Jane Stemp Wickenden
@JaneVsw
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Writer, former rare books librarian, can't stop doing research. On wheels and sometimes keels; here seen reading The Battle of Maldon in Old English, at Maldon.
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Lost for words ☺️.
Just read: WATERBOUND
@JaneVsw
's excellent futuristic novel championing the demand for difficult and dangerous questions to be asked and calling for its characters (and reader) to have the courage to challenge unacceptable prejudices. Terrific, memorable story for teens & up.
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@Gralsritter1
@hannahrosewoods
Have you any idea how impermanent concrete is? One of the 1960s award-winners in Oxford has had to be demolished already. Do those of us who achieve Oxford or Cambridge for reasons other than money or class not deserve to work in buildings that combine age and beauty?
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Here lies William Blake 1757-1837 / Poet Artist Prophet / I give you the end of a golden string / Only wind it into a ball / It will lead you in at Heavens gate / Built in Jerusalems wall.
With autumn leaves & gladioli on his gravestone in Bunhill Fields today.
@neilphilipmyth
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@MatthewLLand
They should be more me - look it up on Amazon to see if they want it, then order it from a real shop 🙂
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@steveparks
I wish my husband liked boiled eggs, I'd go there in a shot (I know that sounds feeble, but I need him to push the wheelchair 😉).
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@Hanifkureishi
The dementia ward adds insult to injury. For my spinal fusion, at age 14, I was on a geriatric ward. It was, as I'm sure you'll appreciate, like being posted to the foreignest of foreign countries. Wishing you strength and love, and freedom, wherever they may be found.
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@steveparks
He'll have to have toast 🙂. I like porridge and I like boiled eggs, so I'll be okay.
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@GemmaHAuthor
That solitude was not a thing to be desired but a sign of mental illness (the desire of a person of faith to be alone with God did not equal solitude).
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@val_the_narwhal
@JeffreyJDean
OED on "they": "With an antecedent that is grammatically singular, but refers collectively to the members of a group, or has universal reference." First recorded in a manuscript of 1375.
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@JPearceMedium
Perhaps
@SuellaBraverman
would care to discuss this extraordinarily antiquated viewpoint with me, given that I was educated mainstream throughout and am by no means unusual.
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@sheila9419
@Sotherans
If it was God presumably it would have to be signed in triplicate - unless we are talking the Unitarian edition?
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@last_of_england
I like this by William Soutar:
On an ex-serviceman who died during a hunger march
(a thought for Armistice Day)
When in the silence you remember them,
Who were destroyed by war, remember him
For whom the bugles that resounded Cease!
Pronounced his privilege to starve in peace.
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@CarlBovisNature
the Christmas cards I ordered have arrived - lovely and thank you for the speedy arrival!
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@Autumn__Fox
I can only suggest that you take your own advice, in that case. Calling something "nonsense" and "ridiculous" because you disagree with it is, no more than your opinion, and doesn't make *your* opinion any more true either.
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@VGBurnzy
@tricyclemayor
Have you considered, also, that she might be in the right? Have you considered that you are in the wrong by your lecturing, hectoring response?
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@LissaKEvans
@richmondie
My copy (Dean's Classics) had no katydid prologue - I never knew about it till I was in my 20s. Also "What Katy Did Next" was simply part 2 of that edition...
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@RegretteRuane
Crossed line in an Aberystwyth phone box, 1983/4: "And I'm telling you, boyo, there was *five* of them!"
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@OnThisDayShe
Ummm - David Bruce? "In 1887, he discovered a bacterium, now called Brucella, that caused what was known as Malta fever" - hence *bruce*llosis.
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@OSaumarezSmith
@FictionFox
Once seen in Keble College Chapel on the switch for illuminating the Holman Hunt painting: "Light of the World not working."
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@Sonic_Screwup
I have very long hair. Row D at the theatre; I was wearing it loose. Flicked it behind me, tipping my head back. A tangle/knot snagged in the jeans buttons of a man sidling to his seat in row E. I don't know how long it took him to get free but it felt like bloody forever.
