Hugh Jones
@hughjconsulting
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I work with leaders in unis to make unis work better. 'Rockstar University Administrator' My tweets are mine alone; I don't necessarily agree with what I RT
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Today I learned the wonderful IT support acronym PICNIC - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer
That is all
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Of all my educational achievements, I'd have to rate my
@BantshireUni
doctorate as one of the easiest.
Which is a mark of the quality of Bantshire's teaching.
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@womensmarchatw
@renato_mariotti
From a UK perspective,
@guardian
is a thoughtful, thorough newspaper, which reports reliably, from a liberal perspective. Proper journalism.
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Flabbergasted and delighted by this.
And very grateful to
@The_AUA
, which is a splendid organisation
Obviously
We are delighted to announce that Hugh Jones FAUA will be receiving the AUA Lifetime Achievement Award at our Annual Conference Gala Dinner on Thursday 7 July!
Read the full shortlist for the 2022 AUA Annual Awards on our website now
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Through my career I’ve seen bullying (not aimed at me, but in the org). It’s cruel, it destroys confidence, it’s wrong. It isn’t the end of a continuum after ’strong’
Bullies are also ineffective. They get less done, because of how they act. Don’t keep a bully on your books.
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A dog that suspects, correctly, that she's about to have a bath
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Well that is a very lovely thing to happen
I am hugely grateful to my friends and colleagues at
@The_AUA
for the award, and beyond measure to
@thekelli2k
who nominated me. It is wonderful to be recognised by people of such quality
Thank you 🙏
#AUA2022
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This looks like a new formulation in the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill: I don’t think I’ve seen “within their field of expertise” as part of this phrase before ...
This is big. A prof of chemistry can’t claim academic freedom in discussing anything except chemistry.
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Invigilated, written exams provide a good way to see who is good at invigilated, written exams
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Twitter, meet Cooper, newest member of the household 🐕🐕🐕
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#HigherEducationPostcard
will be back next week, with cards in memory of my father Bernard, who passed away on Thursday.
This is him aged 17-18, before he started at university
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
on 15.6.21 shows
@OfficialUoM
@ManchesterSU
- it's the union and refectory on Oxford Road
The Students' Union moved into the building shown in 1957. Judging by the tree and the blue car, this card dates from not long after.
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University professional services equivalent: we'll be able to do that in the summer when its a bit quieter
Academia is basically just repeating “next semester should be a little less busy” for the rest of your life.
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Here’s the poll for the Final of the
#HigherEducationPostcard
World Cup
(The postcards are in the thread above)
Let’s work that Twitter algorithm - please vote, retweet, and tag anyone you think should know!
Van Mildert College
1337
Swansea University
1904
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@ucl
Founded in 1826, and one of the two founding colleges of
@LondonU
in 1836, UCL was the first UK university which did not require its students to profess a religion. Widening access right from the get-go.
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Here's my dad, Bernard. He didn't spend much time with his father growing up, which became a bit of a leitmotif during his Alzheimer's. He didn't make the same mistake with me; I miss him.
He didn't hold with things like Father's Day, but hope you like the picture anyway
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Ey up!
#HigherEducationPostcard
19.1.23 shows Yorkshire College, precursor to
@UniversityLeeds
Shown in the card is the College's Great Hall. This was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who also designed the Natural History Museum in London
The card was sent on 27 October 1903
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@DickKingSmith
The adolescent (11 month old) Cooper would like to join this magnificent thread
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It’s the Final of the
#HigherEducationPostcard
World Cup!
@vanmildert1965
(L) v
@SwanseaUni
(R)
The next tweet in this thread contains the poll.
Let’s work that Twitter algorithm - please vote, retweet, and tag anyone you think should know!
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Congratulations
@SwanseaUni
which wins the
#HigherEducationPostcard
World Cup; and commiserations to
@vanmildert1965
whose performance would have won any other game in the tournament.
Closing ceremony to take place on the weekend 🏆🏆🏆
Here’s the poll for the Final of the
#HigherEducationPostcard
World Cup
(The postcards are in the thread above)
Let’s work that Twitter algorithm - please vote, retweet, and tag anyone you think should know!
