I visit a lot with my mixed kids & black partner & they get a different reception, so I have a comparison of sorts

We had a fun time, and wouldn't have gone without your blog - thank you! We are filling up the freezer for the whole year now

Also - there are good schools having to close in London, while new housing estates are being built outside of cities without appropriate infrastructure. There are jobs, schools etc and there actually is space for more dense housing in much of the city too.

For me there's a difference between writing about a completely imaginary person ('he/she' fine, if it helps to build a picture in readers mind), and someone who is real but gender unknown ('they' more appropriate, to avoid inaccuracy)

Some sort of tests: yay; unit tests, nay (or at least I haven't been able to make them work)

Oh that looks good

He was a war hero too! I was agog reading the Wikipedia entry

Absolutely incredible life, if it was in a film you'd think it was totally over the top. The fraud is the least interesting bit in a way.

I had a similar experience near the peak district! Locals possibly wondering why we were so excited to see Mexborough

Ours is named after (now ex) mining towns in Yorkshire! I've often wondered why. But why not I suppose.

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

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“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.

Quite a weird looking landscape, you can't tell from the road

At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

NIH “is expected to cut between 3,400 and 5,000 positions from its workforce of 20,000 in coming days.” Story by @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

That flat also happens to be close to Camden school for girls, one of the best schools in the country

This is shameful. And the utter indifference to loss of life, our people abroad, America's standing, and American security, caused by unchecked, reckless power, is evil.

I like thinking about all those figs