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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 13h

Good thing about Leverhulme, though, is they will often give them quite a big slap on the wrist for this kind of behaviour if you contact them.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing!

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 1d

My recent A&E experience is mainly with our local kid's A&E, which (given the context) is a rather wonderful place, with toys, colouring, snacks and Cbeebies on the TV. Can't say the chairs are comfy but it takes some of the sting out of waiting with small ill people.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely agree.

On top of everything else, we now have a Reform council who were convinced they'd walk in and find huge savings to make instantly. They've gone very very quiet.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 1d

SE has a lot of the cheapest council tax areas anyway. Band D is £998 in Wandsworth and £2550 in Durham, Liverpool or Gateshead.

Not making an argument for any particular course of action here, just saying that council tax is very odd.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 2d

You have done this with incredible efficiency!

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Bananas I could deal with but avocados! Lots of avocado toast in your future.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 2d

Either way, tasty.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 2d

I put it to you that the top two "best fish and chips shops" are in Durham and Whitley Bay. Not far from Yorkshire though 😄

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I think it's one to watch as a teenager really. As a 30-something adult, you just want to tell everyone to pull themselves together.

Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 3d

Day one million (ish) of a rubbish chest infection. Mildly amusing memes and anecdotes appreciated. Nothing too hilarious, it'll make me cough. Tell me some mildly interesting happenings in your neck of the woods.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 3d

The deep sigh that I make when I need to pay expenses to a US account. It's incredibly convoluted.

Last time I went (admittedly 10 years ago now) they were also still CHARGING for ALL cash machine usage. That was a shock.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 3d

Also the default toddler position is that they need to repeat any action 100+ times to check that the result is always the same.

Baby scientists care about replicability.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most startling facts I have learned this year is that, as a person from the mid-late part of Generation X, I am older than ciabatta.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

That seems to be the mood of the comments! It must be very old-fashioned.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

Yes it's an uncommon flavour here too.

Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

I see - it was a US novel about Armenians and Kosovans in America. But a UK edition I think. I'm still a bit surprised, given it's a key point in a really famous children's book.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

I have eaten a piece today in fact. 😄

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

Incidentally, I read a novel this week which over explained "Turkish Delight" in great detail. I was like, yes we all know what it is surely...?

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social · 5d

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.

- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 5d

We were all going, "Why do you spell it like that then???" And the Americans were saying, "Like what?"

At least do an "aluminum" so we know what you're doing.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 5d

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