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Heidi Temple-Stephens

@heidistephens.bsky.social
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Marketing strategist (weekdays), award-winning author (weekends), Eurovision stuff (seasonal). She/her.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 19h
catching up on Bake Off, abd already annoyed with Clara saying that tiramisu takes a while. I mean, it famously doesn't, you can make a tiramisu in 10 minutes. Sigh.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Have spent most of today tracking down ancient pensions from crappy jobs I did in the 90s.Tedious but satisfying, I found a total of £9k today.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Caught up on last night's Celeb Traitors. I know 5 minutes in a mouldy old box is scary, Jerry, but you were married to Rupert Murdoch for six years.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No I actually said this
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A Mentor from Everybody's Talking About Jamie
ALT: A Mentor from Everybody's Talking About Jamie
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
love Richard and Maya discussing who thinks Richard is a traitor like there's the smallest amount of ambiguity on this matter #celebritytraitors
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jerry Hall is giving satanic Moira Rose #celebritytraitors
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
just popped up on my Spotify - haven't heard this Class A banger for years. Doing a l'il train bop.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest romcom is out today! In all the usual places, but if you buy it from @bertsbooks.bsky.social before Friday I'll sign it for you. My mum says it's her favourite of all my books, if that helps.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
quite keen to hear Trump's pronunciation of Fairford but I can't stand hearing his voice so I'm going to assume it's wrong. Gloucestershire would destroy him.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Am practicing my French reading with this extremely abridged version of Pride & Prejudice. This summary of Mr Collins is excellent.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
my new romcom is out on TUESDAY, you can pre-order signed/dedicated paperbacks from the lovely @bertsbooks.bsky.social on this very helpful link. bertsbooks.co.uk/product/mad-...
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just caught up on #GBBO. Nigella is obviously entirely fabulous, but this year's bakers are a bit Wacky Races for my tastes. I really miss the days when the most eccentric person in the tent was a retired geography teacher who put lavender in everything.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Guardian and I have a very different idea of what constitutes 'cheap'
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gave directions to this guy in the village, casually looked up his car and it's worth between 3 and 5 million 😵
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
my local Puregym toilets at 9am on a Sunday. This is what happens when you close down provincial nightclubs.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Had lunch at my mum’s today and she showed me their emergency food cupboard. I was quite impressed. Beans, tuna, sardines, passata. Sensible quantities of everything you might need to see out a short-term national emergency. Reader, this was not the emergency food cupboard.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
today's Connections has introduced me to the concept of a Catio. As a not-cat person, I was entirely unaware that catios are A Thing.
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Shocked Surprised
ALT: Shocked Surprised
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Once again, Instagram is serving me ads for crap I inexplicably need.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so is everyone on Vinted just making pictures of AI models wearing their old clothes now, or do you all have glorious hair and perfectly lit bedrooms?
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My dog took her dog for a walk and she was extremely happy about it.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
cleansing your timeline with some mindful pottering down the Seine this morning.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
as rivers go, the Seine between Paris and Rouen is really very nice.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
never seen this flavour in UK, bought in a supermarket in France. Tastes like a really fancy, grown up Feast lolly, 10/10.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can we just have like, A WEEK when dramatic shit isn't happening.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
strongly recommend marrying a man whose brother married a woman whose family have a lovely house in Normandy 🇫🇷
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
just seen this on one of the mad local Facebook communities. I'm not sure the women of Cheltenham needed the warning TBH.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another super-embarrassing day to be an American, I see. It's been like that for Brits for YEARS, so welcome.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
last day in my current job today, which was mostly a long lunch with my favourite people. Cheerio South Bank - have a few weeks off, then a new job over there
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
this week's You Be The Judge is all kinds of Absolutely Not, festooned with bunting made of red flags. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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You be the judge: should my partner stop eating off other people’s plates?
Helen says grabbing friends’ leftovers is a no-no. Bill thinks wasting food is wrong. You decide who should eat their words
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
PSA: bring a jumper if you're getting on the Elizabeth Line today, it's colder than a penguin's chuff.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
rain in North Wilts is BIBLICAL this morning, train platform full of teens off to Reading Festival, already looking like drowned rats. Character building stuff.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look, all this news is terrible BUT if we're losing 80-year-olds in groups of three the third might be Trump and maybe it will be worth it.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Guys I just did my tax return and discovered that HMRC owe me £1500. Quick, do yours!
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Michelle M. @michellemabelle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
On a visit to Ventry in the west Kerry Gaeltacht in 1990, Dolly Parton gives an impromptu performance in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub. Accompanied by Steve Cooney on guitar. What a woman. #DollyParton #RIPDolly youtu.be/NqdKrv1Vh-g
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Coat of Many Colours - Dolly Parton, Ireland 1990
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sunday night PSA: my new romcom (number 8!) is out on 29th September and you can pre-order it from all the usual places. If you'd like a signed copy, it's on the @bertsbooks.bsky.social website!
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
while we're banning phone speakers on public transport, can we also ban operatic busking of Andrew Lloyd Webber classics in train stations. THANKS
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
very niche reference, but the Elizabeth Line platform at Farringdon smells like the pool changing rooms at Centerparcs Longleat
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
everything is terrible, but I've just spent 4 hours on a sweaty Thames party boat with 350 gays and gals dancing to Kylie Minogue and it was marvellous 💖
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love this message from my son about the emergency warning. Come the apocalypse, there'll be a load of people in the valleys frantically using Google Translate.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We have a Prime Minister called Andy Burnham and I don't think that's a coincidence 🔥🔥🔥
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
when your hotel room has a four poster bed and a chaise longue, but absolutely no clothes storage whatsoever 🤷‍♀️
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
honestly Sweden I love you but having one manned immigration desk for a packed plane from London is an arsehole move.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
holding Paddington's paw
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I have just seen the trailer for Wicker and that looks right up my bonkers nonsense sexy Wurzel alley.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just been to see a new physio, was driving me CRAZY not knowing where I've seen him before. Have I seen him at a different clinic? Did we once meet in the gym? Aaargh. Just worked out that he played Alfred in Downton Abbey.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
PSA: Intense Coffee Mini Magnums are 10/10
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
after many years playing the Match Of The Day theme tune, our local ice cream van/drug dealer has switched to The Sailor's Hornpipe. Maybe the BBC intervened.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
woman in my hair salon is telling her stylist about her hen weekend plans. So far it includes a private chef, some kind of muscle waiter drag brunch (me neither) and a Harry Potter-themed murder mystery dinner.
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Did a venn diagram of Strictly Come Dancing contestants
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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Anyone else watched Ann Droid (which is brilliantly funny, by the way) and is now stuck with a permanent Cotton Eye Joe earworm?
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