Yes. But the tragedy is the other kids' not hers, mostly. She gets bullied, they never get to see the sun.

Lucky, mostly. Plus it's a story where kids actually behave like (complicated, flawed, cruel, hopeful) human beings rather than dolls imagined by adults, so can imagine a good teacher picking it?

Please tell me it was 'All Summer in a Day'

Nor did VS Naipaul, nor Rushdie.

Yes. Also - Conrad and Nabokov didn't have English as a first language.

'I wake to sleep and take my waking slow' or 'Then the long pause and then the bigger shake /It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

Llanwrst has two, which may top the stations per population league.

Murray Mews (round the corner) has some of the more appealing houses-that-end-up-on-the-modern-house.

Oh I am so sorry. She was indeed a wonderful dog and made the world better

Could you make it to Drummond St?

Eryri (Mount Snowdon as was). Barely over 1000m. You can get a train to the summit. Kills 8 people a year.

Most PhD students don't become academics. You probably won't. It's ok. It's more than ok. Life isn't a panicked race for only one prize.

Doing a PhD does not force you to be an academic. You will not have failed if you do somthing else, and yes there are a lot of transferable skills. Also (whispers) it can be a delight. It can be 3/4 years of being amazed at how lucky you are. You're allowed to enjoy it.

Isn't that just motorways? Fastest and safest roads.

Innocent IV had decided in 1245 that the Mongols and by extension the people in their empire were fully human and could become Christian. It's why there's an archbishop in Beijing around then. Also why the Church divided Asia into areas of Franciscan and Dominican influence.

If you're thinking of applying and pausing because it's not for you, or there wouldn't be any point, or it wouldn't work out, please take a look.

Many schemes of many different kinds, open to students and professors, researchers and teachers, policy makers or government officials. Open North, East, West and South; open in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland in Wales. Part time and full time. The civil service isn't perfect, but it's good.

Routes for academic engagement with Government

The Government Office for Science have just published the refreshed Directory of Academic and Policy Exchange Schemes. Link here: www.gov.uk/government/p...

A thousand times yes.

Should be on Netflix. Midnight Mass may the best, and is also the strangest. Then there's Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor and House of Usher.

Any of the Mike Flanagans. Series not films though.

Yes! What are you up to in Bristol?

Would this count? www.mindtherisk.com/literature/2...

And it's a response/echo/companion piece to Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure, but never tells you that explicitly, so it's a joy to unravel.

And Only Snow may be the perfect children's poem - starts small, goes big, familiar and world-opening to kids, unearths memories for adults.

Peepo is impossible to read without crying, at least for me.

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Or Ravi Halal

Love the article.

They have started the announcements on Bristol buses. Well, some buses. Well, the one I was on last week.