CJ Newton

*Love* the glacial landscape around there, especially in winter sunlight. Hope you stay dry ish!

You going to detour to Ivinghoe? Did that route in October and got sunburnt 🙄

This is unspeakable. A lot of ND kids limp through primary, arriving in huge, bewildering year 7 with maladaptive coping mechanisms. To force them through another cycle of assessment at this point is - words fail me

But unlike chat he knows EVERYTHING

Fantastic! Will get back to you

Exactly! Your blog posts are liquid gold. Don’t suppose you’d present at the RNA conference end of July? Would be great publicity for the book

With a token queer character shoe horned in - is it the MMC’s niece and she made him an ALLY

The Devil’s Elbow on the Merced is my favourite place in all the world

Exactly. It’s so woven into everyday speech and assumptions and so much literature flows downstream from it. You don’t have to believe a single solitary word of it but you can’t discount its influence

Hold on in the UK red (tailed) kites are simultaneously the scourge and the boon of the Thames Velly I thought they were indigenous

Yeah can we not with the knees

Maybe we can hallmark human-created art as AI-free

Yeah they’re always wanging on about bipedalism being a dominant evolutionary strategy I don’t think so

Yeah I’m never arm wrestling 20 year olds again. Put the “pyrrhic” into victory. Hope you’re match fit in time for turkey wrangling

I don’t disagree

Spot on

Trusts attract 20% tax on the way in at present. A lot of farms don’t have that kind of liquidity

My main gripe (apart from the Hiddlebum not appearing in every single scene bcos come ON) is Elizabeth Debicki’s beauty being enough characterisation. I970s type shit

Oh I say

What worries me is that right now, I know it’s AI about three words in. But presumably (a word I’ve never seen AI use) the next few iterations will refine it to the point where I’m not QUITE ( another human word) sure…?

THIS

You’re going to need a bigger bat

I scry the Panama Canal in your future

Was ere a genre so traduced as this

Aaaah got it. Thank you so much

What is this book and why can’t I find it? Obsessed

Thank you

I feel really obtuse but I can’t make out what is on the figure’s head?

Sooo depressing. So much for romance being a broad church - which it gloriously is, but you’d never know it from this selection

Yes! At school we started Latin with Catullus which was questionable given we were 11 and the blow job and erectile dysfunction references were, like, right there on the page