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I loved the Ladybird fairytales when I was a child. The illustrations were beautiful. Beauty and the Beast looks like an 18C version of Planet of the Apes, which is a fun concept. (Lord Monboddo is clearly involved!)

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Max on the subject of canaries (courtesy of estellacat on Tumblr):
With regard to such a serious object, mademoiselle, am I permitted to speak of canaries? Undoubtedly, if these canaries are interesting … and how could they not be since they come from you? They are very pretty; we expected that being raised by you they would again be the sweetest and most ( Read more... )

Which Revolutionary are you?While I disagree with some of the quizmaster’s characterisation of him, I was most amused that my result was ( Read more... )

A lady in a gift-shop complimented me on my "William Wilberforce locket" today.
Ahem…!!!
(And given Wilberforce's reactionary record on working people's rights in Britain and anything not-slavery-related, I suspect the Boy's feathers were slightly ruffled…!)
This is, however, a step up from being mistaken for so-called "Bonnie" Prince Charlie, as ( Read more... )

Because 18C clothing means the boys get sexually objectified…


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Here's Mark Steel's French Revolution skit. Great fun, though he can't pronounce the Boy's surname right… ;-D

I am drinking coffee with a shot of Amaretto and eating Curd Tart, a local delicacy which is one of the great benefits of returning to Hull.

Max is gazing at me prettily, if somewhat plaintively, from the wall because of this. One of his few vices is pâtisserie. However, his, ahem! neck and throat problem is now something of a handicap where that' ( Read more... )

The Beeb is talking about yet another adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
Why?
Austen makes me want to poke my own eyes out with a spoon. To quote my old friend Martin the Archæologist, who suffered the same A Level course in the year below me at school:
"Ever since enduring Mansfield Park I have thought that less chat and more Jacobins would be an ( Read more... )

Couldn't resist posting this… Yeah, that's my alter-ego all right. Usually, with me, it's a brolly, though, and I leave the candy-stripey-ness to the boy…