A bucket of water and a brush - can’t remember the name but was also used for final brushing of the newly-hung paper. Back in the late 50s, early 60a we, as children, used to help strip off wallpaper.

Watendlath tarn

Have you read any of the James White “Sector General” books? When asked “beings” define themselves as e. g. oxygen-breathing, high gravity, bipeds. The thesis being that every species encountered has n space thinks of themselves as “human”. “Earthlings” may also appear, years since I read them

That requires a repost!

Death-cap mushroom

Was at the time of the Conquest. Isn’t in Domesday. Also was in Scotland when given city status by the English monarch if the time…[lived there as a child]

Still ploughing through the Miri Rubin…

Does anyone know if Western is still alive?

Don’t think antibacterial work on viruses do they?

Note taking is, I think, something each of us develops in our own way.

My problems were that I had to get the first paragraph right before I could write anything and that I never knew where an essay was going until I was writing it. Took me longer to organise notes and decide on paragraphs needed than writing the da** thing.

Physically writing it fixes it in my memory. I used pads - narrow feint. I also had a small note book for pretentious thoughts occurring during note taking to be fitted into subsequent essays - marks more than satisfactory.

St Peter’s Eaton Square YouTube 7.00pm, live service fingers crossed the system is working. Put up as a recording later

Ouch

It dates from the 1930s, and was very popular at primary schools in the 1960s. Very useful intergenerational hymn as it still turns up at primaries. Extra marks for suggesting it as good to use at a baptism - lots of new beginnings therein

Never did like it. Opinion on “youth” as a collective noun? Puts my teeth on edge

I shouldn’t snigger …

Early 20th of course

Reasonably common in late 19th, early 29th C. My grandmother’s elder sisters were called (respectively) after their paternal and maternal grandmothers, she was called after her mother-the two younger sisters were free choice. We had an Isabella for several generations.