Sarah Elizabeth Cox

Sometimes he gets a bit scared of 'real' looking ones and prefers them in a variety of cartoon, animated, colouring book, plastic toy, etc forms. He cries if he sees the large animatronic ones at the zoo or pier - far too realistic! But he's coming round as he gets older, might give it a go...

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A child’s naming of monsters is but a prelude. Soon he will learn to command them, and then you will long for the days of simple roars.

Dinosaurs about 90% of the time. 5% sharks. 5% telling me he's done a poo when he's actually just got farts and doesn't know the difference yet 👍🏻

I'm gonna re-do each chapter writing accents phonetically for each lead figure. We got Cumbria and Hull via South East London, Maryland, South Carolina, Jamaican and Cockney. Gonna be amazing. Gimme the Wolfson 🙌🏻 No? Not a good idea? 😜😂

Just been made aware of this first person fetish phenomenon 😂 Shall I change my entire book? Why would I NOT want to write a biography of a 20-year-old West Indian man in Victorian England in the first person, I'm sure it'll be excellent, sure-fire best seller, award winning, not at all problematic.

Can't believe he won't even give Mr Blobby a few seconds of his time. Entirely uninterested. He also hates the stupid posh pig family, but a big fan of their ice creams from Aldi 😂

Fantastic timing - my university's alumni office just emailed to remind us all we're going to die!

Hah oh gosh that made me laugh. I'm feeling close to this point 😂 When he gets upset sometimes he just tells T.REX!!! Last week I asked him 'Who are your friends at nursery? Are you friends with Randall?' and he replied 'T.rex and Sky' 😭

Jokes on you, mate, Sky (pterodactyl) isn't even a dinosaur.

Some of the songs ARE absolute bangers to be fair! 😂

My son has known all the correct scientific dinosaur names (T.rex, Tayto-tuhtops, Sky, Spiky, Spiney, Roor Roor, Head, Tail, don't @ me) for ages. Today, finally, FINALLY, he has said 'dinosaurs' 😂🙌🏻 Proud. God I hate dinosaurs, I am so sick of dinosaurs, please please stop talking about dinosaurs.

LinkedIn nonce.

The urge to quit my day job and go and live in a caravan up a mountain is growing stronger by the day haha. Alas, I can't afford to even do that. We shall persevere! My publishers recently gave me a little longer - 1 June instead of 1 April - at least! 💪🏻

I'm at the three coffees, two ibuprofen, and a toddler's Easter chocolate dog lolly for breakfast stage of life and book manuscript writing. Help.

Have just learned that @oispooky.bsky.social is keynoting at the #DAM conference I'll be doing a panel at in June - this is very exciting indeed! So looking forward to it.

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Hello!! Ah brilliant, and thank you so much. I am still shocked and surprised to be asked, and very much looking forward to it!🥊

An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.

For people who don’t take allegations of violence against women seriously:

I'll probably be 100 and still liking pictures of cats in boxes

Oh! Had to Google him. He's not the only 1880s boxer in my book with a modern actor doppelganger though... Felix Scott from Barbados has an English Felix Scott who was in Holby City.

Dick Gammon, Bill Cheese, Posh Price and Ernie The Masher are probably fine.

Jack Davenport was a bad bad lad, you'll see that, but I've got a bit of a soft spot for him. In the late-1890s a writer described him as "more sinned against than sinning". And, like, nah: he did a whole LOAD of sinning 😂 But I would like to try and explain WHY - I feel like he deserves it...

I know the world is awful BUT

VICTORIAN NAME OF THE WEEK!

Richard Hogsflesh Rogers

(1851-1913)

Dick. Dick Hogsflesh.

The Victorians were obsessed with them. I BET... well, I hope, that the trend might continue, perhaps on YouTube? TikTok? Haha, let me look. If it hasn't, KIDS, get on it!!!

I was going to write Champion English bird imitator, but I don't know, he might have been half-decent at replicating foreign ones too 🦜🤷🏻‍♀️

Things which weren't in #AThousandBlows but should be: at an 1889 London benefit night for Black American boxer Jack Davenport, performers included a husband v. wife boxing duo, a man with an iron jaw doing feats with his mouth, and the English champion bird imitator. Meet Jack in my book next yr 🥊😂

The weather WAS terrible in Clacton, to be fair.

Vera's husband was Thomas Walter, my dad Geoffrey Thomas, and my brother Thomas Michael but we just couldn't get Thomas to work either for my son or my brother's and I think my dad's a bit disappointed! The chances of Geoffrey coming back seem somewhat slimmer than Vera, but you never know 😂

Love it so much! It was a front-runner for first or middle name if I'd had a daughter (not sure son Jack could pull it off, sadly 😂). My other nan there was Sarah but always known as Sally and I had NO idea that was a typical nickname (she was born 1920) for my own name until a few years back!

Sarah, a 39yr old ghostly pale woman with dark brown hair wearing gold hoop earrings and a chintsy floral lavender purple pussybow high necked blouse from a charity shop - it's vintage C&A The Sixth Sense range

Mums of bride and groom Vera, 69 or 70, Sally, 62, hold bouquets and wear blue and pink pastels. Vera has short white hair abd a similar lavender floral blouse to Sarah albeit in a nice shiny fabric, and a blue waistcoat sort of thing

Quite a successful weekend for both writing and charity shop fashion finds. I've turned up for Monday dressed like my 70-year-old old nan Vera at her son's 1982 wedding 🙌🏻

“252 Pound English Girl Seeks Fame on the Mat!” Introducing the Graeco-Roman Goddess, Miss Juno May (Part I) The whole point of my research project is to focus on wrestling in the 1880s and early 1890s. 1902-ish onward has been ‘done’, hasn’t it? Early Edwardian performers (Hackenschmidt, Gotch et al), bo…

Yes, I whack her out (I couldn't have whacked her in real life anywhere, anyhow!) every International Women's Day. Can't help it. Here's a 6ft 2, 252lb 1906 Lady Wrestler for you. Her real identity is still unknown after 120 years! Kayfabe Queen #IWD2026

1) grapplingwithhistory.com/2021/03/02/i...

Polish one is STUNNING. The half and half type!!!!