Finished a new scarf! It just needs to get cold enough to wear it...

Happy Halloween

All my life I've heard "women's studies" mocked as a useless discipline. But THIS is why we need this work to be done. Without education on women's history, people really think that what they see on trad wife Tik Tok somehow reflects women's historical experiences.

As I say every single effing year, the sale of fireworks to individuals should be banned, fireworks should be restricted to official low-noise displays, could we PLEASE think of the animals

bug girl Like… the internet is free to research

Stopped in Burford on the way home from the Cotswolds yesterday and for the first time in ages, my colour sense woke up. The Cotswold stone, the greeny-blue-grey window frames of so many of the cottages, and the aesthetics of some of the shops- YES. Voila current palette.

So not ready for reading week to be over.

My timeline is full of posts bewailing political misinformation, child reading rates falling, and the problem of checking the reliability of AI generated texts. English Literature skills have never been so urgently needed, yet Canterbury Christ Church University pull this?

*Canterbury* isn’t going to do English literature. In case you were still in need of evidence of how utterly absurd it is to have your education&research dictated by “The Market”. It’s not a damn functional model.

we have to behave, and work, as though there is hope, if only because despair is unchic

Unbelievably sad news. Simon did so much for so many grad students.

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