I think of this excerpt every time I struggle to write an email at work. I try to get around the issue of "this is going to be so insulting" by trying to find the perfect wording and the truth is just the truth, there's not much I can do with how I convey it.

It was only when, in her own room after Hall, she set about writing to Peter, that she ( Read more... )

I'm watching a positive deluge of TV these days, compared to my usual baseline of zero - I started watching the BBC adaptation of Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club with another friend. It came out in the 1970s and stars Ian Carmichael as Wimsey.

They appear to be just available on youtube so the barrier to entry is very low.

I absolutely ( Read more... )