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Oh sigh. We are promised 'The truth about internet dating' and we get Tanya Gold making total predictable cliche-ness, also total failure to register that this is so not an entirely new phenomenon, just a different medium (O hai, Harry C! - book on personal ads which I cannot find my post on). Or that many people meet their eventual partners online but NOT via dating sites.
The dangers of crowds and preventable disasters involving.
The bad news is, the audiobook version of the O'Brian novels is abridged: the good news is, yay, read by Robert Hardy.
(And on actors and voices, is this not typecasting? Patrick Stewart to play the Voice of God in English Mystery Play Cycle at Barnsley - but which cycle, we ask? I would guess, given that location, Wakefield.)
Wales:
Woman thrown out of shop for speaking Welsh WTF
Waiting for a verdict as to whether 'Pontcysyllte aqueduct near Wrexham, a wonder of Georgian cast-iron engineering designed by Thomas Telford in 1805 to carry boats' gets to be a UNESCO Heritage Site
Sisters: another acute piece from Anne Billson on sisters in movies as halves of a whole person.
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