“If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere” (Heaney). Singer, writer, #girlyswot, cricket fan, trainee polymath. Health tweets at @healthkaty. She/her.
Lovely South London
Joined December 2009
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I made it! 2,000km of the UK, from Lands End to John O’Groats. If you fancy congratulating me through sponsorship, I’d be v grateful - in aid of @SussexCricketFd’s Sporting Memories coffee mornings.
justgiving.com/fundraising/k…
Absolutely fed up to the back teeth with @SkyUK - two HOURS on the phone so far, over two days, and they still haven't got things sorted.
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I drew this last November 26th knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper in the country would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway.
#USA #Canada #tariffs @realDonaldTrump
Tried to buy tickets for the @ICC Test
Final just now, all of two hours after priority booking opened (doesn’t even open to the general public until Friday). All sold out. But miraculously resale sites have loads available for upwards of £250 a ticket. Grrrrrr
@HomeOfCricket
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It's time to cleanse your timeline with this wholesome thread 🧵
1. Whoever restored that photo is a hero ❤️
Such a terrible disaster.
My dad was on the train immediately before (or was it after?). His telegram to my granny, reassuring her to that effect, arrived in the UK before the news of the disaster had broken, so she didn’t know what it meant when she first read it.
At about this time 71 years ago, my grandpa Ted Brett and two of my grandma's brothers boarded a train in Palmerston North. These young men were among 285 people whose journey ended in disaster at Tangiwai
Here's a piece I wrote last year, with new edits
andrebrett.com/2023/12/24/th…
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So delighted to see that Alex Yee @Lixsanyee is nominated for tonight’s 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
He's made Lewisham so proud - let's get behind him!
Tune in to BBC1 from 7pm to VOTE FOR ALEX! #BeMoreYee #Lewisham #AlexYee
ALT A BBC promotional picture for the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year showing the 2024 contenders. Pictured are footballer Jude Bellingham, runner Keely Hodgkinson, darts player Luke Littler, cricketer Joe Root, Para-cyclist Sarah Storey and triathlete Alex Yee.
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My new book, a sequel to Bookworm, is available to pre-order from today! Pre-orders really, really help authors so if you think it might be for you, please do take the plunge 😀❤️📚
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Gus Atkinson in 2024:
Five wickets in an innings at Lord’s ✅
10 wickets in a Test ✅
Test century ✅
Test hat-trick ✅
#bbccricket
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So Marisa Tomei looks hot at 60 and this is cringe because a woman shouldn’t be trying to look sexually appealing at this age yet Pamela Anderson is also embarrassing because she’s 60 and isn’t trying to keep up her sexual appeal. You guys get why women are tired of your shit?
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This wasn’t necessarily the most diplomatic of speeches at the OSCE Ministerial in 🇲🇹 , but it was certainly truthful, to the point and effective. @radeksikorski 🇵🇱
Anyone local to #Hove, do please come along because I think there are a few spots left… and let me know if you are coming and have any carolling requests, because we will oblige if we can! #carols
🎶 | Christmas Carols at The @1stCentral County Ground returns this festive season, in aid of the Sussex Cricket Foundation. 🙏
Join us on Wednesday 4 December, 6-8pm in The Long Room to kickstart the Christmas cheer. 🎄
Book your place. 👇
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17,000 children dead… and the international community stands by and watches impotently
In Gaza we are unlearning a century of lessons about the vicious cycle of war.
We need a ceasefire and a two-state solution now… or will all suffer the consequences for a century to come
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Man sits by me on train.
MAN: Loads of psychopaths around here
ME: Really?
MAN: Loads mate
ME: How'd you know?
MAN: There's signs aren't there?
ME: I guess?
MAN: I love them
(47 minutes of awkward silence.)
Man leaves train, he has a bike. I realise he was saying 'cycle paths'.
Thank you and happy birthday, @parkrunUK! Goodness, this morning at @hillyfdsparkrun was exhausting…but hey, I did it.
