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Mhairi McFarlane

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Writer πŸ“šromantic comedies & πŸπŸ“Ί writers room Slow Horses Series 5 ✍🏻 Meme slag. Lover of cats. Prosecco goblin. Old Hollywood enthusiast. Don’t trust me with Google Maps & we should be fine. https://www.mhairimcfarlane.com/

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πŸ˜†πŸ˜† honoured to be there!

03.03.2026 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve started & enjoying while finding psychically exhausting πŸ˜€

28.02.2026 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your boyfriend looking at a meme

27.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ranting about how much I hate nihilism as clever in TV shows, and said = betting on people being good sometimes, isn’t emotionally naive. Omg that’s it. Not everything has to be Succession

27.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t say I blame you I’m a recidivist in this respect

27.02.2026 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I invent a Time Machine but instead of killing baby Hitler I’m finding out which clothes I don’t wear on holiday so I can pack lighter with confidence

27.02.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much! X

27.02.2026 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please translate

26.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Spread bookers are people who book multiple restaurants for same night & just turn up to one they fancy & no show the rest, and it’s understandably led to restaurants demanding reminder confirmation & credit cards from all of us

26.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dudes I get spread bookers are awful people, but it’s a bit much to be shouted at with multiple asterisks like drill sergeant for crime of finding your menu appealing & providing my card details

26.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m very pro restaurants protecting themselves from curse of no shows. But just had most ornery Ts & Cs I’ve ever seen. CONFIRM U ARE STILL COMING?! OR WE’LL JUST CANCEL UR TABLE AS β€˜SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET’ & YOU WILL BE GONE BY **9** WHEN WE WILL BE GLAD TO BE RID OF YOU. RUNNING LATE? EAT SHIT

26.02.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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yoda is holding a pair of glasses in his hand ALT: yoda is holding a pair of glasses in his hand

A piece of wisdom I’ve accrued: don’t confuse someone agreeing with you for someone supporting you, it’s not the same thing. And in some situations, don’t confuse it with them agreeing with you, either.

24.02.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honoured!

23.02.2026 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The margherita pizza & vegetarian sausage comps threw up absolute joke results

21.02.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜A crunchy, blistered, golden-brown pillow’: the best supermarket puff pastry, tasted and rated Which supermarket shortcrust pastry puffs up proudly, and which comes up short?

This feature disturbing my calm again: if the analysis is based on best in class then why are you downgrading a more expensive product? Best Value is a different competition entirely surely www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

21.02.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mike Leigh is 82.
I often think of this scene from Naked to remind myself to keep things in perspective as we’re only in the first few moments of the 1st of January after all.
Thewlis gives one of the all time great performances.

20.02.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

Reminder that my friend’s Tory Dad said Labour only have one real policy: β€˜free pies for the scruffy’

20.02.2026 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2

The black one! 🫑🫢🏻 thank you xx

15.02.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

15.02.2026 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry quilted box sounds a bit obscene Prince lyric

15.02.2026 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 3 genres: quilted box, bivvy bag, or β€˜will be so cold it’s more like a second shirt’

15.02.2026 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not to sound 92 but the coats & jackets industry is missing a trick by not producing β€˜warm but still has a shape’ variety of outerwear. It’s assumed if you don’t want to be cold you must also want to look like a vertical bivvy bag

15.02.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Reminded me of a cheese, onion and mayo sandwich’: the best (and worst) supermarket quiche, tasted and rated Which quiche egg-celled and which crumbled in the face of our rigorous taste test?

This feature continues to confound me. Why would you expect a supermarket quiche in a box to measure up to a Michelin starred restaurant version? www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

14.02.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the cunning genius is to reclassify very sugary & sweet processed foods as athlete fodder

12.02.2026 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In How To Get Ahead In Advertising they said, as law of selling junk food: β€˜if the nosh pot is not high in one thing, it must be low in something else’ & I think that every time I see this high protein mania. You’re eating rebadged chocolate porridge & strawberry Yop nosh pots for breakfast

12.02.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

That’s Shetland

10.02.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

10.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Industry has spawned an industry of people who ask if you watch Industry

10.02.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Something compelled me to make this

10.02.2026 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3667    πŸ” 1072    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 36
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Just beyond parody at this point

08.02.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2830    πŸ” 877    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 31