If you’d like to win these Moroccan silver filigree earrings, some amber musk from our local souk to perfume your wardrobe, a bookmark and a signed copy of #TheBlackCrescent just follow and RT and I’ll make the draw on Monday 7 August. #books#historicalfiction
.@RickyGervais ~ These two 'hunters' smile contentedly after killing a 'TAME' lion in a 'canned hunt' and then hanging it's carcass on the branch of a tree! Canned hunters are even BIGGER scum than trophy hunters.
RT if you want canned hunting BANNED!!
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New teachers: one thing we’ve been socialized to do is read text in Round Robin style. This means hearing disfluent readers read while only one reads at a time. And nobody is paying attention because once my turn is over I don’t have to listen anymore. Some alternatives:
A few years ago when Harry and Meghan were rumoured to be moving into Adelaide Cottage, the British tabloids described it as a ‘lavish’ sprawling mansion. Now it’s William and Kate and all of a sudden the cottage is ‘modest’ 4 bed home 🤡
Exiles.
Josef Koudelka’s black and white photographs are both intimate and empathetic. His interest is dedicated to ethnic and social groups, which are threatened by extinction or expulsion and often also reflect Koudelka‘s own nomadic way of life.
To get a passport for your child you have to be friends with someone from a ‘recognised profession’. Such a weird rule. It’s basically, “before we can let you go on holiday, you have to prove to us that you know someone middle class”