Philippa White

That is not a face to say anything but 'sorry, sir, I will try harder' to!

Clothing aside, he looks a complete bruiser.

I read Northern Lights to myself at 9 and ADORED it. Must have reread it a dozen times. Reading is how you learn what words mean! (Poor kid.)

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(Oscar will be my role model as bishop's chaplain.)

Just returning to this to say that I've just read Cahokia Jazz and OH MY GOOD LORD YES.

I enrolled my youngest in the clinical trial for adding the chicken pox vaccine to normal vax schedule! It was GREAT.

Cheaper than employing 5 people for 6 months? I'm astonished! (But I'm sure you're correct.)

Yes, you're right - the people who make it and the people who insist on it are clearly not the same people!

I was thinking also that they're thinking of this as an up-front cost, and now they have their two 'AI models' they can deploy them much more cheaply than employing real models. But still, I cannot imagine investing six months of my life in this and being content with this as an outcome.

Oh helpful! All in the past now (and I should say that while the generic advice is awful, the midwives and doctor I saw were brilliant and gave me what I needed).

The article about it (yes, I went all the way back through the nested quotes, I'm not proud) says that they had a team of five people who worked on it for six months. SURELY a) they should notice *one* of the completely impossible anatomical features, and b) it would be cheaper to do a photoshoot?

Don't forget 'don't you dare take any medication for it.'

GENUFLECT GENUFLECT GENUFLECT

Yes! It's so infantilising. And there's never any justification or explanation for the advice that might allow one (as a competent adult) to assess the risks for oneself.

YouTube video by mshane Qn When The Roll Is Called Down Here

Morning Prayer gang: re. Romans 16, if you haven't heard Fred Craddock's sermon 'When the roll is called down here,' I commend it to you. youtu.be/X20Sd8NKLsk?...
(Sorry - not brilliant quality, best I could find.)
#MorningPrayer 🕯️

If I ever met Maureen Jurkowski I would be unable to speak for sheer admiration.

So going back to unions - their power to push back on unreasonable expectations depends on *members being willing for their workplaces to fail* (at least in the short term). If people aren't willing to let that happen, they'll continue to do more than they should and prop up an unsustainable model.

... failing. And most of those who work in somewhere that they care about, especially somewhere with a public service element, aren't willing to let that happen. (Speaking from within the Church but I think it's wider.)

... when *everyone* is overworked and underpaid it takes a really strong person to decide that they are going to keep routinely to their contracted hours, resulting in either their already-overworked-and-underpaid colleagues having to do more, or in the institution (or some aspect of its mission)...

That is of course part of the answer.
The other thing though is that the kind of low paid arts job that this thread started with is the kind of job that's consistently underfunded and staffed by people who really care about their job and the organisation and its mission. And that's toxic because...

a woman is talking on a phone with the words " the bouquet residence lady of the house speaking " above her Alt: Gif from the UK sitcom 'keeping up appearances.' Hyacinth Bucket ('pronounced 'boo-kay') answering the phone is a running gag that highlights her ridiculous social climbing. Here she is answering, saying 'the Bouquet residence, lady of the house speaking'.

I think it's this too. It comes from before caller ID so you wouldn't know who was calling you. Also when it's a family/ shared House landline answering 'hello, it's Phil' might confuse someone ringing for Angela or Joe. (You could of course trill 'the Bucket residence'...)

Absolutely with you - but that's not something that can be done unilaterally by employees!

I suspect that the job advertised is not going to be the kind of job where you do your 35, 37.5 or 40 hour week, never stay late and take nothing home. (Which minimum wage jobs more often are.)

Just put it into a salary calculator and it's for a 40 hour week. (Gross, not take home.)

Yes! Pandemic/ small children/ stress has absolutely taken away my ability to deal with fiction when I don't already know the answer. I read classic crime and romance for pleasure and anything else (reading, TV) brings too much anxiety.

Wind turbines are beautiful! Will a field of full-size ones work in anyone's actual back yard? Obviously not, and nobody's suggesting it. Are they any less aesthetically pleasing than, say, a windmill? Wouldn't have thought so.

Not on Synod but would appreciate a live-sky.

I think this is one of those where knowing a particular fact - who Colenso, or Arius, or the emperor Constantine was - is standing in for a more general understanding of a particular historical period which shaped the church in which we now operate.

Ooo!
(And ordinands?)