I last had it in March and it did similar - I am really hoping to recover rather more quickly this time round as it has hit at my very busiest time. URGH.

I loved it. I mean, I'll watch Joanna Scanlan in anything, but the whole ensemble was incredible.

Oh god, nightmare. I think i had it earlier this year, and it took me a good month to feel mainly human. But that's not a year! My sympathies.

Must be, surely? Feels sort of 1870sish?

I rather love this!

You can stream it via M6, the channel on which it is shown, if you have a VPN (change the region to France). Otherwise I think episodes are sometimes on YouTube.

Yep, though not for a while as I lost the will.

I'd recommend the history festival to anyone local - but also to my fellow historians as a really nice thing to do if you're invited.

And if more people in the world were like Tom, and more social enterprises like The Long Table / The Old Dept Store existed then we'd all be in a much better place.

Well, this sounds like an excellent plan.

Good god, WHY

I love a suet pudding.

A generic suet pudding with currants and anything else you cared to throw at it - rather nondescript & hence easily named many things. I suspect at sea rolled like spotted dick & swaddled (like a baby...) begire boiling so it could be easily sliced and portioned. Better, one suspects, with custard.

I switched to duck duck go for a while, but the crap it came up with even without AI was awful - mainly, in fact, AI generated websites, plus personal blogs and an Amazon sponsored irrelevant link at the top. It is appalling.

AND in December my annual Xmas talk @ The National Archives is linked to Jane Austen hits 200. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve... - this one is online and always lovely

I am also in Stratford-upon-Avon for the literary festival next week, also talking high streets, but purely on the book

www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/@default_sit...

The link doesn't work 😕 - will go and find it but thought you might want to know.

I use the BNA a LOT. I particularly enjoy the recipes where Mrs Elsie Reeks of Baddesley Clinton won silver in the local WI baking competition for her recipe and now here it is (and it is usually a tweaked version of Eliza Acton).

Ha ha ha. Excellent picture though.

This is highly enjoyable and I thank you for bringing it to my attention (like a granola bar? Who ARE these people?)