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Had intended to get work sorted this weekend, and while I have done some, I have inadvertently just ended up having a good time.
Yesterday I saw an Ideal Husband at the Nuffield. The best part had to be the end of Act 1, which the text describes as follows:
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: Put out the lights, Mason, put out the lights!
[The servant puts out the lights. The room becomes almost dark. The only light there is comes from the great chandelier that hangs over the staircase and illumines the tapestry of the Triumph of Love.]
Rather than with the servant walking to the light switch, and waiting for half a minute, while the person who does the lighting realises that perhaps they ought to turn the lights off.
Today I mostly spent it with Helena F-W and some other maths people celebrating her birthday. Dan came up with the word
applet n. a baby apple
Example use: The way you grow an apple-in-a-bottle is by putting a bottle over an applet while it's still on the branch and letting it grow inside.
Having heard of this Mr. Ben asks what chicklet means. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's either an egg, or a much derided form of literature. And Gemma asked what a Hamlet is. Other than possibly my second favourite character in literature is, I have no idea!
Yesterday I saw an Ideal Husband at the Nuffield. The best part had to be the end of Act 1, which the text describes as follows:
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: Put out the lights, Mason, put out the lights!
[The servant puts out the lights. The room becomes almost dark. The only light there is comes from the great chandelier that hangs over the staircase and illumines the tapestry of the Triumph of Love.]
Rather than with the servant walking to the light switch, and waiting for half a minute, while the person who does the lighting realises that perhaps they ought to turn the lights off.
Today I mostly spent it with Helena F-W and some other maths people celebrating her birthday. Dan came up with the word
applet n. a baby apple
Example use: The way you grow an apple-in-a-bottle is by putting a bottle over an applet while it's still on the branch and letting it grow inside.
Having heard of this Mr. Ben asks what chicklet means. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's either an egg, or a much derided form of literature. And Gemma asked what a Hamlet is. Other than possibly my second favourite character in literature is, I have no idea!