But does it mention donkeys?

See pp227-41, please, everyone! 🙂

Still have Clothkits stuff....

Yes, there's a place in the middle of the road just N of Blackfriars bridge where you can listen down a drain and hear the Fleet river rushing along. Enchanting

I am gripped by this and am going to devour it. Donkeys never fit trad domestication definitions - e.g. they weren't selectively bred and didn't diminish in size. Yet another arch monolith gets a JCB swung at it

We all need more cuckoos in our lives (though agreed that small nesting birds don't)

Oh yes, that beautiful Syrian wedding-dress! Such a happy day....

Congratulations, Christina! x Jill

Ziyaret Tepe

I was working in Jordan with an American friend and discovered that she pronounced TUC 'tooch' because she'd first encountered this retro English snack in Turkey and thought it was Turkish. You can't unhear it....