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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Working late, Sister Sledge's "Thinking of You" comes on Spotify, cheerily singing along, realise there's a subject and verb disagreement in the chorus. "I'm thinking of you/and the things you do to me/that *makes* me love you." No, no, no. It should be "make". That's that ruined, then.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s London Film Festival Tickets Go on Sale to Members Day. Got my marked up programme, got a hot chocolate, got two more minutes before my hope of landing a good randomly assigned place in the queue is dashed for another year 👍🏻 #LFF
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Won my work World Cup sweepstake playing on behalf of @smpbrixton.bsky.social. It's a term-time job, so collected our winnings yesterday and I'm delighted to have just sent them over to the charity. Woot woot! (Did miserably in the entry under my own name. Naturally.)
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, Dolly… Such talent; so much care and love for society (the Imagination Library, the Dollywood programme covering tuition fees for its employees, the Moderna vaccine, the LGBTQ allyship); and yet so humble and self-deprecating. The very best of us ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Helping tourist with directions, I explained he needed to change at Farringdon for the Elizabeth line. "Is that a train or a tube?" he asked me. Bless him, I think he knew from my pause and expression that he'd stumbled into a deeply philosophical question. "Bit of both?" "Bit of both," I agreed.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Over.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
⭐️ You are welcome here 💛 #Streatham #TulseHill #HillsideGardens
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Strong offer for The Travel Anxiety Crew over at The Times today.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
French TV team having spirited discussion about Pog not letting anyone else win, particularly today’s French-dominated breakaway, a day after some of them expressed disappointment he’d gifted Del Toro a win. I love France TV, and I’m always desperate for a French win, but I’m smiling wryly #TDF2026
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I've found myself taking on the organisation of a World Cup sweepstake. To ensure we had a large enough pool, I put in two entries. And since I'm the only dual entrant, I said I'd play once for me and once for charity. So guess on which entry I got Senegal, and on which I got odds-on winners Spain?
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
At the local pizza restaurant. Family at the table next to me includes a young teen whose stroppyness throughout their lunch has been so pronounced that she’d be booted out of an audition for Stroppy Teen #1 cos she was overdoing it. 1/N
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Kiddo on train, looking up at the reflections in the clear surface of luggage rack running along the top of the carriage: “Look, Mummy, that person is sitting upside down on the ceiling!” The eyes of a child 💛
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
St Christopher’s Hospice Fun Walk is here, and my brother and I are taking part in memory of our grandma and in gratitude for the exceptional care the hospice gave her and us. fundraising.stchristophers.org.uk/fundraisers/...
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I do not know much about football but I know this much: Fifa are far from a pleasant lot, and this hideous news only confirms it. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Panini World Cup sticker albums to end as Fifa announces new partnership
Panini World Cup sticker albums will become a thing of the past following the centenary finals in 2030 after Fifa announced a new partnership on Thursday
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Agree to disagree, Microsoft Word. #keyboardlevelissue
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May is one of my favourite months of the year. Bank holidays! Eurovision! And the St Christopher's Hospice Fun Walk, in which my brother and I take part in our grandma’s memory. Any sponsorship enormously appreciated. Thank you, and happy May! fundraising.stchristophers.org.uk/fundraisers/...
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I'm raising money for a cause close to my heart and would love your support.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ah, yes, the logic puzzle antibiotics; the ones that make you feel better but also significantly more stupid 🤔
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We love @oliviadeano's cover of "You've Got A Friend"!
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Highly recommend taking a random Wednesday off work and taking your mum to watch the film adaptation of a book she read you when you were little, and that she read when she was little before you. Bonus points if there’s a lovely Q&A after. @hatewhistling.bsky.social
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Aware of @alcs.co.uk for ages, but thought my work would be too niche to qualify for the cash they distribute. A Medical Journalists' Association blog persuaded me I might be mistaken and so I signed up. Nothing to lose, right? Er, correction: lots to gain! Thanks, ACLS, for the very welcome cash 🥳
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I realised after I finished that “Toucan do it” would’ve been an even better pun but, still, here: have this if you’re in need of encouragement this Sunday.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I’ll happily own brand it on the lemon juice, and will always take the lazy and unskilled option on the pancake “making”, but if we’re getting jam involved then we’re doing it properly. (Yearly update on my pancake skills: first was so awful I feared I’d lost my skills, but I pulled things back 💪🏻)
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Send help – the scaredy cat’s watching a horror film.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Someone on the train has put Netflix on without headphones and is watching, of all things, the Letby documentary. She’s also dropped litter on the floor and put her bag on the seat next to her. I can call the British Transport Police, surely?
