I'm trying to decide whether the first to explain title inheritance in the Tea Room will get it wrong or right.

Voted.

I thought it was busier than in other years. Might be because of all the nutcases these days.

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I saw this while clicking through a 'remarkable photos/films/news' site and thought of Katharine.

Ahhhh this book. I'm trying to finish it, but it's so not what it claims to be. And neither is the heroine. Supposed to be intelligent, feisty, and whatnot, but in reality she's indecisive, stupid and she never says anything worth reading ( Read more... )

Started the Training Center for Linguee. It's evaluating dictionary sentences. I've done a few example sentences now and I still differ from their judgements. I wonder how that will be when I reach number 80.

Today we got a birth announcement card: a niece was born on January 28th.

It just occurred to me that SIL was due a few days ago. The previous time we weren't allowed to come and see the baby for various reasons, so I'm curious how it will go this time.

Sitting on the couch reading/watching Future Learn's 'Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier'.

The family strike again ( Read more... )

I started a MOOC course. Today I went through two weeks' worth of lessons.

I started an easy one just to see what it was like. I didn't do most of the assignments like 'look up this or that' though.