Paddington was a living bear (albeit a talking one!) rather than a toy. Here's a YouTube reading of the first book:
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A misty, damp morning walk with the spaniel.
He still hasn't fully grasped the rules of catch. Namely, you have to release the stick so it can be thrown again. On the rare times he does this, he chews it up and leaves a sliver of wood, which he expects me to throw...
Louis Ashworth's piece on the tax implications of the humble flapjack was a very enjoyable read.
At the other end of the scale, Youmna Melhem Chamieh's tender obituary of Samir Iskandar struck a chord.
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#OTD 1949 #NavalHistory HMS Implacable was scuttled at St Catherine's Deep, off the Isle of Wight.
Formerly the French third-rate Duguay-Trouin (74), she fought at Trafalgar in 1805 and was captured by the Royal Navy later that year at Cape Ortegal, by a fleet under Sir Richard Strachan
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Excellent new article in Britannia on a vast corpus of Roman coin finds from Britain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I assume it's a new product, hence the giveaway. One 250ml can is apparently two servings. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I got a free can of Absolut Espresso Martini handed to me at Waterloo. #WinningAtLife
Thomas Chaney and I updated our working paper on "Trade and the End of Antiquity" (which recently got some airtime on twitter). A short re-cap: 1/n
There was something a bit different than the usual rowing VIIIs on the River Cam this afternoon!
Today is the annual Dragon Boat Festival, which raises money for Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust.
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Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses...?
For International Dog Day and #ProofOfDog, meet Jack my parents' springer spaniel!
Mature students’ participation in HE, adult education and FE have all gone badly backwards in the last 15 years.
