In 1972 I was living on the 10th floor of an Essex Uni tower block. During a power cut, stuck in a lift, a friend and I upset an unknown third person by discussing who we would eat first...

Here's another fine antiwar song featuring a McBride: youtu.be/fnVk6Tt441o?...

Here's another fine anti-war song involving a McBride: youtu.be/fnVk6Tt441o?...

www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/rhy...

And do come to the workshop I am running with @gjmichaelson.bsky.social at 3.15 on the Saturday, on how to write a novel collaboratively!

On the sole occasion that I was invited to join the Principal for lunch with an honorary graduate, I heard myself saying how nice it was that they'd awarded one to someone who actually deserved it...

Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...

Pomegranate how they yawned...

Since you asked: pear peach plum persimmon papaya pineapple physalis...

Bimodal reaction I fear, with more scornful than appreciative. My own attempts at pedagogic whimsy always fell flat e.g. sorting lists of fruit names that began with p. E.g. 3 things to do with a 3x3 grid of graphical buttons: calculator, noughts and crosses, sliding blocks puzzle...

For Naomi Mitchison fans: the annual Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison lecture is on Dec 11th in Glasgow University with Professor Alison Phipps

MiL?

Years ago, I was involved with a small radical publication, and she was very supportive, letting us reproduce the Ken Currie murals from the People's Palace.

PS sadly, Astrrix has lost his squeak.

Thanks! I must get a copy.

In Asterix in Britain, are the people they meet identified as ABs or just Bs? For a French audience of course, differentiating Gauls (or Celts?) from us lot across Le Manche. For reasins I find baffling, its one we don't have. That's a jolly little boat... My pilum is stronger than your sternum...