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@AlexHardwick95
English lecturer who shall remain nameless, lecturing on Jane Eyre and structuralism in 1981, while waving his arms about knocked his specs flying and couldn't see them to retrieve them ...
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Early Music Show talking about black Tudor trumpeter John Blanke right now.
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@Bossloper
@Canadian_Errant
@donaeldunready
But successful invaders always start at Kent,* and we still have a Duke of Kent.
(*Thanet, to be precise, from whence they ravage with fire (and according to certain obstinate historians, the sword)**)
**Sellars and Yeatman, 1066 and All That.
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@cspurvey
@thatdalglishguy
@writes_ea
Indeed it does. Earliest citation 1340s or 1360s, fuzzy recall prevents me from remembering which.
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@iconawrites
@Mat_at_Brookes
And also, having that picture of the Shire makes the threat of Mordor so much more terrifying as it unfolds - we don't understand the enormity of the danger at first.
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@Hieraaetus
Can't shut my pedantic down, sorry: Dionysus is the god, Dionysius one of his followers. There is a jot of difference.
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@adafz78
@SendCakeFilms
@supermathskid
And anyone who uses the word "retarded" as an insult isn't worth taking notice of, so where does that leave you?
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@kjfit33
@natgrace79
The Jesus Christ who said "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another"? Seems like a good idea; you should try it.
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@TwoWheeledAndy
@RMC_TptPlanning
@MrTimDunn
@WellsCathedral1
1347-ish to spread the load where the chancel was sinking into softer ground after the first stage had been added to the tower.
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@jathorpmfm
@nianguapatty
Luke 6:37, Romans 12:19. Neither the definition of justice nor the person to whom it will be meted out are yours to choose.
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@Nick71914256
@Gralsritter1
@hannahrosewoods
I am more aware than you believed of the nature of Roman concrete, and of the similar qualities appertaining to medieval mortar. As I was referring to modern buildings I would have expected the reader to deduce that I was referring, accordingly, to modern concrete.
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@DrLindseyFitz
And in the Second World War all the ice-cream vans not delivering ice cream were recommissioned, thanks to their on-board refrigeration, to transport blood supplies round the country.
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I get
@TheRegencyCook
's newsletter, and I'm only sorry I never seem to have time to respond. One of the nicest niches (or nichest nices) on Twitter.
If you get my newsletter every week and love it would you let me know here on Twitter?
I'd love to get more subscribers and your (hopefully) kind words would help me get more followers.
Thanks SO much.
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@sixteenthCgirl
Thank you! We have teams of special cleaners! We have call numbers and catalogues!
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@danielmgmoylan
@OneMoreGoodMan
@MatthewStadlen
@RussInCheshire
Ungrammatical truth is infinitely preferable, however, to grammatical untruth.
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@TheRegencyCook
I think it's Le Menagier de Paris that includes the instruction "Beat until you have worn out three kitchen-maids."
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@Another_Shore
@Eva_B89
Same! Surrey girl here although for some reason it is said with a north-country accent among those I know that say it.
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@BethanyJarmul
My first is not really about the writing life, as such, but about the life that made a writer: Rosemary Sutcliff, 'Blue Remembered Hills.' Next, Ursula K. Le Guin, 'The Language of the Night' and then Alan Garner, 'The Voice that Thunders.'
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@AdamCSharp
The Chronicles of Naania.
The Tale of the Flopsy Buns.
Fahrenheit 451 (233 C, 213 fan, gas mark 8).
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@AnneLouiseAvery
From Helen Waddell's translation of Alcuin's hymn to St Michael:
"Hear us, Michael, hear us greatest angel,
come down a little from thy high seat,
to bring us the strength of God
and the lightning of his mercy."
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@IronDuk05186191
@HKW1981
@Artemisapphire
@JeremyN80616364
@HookArron1
If your brains were dynamite they wouldn't shift your hat.
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@AfricanArchives
I believe part of Nevil Shute's book The Chequer Board (Heinemann, 1947) must have been inspired by this episode.
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Flowers beside one of the south nave arcade pillars in Gloucester Cathedral, with light from a stained-glass window cast on the limestone.
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@Glinner
@HeadWarriorTWM
And you are spreading the sort of misinformation against which the Zoo's kind and rational statement is the best defence.
