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R to @themadbrewery: I didn’t get paid for the recipe, interview, nor event, and my blog isn’t monetised for ads after it crashed back to its old iteration a while back (needs lots of time and money spent on it to get ads back) so I’ve earned the grand total of sod all from that quiche anyway! 🤪

 
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One of my best friends and I have hung out almost every day for the last couple of years…and a few weeks ago accidentally discovered a mutual love of chess. Trouble is, we’re very well matched. Tonight’s game was two and a half hours long! Might be time to get a chess clock… 🤓

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: I like it because it’s so all consuming that it’s like meditation: absolutely nothing in my usually very noisy, million miles an hour head, except the game. But cor, he’s a tricky f. (I played for the county as a kid, so people tend not to want to play with me as a rule! 🤪)

 
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R to @bear_roar: Nothing is so good it lasts eternally… (except, apparently, our competitive streaks and mutual respect for each others strategies…)

 
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R to @montyinmalford: I’d only played half a dozen games or so in the last 25 years but it’s a daily thing now.. we just went away for the weekend and packed the chess set 😂 Only way to get better is to play it! ♟️

 
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R to @BoringDavid3: Keep going. The day you beat him - and you will - will be a beautiful moment!

 
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R to @bear_roar: Looking back I could have played it differently 🥹 god I love that song, thanks for the ear worm!

 
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R to @owenk77: It was a ‘best of three’ and now we’re down to one game a night… both too bloody minded to quit! Not sure what the limit on that is but we’ve had a few 1am finishes lately…

 
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I read the Beano, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley High and old copies of More magazine that I found stashed behind my elderly aunties loo.

I’m now literally part of the English Language GCSE.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: I would 100% prefer my kids teacher to be able to understand the kids who may not have their own books at home, may need the solace in light escapism, may have had disjointed schooling for infinite reasons, or may just enjoy Say Cheese And Die for the 10th time in a summer… 😬

 
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Irregardless of personal feelings about hereditary monarchy etc, I just want to say that Prince Louis is definitely my fave. He’s utterly delightful! 😍

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: (Anyone thinking about snarking - remember you’re talking about a five year old boy who has absolutely no say in the circumstances of his birth nor routine social engagements. I just think he’s a wee riot!)

 
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R to @allanj69: Oh yeah, SB and I mooted this a while ago and wrote a rough recipe for it - he deffo wants us to make one. He christened the idea the ‘Pie-Up’ - which is a very compelling reason to make one in itself!! 🥧🌭🥓🫘🍄🥫🍳

 
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R to @Bletchman: I said what I said. Some people really don’t like it, but I rather do. Feels a touch more emphatic - as a dialectic portmanteau of ‘irrespective’ and ‘regardless’ - both of which would also have worked here, but weren’t the words that I chose.

Is ‘irregardless’ a real word? We asked our journalists as battle rages on | Reference and languages books | The Guardian

Merriam-Webster insists irregardless is a word – but not everyone agrees with the dictionary’s take
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R to @BootstrapCook: (And irregardless is absolutely a word, and it’s one I rather like. Y’all so desperate for a row you’re squaring up to an actual dictionary now 🤣)

 
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R to @tricia_morris: I suppose as someone whose own son has been ‘commented on’ for the last decade (despite me deliberately keeping him out of the spotlight for years…) I’m very cautious about commenting on other peoples children. However, the media has been saturated with footage of him the last few days and a lot of the commentary has been very speculative and unkind, so in my very small way I guess I wanted to try to contribute something positive 😍

 
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R to @WhittinghamTim: In your opinion, which you are of course entitled to. I do occasionally use words wrongly - possibly a malapropism hangover from a couple of serious concussions - with often hilarious results, but usually in spoken word. I think I like ‘irregardless’ for its mildly irritating, rebellious streak, and will continue to scatter it around like parsley 🌿

 
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