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"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

submitted 34 days ago • 743 comments

This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?

submitted 45 days ago • 86 comments

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

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Ridiculously pleased with my attempt at Nigella’s chocolate fruit cake. Perfect way to unwind after a demanding week.

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.

submitted 80 days ago • 48 comments

A day of intense editing of the first 10,000 words of my first novel. I love the whole process of #writing

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning! It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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Escaping to the library was my way to cope when my father died. I was 12. My mother rejected me. I read everything I could. The librarians were like my family.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

submitted 89 days ago • 674 comments

It’s the fashion to say that the NHS is broken.In contrast,I emailed my GP surgery in Sheffield for an appointment last Friday, got an appointment that morning (which I couldn’t make),was offered an alternative yesterday and have an ultrasound scan scheduled at Hallamshire hospital this afternoon.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

submitted 97 days ago • 792 comments

Might need this again

submitted 99 days ago • 17 comments

Loving this! Hilary Mantel on ‘The Joys of Stationery’: the importance of ring binders; constructing a book like a collage; and avoiding a situation where ‘the whole structure of a book went wrong because you let your stationery boss you about’👌

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

Shinjuku, Tokyo. Very slightly in the future.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Rather pleased with my picture of the tenement opposite. I never tire of Edinburgh, my happy place.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Because we need beauty in our lives; more than ever #Edinburgh sunset

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment