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Jane Hill

1 year

Liz Truss at the Coronation like an actor who appeared in one episode of Doctor Who attending Comic Cons for the rest of their life.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 months

Incidentally Sara Cox has got it, hasn’t she? I mean that ability just to chat to listeners and sound like one of us. She is doing a wonderful job right now under horribly sad circumstances. A great tribute to Steve Wright.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

This has made me laugh more than anything else today.

TJ Cooney 🚀

@TJ_Cooney

4 years

Sorry but watching astronauts sped up on the moon will never get old

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Jane Hill

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4 years

If we’re now allowed to sit on a park bench with one other person, two metres apart, I guess at least it’s a much-needed boost for the British spy industry.

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Jane Hill

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1 year

I think the latest soon-to-be Mrs Rupert Murdoch has probably timed it just right, like the person who hovers near a chair just before the music stops.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

Face masks also stop random men coming up to women and saying “smile, love, it might never happen,” so I’m going to wear one for the rest of my life.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 months

I have found the worst Christmas foodstuff.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

@callybeaton Honestly, random women telling each other they like their coats and/or shoes is the best thing ever. I always do it if I can.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

23 days

Happy 1st anniversary to my most successful tweet.

Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Liz Truss at the Coronation like an actor who appeared in one episode of Doctor Who attending Comic Cons for the rest of their life.

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Jane Hill

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2 years

Two underestimated things that Steve Wright is really good at. 1) short, well-researched interviews that are generous to the guest. 2) reading out listener letters & dedications with pace and warmth. These don’t seem like big things but you really notice when they’re done badly.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 years

Oh, M&S, who exactly are you trying to make clothes for?

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

2 years

Today is my 19th soberversary, despite the recent efforts of a waiter to scupper it by accidentally serving me a gin cocktail. Must remember to give myself due credit for staying sober during a neverending pandemic.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 years

Watching a programme on BBC1 & trying to work out where the man ends and the desk starts.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

This wasn’t Christmas. This was from earlier this year. I wish it HAD been Christmas because it would have been a strong entry in @rhodri ’s #DuvetKnowItsChristmas But hoping someone has a similar jenga room tonight.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

I’m a little bit behind on Only Murders in the Building, in that I’ve just watched Season 1, episode 1. But this outfit is EVERYTHING.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

Is anyone else finding RIGHT NOW to be the most difficult time? We’re almost through, but now I’m extra anxious about having to emerge from hibernation and get on with life. Like I’ve been living in suspended animation and very soon I’ll get woken up... 1/

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Jane Hill

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5 months

In my usual bed, but I’ve had to bring the heated clothes dryer into my bedroom to make more floor space so you know I’m going to wake up and think there’s a hooded stranger looming over me. #duvetknowitschristmas

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

I’ve been watching this on repeat.

The Sooty Show

@Sootyandco

3 years

Happy Pancake Day, everybody!

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Jane Hill

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1 year

@jamesecook The one who pressed the wrong button and exploded a planet.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

In all the controversy about whether a “staycation” is when you stay in your actual house or go somewhere else in this country, why aren’t we addressing the real issue? We don’t use the word “vacation” in Britain. Surely it should be called a “holistay” instead.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 months

AS Byatt changed my life… in her unsung role as Mrs Duffy, Admissions Tutor at UCL. I applied to do English there from 1982, and got turned down without an interview. My headmistress, who taught me English and whose fave pupil I was, rang her. 1/?

AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87

The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed

www.theguardian.com

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 months

What I’ve learned from the Gregg Wallace discourse is that he met his second wife when she asked him about celery on Twitter and he met his third wife when she asked him about rhubarb on Twitter, so women: don’t ever ask Gregg Wallace about long stick-shaped veg on here.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

2 years

Let’s celebrate International Women’s Day by not asking women to work for free at events to mark International Women’s Day.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 months

Thoughts with Bobbie Pryor, too, carrying on doing proper travel bulletins amidst all this.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

7 months

I spent a while trying to work out why Craig is dressed as an 18th century Methodist preacher before I realised he was probably some kind of Harry Potter character. #strictly

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

I’ve just checked and LinkedIn is still functioning, so if you’re missing the buzz of Facebook, why not go and congratulate a random stranger on four years as a resources enhancement consultant.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