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I genuinely don't know where to begin with this. Carbon doesn't care where it comes from. We all have to get to zero. Others going slower doesn't mean we can too
The PM is not a good man
BBC News - Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies
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@DickKingSmith
Here’s Freya, aka Freya Thomas-Jones-Dog, aka Frey-Frey, aka Sniffs McGinty, aka Widdles McGoo, aka Mrs Dog, aka Piggles, aka The Monster Poggle-Woggle …
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
15.2.22 shows
@St_Catz
@UniofOxford
Originally established as the Delegacy for Unattached Students in 1868, enabling study without residence costs, Catz became a College in 1962
Its buildings were designed by chairmaster Arne Jacobsen
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#HigherEducationPostcard
28.3.23 shows
@UniOfYork
This card was produced in 1970 by the University for its appeal fund, and hopefully gives some fun spotting what was built and not yet built at that time
The relatively empty car park suggests weekend or early morning
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Just been called a 'Rock-star University Administrator' ...
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Bore da! Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows University College of North Wales, Bangor, which is now
@BangorUni
Over 3000 quarrymen - slate was a big local industry - contributed cash to its foundation in 1884. A people's palace of learning.
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@sheffielduni
- specifically the Arts Tower and, I think, the Dainton Building (the Portland stone building slightly up the hill)
The sky is always this blue in my hometown, Sheffield.
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I don’t like the framing of the Post Office scandal as being “the faulty IT system”
Yes, it was calamitously faulty. But it took the Post Office’s directors and managers to turn the situation into the clusterf**k that it is
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows the Cyncoed Campus of
@cardiffmet
: in 1962 this was the Cardiff College of Education
Rugby fans will know Cardiff Met, whose alumni include Gareth Edwards, JJ WIlliams, Non Evans, Ryan Jones, Gareth Cooper, John Devereaux ...
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Found out yesterday that my work email inbox is full and not accepting any more emails
Quite tempted to do absolutely nothing about it
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@UniofNottingham
's Trent Building from the air
The card was posted in 1938, & judging by the multitudes lining the pathway through the courtyard & down Jubilee Avenue, records an event of significance. Graduation? Royal Visit?
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Entirely normally, me and Freya seem to have been on display at the
#EURO2020
fanzone in Budapest ...
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54 today - how the heck did that happen?
Young folk! (Which is, from where I stand, an increasingly large proportion of you all) - listen to this and take note!
Prince Buster: Enjoy Yourself
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Only just heard that there are 3000 ish fewer places to study medicine this year - via
@BBCr4today
This feels like bad public policy when we know that there is a shortage of doctors. I’m sure there are Reasons, but we’ll be feeling the cost of this for a looong time
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160 years ago today saw the first train on the Metropolitan Line in London; so
#HigherEducationPostcard
10.1.23 shows
@ucl
- nearest station Euston Square - to commemorate 160 years of underground students
The section opened in 1860 went from Paddington to Farringdon only
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A top ten joy must be the cancellation of an event you were due to attend. No matter how wonderful it would have been, or how much you were looking forward to it, isn't there a little bit of everyone whose heart leaps when you suddenly have unplanned free time?
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows the Sackville Street building of
@OfficialUoM
.
The card is printed on two layers, with cut-outs for the windows (and moon and streetlights!), so it looks like the lights are on when you hold the card up to the light
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
25.6.21 shows
@durham_uni
@durhamcastle
University College Durham, based in Durham Castle since 1837 and founded in 1832, was the first College of the University.
Question: is there a more defensible UK university?
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
23.1.23 shows the Arts Tower
@sheffielduni
Opened in 1966, the Arts Tower is Grade II* listed, and has a Paternoster lift serving its 20 floors. Urban myth has it that the building is slowly sinking and sliding downhill ...
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#HigherEducationPostcard
30.3.23 shows
@UniofExeter
Streatham campus
If you visit Exeter University be prepared to traverse some hills. And remember that its good for you!
Question: what other hilly campuses are there in the UK? Not just on a hill, but undulating within campus?
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Speaking
@The_AUA
conference tomorrow, so I’ve ironed a shirt tonight.
