Sarah Drew
@sarah-drew.com
Writing about romance & red tape in 1819. Unbalanced accountant, voracious reader, few fixed opinions, slightly Scottish.
https://sarah-drew.com
Amazing cover art ©www.claremelinsky.co.uk
https://sarah-drew.com
Amazing cover art ©www.claremelinsky.co.uk
I shall have to be buried with my e-reader, because if they filled my coffin with all the dead-tree books I love, there would be no room for me. A lot of them are illustrated with the delightful drawings of Charles & Henry Brock, Hugh Thomson, T.H. Robinson. Charming, appropriate & gently mocking.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I shall have to be buried with my e-reader, because if they filled my coffin with all the dead-tree books I love, there would be no room for me. A lot of them are illustrated with the delightful drawings of Charles & Henry Brock, Hugh Thomson, T.H. Robinson. Charming, appropriate & gently mocking.
"Discover", indeed! The Scottish #accountants' organisation revealing their bias in their newsletter. As if their female members need to discover any of this. More to the point would be a headline that laid out what #ICAS is *doing* about it.
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"Discover", indeed! The Scottish #accountants' organisation revealing their bias in their newsletter. As if their female members need to discover any of this. More to the point would be a headline that laid out what #ICAS is *doing* about it.
Gotta admire #ViennaOpera for putting on #AlbanBerg 's #Wozzeck *every day* from April to October 2026—seven months.
This modernist #opera "depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression". 200+ performances will do that to a chap.
This modernist #opera "depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression". 200+ performances will do that to a chap.
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Gotta admire #ViennaOpera for putting on #AlbanBerg 's #Wozzeck *every day* from April to October 2026—seven months.
This modernist #opera "depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression". 200+ performances will do that to a chap.
This modernist #opera "depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression". 200+ performances will do that to a chap.
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Food Chart.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Food Chart.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
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☝️ #PrincesStreet plans unfit for modern #European capital
🙋 Wed 11 Nov p.m. #Planning Cttee debate
Item 7.3 on agenda--> democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
Webcast--> edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/...
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @sw20.info @thecockburn.bsky.social
🙋 Wed 11 Nov p.m. #Planning Cttee debate
Item 7.3 on agenda--> democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
Webcast--> edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/...
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @sw20.info @thecockburn.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
☝️ #PrincesStreet plans unfit for modern #European capital
🙋 Wed 11 Nov p.m. #Planning Cttee debate
Item 7.3 on agenda--> democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
Webcast--> edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/...
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @sw20.info @thecockburn.bsky.social
🙋 Wed 11 Nov p.m. #Planning Cttee debate
Item 7.3 on agenda--> democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
Webcast--> edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/...
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @sw20.info @thecockburn.bsky.social
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#VirginMoney helpdesk:
—Yes, most people get that error message.
—You're using the wrong sort of browser.
—Your dropdown address isn't on our system.
—The system often sends out Registration Successful emails even when it hasn't worked.
—We'll have to do this manually. Wait till next week.
(ggrrr)
—Yes, most people get that error message.
—You're using the wrong sort of browser.
—Your dropdown address isn't on our system.
—The system often sends out Registration Successful emails even when it hasn't worked.
—We'll have to do this manually. Wait till next week.
(ggrrr)
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#VirginMoney helpdesk:
—Yes, most people get that error message.
—You're using the wrong sort of browser.
—Your dropdown address isn't on our system.
—The system often sends out Registration Successful emails even when it hasn't worked.
—We'll have to do this manually. Wait till next week.
(ggrrr)
—Yes, most people get that error message.
—You're using the wrong sort of browser.
—Your dropdown address isn't on our system.
—The system often sends out Registration Successful emails even when it hasn't worked.
—We'll have to do this manually. Wait till next week.
(ggrrr)
The village had a bonfire. And fireworks. And a fire dancer.
A piper played the can-can, and we sort of danced, but holding fish & chips and a ginger beer, so more of a muddy shuffle, really.
A piper played the can-can, and we sort of danced, but holding fish & chips and a ginger beer, so more of a muddy shuffle, really.
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The village had a bonfire. And fireworks. And a fire dancer.
A piper played the can-can, and we sort of danced, but holding fish & chips and a ginger beer, so more of a muddy shuffle, really.
A piper played the can-can, and we sort of danced, but holding fish & chips and a ginger beer, so more of a muddy shuffle, really.
Good evening, classicists. Could any more-Latin-having-than-me person comment on a family motto I have made up?
Is "pugna sine pugnā" respectable #Latin, and could I use it to mean "A war without a battle" or "A fight without fighting"?
Is "pugna sine pugnā" respectable #Latin, and could I use it to mean "A war without a battle" or "A fight without fighting"?
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Good evening, classicists. Could any more-Latin-having-than-me person comment on a family motto I have made up?
