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@AmandaPCraig I suspect I will want more wily Odysseus and more indicators of divine presence (which I gather CN has toned way down and made an option only if you choose to interpret it that way), but definitely keen to see it tomorrow! 😃

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@LBFlyawayhome My first year of school (1971/2), we had small individual towels like these, which hung on our coatpegs, but had numbers embroidered on the bottom so you used the same one, in case they got mixed up. Mine was No. 11. Pretty soon after that, they switched to green paper towels.

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@LBFlyawayhome I had this tricycle in blue. I loved it to bits. Later I ended up with my brother's Chopper bike.

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@SketchesbyBoze Also, pretty much invented the Tardis (when his character visits the house of the Man in the Moon and it's larger on the inside.... CS Lewis borrows this when he writes of the Stable in The Last Battle and it too is larger on the inside.

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@JeremyWingert79 10 yr old grandson, not 19 yr old 😆

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@JeremyWingert79 Keep going with the Laura Ingalls - I'm heading into reading These Happy Golden Years to my 19 yr old grandson, having read all the others to him. Plus My Side of the Mountain is terrific. Also, The Otterbury Incident, everything Frank Cottrell Boyce and Geraldine McCaughrean.

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@LBFlyawayhome In my cofree table drawer right now. Chewed mouse tails and all 😄🐭

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@monmorley @TheRSC My brother saw him as Hamlet in Sheffield in 1980, but I got to keep the programme 😊 and I saw the incredible ESC Wars of the Roses trilogy (H6 and RIII: morning, afternoon and evening) twice whilst at university - once in Newcastle and then in Nottingham.

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@_hxrding_ The media campaign against him is relentless. The BBC esp is shameless. No mention of the figures ie reduction on immigration that was announced today.

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@anniegarthwaite All the best for a swift sale and a happy move.

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@DreyfusJames My daughter's old lady pup

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@AmandaPCraig I'm slogging my way through. Would only re-read FFTMC also (my O level) (watched Alan Bates and Julie Christie again for nth time last Sunday) and maybe Under the Greenwood Tree as it's not terminally depressing.

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@blablafishcakes @anyabike And is my town museum, just 100 yds away. So depressing.

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@sappholives83 Sharon Penman esp. Sunne in Splendour.
*NOT* Philippa Gregory!
'The Western Wind' Samantha Harvey
Nicholas Orme on Medieval Schools/Children and Church - excellent.
Eamon Duffy's books on pre-+post-Reformation England v good - The Stripping of the Altars + Voices of Morebath.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

Today is publication day for my book DO NOT GO GENTLE: The Case Against Assisted Death.

Kim Leadbeater's bill was the catalyst for writing it, and at the time, it felt like the task was urgent.

Back then, the positive stories about assisted death sounded to me like fairytales. I wanted to explore the reality of assisted death more deeply. Justifications offered by supporters were so often mindless mantras about rights and "choice", but I wanted to see how it all fitted together, and what choices it gave to vulnerable people in reality.

The writing period was a strange time. Every day I faced the fact of mortality, the nature of pain and suffering, and the darker sides of human nature. Yet I was also completely uplifted by the selfless compassion that humans can show to one another, when life is ebbing away.

This week, Leadbeater's bill runs out of time. There is already talk by pro-MPs and lobbyists of flooding the private members' bill ballot, so that a similar bill arrives in the next parliamentary session. In the meantime, the public has some time to think properly about what kind of society we actually want.

Is it one where state-sponsored death is treated as a solution to social ills? Or can we stand together to get something better, and far less bleak? Though times are hard, I still hope for the latter. I also hope that my book will be widely read, and especially by those tempted by fairytales.

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@blablafishcakes Not April 1st, as I saw it in an article - 3rd Dec 2024 in Hello! online - but there was also a weird "coming up on ITV" promo in Sept either 2024 or 2025 which had a clear visual photo of a male Elizabeth I.

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@ForWomenScot There was a piece in Hello! magazine about this in early Dec 2024, anticipating it being filmed in 2025, so it's been delayed, it seems.

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@AmandaPCraig My husband asked to watch another episode of this tonight, and after it, then said, "we've got time for another!" 😃 it really is a delight. I love Tom Hayward's Yorkshire accent, which reminds me of Mr Norrell's in JS&Mr.N 😊

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@_hxrding_ The Jersey Farm used to do roast dinners into the evening.

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@suzanne_moore They even announced on the 7am news that she died yesterday, instead of that her death was announced yesterday. Just crass.