♥️ Thanks for sharing!

Love this! Thanks for sharing! New to me!

Judi Dench - Sonnet 29 - 'When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' - 4K YouTube video by Shakespeare Network

And this, read so beautifully by Judi Dench ♥️ youtu.be/0XKSxRLKHd4

And another favourite poem, Visitation, by Mark Doty:

famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mark_doty/poems/14807

Thinking of poems tonight, and would like to share this often-shared poem, by Mary Oliver, for anyone feeling in despair or feeling lonely:

Thinking of you—really glad you spoke up. Keep going and keep reaching out. You don’t have to go through this on your own.

Sorry to read this but glad you shared. Would also recommend giving the Samaritans a call. Sending ♥️

Snow was general all over Stroud. It was falling upon the Tesco Express from its toilet seats and, further westwards, falling into its car park. It was falling too upon the chained trolleys. It lay drifted upon the dashboard of James Joyce's BMW . . .

Fantastic news! Congratulations!

… so geocentric ideas became entrenched generally, including by the Church, but the most nuanced point is that geocentrism ultimately leads to egocentrism, which affects science too (xf Frankenstein)! The essay also laments the ecological destruction of the planet too… Anyway, great essay!

Fan of science and particularly enjoyed your book Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You. Yet, this post feels like a misrepresentation of Asimov’s essay. He spends much of the time talking about Greek philosophers’ adoption of geocentricism and suggests the moon made it persuasive, rather than enforced…

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Congratulation!

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Very excited to be making my debut in the Indy today as Penelope 😊

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That gif reminds me of one of my clues… 😳
Retaliatory justice emerging from stitistical error? (3,3,3)
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*facepsalm*

How cool! Many congratulations!

Holy ###! that’s so cool! Thank you…

Numeration is wrong

Or:
Oil - ultimately why Trump and CIA arranged armed takeover (8,5)

Congratulations - lovely stuff!

I have these as mugs

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Happy Christmas x

Oh no, mum, me sandwiches

No, the past simple and the past-subjunctive of the verb to have is had. The pluperfect is “had had”! I had had a dubious attempt at a clue, and I have now learned my lesson!

This is where we agree to disagree. I think it’s grammatically correct, and that use of auxiliary is a stylistic preference, often for clarity of formality. “If I had time”, I would photocopy a grammar! Haha. I don’t think you’d say “If I were to have time”, I would…

Or choose a verb where there is a clear difference between past-subjunctive and present indicative…

Misdirection or misleading! 😜 “if I left” = “if I were to leave”; “if I quit” = “if I were to quit”. What I’ve learnt is that the confusion arises because the two distinct ways of forming the past-subjunctive, either on its own or via ”were + infinitive”. The latter is clearer, it seems