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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

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A children's book to celebrate
the winter holidays.

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

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A #childrensbook that #celebrates #love #FF #giving #family and #community

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

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#Books

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#Christmas #ChristmasCracker #christmasmouse #animalsky #childrensky #kidlitchat #middlegradebook #mglit #illustrations #christmascards #xmasinjuly #Christmasinjuly #freeebook #freebooks #freeread

July 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

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#Children

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Housie Mousie and the Christmas Crow

Housie Mousie and the Christmas Crow - Kindle edition by Davies, Suzy , Heaven, Emily. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Housie Mousie and the Christmas Crow.

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July 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM Everybody can reply

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

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#Christmas

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July 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

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#ChristmasTree

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The Flamingos Who Painted The Sky

Buy The Flamingos Who Painted The Sky by Davies, Suzy, Massroor, Shirin (ISBN: 9781739952877) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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July 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Just 1/8Billion

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In this house we share.

#bunny
#christmascracker

Foster bunny, Rabbert Klein, helping me open my Christmas cracker.

December 28, 2024 at 3:32 PM Everybody can reply

Huh Murphy

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#ChristmasCracker #NewcastleAtlanticClub

December 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM Everybody can reply

Ruth

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No British Christmas dinner is complete without a cracker. Shark (aka Charcuterie Board) approved! #catsofbluesky #amigurumi #christmascracker

Shark (aka Charcuterie Board) a 5 month old black kitten with short hair sits on a couch with a crocheted amigurumi red, white and green Christmas cracker

December 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Les Howard

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A ‘James Bond’ flavoured Polo is a mint spy!
#GrandadJoke
#ChristmasCracker

December 25, 2024 at 2:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Lonely Gimmick

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Here's a good Christmas cracker joke to tell at your family Christmas dinner:

Q: Why was the chimney sticky?
A: Because Santa Clause came

#christmasjoke #christmascracker #christmas #merrychristmas

December 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM Everybody can reply

Next Generation Youth Theatre

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It’s Christmas Day! 🎄✨

Dylan is a member of our SEN Expressive Arts Sessions & wanted to tell you a #ChristmasCracker joke!

You can sign your young person up for our SEN sessions returning in 2025 at buff.ly/3Dpgoqc.

We’ll then be in touch to invite you along for a FREE trial session

December 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM Everybody can reply

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𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲

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📸 #ChristmasCracker 🎅

December 23, 2024 at 8:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Jean Pocket

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This is daughter E’s secret weapon through the holidays. She makes the best !! Whips up trays 💃😂❤️
#christmascracker
Wicked Game 🎶🎶

youtu.be/DqaRPOEuFjQ?...

December 22, 2024 at 12:58 AM Everybody can reply

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Tessa Cheung

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The Bang of Expectation was more violent than anticipated. #illo_advent #day21.

#illo_advent2024 #illustration #adventcalendar #corgi #pembrokewelshcorgi #cracker #christmascracker #corgichristmas #ChristmasisComing

An illustration of two corgi dogs pulling a Christmas cracker, captured just after the bang. The left one is rolypolying away having lost the battle, while the right one holds its winning half aloft victoriously.

December 21, 2024 at 1:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Berea College Archives

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Twas many nights before Christmas, when Peter Rabbit thought of a cunning plan....

#ChristmasCracker #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social #exploreyourarchive

December 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM Everybody can reply

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UNK Archives

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What archives goodies would YOU love to get in your Christmas cracker? We're partial to IdentiPens and ours always go wandering.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCracker

What is the best method of bookkeeping? Never lend them!

December 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM Everybody can reply

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Bexley Archives

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What a good thing Mother has a new Gas Cooker… she has time to pull a #ChristmasCracker! All thanks to South Suburban Gas Company, according to this Kentish Times advert in 1936! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

December 13, 2024 at 1:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Angus Library and Archive

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For a #ChristmasCracker here's 'Cracke me a Nut' a gloriously mad pamphlet from 1589 by 'one who dares call a dog, a dog'.

