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It is a cracker. Probably my 2nd favourite Star Wars film, after 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

Hang in there.

RIP. This is an excellent list, for all writers.

Although I'd love to write for living, and am enjoying having more time in the holidays to write.

Well said.

Folger has about 150, 50-odd in the UK and another 25 or so elsewhere. Provided they are looked after, I don't mind where they are. Shakespeare's part of world culture.

'Shakespeare's Book' by Chris Laoutaris An excellent, exhaustive account of the compilation, printing and creation of the Bard's First Folio

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The cover of 'Shakespeare's Book' by Chris Laoutaris.

Book 33 of 2025

Excellent, exhaustive account of the making of the First Folio.

Yep. Working in a shop is hard enough, and I really can't stand people being unnecessarily rude to staff. Ditto restaurants.

PERVERT!

The more I read, the wronger it got.

'Hanging around'..? Mate, she was WORKING there.

'A Touch of Spice', I think it was called, about a catering business. And 'The Front Line' - two black leads, one a policeman, the other a rasta. Very different, both equally unfunny.

Is she AI?

Morning.

Making a play for Bizarro.

Very good.

Yeah, same. Just getting into a new routine, and have to start thinking about the old one.

It's only a matter of time.

Skills.

This could be me.

Fair point.

Saw that film when it first came out, in the wake of being dumped by my first serious girlfriend. Counterintuitively, it really cheered me up. Never forgotten it.

Not me. Got married before I came to teaching.

'Marquis de Sade' always gets a laugh from me. And 'Fuckin' Dante!'

Aren't there? 'Next, Please' really spoke to me when I first read it. But also 'Church Going' - I encountered the phrase 'a serious house on serious earth' in my teens, but didn't realise until much later it was from Larkin's poem.

My first mentor and HoD always did this, and I totally get why.

It was fate! No escape from Big Phil today.

The cover of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems.

Today's charity shop swag.

Saw a copy a few months back, regretted not buying it. Not making the same mistake twice. #Booksky

I do love a Games.

An interior view of a shoe store or department featuring a sign that reads "DON'T Enter Mirror" on a mirror covering a wall.

no one ever comes back