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Comics and conservation, sometimes at the same time. Editor of @TGCCollective back in the day. She/her.

Wishaw, Scotland
Joined March 2014
Incredible stuff
Heathcliff, but it's Fingertips by They Might Be Giants, a thread:
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Gowkthrapple is a small neighbourhood of Wishaw, Scotland, situated around 3⁄4 miles from the town centre. The name "Gowkthrapple" is a Scots compound word made up of "gowk", meaning "idiot" or "cuckoo" and "thrapple", meaning "throat" or "strangle
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Looking for something else I stumbled across the CDs that have survived declutters over the years. Something to be said about a CD booklet, maybe worth keeping more than the scratched discs
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Incredible @sparksofficial show last night! But hearing Toughest Girl in Town caught me off guard, don’t think I’ve ever cried at a gig before. Billy’s version was the best ❤️ youtu.be/6F9mC7Lyh28
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Glasgow!! Thank you so much! ✨ #SparksTour2023
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Sorry I’m late, my child showed an interest in sitting on the toilet and I couldn’t pass on this exciting opportunity (no results) 🚽
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It’s 7 December and I’ve just had to hide the advent calendar in the same place we store dangerous medicines that shouldn’t be within reach of small children
School has finished for summer, and a bunch of kids just ran down my street cheering as parents honked their horns. Sheer joy
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We were reading a book with cute fluffy chicks in it and I suggested my daughter ‘give them a wee clap’. She gave them a round of applause #Scots
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Come work with us! (Me specifically) 🌳🦔🐛🌸🐸
There's still a few days left to apply for the new @ScotWildlife Partnerships Officer role. Help us make connections for our exciting new Nextdoor Nature project! #JOBALERT #vacancy #Scotland #conservation scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk…
“Motherwell and Wishaw claim defensively that Coatbridge is the ugliest town in Scotland”
I spotted this charming book in a charity shop & wondered what it says about the bit of Scotland I grew up in: ‘The dense gathering of bloated little towns and villages, swelled catastrophically by the Industrial Revolution, a maze of feckless streets.’ Lovely! As for Coatbridge!
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#Heardle #18 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ heardle.app
Trying to pick a leaving card for a colleague and more than half of them are “fuck off, you were shit anyway. Won’t be missed 🖕”
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Last night I asked @GillComics what age the members of Sum 41 are now. She guessed they were the same age as me (born 1980) and, on checking Wikipedia I can confirm that she’s correct and indeed ‘some’ of the members of Sum 41 are… 41. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum_…
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One of western modernity’s greatest cruelties is the fact that couples are expected to raise newborns alone. I’ll never understand it and it really is an impossible thing
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