Emma Gledhill

The minimum income requirement already constrains the right to a family life in the UK for many UK citizens. “Sure you can live with your non-UK spouse and dual national children - just not in the UK”

Mikaela Shiffrin in the start but of the slalom second run in Levi today. The caption states she is the winningest skier ever in Levi

I’m as fond of a neologism as the next woman but I wonder whether “winningest” is really going to catch on

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Marmite and cucumber sandwiches. Go on, give them a go. My daily school lunch box way back when

Don’t you mean before the whole country is toast?
Can’t believe you missed that opportunity🤣

I only read ebooks these days (thank you age-related short-arm disorder) and managed to get Baby’s Breath from our local provider 🙂

Ooh I must check out our local supplier again!

Balloon (2018) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, History, Thriller 2h 5m | PG-13

www.imdb.com/title/tt7125...

JFDI if it makes you less sad/tired

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The film "Ballon" was a fascinating representation of the story you linked.

It feels a long time ago now, but I was already 19 when the wall fell, and my childhood "Ausgangslage" was of people not being able to travel. Still, even now, it's shocking what means were used to keep people in.

Is there any indication where that is? I think Ladybird authors didn't tend to make things up, but that double choir? is rather unusual.

Beautiful work, as ever

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I had a red one when I was about 4

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From experience 😢 it’s bang on - especially about seeing ghosts and not wanting to get over it quickly. The last paragraph strikes so many chords

What, like “permanent residence”, as it’s called in most places?

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To localize or not to localize? That was the question...

Localization in plain sight :)

Ignores the fact that you can dislike (or disagree with) the substance but still want to see similar posts. The dislike button isn’t the problem; the subsequent logic is. Some of us actively seek out a range of opinions.

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Our village voted 3 years ago to ban fireworks, and an increasing number of others in CH have done the same. Quite something, given we’re a tourist resort.

Art 9 says EU citizenship is additional to national citizenship, leaving a space, had the EU chosen to use it, to grant a finite cohort of people the same rights they had actively embodied. Instead “EU citizenship” proved to be merely a pretty term with no substance, which I feel diminishes the EU

Granted the EU wasn’t to know from the outset how little the UK govt would care for its citizens abroad - FFS it was left to volunteers to fight that corner - but the EU also hung British (at the time) EU citizens out to dry even when it became clear they weren’t useful leverage against the UK gov

I think what I found most disappointing about the EU’s stance was that UK citizens who exercised free movement embodied the spirit of EU citizenship more than the majority of current EU citizens (and of course the majority of UK citizens pre-Brexit).

Autumn becomes winter

I suspect there’s still dialectal use. I’ve definitely heard “they’re gone shopping” and of course “I was sat there” (instead of “sitting”) is the stuff of debate

Now I’m jealous
One of my treasured memories is watching Casablanca in the big screen. Obv not Hitchcock, but such an experience and how the film was designed to be seen

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Strike a chord with you @nickwithheld.bsky.social ?