Olivia Campbell

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and the theme is: english women’s teams lifting trophies in 2025

And this is why the Lebanese Lira is also known as the Lebanese Pound 🇱🇧

***Places suitcase with three weeks of clothes and books on top of Mac trackpad to see if it’s over the plane’s limit of 23kgs***

10 years ago the BBC did this version of God Only Knows with a whole long line of musicians and singers including Brian Wilson. Worth the time ... youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8…

Sending this to my younger siblings so they know I’m raising the bar on my expectations of them

I love a simple graphic suited to its format.

👷‍♀️ Women in STEM 🧮

Woman of the Day Julia Pirie born OTD 1918 Warwickshire, MI5 agent for 20 years. Cover story: typist. Her unassuming demeanour and matronly appearance masked a sharp intellect. When Barcelona police raided her flat in the 1970s (she was keeping tabs on the IRA at the time), she convinced them she was just a harmless English spinster. In WW2, Julia joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry which provided women agents for the Special Operations Executive. After the war, MI5 asked her to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain as a typist. She became personal assistant to the General Secretary, accompanying him to regular meetings behind the Iron Curtain. The fact that she usually tried to avoid these "dreary" visits to the Eastern Bloc only reinforced her cover. Julia would pass regular reports and photocopies to her MI5 handlers during cricket matches at The Oval. It wasn’t a hardship; she enjoyed cricket. In the 1970s, she was instructed to resign her Communist Party post and take on a new mission: collecting intelligence on the Provisional IRA during several missions in Europe. Posing as a modest, elderly English spinster sightseeing abroad, Julia followed the Provisional IRA through several European countries collecting information about them, before renting a flat in Barcelona immediately below the one used as an IRA safe house and temporary storage for gold bullion supplied by Gaddafi. The whole operation was put at risk when Barcelona armed police mistakenly raided her flat, but she coolly maintained her cover and persuaded them they had the wrong person. In the 1990s, after retiring from active operations, Julia lectured to groups of MI5 trainees and the police. And the best bit? Until her death in September 2008 at the age of 90, the Communist Party continued to pay her pension each month from a bank in Italy. There’s no known photo of her. Did you really think there would be?

The Rt Hon Jordan Pickford MP @JPickford1 has been appointed Secretary of State for Defence @DefenceHQ.

Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game. 2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England! #PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england

Tag yourself; I’m bottom right

@realgirl_fieri “Oh, were they that badly behaved with other people? I’m so sorry, that must have been rough” *pat on the shoulder* *sad head tilt*

@SarahjevsEvans I like that you cropped the face, for privacy and safeguarding reasons I assume 😸

Sunbathing outside on the pavement when I came home 😩

You only live once - you should try to spend as much time on the computer as possible. After you die, you won't have access to it any more

@EliMcCann Finish lines, not finish times! Well done - I could never 👏 👏 👏

The swim and bike felt great but the run was a disaster, probably mostly due to an Achilles injury I've been nursing for a while. Nearly everyone on the planet passed me during the run. But that's ok. It's not about who you beat. It's about who you beat up.

Finished the half Ironman with my slowest ever time but I'm still happy. When I pulled my sweaty body into the car I saw my husband had preemptively draped a towel over my seat, which he then supportively and enthusiastically called "the winner's cloth!" Not his first rodeo.

@davvyk I took a photo with some of the soldiers and - as a tall person myself - I automatically checked behind me to make sure their faces would be in the photos but omg they are all 6’7 they are chosen for their height

We are an absolutely ridiculous species 😂

@clhubes This is when I load up YouTube and some lovely aesthetic “work with me - Pomodoro technique” videos … (got me through some long days wfh last year!)