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Art of Persia Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed goes on a remarkable journey to places rarely seen, as she travels through Iran, telling the story of a complex and fascinating people, culture and history.

I really do highly recommend the BBC's Art of Persia series, still on iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Anyone considering how successfully one can change the culture of Iran by foreign invasion should consider what language most Iranians speak...

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Ditto in every respect.

“Pioneer” is the word: lesbian heroine Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote 7 utterly distinct novels which you probably don’t know since they are all so different to each other, 150 short stories, a history of Tudor church music and much else. Her (umpteen) letters are fascinating.
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It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

Indeed. And various other things (including the most commonly stocked plain kefir). I am going to be taking a magnifying glass to the chiller cabinet to check labels very carefully.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend the Curtain Detergent either...

Foreign supermarkets are brilliant! I carry a whole mental list of less common raising agents, cleaning products, and painkiller formats, and one of these days they're going to stop me on my way home and my luggage is going to be 85% tablets and white powder and it's going to be such fun...

"Are our [spiritual] practices ... creating space for diverse ways of being faithful, or do they quietly reinforce a single, idealized model of Christian life?"

- for some Christians – particularly autistic and other neurodivergent people – many commonly assumed rules are simply unattainable.

The Tories as the natural party of BTL landlords are unconcerned by "losing their deposit", as they do it to their tenants all the time...

a woman wearing glasses is smiling and asking what like it 's hard Alt: Elle Woods, heroine of the film Legally Blonde, is smiling and asking "what, like it 's hard?"

Green Party HQ this morning

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

‘So all my plan is spoilt! It’s no good trying to escape you. But I’m glad, Sam. I cannot tell you how glad. We will go. May the others find a safe road! Strider will look after them. I don’t suppose we shall see them again.’

Sam grabs blankets, food, and his pack. They set out.

After breakfast, Aragorn asks Frodo whether he will now turn west for Minas Tirith or east towards Mordor.

Frodo hesitates. ‘I know that haste is needed, yet I cannot choose. The burden is heavy. Give me an hour longer, and I will speak.’ He walks alone into the forest.

The separate hall makes the front room warmer, but also narrower - the house is no wider.

Last house was like that. This is still 2 up 2 down, kitchen and bathroom in back extension. Stairs are on one side, so you do get a hall and a landing, but not wide enough for two people to pass unless they are both tiny and very good friends indeed.

Not necessarily, my hallway is exactly 36" wide, same width as the stairs. This isn't the smallest size of Victorian terrace in this area, but it's next to bottom. Smallest have no landing, so bathroom/3rd bed (tiny) is through 2nd bed.

Find me a desk, I need to put my feet up.

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

I see the cousins are doing British Food Discourse again. Must be a day ending in -day.

Exactly. I used to use my Hardanger scissors (angled blade embroidery scissors), but the chisel is just better in every way.

And once you try it you'll never go back to using a stitch ripper for the specific job...

Many, many - possibly most - neurodivergent kids find secondary school far harder than primary school. But, sure, take away their support just then.

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This is why I paid for a month of Discovery+, just for the Olympics. Once I select skating, it *stays* skating.

Years ago I lived on the Leeds/Bradford border (the two cities have grown towards each other and now meet, but each kept their own identity. The identity is "We are not the other one") and the accent changed as you walked down the street!

I come out pure Julie Andrews when I sing, which is fine for the church choir but doesn't work at all for folk songs about drinking!

It comes out southern English *upper* middle class, whereas income/social status of family it should be rural Hampshire. With bonus extra-careful pronunciation of words like "geography" (not "jography") because mother told us off for "laziness" and"sloppiness" in speech.

My voice is a product of a 1950s grammar school mother (crucially, before the 60s accent explosion) and the fact that Backstairs tends to sound as posh as or posher than his Lordship and family, which is a microculture practically no-one knows now.