I sincerely hope that Paul Merton or Gyles Brandreth will be asked by @BBCRadio4 to do a one-minute tribute to Nicholas Parsons without deviation, repetition or hesitation. I look forward to hearing this on PM this evening - this must happen.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

@richardosman I had a bar of this the other day and it was like sophisticated grown-up Caramac. Very nice.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 months

So: a very fine novelist indeed but also let’s hear it for her work as an Admissions Tutor. #asbyatt

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 years

Our bathroom scales need a new battery but I’m in no hurry to change it because it’s quite nice to stand on the scales and see the display just say “LOW.”

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 months

Spare a thought for all the first wives who had to die so that we could have Hallmark Christmas movies.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

Our local chippie is still doing non-contact deliveries so this is my birthday tea.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 years

Rare chance to see The Bourne Identity on ITV4 at 9pm.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 months

I used to travel from Euston a LOT and I had a list of places I’d go to wait out the chaos because it is unquestionably the worst of all London termini to be delayed in. Cafes at Wellcome Collection, Friends’ Centre & UCL, the veggie curry buffets on Drummond Street…

Metro

@MetroUK

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BREAKING: Chaos has erupted at London Euston station after all trains have been cancelled due to a fault on the line Our thoughts go out to anyone trying to get home for Christmas

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

Also: imagine Keith in everyday life, trying not to cry - at a parents’ evening, at the vaccination centre, at a supermarket checkout. #PotteryThrowdown

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Started this entirely hand-sewn English paper piecing quilt at the beginning of lockdown. It’s been in a cupboard for most of the last year. 2023 will be the year I finish it.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

@MooseAllain Once in an editorial meeting at work I said “baby owners” when my brain failed to access the word “parents.”

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

2 months

@sophie_gadd This spelling is too good. It should say: Day 3 - Costworld/Stone Hedge.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

It’s my 18 year soberversary today, which means that my sobriety is now old enough to buy its own drinks.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

If my local John Lewis closes, it would honestly feel like a bereavement. It’s my happy place. But it’s partly my fault: I rarely buy anything. I mostly just touch the soft furnishings.

John Lewis to close more stores as Covid crisis wipes out profits

Department store group records £517m loss and does not expect to reopen all stores in April when retail lockdown ends

www.theguardian.com

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

If he wanted Downing Street staff to feel thanked and appreciated for their work, why didn’t he just organise a weekly clap?

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

@rhiannonlucyc Open plan kitchen/living rooms, when it’s the only living room there is. The smell of fried onions seeping into the sofa and cushions. Having to clear up the kitchen before you relax, instead of just closing the door on the mess...

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 years

@lauralexx When driving to work and the roads are suddenly empty, I first assume it’s the Rapture before I realise it’s half-term.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

@sarahvanpelt @LucyMangan I have Very Strong Feelings about this. Also I find it difficult to eat them before Good Friday itself because of upbringing reasons.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

@LucyENichol Noooo! I thought only people on American TV did this. I’m a toothpaste dribbler so I have to do it with my head leaning over the basin or else it’s carnage.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

Bargain of the day: beautiful leather gloves for six quid a pair.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 months

Coming soon: Toby Jones as Ian Hislop in a hard-hitting ITV drama about the impact of the hard-hitting ITV drama about the Post Office scandal.

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

5 months

🔥 @PrivateEyeNews ' Ian Hislop vs Sir Jake Berry.🔥 IH: "Why didn't you act sooner? You kept saying 'this is too difficult'. Suddenly you can do it all in one day." JB: That is manifestly nonsense. IH: Why did you give [Vennells] a CBE in 2019? JB: You keep talking over me. ~AA

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

I’ve just given blood and there are no Clubs. Having to make go with hairdresser biscuits. Appalling scenes.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 months

It’s my 21st soberversary today. My sobriety is now old enough to buy its own drinks even in America. If I’m ever asked to name a book that changed my life, I won’t say something fancy like War & Peace. I shall say Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Control Alcohol.

