WALK THROUGH THE ******* DOOR.

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Richard Coles

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3 years

My kind of post-match commentary.

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4 years

A small but savoury victory. Man pushes in front of me at the barriers at St Pancras, so I switch queues. Alas, the child in front of him has a ticket that doesn’t work and he tries to push in in front of me again but I effortlessly body block him and he loses his place twice.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Three years ago today. How things change.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Called a parishioner, locked down on his own. We chatted for a bit and then he said, “is there anything I can do to help? Do let me know if there is”. He is 93.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Grief makes you stupid: I went to the shop and came out with three kinds of parmesan, I bought an extravagant number of death certificates, I stayed up till 1.30 watching a documentary about the Queen’s poached eggs.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Ordained fifteen years ago today. In that time I have solved few crimes but done a lot of photocopying #realitycheck

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Richard Coles

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4 years

I just found this of ⁦ @RevDavidColes ⁩ gardening.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

I’m often struck by how many who say they don’t consume BBC output in fact do, in one form or another - the FA Cup, local radio, CBeebies, online, the news etc - and it costs them per day about an eighth of the cost a cappuccino at Costa. I think that’s good value.

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Richard Coles

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6 years

Do you ever lie awake at night fearing we’re walking into a tyranny of untaxed young men in t shirts controlling ruthless and exploitative monopolies who think they’re the good guys because they came to work on a skateboard?

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Said Compline tonight with @RevDavidColes , who is lying in church tonight. If it is your custom and tradition please remember him in your prayers.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Good morning. I am returned from the Black Mountains, which sounds like a metaphor but actually is the case.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

I’m very sorry to say that @RevDavidColes has died. He had been ill for a while. Thanks to the brilliant teams who looked after him at @KettGeneral . Funeral details to follow. “The Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended”.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Anyone else sleeping exceptionally badly at the moment?

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Looking for socks I found David’s nurse bling, which did me in a bit.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

My last assembly and the children at school sang me a song to the chorus of Don’t Leave Me This Way #stifledsobs

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Richard Coles

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4 years

In a massive vindication of my diet my trousers fell down outside the Co-op.

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Lady in front of me at tills has bought whisky and a mallet.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Facebook memory popped up from six years ago. I came home from a work trip to find D had installed this and was playing sea shanties to get me in an aquatic mood.

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Richard Coles

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1 year

Difficult, I imagine, if you are public sector worker using a Foodbank, or relying on in-work benefits, to be lectured on pay restraint by people who turned our economy into a casino.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

99.99999% loveliness from people and then a small but lively correspondence from Christians who wish me to know that D is in hell and I will follow. It’s like the Khmer Rouge suddenly popping up in a stream of condolence.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

I’m coming off social media for a while. À bientôt!

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Watching #Heartstopper and it’s SO beautiful!

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Richard Coles

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2 years

I had to decide to withdraw life support from a loved one and my sympathies are with all who care for #ArchieBattersbee and his family. I felt deeply conflicted, as someone responsible for care, and as someone who really didn’t want to let go. Lets give them all some room.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

After twelve years of @RevDavidColes choosing my clothes I FINALLY get to choose his #burialoutfit

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Richard Coles

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4 years

I just found his knitting and it has unravelled me #grief

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Tarry no longer! Toward thine heritage Haste on thy way, and be of right good cheer; Go each day onward on thy pilgrimage; Think how short time thou shalt abide thee here. Thy place is built above the starre's clear; None earthly palace wrought in so stately wise...

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Richard Coles

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4 years

I will fight to the last breath in my body the pernicious doctrine that it’s not worth cooking for one.

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Eric from the cricket club came to see me a while ago. “I think I love Lizzie but she’s emigrated to Australia. What should I do?” “You know what to do,” he flew to Sydney, missing a critical United away game. We fitted the wedding in today, last service before lockdown.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

If he doesn’t go, every time he appears in public everyone will do the Pink Panther theme #durhamdurham #durhamdurham

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2 years

I have to attend compulsory BBC Impartiality Training next week. I was thinking about this as I passed the George Orwell statue outside Broadcasting House this morning.

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2 years

I must go down to the sea again, To the lonely sea and sky, And sniff the breeze and try to dodge the jobbies bobbing by.

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2 years

My degree, in Theology from King’s College London, massively reduced my earning potential, but it was the making of me.

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Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'

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Richard Coles

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5 months

Today I complete my fourth year of widowerhood. It’s not a journey, it’s a slog, but I now have 1,460 days of learning to live in a world without David. Keep going, right? Life will continue to offer you surprises, and not all of them will necessitate a GP appointment.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Goodbye 2019, annus horribilis for me, but thanks to @RutlandCycling I will be accelerating into 2020, and I wish everyone a magnificent new year.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Remembering #DesmondTutu : “I would not worship a God who is homophobic… I have to tell you, I cannot keep quiet when people are penalised for something about which they can do nothing… I oppose such injustice with the same passion that I opposed apartheid.”

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Born on the kitchen table in a house called Mon Repos. Died at Windsor Castle just short of a century later. Condolences, and the assurance of prayers, to all who mourn. Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon him.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

A friend found this, my first appearance on telly in 1982. Looks like Wurzel Gummidge, sounds like Jacob Rees Mogg, smells like Greenham Common. Those were the days!

