I never knew:

That could be the case, though some of us need to remember to keep boundaries in place…

“You should think of your energy as if it’s expensive. As if it’s a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it.” T. Swift, 2025

Be nice to absolutely everyone in case I am acquainted with them?

I used to remember both, and now I remember neither. It’s quite a shocking change.

Arthur C Clarke speaks from a distance of six decades: x.com/Rainmaker197...

Oh, not now, lurgy-bomb 😩

The mother is a picture of serene equanimity

I was writing to a Classics college pal about how De Multis Agendis was coming along 😬

I am now checking my daily screen time and writing it down in my diary, as a starting point to reducing this.

(What I could conceive of as being true is that: ‘of those Scottish schoolchildren who speak two or more languages, for nearly 30% of them, English is the second language.’ But perhaps it’s all entirely made up!)

Checks out. From Chess Heroes, by Richard James:

“Online ratings are often quite a lot higher than over the board ratings, & can also vary from site to site. At lower levels, for example, lichess.org ratings can often be 200-300 points higher than chess.com ratings.”

(Currently 700pts higher…)