Dr Francesca Santoro
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Greek & Roman history, politics, art history, literature. Music: Mahler, DSCH, opera, chamber music. Have lived in Rome & Amsterdam. Love languages, theatre, museums in general, Shakespeare, London, the House of Commons, Rowson cartoons, in particular.😊
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Two wildflowers still happily growing within the shelter of an apricot tree, pot marigold and viper's bugloss. #WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment
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I have never seen such a perfect image
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Good Morning & welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday

New week.
New energy.
Speak kindly, walk confidently, and treat yourself like someone worth cheering for, because you are
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Buon risveglio e buon inizio settimana a tutti!
Good morning everyone!
☕☕☕
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Lunchtime walk. Proper autumn.
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What is Trump talking about when he says he wants to go after “Democrat programs”?

Healthcare? Clean air? Safe food?

These aren’t “Democrat programs.” These are people programs.
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It’s. The. Little. Kitty.

And she’s spectacular
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OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.
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Spearmint one of the few herbs still in blossom... #WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment
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This borage plant appeared late in the season and still seems to be newly blossoming, maybe hoping for a mild autumn. #WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment
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Now it is the time of night
That the graves all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide:
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic—MND V
#ShakespeareSunday 🧵
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That's interesting. Compare that to the Hamlet soliloquy, and there's some overlap:

Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing...

Macbeth: IV, Scene 1

#ShakespeareSunday
Now it is the time of night
That the graves all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide:
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic—MND V
#ShakespeareSunday 🧵
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One last picture of the foster kitty. Pumpkin is very adorable. She’s warming up to us quickly!
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