It is. That’s ancient society, I suppose. Always someone to pick on, even if you yourself are the slave of a slave of the guy who cleans the toilets.

A coot? What the heck is a coot doing up a tree?

No doubt the Romans giggled at provincials looking down on provincials.

Maybe everyone regarded everyone else as secondrate. Certainly Ausonius thought very little of Britons.

Re your comment Aven - I get the impression that Romans regarded Greeks, and therefore their culture, as second rate. But then, they did everyone who wasn’t Roman.

Well, I was joking, but which was more popular in the third century AD?

I suppose you could count the mosaics …

As if there aren’t enough abusive assholes here.

We what? We do???

Virgil built an Empire - what did Homer ever do?

I had honestly finished reading this before I realised it wasn’t some weird hip online American English speak.

Well done you Anna!

Cakes for celebrations is well established, but making them yourself adds a cherry on top. If you see what I mean.

Can we have a new cake for every new inscription please?

My frogs can be the Barbarians.

Calgacus and his Anurae.

All very well saying so, but each of these would have weighed well over a ton when full. Not the easiest things to handle, getting them on and off a boat. Are we sure they had liquid contents?

I hadn’t thought before but is this an acceptable excuse for any crime committed while, say, drunk?

We have frogspawn, soon to be tadpoles!

Tomorrow, Saturday, I shall be in TERRINGTON, bent double over a computer, no doubt.

Or reading books.

I don’t suppose it’s recorded is it?

Please pass on my thanks to all the anonymous staff.

We can get our drugs posted to us regularly, you know?

Of course _I_ don’t …

There are people all over the world who just get by.

How do we protect those people from our leaders?

Not being a military expert, or an American - what could the military do if the President simply replaced this officer?

A lot of the time it’s not the equipment or the experience that makes the picture. It’s the moment.

Well, now.

I've emailed some stuff that might be handy to your Outlook address, and also a WeTransfer which is BIG and North Wales anyway.

There should be more, but I think it was so long ago I can't open it now.

Hey, who’d have thought it?

Why did they have to get him out of the way before the attack on Iran? Was he against it?

So, the big results from the Trump-Netanyahu foray into Iran - lots of US military equipment destroyed and now each tanker has to pay $2 million to get through the Straits, where it used to cost nothing.

I remember going out one night when I was on holiday in Devon and couldn’t sleep, and seeing the Milky Way for the first time.

It’s like that all the time, usually we just don’t get to see it.

It’s like learning about birds, or flowers - or anything - learning brings understanding.

Does that mean I’m Persian?