Is "pugna sine pugnā" respectable #Latin, and could I use it to mean "A war without a battle" or "A fight without fighting"?
Is "pugna sine pugnā" respectable #Latin, and could I use it to mean "A war without a battle" or "A fight without fighting"?
Got a text message w/o a name on our landline, wishing a family member a happy birthday (i.e. def from s.o. who knows us) but when we try to return the call (l/line, mobile or WhatsApp), the number's not recognised, even using 141.
How can that be?
#BritishTelecom #Telephone #IrritatingMysteries
How can that be?
#BritishTelecom #Telephone #IrritatingMysteries
October 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Got a text message w/o a name on our landline, wishing a family member a happy birthday (i.e. def from s.o. who knows us) but when we try to return the call (l/line, mobile or WhatsApp), the number's not recognised, even using 141.
How can that be?
#BritishTelecom #Telephone #IrritatingMysteries
How can that be?
#BritishTelecom #Telephone #IrritatingMysteries
Just seen La Sonnambula in a live screening from the #MetOpera. Interesting anti-GOP pre-opera political message from the Met's General Manager #PeterGelb. Singing was stratospherically accomplished (if not especially subtle); standout performance by an appropriately louche Alexander Vinogradov.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Just seen La Sonnambula in a live screening from the #MetOpera. Interesting anti-GOP pre-opera political message from the Met's General Manager #PeterGelb. Singing was stratospherically accomplished (if not especially subtle); standout performance by an appropriately louche Alexander Vinogradov.
"Hoyden", @nytimes.com (& autocorrect). It's a word. Look it up.
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"Hoyden", @nytimes.com (& autocorrect). It's a word. Look it up.
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The 2011 BBC show 'Romancing the stone' showed a reconstruction of what historians thought Wells Cathedral in England may have looked like before the late 14th century based on tiny fragments of paint that survived the horrific "scrape" of the Victorian era.
I made a gif:
I made a gif:
October 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The 2011 BBC show 'Romancing the stone' showed a reconstruction of what historians thought Wells Cathedral in England may have looked like before the late 14th century based on tiny fragments of paint that survived the horrific "scrape" of the Victorian era.
I made a gif:
I made a gif:
Blazing performance tonight from #NicolaBenedetti and friends.
Foyer full of awe-struck audience, many demonstrating the air violin.
Foyer full of awe-struck audience, many demonstrating the air violin.
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Blazing performance tonight from #NicolaBenedetti and friends.
Foyer full of awe-struck audience, many demonstrating the air violin.
Foyer full of awe-struck audience, many demonstrating the air violin.
Finally! I've found the source of an earworm song about #JuliusCaesar.
"Yon Cassius hath a hungry look; a lean, a mean, a hungry look. And he thinks too much, and he drinks too much,
And he leers and jeers and winks too much."
Enjoy the #TwoRonnies setting #Shakespeare to #Strauss @ 34:34.
"Yon Cassius hath a hungry look; a lean, a mean, a hungry look. And he thinks too much, and he drinks too much,
And he leers and jeers and winks too much."
Enjoy the #TwoRonnies setting #Shakespeare to #Strauss @ 34:34.
The Two Ronnies S02E05
YouTube video by Abigai Brook
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Finally! I've found the source of an earworm song about #JuliusCaesar.
"Yon Cassius hath a hungry look; a lean, a mean, a hungry look. And he thinks too much, and he drinks too much,
And he leers and jeers and winks too much."
Enjoy the #TwoRonnies setting #Shakespeare to #Strauss @ 34:34.
"Yon Cassius hath a hungry look; a lean, a mean, a hungry look. And he thinks too much, and he drinks too much,
And he leers and jeers and winks too much."
Enjoy the #TwoRonnies setting #Shakespeare to #Strauss @ 34:34.
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It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
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October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Pink peppercorn ice-cream. Now I know why Peter Piper picked a peck of pink peppers.
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Pink peppercorn ice-cream. Now I know why Peter Piper picked a peck of pink peppers.
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Really important reminder of how Reform aren’t just Little Englanders, but part of an international far-right network which wants to take away fundamental rights we all take for granted - and wants to use “free speech” as a lever
NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Really important reminder of how Reform aren’t just Little Englanders, but part of an international far-right network which wants to take away fundamental rights we all take for granted - and wants to use “free speech” as a lever
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The only way to read any book is prime numbered pages first, then even numbered pages working backwards, then any remaining pages ending with a 3, then whatever’s left over, but in alphabetical order of the first word on the page. Only then can you discern the author’s true intention.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The only way to read any book is prime numbered pages first, then even numbered pages working backwards, then any remaining pages ending with a 3, then whatever’s left over, but in alphabetical order of the first word on the page. Only then can you discern the author’s true intention.
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Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
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Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.