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I love twitter, I realy do. I follow some interesting, funny people who write pithy things in 140 characters or less.  And I also follow some celebrities, people I admire. Some of these people I've loved for decades - singers, writers, comedians, actors. How wonderful to follow them on twitter, gain their insights, find out what they're working on next, what they're thinking, how they live their lives away from the media glare. I thought folllowing them on twitter would bring me a little closer to understanding my favourite celebs. Unfortunately, it has. I'm not naming names but I'm very disapppointed in you all. My favourite writer of all time, I've got all her books and read more than one of them more than once. But she's rubbish at twitter and she tweets all the bleedin' time about absolutely nowt. Get off the twitter and spend your time writing another book, woman. Unfollowed. My favourite female singer, ever. Bolshy and ballsy on stage i...

I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update has just gone live here This week in Corrie, there's been a right carry on with the barmaid and the boozer.

To Gibside National Trust at the weekend. What a smashing place. Not just a dusty old house and a bit of a garden, like you normally get with National Trust. There's acres of forest walks too. Highly recommended.

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I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update has just gone live here This week in Corrie, I'm sick to the back teeth of back room St Ella.

Being a fan of funiculars, I went quite giddy with excitement when I found out that there was a song about funiculars . Mind you, I've only ever been in the ones at Scarborough but there's something special about a tram that goes up and down a hillside.  When I win the lottery I'm going to travel the world and ride all the funiculars I can find, both up and down, and tick them all off in a little book.

To the flicks this rainy weekend to see the new Ken Loach film, The Angels' Share. It's wonderful and I can't recommend it enough. Broadly, it's a comedy about friendship and love, whisky, kilts and violence. If you enjoy watching This is England on telly, you'll love this movie. At the end of the film, the audience broke into spontaneous applause. I can't remember the last time that happened at the flicks.  And then to the National Glass Centre in Sunderland to see the final year glass and ceramics degree show. There was some amazing work, most of it well above the maturity you'd expect at undergraduate level. Gorgeous glass from some very talented Sunderland University students. View it until June 22nd . Miss it at your disadvantage.