They do do much of the caring work which will become more and more required as the population ages

Yes! Have seen them three times in the last few years but one of my great parenting wins was the first; took twelve year old daughter and she could sing along to almost every song…

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The beloved and still missed Eartha Kitten, my first cat who I got as a student and who lived with me for all eighteen years of my London life.

I wondered - have been reading a bit about it via Persephone and was thinking about getting hold of it. You'd recommend?

What's the book?

I am obliged to report that when the No 10 spokesman gave this part of the statement there was a brief but heartfelt outbreak of laughter from journalists, one of whom later asked if the PM might thus be interested in a bridge he had to sell.

And there is a great statue of her at Lime Street Station.

It is and thank you I now know

I never thought when I was at university that all these French theorists might have a purpose in the real world

Not very much as a young child, and then weird quasi-medieval tapestries which hung on iron rods and came from Belgium with my stepmother. I did not like them nor the hewn furniture that arrived alongside.

And lo I googled and it was so. In fact still owned by the same posh lot ever since.

And let me guess, said garden was built for a very posh person.

They can only use the branded one when they’re off public roads

In short, you have to be the right kind of immigrant. Ffs