Rebecca du Plessis

NEED

Royal Shakespeare Company programme for Hamlet with Luke Thallon as Hamlet on front cover

Still absorbing this astonishing production I saw yesterday.

French Studies journal, issue 79.1. Newly designed front cover with new publisher, Liverpool University Press.

Internal page of French Stdudies 79.1 showing layout with half page of text and half-page illustration of an 18th-century map of the world and caption.

Delighted to pick up copies of the newly redesigned French Studies this weekend. Thank you to colleagues at @livunipress.bsky.social for the smooth transition and for seeing through the redesign and printing with high production values. @frenchstudies.bsky.social

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Vintage Oxford–Cambridge boat race poster with text in London Underground-style Gill Sans.

Some Gill Sans for you. My love language.

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Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:

If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.

Also wondering if using polenta instead of almonds would work for this. Might give it a try anyway

A John Lewis haberdashery, no less

Winter solstice sunset from a street with cars and tree in foreground.

Farewell to the setting sun. Happy winter solstice!

Merci, Gisèle.

Plus thermals and fleece

This afternoon I’m proofreading a book on Rilke in Paris

Controversially, no strong opinion on the Oxford comma. You do you. Whatever the text needs for clarity / whatever the client requires.

Hello, please could I be added to this when you can (PM)?

YouTube video by SpeechModification How to Pronounce Defense and Offense 2 Correct Ways

Niche language content alert. In case anyone else out there has wondered about the specifically NFL-context US pronunciation DEE-fense and OFF-ense. Just me then? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGK_...

Will actually be in the same room as Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati this afternoon… aaaaaaaaa

Two years’ break from Twitter = total overwhelm on joining Bluesky

#terrier #snow #dogs

Is this the wholesome anti-Twitter I have been waiting for?