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Writer, teacher, art and opera fan.
Don't like tofu but do enjoy being awake.
Lunch at the beach again today.

RT @kershaw_alex
RIP, Simone Segouin, 97, died yesterday, proud member of the French resistance, famously photographed by Robert Capa and others in August 1944, aged 18, as she liberated Paris.

Never to be forgotten.

@WWIIMemorial

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RT @TheRegencyCook
I’m launching a new online Gentle course on Regency Cooking, and I’m running a test version that’s completely FREE.
The course starts on the 27th of February & there are limited places available.

I'd be honoured if you attended.
You can sign up here:
https://bit.ly/GentleRegencyCookery
https://twitter.com/TheRegencyCook/status/1626747456841998336

A Gentle Introduction to Regency Cookery

Cook the food and learn the history. In this course, you’ll learn gently from the Regency Cook how to cook the Regency way. Learn, week by week, new recipes. Cook for yourself or impress your friends with a delicious historically authentic meal. You’ll learn how to make recipes Jane Austen may have eaten and understand the history, both social and cultural, behind them. This course is ideal for those with a particular interest in Georgian and Regency history and food. It is also valuable for those writing about the Regency period who’d like to include more food in their writing. This new course will run from 27th February to the 19th March (three weeks), with more details to follow soon. You can do the bulk of the course in your own time, with a live session with Paul Couchman, The Regency Cook, each Thursday for the duration of the course. Please apply to participate for free in the beta round of this course. And if you know someone you think would love to participate too, please share this form with them.

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RT @realBobWoodward
Celebrating Carl’s 79th birthday on Valentine’s Day in New York City. We met in the @washingtonpost newsroom 51 years ago to work on a story. 51 years of genuine friendship. @carlbernstein

RT @scotlit
Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb—a🎂🧵
1/7

“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—A 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career:
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/

Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp

Iain Banks’ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970. The rationale for the provision of a context wider than Scottish fiction is determined by Banks who, as Thom Nairn explains, has ‘expressed doubts about the place he may or may not occupy in a specifically Scottish […]

The Bottle Imp

RT @AndrewJazzie
That two hander between Sarah Lancashire and James Norton was sensational

#HappyValley #HappyValleyFinale #happyvalley3 #sarahlancashire #jamesnorton

RT @SarahLancsUK
Goodbye, Sgt. Catherine Cawood.
Thank you for all the tweets & follows over the last series of #HappyValley. It really does mean a lot. Sarah has been amazing throughout 👮🏼‍♀️
RT @NoContextBrits
Decent signing to be fair.