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Richard Coles

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2 years

It is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Margaret Rutherford. Her father murdered her grandfather, a clergyman, with a chamber pot, she was the last woman born in the 19th C to win an Oscar, and her cousin was Tony Benn.

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Richard Coles

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1 year

Well, it’s not going to win any prizes but it is ALL MY OWN WORK.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

New greeter at church this morning.

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Richard Coles

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10 months

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

It costs us c£70k to discount a house for Right To Buy. 40% end up as buy-to-lets, with a significant cost to us in housing benefit. Why not use those £70ks to build new social housing for genuinely affordable rents? Fairer, and better value for money in the long run.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Staying with my two of my oldest friends. Arrived, ate a bowl of pasta e fagioli, lay on the sofa, insisted on a terrible film, immediately fell asleep, woke up with the credits.

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Very sorry to hear of the death of Helen McCrory, such a brilliant actor; heartfelt condolences to Damian Lewis, their children, and all who loved her.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Paddington 2 is the best film I have seen in years.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

I have found my beret, that @RevDavidColes confiscated on grounds of the likelihood of ridicule.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Gordon Brown in the Guardian today: “For the first time since the welfare state was created, it is the food bank, not social security, that is now our safety net..”

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2 years

Oh gosh this is lovely.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

The PM today tweets her congratulations to Italy’s new far right Prime Minister but a month ago wasn’t sure if the President of France was an ally or not?

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Richard Coles

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2 years

My friend just found this on his phone. 1986, people. Stripes were HUGE.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Tough but necessary accommodation to new circumstances. Had to say goodbye to Gus and Aud and H, who have gone to new homes. Structural failure of upper lip, but keeping Daisy and Pong, and know the others could not have gone to better billets with family and friends.

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3 years

Seven years ago today, according to Facebook. David and me on the Mount of Olives.

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1 year

David’s birthday today - he would have been forty six. Here’s how a swanky hotel made his fortieth special.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Never did the clocks going forward mean less.

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4 years

Excellent antidote to Christmas grief: a seven year old tearing into her stocking.

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4 years

Here’s the sort of practical help a widow wants: some friends have offered to start a WhatsApp group to which I will post pictures of my proposed outfit for them to approve, improve or reject.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

New awkward moment for our times: the few seconds of resting bitch face between saying goodbye to everyone in a zoom meeting and figuring out how to leave it.

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4 years

Baptist lady in Kettering gave me her no-longer-required eBike in a deeply appreciated ecumenical gesture #empoweringthechurchuniversal #thankyoucarol

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4 years

My friend @Philippa_Perry made me these Gay Owls pots in memory of David, who was very fond of owls, and I am made up.

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1 year

Paul with a sausage. Lovely doubled. In a sometimes mean and brittle world he was always warm and generous. #RipPaulOgrady

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Call Mum: “Has your jab been sorted out yet?” “Has yours?” “I’m not a priority, you are”. “You’re a priority to me. And I fully intend to let the Secretary of State for Health know about it”.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Woke up at six after a dream which ended with me breaking into the basement of a house in Belgrave Square and there having a vicious fight with Dominic Cummings using the Anglican martial art in which we were both adepts.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

A Facebook reminder today of D and Aud from five years ago.

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Richard Coles

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1 year

Delighted to discover that if you successfully defend your PhD thesis in Finland you get a sword and a special hat.

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3 years

On the phone to mum I ask, “any news?” “Yes, yesterday I went on my pogo stick to see the Maharani of Timbuktu but she was in her nightie so I came home. OF COURSE I HAVEN’T GOT ANY NEWS”.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

Put tulips he planted on David’s grave today. When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain, Jesus' touch can call us back to life again, Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

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Richard Coles

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3 years

Birthday breakfast; should help limit the number I shall celebrate henceforth.

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Richard Coles

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4 years

The horrible letters: they don’t touch me. I am right now an expert in pain, the real kind, and these are paper darts among the incoming, and just leave me mildly curious about the state of mind of the writer.

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4 years

Do you want to see a baby owl sleeping?

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2 years

Noticed a young man on the tube doing crochet so I smiled at him in a vicarish way but then saw he was actually untangling his headphones.

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3 years

Just pressed the door button for the loo on the train which slowly slid open to reveal a lady of riper years in circumstances which required no explanation. She looked at me, I looked at her, we both laughed, and the door slid back. I am now holding on till St Pancras.

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2 years

Queen’s pony, Emma *blubs*

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Richard Coles

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4 years

My first full day of widowhood begins with #widmin

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Still the best view from a British train.

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3 years

When we were in Kintyre on our holidays, D would weave things and I would read things, we would walk the dogs, one of us would cook things, then we’d drink whisky in front of the fire. Could go all day without exchanging more than a couple of words. Bliss.

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Richard Coles

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5 years

I suppose one way round the Brexit problem would be for Priti Patel to sell Britain to someone she meets on holiday.

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Richard Coles

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4 months

Just a reminder that Priti Patel, newly self-appointed champion of Subpostmasters, presided over a Home Office which sought to extend the powers of the Official Secrets Act. Post Office tried to use it against the Sub-postmasters … (1/2)

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Richard Coles

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3 years

This is England.

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Richard Coles

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2 years

Very sorry to hear Robbie Coltrane has died. We shared a dressing room once and he had the biggest pants I have ever seen, which he wore with tremendous flair. We were friends from then on.

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