Dr Barbara Cooke

Post came! @drmilthorpe and I may be separated by oceans 🌊 but we are together in print, with @GreenBowlerHat and many dear @modernistudies friends.

I did a google image search for men next to potholes and put them all in a montage.

@LyndseyStonebri The… thermostat?

@JenniferACooke @ProfSJJames @britishlibrary Oh this makes me so sad :(

@ProfSJJames @britishlibrary I get so little time for research. Poor woman on the desk as I tried not to cry!

I’ve not been able to go to the @britishlibrary for years (covid, pregnancy, mat leave, HoD) & my card ran out in March 2020. 1st day back. Exciting! & then card registration is down and I can’t get it renewed & so I’ve wasted time & have to go home again. Just typical.

Best email subject line of the week goes to Prof Sara Hallam: ‘very late I know, but I got distracted more than once by tennis´.

Love this.

@jillybkay Welcome Jilly!

@LyndseyStonebri My baby took his baby cousin out at the weekend in the pushchair I BOUGHT FOR HIM. He is also excellent at reaching things in high cupboards and occasionally carrying suitcases.

Calling all current E.Mids campus Lboro students lboro.ac.uk/arts/employabi…

@becimay Totally thought you meant a report BY a two-yr-old...

Am formally replying to 2-yr-old readers’ reports and finding I know the queries off by heart ♥️

@studiousgal @CatherineDaunt I was staring at this for the whole of my last flight. I think I'd settled on 'don't stand too close to the person in front' but the jewellery thing makes more sense... kinda...

@becimay Planerunpunch? Many thanks ☺️

Weirdness of recording a talk for a conference where you can’t be … Anyway, first word: Waugh; last word: gets ✈️ 🏃‍♀️ 👊

@LyndseyStonebri Sounds like PTSD to me… have you tried EMDR?

@aipv2010 @martin_eve Punctuate it right and it’s a rhyming couplet…

@martin_eve That Shakespearean 'or': to be, or not to be'

My favourite medical documentation list type is "symptoms include sneezing, wheezing, shortness of breath, back pain, chest pain, or sudden death." The "that escalated quickly" list.

Oh my God, fought by ‘the poor and unemployed’? NO. Fought by models, bar tenders, students, librarians… soldiers are drafted and supply their own weapons and armour. Their own boots. FFS.

I am a current @UCU rep. I have also been hosting a Ukrainian couple in our family home for over a year now. Their friends, ordinary men and women, have been killed defending their country. How can this be my union? I am reconsidering my position tonight.

There is a full-throated session of the Hokey-Cokey happening on the park behind my house and it's making me happy.

Happy but belated news that Oli Tearle was on BBC3’s ‘The Listening Service’ over Coronation weekend talking about the role of the Poet Laureate: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… @lboroenglish (he’s too modest to plug it)