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Ooooohhhhh.....

Pre-match report from Bilbao: my sis says it's a bit nippy and she's glad of her coat

Gotta be done! 🍿

Ooh, they've released some of our frankly historic #Springsteen concert from #Manchester on an EP - complete with those intros... music.youtube.com/watch?v=kI3d...

London City Lionesses have been fined £15,000 for making an approach to a Southampton player via social media. Story for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Well done Everton!

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

First saw Anoushka Lucas’s one-woman show ‘Elephant’ @bushtheatre.bsky.social in 2022 - a mix of gig theatre 🎭 plus memoir plus bigger subjects - and am very excited to be revisiting the expanded version at the Menier Chocolate Factory tomorrow! 🐘

Also, you should sell these #bees in the #barnetfc shop! They'd go like hotcakes, I reckon.

Come for the post... stay for the pay off

Very pleased to see that the incredibly useful Theatre Monkey aka @theatremonkey1.bsky.social is now on here! 👏

Populism

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Trans people: somehow too fragile to serve in the military, yet too powerful to compete in sports. Fascism thrives on contradiction.

let this poor man get back to catchin them duke boys

#RIPGeorgeWendt aka Norm. 😢 🍺

Player of the Match at #Wembley for #Chelsea, #SandyBaltimore scored twice and got the crucial assist for Cat Macario's goal. I'd argue she's also #CWFC Player of the Season. You'll find my interview with her - and #SoniaBompastor's thoughts on her - in the next issue of @womensfootiemag.bsky.social

It's all coming back to them now... and maybe Celine Dion's next single will be 'The Heart Got Touched'

👏 Congrats to #FridaMaanum on her new #AWFC deal. And you can read more about her in the next issue of @womensfootiemag.bsky.social in my exclusive chat with the #Arsenal and #Norway star ✍️

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O. M. G. 📚 🦄 🤦🏽‍♀️

Come. On. You. Bees. 🐝

🙏🏽 Very welcome and tasty delivery 🚚 from #Whitelake cheese in Somerset. Mainly goats 🐐 cheese 🧀 - including one new to me: Shilling - plus a bonus couple of sheep 🐑 cheeses.

Just saw ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’ at the Garrick Theatre 🎭, a Bernard Shaw play I’ve not seen before. Its star ⭐️ is the great Imelda Staunton, but it’s her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (playing her daughter) who steals the beautifully staged show.

Elton John writing ✍🏽 a theme song with Tim Rice right now. 🐾

But what if I don’t want the healthy option? 🤷🏻‍♀️

🎭 Saw Sondheim’s “lost” musical ‘Here We Are’ at the National Theatre & it’s very much a show of two halves & the definition of an all-star cast with Jane Krakowski, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Martha Plimpton, Denis O’Hare, Rory Kinnear, Tracie Bennett, Richard Fleeshman, Chumisa Dornford May, Paulo Szot

📆 Ten long years and the #bees are back in the #EFL again. And I am buzzing to have secured my #barnetfc season ticket for 2025-26 at the Hive 🐝

Minimalism Not much to see here. www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...

⚽ "We want to be at the top of the league and bring everyone with us. We need the other teams to still invest and come with us." #Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor channelling her 'rising tide lifts all boats' belief...

Promising first #YoungVic season from Nadia Fall. Just booked 3/4 of them! 🎟️ 🎟️ 🎟️ www.youngvic.org/whats-on

"Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!" 🤦‍♀️

"This is a choose-your-own-adventure game." Very interesting @wired.com Q&A with @bsky.app CEO Jay Graber. www.wired.com/story/big-in...

⚽ Kind of amazing stats. Some real rollercoaster 🎢 goal fests in there. In other words, FUN!

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.

Quite a lot of excitement from #SerenaWilliams' daughter Olympia (and husband and £20m #Chelsea investor Alexis Ohanian) with Serena taking selfies, Blues boss #SoniaBompastor meeting Olympia, and winning celebrations all round at #Wembley!

🍿 Managed to see quite a few films at this year's #BFI #Flare festival - and here's my round-up and verdict on each of the features dvd-fever.co.uk/bfi-flare-fe...

I am a firm believer in free speech. That’s why I remain on a platform owned by a fascist billionaire who shadow bans everyone who criticizes him.

(just out of shot, Maggie Thatcher, noted milk snatcher...)

🎉 Some intentional and unintentional celebrations from #Chelsea manager #SoniaBompastor after the Blues' 3-0 @adobewomensfacup.bsky.social final win at #Wembley

Olly Murs went down really well with the crowd around me. Some of them could have happily quit Wembley once Olly left the building 🤷‍♀️

Had to be done! #crisps