@HadleyFreeman This really was a beautifully and movingly written piece. I only wish I had a friend who knew me and would remember me as well as you did Cat
@PulpLibrarian “Catterick” made me very annoyed, because I grew up in Catterick and it was filmed no where near the village and army base… it could’ve been our chance to shine!
@benryanwriter Other way round: it comes from "dominus", master, which was the respectful title given to teachers, priests, scholars in the middle ages, when Latin was the medium of teaching. Mafia "don" grew out of the same linguistic "respect", but *much* later