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It was Andy's birthday at the weekend, I think he or Sim must have remembered that Paul's was a couple of days before because they came up to London and co-opted me into two days of feasting and fun. That's actually a day too much for me nowadays but never mind ( Read more... ) -
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I hate UKIP!! (More than I can say)
So they won a by-election at last. Now comes the clamour for all the mainstream political parties to exhibit their 'understanding' of the 'electorate's worries' and be more like UKIP.
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Next translation project maybe
Found this copy of Camille's speech on Gallica, can't imagine the difficulty he must have had making speeches of this length and it reminded me of the exultant letter he wrote to Lucile about it. They've also finally digitised Acts of the Apostles but there's an awful lot to wade through in the faint hope of some juicy bits, maybe I'll just look at ( Read more... ) -
Punctuation!
I've been reading an urban fantasy by Justin Gustainis and I like this quote v much ~ colons note, not the glorious semi colon which, artfully placed, is better than sex.
" Ned once explained to me that academic papers usually have a colon in the title, because so many of them are written by assholes." -
John Keats
This very human picture of Keats was painted by a friend 'just before he started to be ill'
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Pride
Paul's dad was a miner (face worker in Maltby actually).Last night I went to see Pride. I never take much notice of hype (it's been well hyped) and my heart is all too often resistant to being warmed or having its strings tugged at ( Read more... ) -
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I just learned a new word (yeah two or three years after everyone else I'm sure) shelfie, a picture of one of your bookshelves. How much nicer than selfies, might do some more..( Shelf 1 )