Oh Alice! I am so, so, SO glad & relieved for you! 🎉

If I didn't know the people involved, to me it would read as dress to the nines, or don't bother coming.

(And by extension, ' There will be Important People there & I don't want you to embarrass me'. 😣)

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But also: lentil ragù! 🤩

(I also misread 'smugger' & thought you were about to say 'If I get any smugglers, I will send you some!' 🥰

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This is one of my dreams too. 😊

I don't mind floating elsewhere, but it still needs to be a small boat / ship - 25 people would be great, and a maximum of about 200. No big cruise ships for me!

(Although as the last true ocean liner in existence, I have some nostalgia for the Queen Mary. 😊)

😄 Doesn’t matter! Celebrate ALL the wins, big & small, whenever they happen! 🎉

Not liking # 3, but yay you for the rest of it! 💪 😃

I need someone to come & wash all my dishes first before I can do this. 🤦‍♀️

But I can *imagine* this and well done, you! 🤩

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Groundbreaking female composer’s lost madrigals to be heard for first time in 400 years Maddalena Casulana’s newly discovered songs will feature on BBC Radio 3 to mark International Women’s Day

Did you know it was a music professor from Huddersfield (& Southampton) Universities who tracked down missing parts in Russian & Polish libraries? 🤩

They were performed for the first time in 400 years as part of BBC Radio 3's International Women's Day program.

www.theguardian.com/music/2022/m...

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AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the hugs!!! 💛

You are one of the few reasons I am still here, and if I knew you IRL (& wasn't quiet as a fencepost 🙄) I would *definitely* want to be friends! 💛

SO unfair all this is happening at once!!

(Or at all 🙄 but especially together.)

I'm wondering - are you on Signal?

Oh Alice! Am sending so many hugs & prayers!

After three days, I think I would be thinking hospital anyway, that last half degree, pfft.

You know the drill - try to keep getting fluids in her at least, and if she can manage any calories (milk, apple juice), even better. 🙏

I have three on my bed RIGHT NOW. 😳 😯 😳 😊

More. Always more. 😊

I am so glad for you! I hope you are not only over your cold, but you are full of good pastries, gorgeous art, well-deserved kudos, and aaallll your batteries are topped up. 🔋 🥰

The photos are beautiful! 😃

Yikes. I'm sorry, Joanne. At least you didn't lose it *all*, & it happened soon enough that maybe everyone can remember all the tricky bits of special sound levels, etc. for next time

But it is hard to lose an entire day's work, esp when you have to coordinate with other people's schedules. 😣

Totally dependent on your personality, but I like the black strap!

Also, I *don't* like the mesh strap, so it's a pretty easy decision. 😄

*Opinions are author's only, based on their *own* personality & do *not* reflect how they would view different choices on other people! 😊 You do you! 👍

Oh Paul - I am so sorry. 💔 Try to maintain the normality if it helps, but know this is not a normal situation and it is okay to let things slide.

All my condolences, and hugs & prayers for you both. 🙏

Are you home yet? Does anyone there know to have wine (& possibly cats) waiting?

(So glad you (finally) made it through!)

Well, we all know you are a Mad Scientist - err, BRILLIANT, CREATIVE PERSON with access to SEKRIT LABS and all kinds of SIENSE STUFF - it is not unreasonable to believe you probably DID have something to do with it. 😄

I am so sorry 😣 ... and yes. 🙏

😬 Oh, Joanne ... 🤦‍♀️

What a mess! And (at best) what an irritating end to your journey. 😣

I hope you get sorted very quickly! 🙏

I am so sorry, Conrad. My condolences and yes, prayers, for you and your/her family. 🙏

Wow, congratulations! Well done, you! 🎉

It is so gratifying when hard work results in a such a visible result! It doesn't always (or even often) happen & I am glad it did for you today! 🥰

There is a Hookland dialect word – woldclip –which means to be summoned by the woods, to ache so much for wildness that you almost need to run towards its entanglement. I've been told that this portion of spring is known as a 'woldclip week'. – #MattAdams, 1982

Safe travels & spero che tu riesca a dormire un po' durante il viaggio. 💤

Now we just need a photo of the perfume you used for BSR

🎵 View from my face
View of my bass
View of my favourite scent in place
Now you *know* you're in my space 🎵

(A story you wrote, set to music, with favourite / appropriate perfume - that's a lot of the creative you in a nutshell! 😊)