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My favourite part of #Hamnet? When Shakespeare’s Mrs watches the first scene of the play he’s written based entirely on their recent lives and, even so, yells: “What are they talking about?!” Yeah, love, we’ve all been there with your husband. I’d pop out and get the York Notes if I were you.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
There are only really two times I hate being freelance: 1) When I'm ill 2) Tax return season January, cursed month, has brought both. The sinus infection is done with, and now the tax return – which brought me to the brink of tears on five separate occasions – is too. I want a nap. And a hug.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Struggling with a misbehaving feature article for the past three days, and the answer has finally come to me: a pull-out box. Of course it's a pull box. The answer, my friends, is ALWAYS a pull box. This glorious truth has revealed itself to me time and again over the past four decades. #amwriting
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a cardboard box with a face on it
ALT: a cardboard box with a face on it
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Please can the next major secret revealed on #TheTraitors be that Tom Basden used James as the model for Robin in #HereWeGo? Put me out of my misery. It's bloody uncanny.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Dig Dug x Sweetcorn x All Snuggled Up In the final picture he’s captured mid lip lick. Note how he’s already gazing up at me to enquire if another kernel might be on its way. (No, Diggy Dug. Two’s enough.) 🌽 🐹
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Dig Dug moonlighting as one of Santa’s little helpers 🐹
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Christmas and Hanukkah, Trafalgar Square 🎄🕎
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Seen seven so far, only three of which I fell asleep in 🤘 Very pleased that "Sorry, Baby" – one of my favourite films of the year – makes the top 10.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Friday night aims: Home, pyjamas, sofa, blanket, latest episode of Pluribus, bed, 14 to 16 hours of sleep. Obstacle: Lengthy article I could really do with getting finished today and which stubbornly remains only a quarter written.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Usual Friday chat with the owner of my fave local coffee shop turned to Crimbo plans. She explained she's not going away this year as it's her mum's 50th soon after Xmas. And that's how I discovered I'm only three years off being old enough to be the mother of the local coffee shop owner 👵
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Rainbow over St John Street, consolation for a generally dark and rainy day 🌈
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
You can ask me to watch pretty much any film and I will enthusiastically do it. Just not horror, because I’m a jump scare-hating scaredy cat with permanently shot nerves. Sinners with a Q&A has made me pluck up my courage however… plus put on my comfiest non-PJ clothes and pack three fidget toys 😬
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
One of my clients needs me to complete IT security training. The online course has repeatedly assured me poorly written content is a way to spot any suspicious activity. On the basis of this end of module question, I should now apparently whether the education provider itself is a cybercriminal 🤨
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Reviewing Joachim Trier's credits off the back of growing eagerness to see "Sentimental Value" and longstanding intention to watch "The Worst Person in the World", I suddenly realise that in 2015 he made the film my mum still talks about as the weirdest and least satisfying I've ever taken her to 🫤
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I'm appalled to announce that Pret is playing Christmas songs.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I had to turn the difficulty down to the literal baby level (check out the little faces at the top of the page), but a perfect’s a perfect. I’ll take it. #PlatypusReclayed @claymatic.games #SteamDeck
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Spent Saturday night watching a two and a half hour long Japanese/German film about a man cleaning toilets in Tokyo via notoriously arty streaming platform MUBI; spending Sunday lunchtime watching an animated kids’ film about a K-pop girl band fighting demons. Believer in broad tastes ✌🏻
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
An Alpe d'Huez year is a good year. Two finishes there in one year? Doubly good, surely #TDF2026
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The Guardian is Guardianing particularly hard this morning.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Waiting for an #LFF screening to start, listening to someone tell mates about another festival film. “Was it good?” “Yeah… I mean, it was weird. But it was good.” That’s how you know you’re festivalling right. And how I know the two of us have the same taste, because I also saw the film in question.
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
First #LFF film this year: quirky, charming Aussie comedy #Fwends, filmed guerrilla-style in Melbourne, entirely in sequence and fully improvised. Was followed by a sweet Q&A with the director, two leads, and the director of photography. An auspicious start.
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John @jmce95.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This being the funniest 8 seconds of television all year 😭 #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Yay for representation on #TheTraitorsUK! So powerful to see myself on screen – a cuddly bespectacled bag of nerves with hyperhidrosis, a voice that carries, an inability to lie, and a suspicious manner when with a secret. Oh, Alan, love. Hope you packed Mitchum and Propranolol #CelebrityTraitors
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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors
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Claire Read @readthewriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Totally in favour of having a conversation about reparations, but I'm not sure *all* of them should go to Lenny Henry.
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