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Books: Children’s, Classics, Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Middle English, Old English, Public speaking and rhetoric, Romantics, Story, Travel, Victorian

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

I have been reading Daemon Voices by @PhilipPullman. I fear he might dislike the following description but if there were to be a manual on storytelling, which had fluttered from another universe into this one, I am now reading it.

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

@DillieKeane Possibly a graduate from Oxbridge, who thinks she’s frightfully clever, who earns a lot of money singing songs that seem to go on forever. Forever. Etc. (“Boring song” is still a put-down in our family.)

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

Why does the word “Kindly” at the beginning of a sentence in an email, particularly when in red and especially when it does not relate to anything which could remotely be described as a pre-existing obligation, sound anything like the meaning of the word?

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

@JohnCleese 6118 1/2

[Children Lawyer @childrenlawyer]

In 1929, my Granny played the part of Winnie-The-Pooh in a pageant with Christopher Robin himself. We scattered her ashes in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest where a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. https://t.co/E6WXKUZ5rN #WinnieThePoohDay @GylesB1

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

I have been having a healthy debate with someone close to me about whether it is necessary to place cockle shells in a garden TIDILY by reference to Mary in the nursery rhyme who was quite contrary. The issue is whether the cockle shells were to beautify or to promote growth.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

[Thomas Roe KC @thomasroeqc]

This is going to be excellent. Do get a ticket while there are still some left!

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

@jonaspablo45 @DigiFazz @TheRedmenTV There are in fact 6 …

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

@heresisted All irrelevant: see Stoker, and Renfield’s ability to allow entry.

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

Been there, done that. @Tintin

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

I am reading “Close to Death” by the wonderful @AnthonyHorowitz and regretting that one of the suspects is not a retired sea captain. Why? The murder weapon.

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

Disgruntled 11-year-old: “I don’t look like a volcano.” She decided that her word was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. #WorldBookDay

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

Ruth Manning-Sanders: ‘She was certain that it was every child’s birthright to visit a world of enchantment and occasional terrors’ https://t.co/JiwgOYWzJE

[Stage and Page @julienfoster]

Shame it’s not called HOW TO HUG.