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This arrived from Amazon today for our first #meatFree #Christmas 🎄 🥔 🥕 🥑 🥜 Fried doughnut profiteroles, anyone? 😋 twitter.com/avantgardevega…

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We eat more sweet potatoes 🍠 than normal potatoes 🥔 nowadays. What about you? Potatoes are out of favour – but they have strong roots in a healthy lifestyle | Conversation buff.ly/2w5CnNr

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I must get myself to one of these Parkruns — they’re even flatter than my usual one 😁 ❌⛰⛰⛰ Pancake parkruns! | parkrun UK Blog buff.ly/2MQ7er2 | #parkrun

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Is commuting really so bad? Personally, I don’t like it. What about you? The neglected benefits of the commute | BBC buff.ly/2AQgir0

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I hear it was #BlackCatAppreciationDay yesterday. It’s good that everyone appreciates @SunderlandAFC for even just one day | #safc #blackcats

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“The man called the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) but they said it was a job for Building Control. He rang ECDC Building Control who said it was a job for HSE.” 😒 Structure is unsafe | Ely Standard buff.ly/2LLQotG | #passingTheBuck

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Fancy a pet chicken? 🐓 I’d love one but I think @MrPerkins_Cat would love it the wrong way 😼 How you can save a chicken's life and get a new pet in the process | Cambridge News buff.ly/2MbMyWU

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Littleport Parkrun started well and is promising to be a popular one. 🤞🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ On the run: inaugural Littleport parkrun is a big hit | EADT buff.ly/2LHq9DT | #parkrun

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Britishisms: know your mucker from your muppet? | BBC Ideas buff.ly/2N74JNo pic.twitter.com/bevFjgT8V0

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Twitter’s vast metadata haul is a privacy nightmare for users | Wired buff.ly/2mcciqu

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Scorched earth during heatwave reveals new monument at Newgrange | Irish Times buff.ly/2JaJGXT pic.twitter.com/33UKYbO0av

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The amazing science of the Wood Wide Web | BBC News buff.ly/2NbVo7C

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Ely Museum at risk of closing unless thousands is raised | Ely Museum buff.ly/2mcTWFZ | #Ely #museum #fundraising

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Uncle Fred’s in the paper again 🧓🗞🛥🛳⛴🚢 Sunderland Maritime Heritage museum unveiled ahead of Tall Ships | Sunderland Echo buff.ly/2Jjt3cC | #proud

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Are you a user of Californian cannabis? If so, you’re contributing to the destruction of your native wildlife 🦉 Cannabis growth is killing one of the cutest (and fiercest) creatures in the US | Guardian buff.ly/2KeCEGK | #environment #cannabis #weed

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Can actual people read your Gmail? Find out and stop them by visiting your Google Security Check-up page. Gmail messages 'read by third parties' | BBC buff.ly/2Nkkly5

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“The irony is that by leaving the EU, the United Kingdom will be less useful to Washington as an ally but it will also need the United States much more.” — Jeffrey A. Stacey | Reuters buff.ly/2KNRcge | #brexit pic.twitter.com/9dAUY6IAvI

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George Eustace: ‘Although the Government are not convinced for change, I hope that…I have been able to demonstrate that we intend to do more work and gather more evidence in this area.’ Pet theft | Hansard Online buff.ly/2lQS0CL | #pets #theft #crime #governmentdebate

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Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition | Guardian buff.ly/2EssIHo pic.twitter.com/Csii…

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings pic.twitter.com/3Edf…

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Novel set during the Troubles wins Man Booker Prize | BBC buff.ly/2RYDMyP pic.twitter.com/qq2R…

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Next meeting: 6–7 pm Wednesday 7th November in @the_cutterinn Let me know if you are coming! #ElyWriters pic.twitter.com/bO4O…

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Would you rather be a good writer or an effective writer? Trying to be a good writer is a waste of time | Goins Writer | buff.ly/2E6PqEM pic.twitter.com/MpiP…

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October is Black History Month. Spread the Word celebrates black writing with a writer for every day of the month. How many have you read? Spread the Word buff.ly/2Qutc0V pic.twitter.com/8kaQ…

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How fast do you write? I think it depends on things like fast you type/write, how much time you have, how well it flows. I like to write at least a scene/500 words a day. What about you? For those writing novels, what’s your pace? I feel slow. | r/writing buff.ly/2P2Wh2R

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Sadly, I can’t go to this because I’ll be elsewhere, but if you go, you’ll find an interesting group of writers to talk to. Ely Writers’ Day | on Facebook buff.ly/2ypGAM2

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Capturing complex emotion: a writer's superpower Writers Helping Writers writershelpingwriter…

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Come for the short story challenge, stay for the NaNoWriMo! r/writing buff.ly/2P9hMiC pic.twitter.com/OApJ…

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How are you celebrating National Poetry Day this year? Me, I'm writing a short poem. Maybe I'll post it later… 🤔 Celebrate National Poetry Day | buff.ly/2Qsi7Nz pic.twitter.com/qBIQ…

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October's meeting is cancelled due to lack of interest. If numbers don't improve, the group will continue as online only. This makes me really sad as it was a sizeable and fun group when it started. pic.twitter.com/N1A2…

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Please let me know if you’re going to attend our monthly meeting at 6 pm on Wednesday 3rd October in @the_cutterinn. If I get no replies, I’ll have to cancel the meeting 😱 pic.twitter.com/NZ2h…

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Can you make a home for a chicken in need? Time is running out for these hens 🐓 🐓 🐓 Watton Norfolk Fresh Start For Hens buff.ly/2MBrcSd

