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Dry socket pain will you ever go away. It's been 3 weeks now... 😪 😢 😫

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I rang the Samaritans today due to feeling overwhelmed with dealing with chronic dental pain that is still to be resolved and wider stress effects on my body for two months and living alone. If anyone else is struggling with intense depression, isolation, chronic pain and stress I would like to reach out to them via tumblr and seek solidarity.

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The Island - Victoria Hislop

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THE TWYFORD CODE By Janice Hallett @ViperBooks @JaniceHallett #TheTwyfordCode

THE TWYFORD CODE By Janice Hallett @ViperBooks @JaniceHallett #TheTwyfordCode

Available | hardback |ebook | audiobook | SYNOPSIS It’s time to solve the murder of the century… Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Wanting to know more, he took it to his English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss…

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Great book

I ordered the British copy of this book because 1) this doesn't come out until January in the U.S. and 2) this cover is so much cooler

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The Appeal by Janice Hallett

I LOVED this book. Told from the viewpoint of various people surrounding a murder and also the viewpoint of the people investigating it through emails, texts, and articles. This was an unconventional and well-utilized and supremely well-done way of writing this book. The story follows a possibly homicide/suicide, possible fraud, and a lot of twists and turns. We encounter people who are not only doctors and nurses, but also actors in an acting troupe. The owners of the group have a granddaughter who subsequently is diagnosed with a rare type of cancer (or is she?). The story was absolutely compelling and I would HIGHLY recommend this as a great quick read for anyone.

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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It's now a year later and things are about to get crap again. #anotherchristmasaloneprobably

Today has been crap. The weather has been atrocious. England is in lockdown again and I had nothing to get out of bed for. No Saturday gym class, no trip out for lunch, no visit to the library or book shop, and none of the much vaunted invigorating walking in winter sunshine because it was raining horizontally. And it was pitch black outside by late afternoon. All this and I'm still uncertain if I will get to see my family for only the second time in a year at Christmas. Just one of those days to make you question life, the world and everything. Oh well at least the Crown starts tomorrow. Small mercies

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Loved watching this at Edinburgh Film House. Wonderful cinematography

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My God, is it really the final third of 2021 already? 😮

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Just won a pub quiz competition. All my useless info gathered on sites like tumblr has finally borne fruit

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Afghanistan. I have no words.

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I loved this documentary film. Saw it at the cinema last week 👍

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson’s Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

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A Tory Minister compromised in a scandal, England preparing to face Germany at football (Scotland eliminated in the group stages) and rain and flash flooding at the height of summer. Yes, welcome to 1990s Britain. 😏

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Caravaggio (1986) | dir. Derek Jarman

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The Lion in Winter (1968) directed by Anthony Harvey

Peter O'Toole as King Henry II

Anthony Hopkins as Richard the Lionheart

John Castle as Geoffrey

Nigel Terry as John

Timothy Dalton as King Philip II

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Knowing how newspapers work, I think its possible the photos were published with a degree of consent. 🤨 Queen are promoting their 50th anniversary at the moment and reassurance for fans that John is still OK may be part of the deal.

Ok, time out gang:

Yes, British tabloid writers are trash but can y’all stop sending death threats to the writer of the Sun article on John? I don’t agree with it but he’s a sixty nine year old millionaire. He doesn’t need a army of teenage girls threatening to curb stomp or burn journalists alive. Y’all acting crazed.

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Mum gets vaccinated today. Really hope the UK / Devolved Governments have got this strategy right 🙏