Edward Barrow

Another great game already. Ireland pack making the difference.

Glad to see that Brixton gentrification is well and truly over. What used to be 'Champagne et Fromage' in the Granville Arcade is now a second-hand bookshop with attached cafe.

They are remontant though. We had a local grower who grew them but she's retired. Polytunnel is all chillies and tomatoes, outside all slugs and birds. I have a plan for a separate elevated bed, might grow Ciflorette from Baumaux.

Life's too short! I let them set seed. They spread slowly and naturally. Our daffs (established before we moved in nearly 40yrs ago) flower magnificently every year, we never deadhead them...

Proper strawberry flavour. Not just bland sweetness. Shame they ripen all at once though, or I'd be growing them....

Régime change in the USA, however....

Renewing our French titres de séjour. Been asked to sign a 'contrat d'engagement' - no problem with anything in it, so happy to sign, but I don't think they're allowed to insist on it under the Withdrawal Agreement...

When I ran a gluten-free bakery, we always made some dinky little simnel cakes at this time of year. Eleven little marzipan balls and all. They were very nice, but all our cakes were very nice.

For the BoE native animals dodges the culture war question of possibly featuring a black or brown person on the notes.

Would be interesting to see how this correlates with religiosity. Suspect the prevalence of evangelicals explains the difference between UK and US - although perhaps not S.Korea, the other outlier.

All needs to be carefully planned and fixed firmly in statute. The worst system is departmental organisation being done on a whim and a grudge as part of a reshuffle. Although iirc that was how we got the SC, which turned out ok in the end.

I'm too young to remember Profumo, but it frames my political awareness. The 73/74 energy crisis though, germane today, I remember pretty well.

I can still feel in my feet the consequences of walking from Ally Pally to Brixton, after my colleagues and I had managed to get the last train out of KX that morning for a meeting in Stevenage. Surely only a couple of months ago...

tbh, stupid rule. Everyone but especially those with no or thinning hair should wear a hat outdoors at all times in daylight.

it would be amazing except that by lunchtime on day 1 you would be saddle-sore and bored of mile after slow mile of dusty road.... mind you I do fancy those horse-back safaris in the okavango delta

This is the biggest reason for moving to battery-powered garden tools (chainsaws, hedge-cutters etc)

even hours....

That was an absolute cracker of a game.

One team playing as well in the second half as they did in the first. The other has lost discipline.

Two teams playing absolutely sparkling rugby at Murrayfield now.

Defining 'Englishness' with a picture of a dish that was invented in Scotland....

used Palantir targeting information which was informed by Anthropic's Claude (now a Supply Chain Risk because Anthropic has some principles) learning from 10yr old data when the site was military, not a school. Apparently.

On this year's form, Italy must be favourites this evening. Scotland will need a lot of Murrayfield magic to stand a chance against France.

well in the running for most improved team of the championship.

if we were repeating 1973-4, the price would be heading for $240. It's not, because economies are far less oil-dependent than formerly. But even so, a shock is on the way.

Probably not, tbh. If you make a living from writing, join one of the unions (SoA, WGoGB, NIJ etc) but if you make a living from scholarship, you're supposed to find citations more satisfying...

They do. All journal copying money goes to PLS; book copying goes 50/50 ALCS/PLS. (oh and a little bit for DACS for illustrators).
Most journals make you assign the copyright to them on submission. Book authors usuall retain copyright.

CLA conducts regular surveys (or at least it did when I worked for them). Some places were better at filling in the survey forms than others. The biggest payouts then used to go to school textbook authors. But it's always small beans compared to royalties from actual sales.

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‘You’re on your own’, said the Good Samaritan. ‘You’re just trying to exploit my generosity’.

What an utterly perverted, disgusting, inhuman thing to say.

All these things don't make for better scholars. You have to engage brain to learn, you can't offload it. Reading and copying out a quote in longhand is a much more effective study strategy than photocopying the page 'for later'.