This is the kind of strategic thinking that has clients beating a path to my door.
#AUAAutumn2020
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Today’s top tip: when writing about organisational cultures, check that autocorrect hasn’t given you vultures instead.
This makes it a very different argument.
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Freya’s had surgery to remove a (probably benign) lump, and she’s feeling a bit sorry for herself
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
8.2.22 shows
@BangorUni
Looking like a cathedral-castle hybrid, this is Y Coleg ar y Bryn - the College on the Hill. Edward VII laid the foundation in 1907; George V opened it in 1911
Motto: Gorau Dawn Deall - the best gift is knowledge
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This is a really interesting story, and a good non-sensationalist write-up.
We need to think about what counts as integrity. The students cited as using AI in the article we’re using it in ways which are at least cousins to reading books in a library.
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#HigherEducationPostcard
3.3.23 shows
@uniofeastanglia
which, frankly, needs all of the boosts it can get at the moment
Its a lovely place; I know fab people from UEA. A system which places it in jeopardy is a broken system. Perhaps system-wide change is needed?
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Today I will mostly be having a wonderful time at
@The_AUA
conference
#AUA2022
Presenting at 12 with
@thekelli2k
; PGCert graduation; gala dinner.
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Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@UofGlasgow
Founded in 1451, Glasgow is one of Scotland's four ancient unis; a national intellectual tradition unsurpassed in these isles
The University's motto - via, veritas, vita; or, the way, the truth, the life - is quite a promise!
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@NoreenMasud
Mixed feelings like: On the one hand, it may make you feel anxious and fearful about a harmful virus causing harm to many more people; on the other hand, you may be excited because it means we might get to the funkier Greek letters soon
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@KeeleSU
@KeeleUniversity
The Students' Union building at Keele was completed in 1963, and this postcard looks to date from not long after that, judging by the planting.
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Absolute madness. At a time when standards in English HE are being questioned, tarnishing an internationally respected assessor seems, um, brave
QAA to step away from designated role in England via
@wonkhe
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Absolutely love that the programme for the
@MyBCU
graduation ceremonies includes a spotters guide to academic dress - I suspect
@burgonsoc
would approve
Also great that it recognises National Teaching Fellows and
@HEAcademy
awards
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Freya update: worse than usual (for a dog) gastroenteritis, but an anti-inflammatory and antibiotic injection and she's looking perkier. Tablets and extra fuss for a few days. Prognosis good.
#HigherEducationPostcard
will be a little late today because Freya is still unwell and needs (a) fuss and (b) another trip to the vet
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Freya was allowed into the polling station today, but not allowed to vote
On balance I think that this is a good arrangement
#DogsAtPollingStations
@VotingDogs
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@IanDunt
Not sure I agree with this take. If the Garrick is a place where decisions are made and business transacted, then excluding women means worse decisions and continued male predominance, which is a bad thing
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And that's a wrap for me for 2022, at least so far as work goes
I'll start
#HigherEducationPostcard
again in the new year (ie no more daily cards this year!); in the meantime, may I wish you all a very merry Christmas, and thank you all for being lovely in 2022 😀
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I think the plan to close ticket offices is a very bad call. For accessibility, and also for complex tickets. Here’s a petition to parliament, which maybe will help
Petition: Require train operators keep ticket offices and platform staff at train stations
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@DannyBate4
I was disappointed that its root wasn’t an Ancient Greek word “thletic”, meaning couch-potato, negated with the “a” at the front.
A-thletic
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
- in honour of their World Cup win - shows
@SwanseaUni
The card, sent in 1953, shows the university from the air.
Singleton Abbey, the university's original building, is on the upper-right; lower right you can just see the beach!
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Mostly brave little dog
Blood test required pre-treatment next week (teeth and probably benign lump)
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
1.10.21 shows
@UniKent
The photo was taken shortly after the University opened in 1965, I think. This is Rutherford College in the foreground, Eliot College behind it; and the Marlowe Building to the rear. There are more buildings now!