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Do you write poetry? If so, do you make it rhyme? What sort of rhymes do you like to use? Types of rhymes in poetry | Writing Forward buff.ly/2x1jYRm pic.twitter.com/K6CW…

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Do you write your story straight through from beginning to end or do you write a bit from the end then a bit from the beginning then a bit from the middle then a bit from…? The art of skipping around or writing out of sequence | Writers helping Writers buff.ly/2OPEOL1 pic.twitter.com/xzUr…

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What a coincidence: seven strategies for harnessing coincidences in fiction | Writers’ Digest buff.ly/2M9pve9

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Do you have this worry? If so, how do you deal with it? Does anyone else worry what their family/friends would think of your writing? | /r/writing buff.ly/2wXP1O7

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#ElyWriters’ @martin_xo continues his travels in Ukraine. Sunday – on the road to Odesa | Martin Black buff.ly/2wWUiFA pic.twitter.com/Tx99…

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Here’s a challenge: you have till 15th September to get your 500-word short story in for the Ely Writers’s Day competition. It must be unpublished and inspired by autumn or winter. Ely Writers' Day buff.ly/2wV8leM | #amwriting #competiton #shortstorycompetition

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The #ElyWriters’ intrepid traveller, @martin_xo, writes about his April adventures in Kiev. Saturday in Kyiv | Martin Black buff.ly/2M7P3bS pic.twitter.com/1OYB…

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Our meetings recommence on Wednesday 5th September after our summer break. Can’t wait to hear what you’ve been writing about. See you in @the_cutterinn at 6 pm! pic.twitter.com/5Tf5…

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Next monthly meeting is on Wednesday 5th September at 6 pm in @the_cutterinn. If you’re bursting with writing ideas, come along and share them — we’d love to hear them 👂 |#amwriting pic.twitter.com/g6Xi…

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Ely Writers have been on Twitter for a whole year! How long have you been tweeting? #MyTwitterAnniversary pic.twitter.com/Y3To…

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Do you write your work by hand? If your hand aches with the effort, try a different way ✍️ Handwriting tips | Paperpenalia buff.ly/yFM5Vq

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There is no meeting this month because we’re having a jolly summer holiday break ☀️ Roll on autumn 🍂

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👹+🐶->😱 Graphic novel to celebrate East Anglian demon dog | BBC buff.ly/2mABlnh

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Next Ely Writers’ Day is announced! Writers' Day buff.ly/2mD4D4U

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I don’t know about you, but I feel like the dried-up grasses of the fens. Our meetings will take a break until the autumn, when I hope I can end my aestivation. pic.twitter.com/QtiJ…

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How to write for the UK government’s website. Also applies to your website if you’re trying to inform your audience. Writing for GOV.UK | GOV.UK buff.ly/2LmExOm

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Have you ever started writing something that turned out to be more complicated than you thought? You're not the only one. That Black Mirror book series has been delayed (for now) | Metro buff.ly/2L8NoD6 pic.twitter.com/c9TA…

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Ely Museum at risk of closing unless thousands is raised | Ely Museum buff.ly/2mcTWFZ | #Ely #museum #fundraising

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What are you reading this summer? Books for the beach — and the brain — this summer | Irish Times buff.ly/2KNmvse

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I use LaTeX. I gave up using Word for big important documents a long time ago! I tried Scrivener, but found it too fancy for its own good. What software do you use for writing? | Reddit /r/writing buff.ly/2m6jvsc

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Third place in Ely Writers’ Day’s short story competition goes to Baptism of Fire. Do you agree with the judges that paragraphs should have been used? The word limit is 500. Ely Writers' Day buff.ly/2uiMJrD

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Imposed a what now? Does not compute ❌💻 twitter.com/goodread…

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Oh, yes. Been there. I can only concentrate on one conversation at a time, and real people get upset if you ignore them 😏 | via @HeyJamie pic.twitter.com/2Iye…

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Alas, tonight’s meeting is postponed until further notice, if not cancelled, due to technical problems. Sorry about that. Maybe you could write 500 words instead, like I’ll be doing ⌨️✍️ FAO @martinxo pic.twitter.com/4FXq…

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Read the winning entry from Ely Writers’ Day — no, it’s not mine 😏 Ely Writers' Day buff.ly/2tXoFtX

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It is so tedious discussing grammar with people who insist on perpetuating made-up rules of grammar. We need to stop kowtowing to the rich man who whimsically hated split infinitives. Just enjoy reading and/or writing. I don’t know what a fronted adverbial is and I’m a linguist. twitter.com/AmandaPC…

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Character names are easy to change in LaTeX: write a command for each character’s name, then, if a name changes, you only need to alter it in one place. Job done. No find and replace needed ☺️ | Sarah Day | #LaTeX #toptips #lovehate #amwriting #characters #justsaying #smug twitter.com/geowrite…

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A couple of photos from Ely Writers' Day | Ely Writers Day on Facebook buff.ly/2ID3LG0

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So true (except tea instead of coffee) 😺😼😸😼😹😼😺😸😼 twitter.com/byMorgan…

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Anime pioneer explains how she went from porn scripts to feature films | Indy 100 buff.ly/2KpX5ju

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Fancy a writing workout? Maybe the Script Gym is for you! Writers Room | BBC buff.ly/2N4jwJF

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May your plots thicken and your characters develop on #nationalWritingDay

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Good luck if you entered the Ely Writers’ Day short story competition! Ely Writers' Day buff.ly/2MYv3Kh

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Writing about addiction: it often takes two perspectives | Peter Selgin @ Jane Friedman buff.ly/2JQTkzX pic.twitter.com/ZktP…

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Setting free the sacred cows of writing advice | Terrible Minds buff.ly/2teVNgF pic.twitter.com/Hca2…

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