Part of the Puritan vs Anglican Martin Marprelate pamphlet war, it is 'a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace'.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar

The front page of an old, browned pamphlet from 1589. The text reads ' Pappe with an hatchet. : Alias, a figge for my God sonne. Or cracke me this nut. Or a countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning.

VVritten by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to preuent Martins dog daies
Imprinted by Iohn Anoke, and Iohn Astile, for the Bayliue of Withernam, cum priuilegio perennitatis, and are to bee sold at the signe of the crab tree cudgell in Thwack-Coate Lane'

December 13, 2024 at 12:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society

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Day 13 already!!

#ArchiveAdventCalendar

#ChristmasCracker

“The Giant Cracker”
Western Mail, Monday December 27. 1915.

No photo but this is a cracker of a post card of those who may well have been in the actual “Giant Cracker”

#WelshMetropolitanWarHospital
#FWW
#HistNursing
#EYAFestive

First part of the newspaper clipping from the Western Mail

Full newspaper article from the Western Mail

Large group photo of soldiers in their hospital uniforms and others in their khaki uniforms. Seated in the middle of the photos is Matron Florence Raynes with other unknown nursing staff. Christmas decorations hanging from the ceiling, a wreath on the left hand side window. Some hospital beds on both sides of the postcard

December 13, 2024 at 11:01 AM Everybody can reply

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

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The unexpected can lie within the battered covers of an old ledger...

A #ChristmasCracker found this morning with a 1912 suffragette manifesto tucked inside the covers of a Yorkshire Miners' Association account book

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Battered front cover of a late 19th century account book. You may just about be able to make out the words 'Cash' and 'Branches' on a label in the middle.

Ledger supported on a cushion. It's open on the first page and several enclosures can be seen loose between the pages.

Close up of one of the enclosures, a leaflet containing the 'Manifesto of the National Executive Committee' of the Women's Freedom League, 4 March 1912, including sections on 'Mr. Asquith's Pledge', 'Our Chances' and 'Can Militancy help just now?'.

The other side of the leaflet containing the 'Manifesto of the National Executive Committee' of the Women's Freedom League, 4 March 1912, including sections on 'Women's Freedom League will keep the truce', 'The Conciliation Bill' and 'An Appeal'. It is signed (printed) by C. Despard, C.V. Tite, E. How Martyn and F.A. Underwood.

December 13, 2024 at 10:40 AM Everybody can reply

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Barts Health Archives

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Imagine the size of the paper crown in this!

St Bartholomew's Hospital children's outpatient Xmas party, c.1920s

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCracker

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Black and white photograph of a room full of children wearing party hats and party crowns. In the middle two children hold a giant cracker with a man.

December 13, 2024 at 10:11 AM Everybody can reply

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Dunblane Museum

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 13 is #ChristmasCracker. What a surprise you’d get if you pulled Christmas cracker & out popped 4000-year-old necklace! It must’ve been exciting in summer 1999, during excavations for housing development in Dunblane, when 4,000-year-old necklace once worn…/👇

Child’s necklace dating back over 4000 years

December 13, 2024 at 9:57 AM Everybody can reply

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Derbyshire Record Office

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About a century ago, Shirebrook lost its adopted son Ezra Read. His compositions were played worldwide and his piano performances were a hit with audiences in the theatre, cinema and music hall. Here's a suitably festive work, published in 1913: Cracker Rag.
#ChristmasCracker #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Front cover of sheet music, entitled Cracker Rag by Ezra Read. Shows two Christmas crackers, each bearing an illustration of a figure with an impish grin. Published in London by WH Broome, 1913.

December 13, 2024 at 9:37 AM Everybody can reply

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DMU Archives and Rare Books

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What's your fave type of #ChristmasCracker: the bang or the bite? For @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar these may be more cookie than cracker but I 😍them anyway! #VogueXmas
#librarydmu #archivehashtag @araukie.bsky.social
#HolidayBaking #FestiveTreats #ChristmasCookies

image of baked cookies in the shape of fishes, and the three kings decorated with edible gold leaf

December 13, 2024 at 9:29 AM Everybody can reply

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