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Excursion with my dad and other half today to St Michael's Barton Turf, which has a rood screen and a screen to the south chapel. The latter features kings Henry VI, Edmund the Martyr (
@DrFrancisYoung
I thought of you), Edward the Confessor & Holofius (Olaf, in disguise).
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@arthistorynews
Going off at a tangent, has anyone ever deciphered the letter held by St Ivo / A Man Reading in the [workshop of] Rogier van der Weyden portrait?
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@thehistoryguy
You got me looking it up. 60 of them were younger than 20; eight of them were 14 years old; 542 children lost their fathers; 205 women their husbands; one woman lost her husband, two sons, a brother & her lodger. Colliery fined £10 with £5/5/- costs, colliery manager fined £24...
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Not the world's most exciting photo? But that quayside in Iraklion, Crete, saw the action for which Surgeon Will Maillard, RN was awarded the RN Medical Service's only VC so far; between the arches and the red-roofed building at the left-hand side.
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@emerald88604982
@BrutishMuseum
@CamillaTominey
I repeat, the college is nothing to do with the trust fund. Oxford University and the Oxford colleges are separate bodies. Ask the Rhodes Scholars.
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@ColleenMoriar12
@PaulRidley5
If you had a family member who needed care, would you simply abandon them? It can be a 24/7 task and attendance allowance is piffling small even if one can get it.
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@BlondeHistorian
Being prayed for because of my disability makes my skin crawl - and I try to be a Christian. What needs curing is the abled attitude 🙂
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@Classicbritcom
As someone with cerebral palsy it meant a great deal to me to see him on Horizon in the 70s, although I think I missed his appearance on Blue Peter as I was at university by then.
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Very sad to hear of the death of my Oxford friend and colleague Alan Tadiello, formerly Assistant Librarian at Balliol College. A kind and lovely man with a witty (though well-hidden) sense of humour. Rest in peace, Alan. You'll be missed.
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I am supposed to be reducing the size of my book collection - but what else to do when there's a reading and you can buy signed copies?
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Not that I advertised it, but I have been pre-diabetic since 2021 (Hb1ac 43 or 45) but now I'm not. Hooray! (cut out pasta, rice, noodles; reduced bread, cake, pastry etc).
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@jviddy
@AdamHubrig
@MollyJongFast
I love it when people get down to my level (hard of hearing AND use a wheelchair) but I've come across one or two who dislike it because they feel it equates to treating them like children.
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@LauraDMacdonald
@oldenoughtosay
@JayHulmePoet
Song of songs 5:4. ''My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.''
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@sojopotter
@officialnhaynes
It was full of copies of things though, and unravelled over the centuries rather than going in one crisis event. Better wish for Persepolis and the library burned by Alexander.
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@RevRichardColes
Only Dickens's rich have the luxury of boredom, seems to me; the poor and infirm endure the daily fight against monotony.
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@theirishego
@ShowMeASignBryn
@DWP
I attended my interview ... and my wheelchair did not fit through their office door. That helped.
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@AdamCSharp
plenus sacculus est aranearum - my purse is full of cobwebs (Latin: Catullus) [coin purse, for our American friends].
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I have just been to the Eric Ravilious: Downland Man exhibition at
@WiltshireMuseum
and now all Wiltshire & Somerset look like a Ravilious watercolour as we drive through them.
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@DrFrancesRyan
That is such an ableist, self-satisfied article. Comments were closed by the time I got to it, or there might have been Words Had.
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@joshcarlosjosh
'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.'
(Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond.)
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@Sonnet_Fitz
@heyhandymandy
@JVSReads
I edited a story once where the author had produced double spacing in Word by hitting return twice *every single line* - didn't know whether to laugh or scream...
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@danaracette
That reminds me of the time when I was in a Stryker frame after major spinal fusion (human jam in mattress sandwich to keep spine secure) and at the 2am flip to avoid bedsores a nurse had forgotten to fasten the top so the sandwich fell apart. Fastest nurse in the west >>>> 1/2
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@AnneLouiseAvery
"Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all." (Emily D)
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