Tuesday linkage; or rather, the intention but not the fulfillment
Well, actually the first one I meant to link to I can't find on Guardian website: advance article on forthcoming British Library exhibition on Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) b. 1806, happy 200th, half of one of the most famous-ever virtually-met couples. Foregrounds EBB's feminism, but I don't really think there's much of a case for turning Mr Barrett into 'not really a monster'. And nil that I can find on BL's site, either.
In fact I think there is something weird about the site*, because I can't find the column about weird V-Day suggestions, like Lakeland Llama Treks (only romantic for the hardcore llama-fetishist, I would have thought). There is an earlier para about this here, though.
Nor can I find the snippet about recipes and how people tend to make only a few specific recipes from any given cookery book. Rather than working their way through the lot. Well, duh.
But this one was linkable: Stuart Jeffries on The Death of Handwriting. As someone whose handwriting died while I was still at school through taking notes at high speed - what this did to my never-tidy fist was why I learnt to type - I think it can be an over-rated means of communication. And let's not go into my professional involvement with handwritten documents. Puzzle your way through a few Victorian letters where they crossed the lines to save space, and you'll start wishing they were texting each other very quickly.
*Possibly being overloaded by people texting in their 'Piglet wuvs Snuggle-Pooh' V-Day messages, not to mention all the other V-Day hoo-hah.