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Soggy Liberal
Watching the presidential campaigns from across the water is fascinating. Calling someone a Liberal (or Socialist for that matter) clearly has a very different connotation in our respective countries. The adjectives 'dangerous' and 'extremist' attached oxymoronically to 'Liberal' provoke hilarity in the UK because the most often applied adjective ( Read more... ) -
How ardent fans are perceived by their victims
A wonderful letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe (found on Facebook). No comment from me required - we're all teenagers
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Spring
It's cold, it's pouring with rain but it's the first day of meteorological spring - in the UK, anyway - and Yorkshire is awash with daffodils.
Spring in Wensleydale, Yorkshire
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No parsnips involved
This Welsh mouse is houseproud: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67902966 -
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We Brits claim to have sangfroid under pressure, but the Czech variety is pretty special:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-67252981
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Self awareness?
The quote from the Dalai Lama,"Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength" used as a user pic has to be virtue-signalling of the least self-aware kind anyone could use.
