I was wondering if all the light fittings had been soaked by water ingress and so had to be replaced by the cheapest paper ones they could find!

The Pardoner, selling artisan kimchi and goop subscriptions while tapping on grindr

Can I put in a plea for Add MS 37049 to reappear? 🙏

BBC Charter review consultation responses need to be in by Tuesday. If you are thinking to put something in last minute, here’s our report which contains useful international evidence you can draw upon

She was a great friend and colleague, and brilliant in so many ways.

Could the first letters be ‘fam’ and so are saying that the family needs to provide for the child? I don’t know about the crossing out and other letters atm though

‘Always pro law enforcement’. Yes, Pontius Pilate had it right all along…

A blue roan cocker? Looks lovely!

They performed this programme in Oxford yesterday and were brilliant; anyone with a ticket for tonight is very lucky

Absolutely agree. I’ve just been assessing graduate applications for masters programmes at Oxford and there are some excellent students applying from lots of UK (and other) universities, taught by excellent colleagues. We need a rich ecosystem of research and teaching across the country

Glad to see you’re still in your priam.

5 classes you took in university:

1. Old English
2. Insular Latin
3. Arthurian literature
4. The conversion of England to Christianity
5. Doomsday, damnation and the devil

Good training for everyday life: spotting signs of Apocalypse, or dealing with headless green knights

NO MEANING

So sorry to hear this; what a fantastic hound ❤️

Yes, I think those suggestions are right. Scribe or perhaps later owner/librarian has written in foliation for each quire and that’s noted in the brackets, but James is also saying when there’s a folio missing, or added like in quire c. Have fun!

Yes, very much agree. Fables are asking readers not only to enjoy the parallels between human and animal, but think about the differences and why we shouldn’t accept their rhetoric like, well, lambs to the slaughter. Robert Henryson’s Fables are also brilliant at this ethical complexity

Thank you – but this is not just about not using it. This is criminal, places users at risk of a crime by seeing abusive material of children, and should be prosecuted as such. Please push for this too.

Yes – nearly everyone uses that pronunciation. I suppose it’s one of those phrases whose pronunciation gets fixed in the way that people said Latin in the C19 or early C20

I have a hand-me-down Sebo which is great and no-nonsense. My partner has a Miele (we live in different houses!): also very good and reliable. Good luck!

Though to be slightly more helpful, the OED says ‘ibexes, rarely ibices’

I think it’s iibex, vbex, mcmlxxxviibex or whatever number you’re thinking of

Boomerangenheit?

Yes; I also think ‘barely see’ is the most likely. Give me C15 secretary any day in preference to this! Looks like a great project

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
(W.H. Auden)

Same for me, listening to Radio 3. It’s a fantastic station, but the news slant is often awful. If I’m listening on BBC Sounds I usually skip back a couple of minutes until I think it’s safe to rejoin.

That may be part of it, but at ITV you can make a judgement like ‘tens of thousands of avoidable deaths is more important than the latest unworkable policies from parties competing to be the most cruel to migrants’. Then you can act on that with in-depth reporting, which I know you can do well.

Very timely choice! There’s a lot of Auden to like; I think my favourite (today) is the poem starting ‘Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm’. Beautiful and heartbreaking.

Football manager Sam Allardyce.

‘If serious about governing’ doing a lot of work there!

Don’t tell her that Beowulf arrives in a small boat!