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@janehill64

1 year

I’ve been out for a meal with my sister. As we paid the bill at 8pm the waitress asked if we had anything nice planned for the evening. We were taken aback at the thought that people do things after 8pm.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 years

I’ve just done that thing where you smile at someone in the street because you know them & then realise you don’t actually know them but it’s Biggins.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

I want to praise everyone at BBC local radio who is currently doing great work on local news - particularly with the local elections coming up - in the most difficult circumstances. Good quality local journalism is essential for democracy.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

We’ve just spent way too much time laughing at this.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

Earlier today I posted a piece from the Guardian about the perimenopause. I have now updated a piece that I wrote for @standardissueUK five years ago on the same subject: The Fleece of Despair

The Fleece of Despair

Every idea needs a Medium

link.medium.com

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Like one of those families who started doing TikToks in lockdown and now the parents are insisting they carry on even though the kids want to move out. #Eurovision 🇦🇱

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

Maybe I don’t normally appreciate them. But aren’t the dandelions looking lovely this year?

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

At the start of all this nonsense I started doing some hand-sewn English paper piecing patchwork. It’s now out of control.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

I retweeted this earlier but now I want to give the appropriate credits. Written by Camille Rainville Directed by Paul McLean Narrated by Cynthia Nixon Published by #GirlsGirlsGirlsMag

The Women's Organisation

@TheWomensOrg

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What messages are we giving women? “Just be a lady, they say” Powerful @CynthiaNixon

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@janehill64

5 years

As a special birthday treat, a passing dog has just pushed its snout up my dress, sniffed around a bit then licked my tights. 55 and I’ve still got it.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 years

I’ve got a ready meal tonight that takes 8 minutes in the microwave. EIGHT MINUTES. That’s virtually cooking.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 months

Changed my life because UCL did an exchange to Dartmouth in US where I started doing radio and also got to know Luigi Bonomi, who later was my literary agent. Years later I met AS Byatt at a UCL and *she remembered the call from my headmistress.*

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Strong words for any fans of the BBC’s popular property development show.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

2 years

@MicheleQuirke Every bit as popular and essential as they make out. If moving house, you take tea bags, kettle, mugs and milk with you so you can make a cuppa as soon as you’re in. It’s that important.

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1 year

I know I bang on about the Post Office scandal a lot, but it’s *so* appalling, and such a clear miscarriage of justice - and yet we’re still nowhere near proper compensation or people being held to account, and hopefully a big TV drama can really make a difference.

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#PostOfficeScandal Drama series on @ITV starts filming for @PostOffice Horizon Scandal and features Toby Jones as Alan Bates 👇

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 months

I bang on a lot about this case both on here and to my @Marjon_Journos students - I really hope this big primetime drama (starts tomorrow) gets it more traction and finally a satisfactory result for the victims. It’s an appalling and almost unbelievable story.

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@ITV

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One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history ✉️ Mr Bates vs The Post Office starts 1st January at 9pm on ITV1 and @ITVX 👏 #MrBates

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

7 years

Thought they were wearing wizard hats & sitting behind a table of Ferrero Rocher, at first glance.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

This is such a joyous thing from Fern Brady.

Charlie Ensor

@charlieensor

1 year

Thank you @FernBrady and thank you @taskmaster . I'm so used to seeing TV shows that make out those with #Autism to be broken. It's just so positive to see a show that accommodates for an autistic person's needs. I can barely imagine a public world where I don't have to mask...

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Jane Hill

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5 years

@tinytwink I made a colleague so scared while giving him a lift to the office that he got out of my car while it was still moving.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

When you’re sorting out your kitchen cupboards and you can’t remember what this utensil does. @SaltramHouseNT

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Jane Hill

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8 months

It me.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

Devon Twitter - I’m moving to your lovely county soon. Thrilled to say I’ll be teaching journalism at @marjonuni and moving to Plymouth. Can’t wait to live near the sea again. Currently I live closer to outer space than the coast, so it’s a big deal for me.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 years

There should be some kind of system to let non-parents know that it’s half term, so they can make informed decisions about whether to try to have lunch somewhere on the South Bank.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

5 years

Meanwhile over on my “Jane Hill Comedian” Facebook page.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

3 years

Proposal to rename the Bourne films so you can rememberwhich one’s which. Bourne: Paris Apartment Fight Bourne: Moscow Car Chase Bourne: Waterloo Station Sniper Bourne: No Matt Damon Bourne: Paddington Basin Foot Chase

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

As well as helping to save lives, face masks are also effective at hiding jowls, triple chins and neck wattle, so I’m an enthusiastic adopter.

