IIRC at the time I said on the radio ‘unacceptable but not illegal’ and we had to prerecord and have the convo okayed by the radio’s lawyer.

Since it became East Gourock

It’s Greenock. They pay you to live there

ALREADY?? You lucky people!

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

That’s brilliant

I’m old enough to remember opening social media apps to find out how a restaurant launch had gone, not to see if a nuclear war has started.

This should always have been the end of it.

Congratulations Jan!

I am rereading the books and also listening to the audiobooks and just keep being in utter awe of the writing.

And, lo, they arrived at the place and, although the stone was rolled back, he was still in there. "I'm not going out in *that*," he said.

Oh God sorry it was genuinely a joke. David knows me well enough to know. You do not at all and these are no longer times for such flippancy towards strangers. Sorry again.

I thought you people of the book (albeit not all of it like the chosen ones who are the Presbyterians) didn’t believe in hell?
Or is it that you aren’t quite as convinced as we are that while God might be up for debate the devil is very real?

😘

What a fantastic read.

That’s not like people

What have I missed? Do I want to know?

I am sorry David x

It's like the early days of COVID again

Bangladesh closes it's Yooni's because of an energy crisis and we watch

Like we watched Italian hospitals then

It's à-comin in

😀😀😘

It’s a massive pending topic for the left.

They are never surprising David. Never.
The worst thing about left wing men is they are disappointing, at least you know where you are with a fascist.

Nooooooo Jenny. NOOOO. I’ve known you THIS long. I LIKE you and you don’t like Sade??

Oh God the English are utterly hopeless on Britishness. Hopeless.

Am passed the prologue and 14 seconds in to Liza herself in person reading this audiobook and am already hooked

As long as it stops at Eurocentral in Wishaw.

Sally Bowles was based on a Scottish cabaret singer called Jean Ross was an ambulance driver during the Spanish civil war and then lived in the south of England.
Ross hated the character and said it was nothing like her but very like one of Isherwood’s boyfriends at the time.
But Wilkommen anyway

In a beret and with a wee dog in a purple coat.

I’ll join you

Chicken and coconut rice and then pear and bramble galette for dessert