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Lives in Leicestershire, UK. Two (adult) kids, one with very complex needs. Access Consultant for arts and sports. Teacher of fabulous students. Loves theatre, cinema, gardening, books, cooking.

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 13h

She'd have been looking down, beaming!
After dad died, almost exactly a year before mum, she got to absolutely live in M&S Foodhall! He'd been strictly Lidl, which drove her loopy! Her final year was all about posh soups, glorious ready meals & artisan bread. It was hilarious!

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 13h

Although I am laughing that I can't (yet!) read @michaelhogan100.bsky.social #TheDogWalkersDetectiveAgency to Tom as a bedtime story, I am loving our current one - The Secret Garden. It was always one of my favourites as a child &, with me paraphrasing & explaining bits, he's loving it too.

anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 13h

My mum died five months ago & I wish that my brothers & sister & I had all gone out afterwards.
Although, in her case, to find her favourite place, we'd have all had to congregate in M&S Foodhall.....

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 13h

That's a lovely thing to have done.
Sending massive hugs & support.

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 13h

I would say so. I was impressed by the way he handled it.
#TheArchers

anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 13h

He's the obvious, isn't he? And was, I thought, very good.
#TheArchers

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Annie💙&Joe💛 @annieandjoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14h

Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
(Pic @pjrfoto.bsky.social)

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 14h

Am absolutely loving @michaelhogan100.bsky.social ##TheDogWalkersDetectiveAgency. Funny, sweet, very page-turner-y & has a hero called Charlie!
Totally Feel Good.
Am having to read it surreptitiously so that Tom, who's getting it for Christmas, doesn't clock it & demand it as a bedtime story!

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 14h

So gorgeous!

anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 20h

Oh my love. I so totally understand. Sending masses of love.

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 23h

Yes. And I agree that it was a lifeline during Lockdown.
And I do still have some really close friends on it. I was lucky that my TL has never got too toxic - if people are unpleasant, I just block.

anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still on X - just for the handful of lovely people who haven't moved over here. But, yes, I miss the way it used to be.

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

Good news.
Not much of a *traditional* holiday but definitely one to talk about for years to come!

anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my goodness! Are they OK?

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

Nooooo! Thank goodness that you didn't touch it by mistake.

anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. Yeah - just another appointment. And we actually were seen really quickly.
I shouldn't moan - Tom is 26 now &, at birth, was given a life expectancy of nine months. The NHS has saved him countless times.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1d

Hurricane Melissa continues to strengthen as it approaches western Jamaica. The storm now has 185 mph winds with a minimum central pressure of 892 mb.

Melissa is one of the strongest-ever Atlantic hurricanes, and it'll rank among the most intense storms ever observed at landfall anywhere on Earth.

An infrared satellite view of Hurricane Melissa nearing landfall in western Jamaica.

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

In yet another hospital waiting room with Tom.
Idly wondering just how many weeks of my life I have spent sitting in NHS waiting rooms!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Went back to Prunella Scales's contribution to Barkworth's "About Acting" today. Not just because it is immensely funny and charming, but for the most unfussy, practical, and profound description of a proper acting process ever captured in print.

Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.

PB
The voice of a part is very important to you, isn't it?
PS
I'm never happy until I have found the physical individuality of a part, which includes the voice, I suppose. I've got quite a useful, strong and variable voice, and quite a good ear both for regional dialects and for mannerisms of speech, which is probably just as well because I'm not very versatile physically: I'm quite short and I haven't got a very useful face. A critic very kindly wrote of me once that the six parts I played in one play were nicely differentiated vocally, but that I couldn't change my face, which was that of a worried hamster.

PB PS
Do you enjoy doing situation comedies?
Oh yes, except that the half-hour episodes come round so quickly, once a week; and in Fawlty Towers I never felt ready to do it every Sunday night. But John Cleese gave me great courage. It was rather like working with a live machine-gun which you try to keep pointing away from you. But you feel you've got something to bash against and that's very comforting. Leonard Rossiter's the same.

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Well. A trivial example. I'm an aide-de-camp and I have to come in and say to the commanding officer, 'Good morning, sir. Here is the report from Major Smith. In it you will see that he estimates the enemy will be with us at approximately eight hundred hours tomorrow morning.' Now. Who am I? I am Lieutenant Bloggs. Which probably means that I have been trained to keep a stiff upper lip and not to show emotion of any kind. What do I want? (At Uta's classes you're taught always to look for a verb, never for a quality or an emotion.) I may want to do my duty, or to avoid showing fear, or perhaps I want my breakfast. What is the obstacle? Perhaps the CO is in a bad mood, perhaps I'm frightened of him or of the impending attack. So what do I do? I probably come in and mutter the line as quickly as possible and get out. It'll be over in two seconds but it will be true and at least it won't be over-acted. If you try for emotion, try to feel, it's a sure way of cutting off emotion altogether. Acting is doing.

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 1d

I know! It's so sad!

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 2d

statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent

It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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anniebannister.bsky.social @anniebannister.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. 😀
When we moved to this village, many years ago, my ex & I agreed that it needed to have a shop, a school, a post office (we ran a mail order business) & a decent (i.e. at least hourly, 5 days pw) bus service.
He'd grown up in a hamlet of 5 houses where there were a total of 3 children.