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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 14h

Watched ‘The Librarians’ on BBC iPlayer, and I encourage everyone to seek it out on any platform or in any cinema you have access to.

Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 4d

But also avoid the picnic option if there’s a risk that Monsieur Manet will turn up and ask you to strip off for his painting.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 4d

Technically no, but I was using the term slightly lazily as it illlustrates the same potential for misunderstanding.

Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, that would be better. Or better still, not to mention Branagh at all since he's irrelevant here.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 5d

If I remember right, this was the case for all early 80s pop lyrics.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 5d

I have no memory of this song (embarrassingly unlike The Tweets) but it’s peak 1981 #totp

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 5d

Started watching ‘The Hack’. Not sure I’ll stay with it, but was amused to see Senate House in London having to stand in for Broadcasting House given that it’s an ITV production.

Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 5d

Sad news indeed, but also a classic example of a sentence that absolutely calls for the Oxford comma.

Facebook post from the RSC about the death of Patricia Routledge including the sentence “She performed in several RSC productions in the 1980s, including Henry V with Kenneth Branagh and Richard III.”

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 6d

Curating in the Crossfire: a 2-day event at the British Library looking at how materials created and shared in times of conflict are selected, collected and preserved. Details and booking here
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Curating in the Crossfire: Collecting in the Time of War, Conflict and Crises | British Library

In recent years, the world has faced a series of profound challenges – from the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters to political protests and ongoing c

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 9d

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 9d

Impressive how they kind of anticipated the sound of a dial-up modem.

Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 9d

“Brian’s the gammon.” That kind of figures #TheArchers

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 9d

I’d always pictured a sort of steely grey-blue colour, or else just black.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 9d

I've never quite got over my 17-year-old self's disappointment at the fact that the Eiffel Tower is a sort of taupe colour.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 13d

Is this Scottish castle holiday going to turn into a version of The Traitors or a cosy crime mystery? #TheArchers

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 19d

I know they have great collections, & visited there during a conference some years ago. But the memory of the callow ordinands who shouted abuse at a brave & tearful mature student who shared her story of why she had made the difficult choice to have an abortion still hits hard.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 19d

I’m afraid I can only think of Ushaw as the Durham University college that in the late 1980s famously never sent reps to the Students’ Union until there was a debate on a parliamentary bill to restrict access to abortion. Then they sent 2 coaches of trainee priests to argue in favour of the bill.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 20d

I don’t remember singing that at school either. We must have had some harvest festival hymns but I really can’t remember what they were. But this does give me a chance to gratuitously plug one of my old blog posts blogs.bl.uk/european/201...

Ploughing, scattering and translating, or, You know more German hymns than you think.

Around this time of year churches in Britain are celebrating Harvest Festival, and many congregations will no doubt sing the favourite seasonal hymn ‘We plough the fields and scatter’. But not many of...

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 20d

I was at primary school in the early 1970s and this means nothing to me. I think we did harvest festival but because my mother thought it was utterly phoney to take tinned veg into school in the name of harvest, it was always a bit fraught for me.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 25d

I really want to read this but I’m afraid I’m waiting for the paperback.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 25d

I know this is not the most important takeaway from this story, but I’m intrigued that German media follows the German convention of giving the suspect’s surname as an initial only although US media has spelt it out.

DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 25d

Tyler R. wird verdächtigt, den ultrarechten Aktivisten Charlie Kirk erschossen zu haben. Der 22-Jährige stammt aus einer strenggläubigen Familie, seine Heimat ist bekannt für einen freizügigen Umgang mit Waffen.

Charlie Kirk: Wer ist der mutmaßliche Attentäter Tyler R.?

Tyler R. wird verdächtigt, den ultrarechten Aktivisten Charlie Kirk erschossen zu haben. Der 22-Jährige stammt aus einer strenggläubigen Familie, seine Heimat ist bekannt für einen freizügigen Umgang mit Waffen.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 25d

I think Alice was unexpected, though not an accident as such.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 26d

At least they've not got him presenting 'Saturday Live' yet.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 26d

Ooh, the Ambridge cricket team are never going to play for Ambridge again. Does this mean no more tedious cricket storylines on #TheArchers? 🤞🤞🤞

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you for sharing this. A measured, informative (and terrifying) read for a Brit trying to understand what the heck is going on over there.

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