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Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
Jun 15, 2024 8 tweets 3 min read
I was talking to someone about 'What Katy Did at School', which I read and re-read as a child, and which has been continuously in print ever since it was written in 1873. My own copy had a plain cover, but out of curiosity, I had a nose around on google images.
Oh. My. God. 1/8 Image What Katy did at Time Travel School: 2/8
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It's #InternationalMensDay and here are some men. Image More men. Image
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A short thread on 1960s/70s playgrounds:
As there really was nothing to do during these decades, most children spent up to six hours a day at the local playground, returning home either to eat or to have their injuries tended. 1/7 Occasionally - if, say, they got one leg stuck in the chimney of the decommissioned traction engine cemented into Lichfield’s Beacon Park as an imaginative-play item – they might even have to stay overnight, or until extracted by the fire-brigade. 2/7