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#HigherEducationPostcard
2.3.23 shows
@cardiffuni
when the main building in Cathays was only part built
I think that this is the view from the Museum Avenue side, but if so, the roads are no longer like this. I'd gladly be put right by folk who know better!
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@UniversityLeeds
in the early 1970s.
Leeds was - along with Liverpool and Manchester - a constituent of the Victoria University from 1887 to 1904, when it was granted its own Royal Charter.
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Currently drafting academic regulations and my enthusiasm level can best be described as low
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@andrealivesey
@colin_mccaig
I know of a university where, once upon a time, the survey company decided that it could not share the literals of the staff survey with the executive.
It wasn’t just the negativity, but the very specific, detailed and graphic suggestions from multiple independent sources.
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I’m not an accountant, but learning my way around a set of accounts, even at the rudimentary level I could, was enormously helpful in my career
This is a really good starting point on a topic of current interest
What is a university surplus? via
@wonkhe
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Hugh
Pugh
Barney McGrew
Cuthbert
Dibble
Grubb
TfL are setting aside £4m to name the different Overground routes. What would you call them?
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By popular demand, and as a sign that Freya is feeling quite a lot better, thank you, here's a
#WaitingInTheCar
selfie for you all
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@UniofNottingham
- its the Trent Building seen from across the lake.
The walled garden at Highfield House, just behind the Trent Building is, apparently, the home of the UK's national collection of Canna
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Does anyone else find nationally-encouraged public demonstrations a bit creepy?
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A new service offer for Higher Education - I will create for you a snappy acronym for your project
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
2.2.23 shows
@SwanseaUni
This is the Singleton campus, and these gates had lots of folk outside picketing yesterday
Is that a Commer, a Bedford or some other van trundling down the main drive? I bet someone knows ...
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This is the point that Gary Lineker was making. The government is using *language* similar to that used in the 1930s. Recognising this might help us remember our shared humanity
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence.
It took time.
#GenocidePreventionDay
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@UoLondon
Senate House, along with
@LSHTM
bottom right,
@britishmuseum
top right and
@SOAS
peeking out at bottom left
When I worked at Senate House a million years ago, lunchtime at the museum was a regular treat
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@devisridhar
Daily life back to normal and no overseas travel would be my choice. But also need to think about mechanics of export and imports ...
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Good morning!
#HigherEducationPostcard
5.4.22 shows
@theUL
@UniCambridge
to mark the wonderful, anonymous, return of Charles Darwin's missing notebooks
22 years ago they went missing; 15 months ago an appeal was made for their return; and now they are back where they belong
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What a bunch of pillocks the current government are. Can we not have a grown-up conversation about what is working and not in the UK, rather than chasing arbitrary targets which would cause massive harm to the UK overall?
This will get worse and worse, I fear
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Good morning! Today's
#HigherEducationPostcard
shows
@UniStrathclyde
The Anderson Institute, founded in 1796, became Anderson's University from1828 'til 1887; then a College because there was no legal recognition of University title. This finally came in 1964.
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Me and my ridiculous little dog, who won't give me any personal space 🤣🤣🤣
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Universities are about preserving human capacity: the expertise in a good university department takes a long time to build
We shouldn't rush to close them
The marketisation of higher education may be something we come to regret in the not-too-distant future
Sadly,
@UniKent
has announced plans to axe a number of smaller departments, including philosophy. We perform well on all measures, including student recruitment. But smaller subjects have less clout and are easiest to cut. Help us shout out our value to the uni! They need to hear
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Ask anybody who has managed student registration whether 18m booster jabs in 18 days is plausible
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Big shout out to all admissions officers, planners & data wranglers at work in unis today dealing with A level results
#clearing2016
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Here’s the second of the
#HigherEducationPostcard
World Cup quarter-finals:
@BangorUni
(L) v
@SwanseaUni
(R)
The next tweet in this thread contains the poll.
Please vote, retweet, and tag anyone you think should know!
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Freya dog likes bookshops, as do I ...
Doors opened 3 minutes ago.
Everyone, this is Freya.
Freya, this is everyone.
As you can see, Freya has the ability to look directly into your soul.
Her proudest achievement is that she is a Very Good Dog.
#DogsInBookshops
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