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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Treated myself to a little day out today, it was so worth it! If you have time to visit the Andy Warhol - Portraits of America exhibition at the MK Gallery, I highly recommend it. “The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.” ~ Andy Warhol

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Happy slightly premature St Patrick’s day, lovers 💚🤍🧡

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Tonight’s memory on repeat: That time I offered to cover an elderly gent’s shopping because he’d forgotten his wallet. Only £20 or so. Until he boshed 15 lucky dips for that night’s lotto on his bill. And I let him. 🤡

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Friday nights are for dancing. Saturday mornings are for resting sore feet, fuzzy heads and wondering where the hell your voice has gone! Quadrophenia night was a hit! X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Happy birthday to the song that makes my heart go skippity skip every time I hear that lolling, lullaby intro… This song has bought me so much joy, and will continue to, forever more! 🤍 #SmallFaces #Afterglow

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Fantastic weekend with friends complete. Small detour to pay our respects, now homeward bound 🖤

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Very much subscribing to the theory that we are responsible for creating our own joy, and my calendar is beginning to reflect that. Valuable time, with valued people, at every available opportunity. I shall enter my 40’s with wonderful memories in the making ❤️ x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

20 years ago I received the greatest valentines gift I could ever have imagined… Happy 20th birthday Derryn, my real-life little baby love! ❤️✨🤍✨❤️

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Bef M-F 🎶 @finemoz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

How did Mr Tumble sneakily recreating the cover to Black Sabbath's debut album escape me for so many years?

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Somehow, seemingly overnight, we went from this to this… Happy sweet 16 to my baby girl Keavey! Articulate, bold, beautiful and fierce. Friday 13th may be unlucky for some but look what I was presented with… 🌸🩷🌸

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I know I’m biased because she’s my babiest baby but she is gorgeous 💕🪩

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Littlest turns 16 next week, so she’s throwing a house party tonight… She’s transformed the gaff! 🤩

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Horrendous, horribly vivid nightmare - the first in a very long time. Sleeping with the light on aged 39 + ¾ is quite something! X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Spotted this morning n the school run… Darwin Award in the making 😱

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#ThursdayThrowback Cinbad, Little Pat, Sissy One and Siany. Really doesn’t look like our kid was having a nice time on that boat tour of The Needles that time… 📸 Big Pat

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Digbeth bound to see nice people and dance to good music… 💃🏼🪩🍻👭🏼

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today would have been the 78th birthday of the late, great, Stephen Peter Marriott. Very few artists before or since have come close to his vocal prowess. A magnificent talent, and a prodigious legacy. Always remembered x 🩶🕯️🩶 📸 Fin Costello

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

January 102th. Beginning to strongly suspect have died and am stuck in purgatory. Guardian Angel is bald from stress and has a drink problem now. If anyone has seen my will to live bowling about the place hissing and spitting, please steer it this way. Much obliged! X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Absolutely in love with this Mary Quant double pin collar set… Fingers crossed she arrives for next week’s trip to Digbeth. 🤍🖤🤍

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Anyone else find it difficult to delete expired digital tickets/passes in their “wallet”? In a world without paper tickets these serve as reminders of amazing times with brilliant people and I don’t want to delete them! X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

All week I’ve sworn up and down I’d be 5 pints deep by 7pm on Friday despite working the weekend shift… I’m actually about to spend the evening horizontal with as much tea as is physiologically manageable. Love you bye x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Nothing will humble you quicker than screwing your ring door bell back in place while it’s in night mode and you’re not wearing make up… Honestly. Fucking things should come with a self-esteem obliterator warning. X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Seeing in the new year with a brew and Blur on the tellybox… Wishing wondrous things for you beautiful heads in 2025. x 🩷 x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Made the mistake of sticking my head in over there and was called an attention seeker, a cunt (without the capital C), a dick and a fud, amongst other things. It’s nice to have somewhere where people just behave better x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

What a fabulous little Mary Quant haul from my mum for Christmas 🤍🖤🤍

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Morning all. My thoughts this morning are with you if you need it today. This time of year isn’t always jingly and sparkly and full of cheer so, if you need 5 minutes on the back step and a gentle hand squeeze, I’m here. 🤍 x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

To anyone who supported us with our Women at Risk Christmas Wish List this year: Thank you. Thank you SO much! The response to these gifts is beyond heartwarming, and you helped make it happen. We are eternally grateful! Love, Siân & Shell, Gemma & Sarah xXx

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This is one of my favourite views in the whole wide world. Just below is the nightshelter I used to run, and I’ve lost count of the sunsets and sunrises I watched from our back step. Shoe Town you are so very pretty. What a beautiful sunset. 🩷🧡💜

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Once again The Small Fakers outdid themselves… Adore them 🤍🎶 x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

After a wanker of a day I can highly recommend banging on a likkle bit of Dub Pistols and cranking up the volume. Therapy… 👊🏻🎶x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today felt like a good day to light this… I actually don’t feel any better but the ritual was nice x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Popped me earphones in to keep me motivated at work and Liam Gallagher’s Wall of Glass has just come on the ol’ shuffle roulette. Have ye ever heard such a din?! Flat, nasal bellowing at best. Cacophonic death wail at worst. -1/10. Do not recommend 🥴 x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

CHRISTMAS WISHLIST ALERT* As some may know, every 6 weeks or so I volunteer with police, a local housing charity and our local drug & alcohol service. We deliver an operation that helps safeguard and support people engaged in sex work, promoting harm reduction and encouraging engagement.

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Have you ever had a “pal” that seems to just try and deliver a put down whenever you’re nattering idly with them? I genuinely feel like I’m being picked at and I was being nice so it stings a bit and has knocked my day off kilter. I dunno whether I’m the problem here or not. 😕 x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Wake up, you gorgeous bastards. It’s time to get a wriggle on. Nobody wants to be late for the weekend. I love you. Put your seatbelt on. Drink some water. 🫶🏻

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Have floated the idea of starting a coven to a couple of colleagues today. If you can provide an instrument (ability to play not essential), are not averse to partial nudity, have a fondness for singing/chanting and enjoy hysteria as a pastime please call me. X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

An exhausted back step ponder! Good morning to everyone, except the following: • people who do not toast their crumpets twice • traffic wardens • that kid who smashed my My Little Pony lunch box and flask in 1991. I still remember you, you bad arsehole.

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It’s crystal clear out there tonight and the temps have just dipped below zero. There was some spooky fog coming in orf the river in swirly tendrils, but it was very low creeping. I feel like I drove home at a very secret time of night. It was lovely. X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

SWEP prep for tonight means another monster shift, so I’m propelling myself forward using caffeine and galloping guitars… I need a holiday. (Or broccoli and Stilton soup if anyone has a bowl spare…)X open.spotify.com/track/2o9VAW...

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The Width of a Circle - 2015 Remaster

David Bowie · The Man Who Sold the World (2015 Remaster) · Song · 1970

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Blowing a kiss to someone who is attempting to incite you into road rage encounter is more likely to escalate the situation than diffuse it. Who knew?! 😐 x

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My friend has bought this into work today. Immediately squirted straight into my mouth. I wish I could tell you that it is a culinary atrocity but the truth of the matter is it’s actually a belting little condiment. X

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Not often I’m referred to as a lady… 💅🏻

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✨ A F T E R G L O W ✨ @afterglow85.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

As a professional trying to access and action support for someone who has experienced a violent sexual crime, may I just say I’m shocked by how horribly process driven and brutally flawed the system is. Trauma informed practitioners aren’t enough to negate the actual horror of navigating it. 💔

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