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@janehill64

6 years

@jennyeclair I love this advert so much and I love you for doing it. Such a breakthrough to hear a fabulous older woman talking frankly about this stuff we deal with. Xx

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 years

@SarahMillican75 @DottyWinters @daisylevvers A new tin is such a treat. My big Christmas treat is that I cooked the dinner yesterday so today I have bubble & squeak & cold sausages & piccalilli & warmed-up bread sauce for lunch. Best meal of the season.

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@janehill64

6 months

My favourite Christmas photo. Me as a young lad of ten, with my lovely dad, stagily admiring the nativity scene. The reason it’s so posed: we realised didn’t have any film for the camera on Christmas Day so we recreated key scenes a week later.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 years

Portillo’s jacket. BBC2, now.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Prince Louis has disappeared. Suspect he’s been taken to crèche to do fuzzy felt Bible stories and drink squash.

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Jane Hill

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4 years

Cloud that looks like a UFO - any cloud experts who can tell he what sort of cloud this is, lease?

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Still waiting… #Eurovision

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

2 years

Excellent Werner Herzog interview (with Mark Kermode) just now on Radio 4. I was not prepared for the revelation that Herzog has watched Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

10 months

Remarkable timing to die just as the tributes flood in.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

2 years

Cripes. I’ve bought a flat. Looks like I’m staying in Plymouth.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 months

Did my first gig in ages tonight. Wore an orange jacket in tribute to Diane, and my directional glasses that I bought last year but wasn’t sure that I could carry off. Oh, also, I’m still funny. Phew.

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

4 years

This is very moving, and as frank as you’d expect⁩. “My life is not over. But it feels like it is sometimes”the Rev Richard Coles on losing his partner

‘My life is not over. But it feels like it is sometimes’: the Rev Richard Coles on losing his...

The former pop star’s world was shattered when his partner of 12 years died. Three months on, he talks about the ‘madness’ of grief

www.theguardian.com

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8 years

Staying at a friend's house. The cats are trying desperately to get into my bedroom.

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5 years

Found this old photograph of when I was a boy in a dress & went on Mastermind.

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3 years

Jono: I’m making sticky toffee pudding but instead of sticky it’s going to be furry, and instead of toffee I’m using earwigs, and I’m not making a pudding, I’m making a car. #MasterchefTheProfessionals

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Next thing I know, she rings my headmistress and offers me a place for 1982, undercutting my lowest offer. Amazing. Ironically I didn’t get the grades needed. Cue another phone call and they agreed to take me. 3/?

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1 year

Zadok the Priest is an absolute banger. That intro that goes on for even longer than Hotel California then those magical first notes… #Coronation

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Jane Hill

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3 years

I have treated myself to this gorgeous book. It is an absolute joy. @Elain540 @C20Society

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1 year

@LBFlyawayhome Twist me and turn me and show me the elf. I looked in the water and there saw… MYSELF.

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3 years

@jennyeclair That really isn’t what I thought it was before I expanded the photo.

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1 year

Among the various shocking scenes in the Boris Becker documentary, there’s a brief moment where a young Boris opens a jar of Gold Blend instant coffee and puts it in a cafetière.

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3 months

Oh look, it’s me. Tonight. BBC Two - Mastermind, 2023/24, Episode 25

BBC Two - Mastermind, 2023/24, Episode 25

This semi-final's subjects include Charlie Chaplin, Happy Valley and Billie Jean King.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

1 year

Cripes. My little Liz Truss tweet has made it to ⁦ @caitlinmoran ⁩’s Coronation piece in The Times.

Did that really happen? — Caitlin Moran on the coronation

Friday, May 5One day before the coronation, 10amI’m on Oxford Street, from “on the Monopoly board, and also in London” fame, walking to a hair appointment. Or

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Jane Hill

@janehill64

6 years

I want it placed on record that if ever I were to be the older woman rediscovering my sensuality on #strictly I’d like it to be with Aljaz and not Anton.

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@janehill64

5 years

DONE.

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