5/8 here, I failed on the regional ones!

I've been doing Hungarian on Duolingo (using my other linguistic knowledge to fill in the gaps) and yes it's hard, but easier than Russian! Where are your classes? I did Russian via City Lit but have been on a pause for the past year.

I wonder if they want their copy to sound super-French as a way of being chic, or if they just didn't shell out the money for a decent translation ("5% of vitamin B5" suggests the latter)

A tabby cat with puffed-up tail, staring threateningly at a local cat which is barely visible through the catflap

Found an example - this is her while tormenting Stormzy, the local menace, through her microchip-controlled catflap

That almost also counts as a clerihew - hats off

Picture of the rear end of a domestic cat in a messy room, to illustrate what her tail looks like

It looks a bit agitated - this is my tabby cat's tail at rest, and it looks a lot like the one in your video when she's scared, or cross with one of the local mogs

Having clicked through, yes that was definitely him. The whole orchestra is amazing and we're lucky they play here in Coventry sometimes.

I can't imagine there are that many who can weave the opening of Rite of Spring into Autumn Leaves

I went to the NYO concert after Christmas, and as a prelude to the Big Pieces they did some jazz, including some incredible jazz bassoon. More of this sort of thing is required IMO.

You mean the piece whose name is mentioned in the title of the YouTube video you link to? 😂

I'm doing Hungarian on Duolingo and krumpli is hands down the best word I've found so far. Mushroom is also pretty good (gomba)

Agree on all of this. Trying to think which 90s actor I'd have preferred to see as Edward - 7am brain is drawing a blank

I've lived in Britain most of my life and still didn't catch on until 20 years later the significance of the Coutts chequebook a chap once produced on a date with early-20s me

"serves 6 (or 4 if teenagers are present)" 😂 More recipes need advisories like this!

Rummaging was exactly the word that came to mind during my C-section, too. I was fully conscious but had had a lot of good drugs by that point

WhatsApp message from me to my son containing a photo of the nearly-full moon with the caption MOONAH, and his reply, "Stona!"

Text exchange with my son last night

A vase containing daffodils in bud, several of which are just about to flower properly

Tempted to spend the day watching these to see if I can catch them bursting into flower. Grudgingly accept, however, that I have other things to do.

I had to look this up today so I thought I'd share. I didn't especially want an introduction to spontaneous autoamputation today, but there we go. (Warning: pictures within that are not for the squeamish - I've removed the preview)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainhum

It's not that simple! Playable by decent amateurs, though. I've played his op 1 and 2 as well, the latter as a student.

So many rugs! And the fact that there are only 36 photos of such a huge house, and so many of them are external shots or of the same two big rooms. And the copy isn't written by AI which is refreshing.

Presto do seem to have removed the offending passage (though it still turns up on a Google search)

Free Money Week! Ever since the book I translated was put on a couple of university reading lists, I get enough for a very decent meal out.

Presto do seem to have removed this part now...

Yes, Subjective Guess Who was excellent 😀 It was the "psychotherapy on a train" episode. We listened to two more in the car on the way home

It was fun, though I had heard nearly all of it before. My 12-year-old superfan was entranced, and enjoyed the Double Acts play that he hadn't previously heard.

@joannawyld.bsky.social in Oxford to see John Finnemore live and was fully expecting to see you in the audience

Or using a forklift to lift the weights at the gym

I'm one of three - all five of us once drove to Brussels in my mum's Peugeot 205... (do NOT recommend)

My sister has the Skoda Oktavia, which is pretty big but she only has two kids.

Compromise and get a PHEV? Depends on driving patterns but friends of mine are pleased with them. My sister does most of her work journeys in EV mode. Not sure they fall within the budget though.