My 8th decade starts today. Grateful to have made it. I'm going loads of places in UK this year, to talk about the ancient world - from Exeter to Belfast, Penarth to Glasgow. Some dates here: tinyurl.com/5n6tcn6m and fane.co.uk/talking-classi… + more here (check with bookstores)

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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.” — Umberto Eco

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Incredible news in medicine! New treatment for one of the cruellest neurodegenerative conditions - Huntington’s Disease - has resulted in 75% slowing down of disease progression, allowing patients to go back to work and potentially gain decades of life 🙏 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

You must create "When I Die" binder. It will help the people you love find all your financial accounts and guide them on next steps. Here are 9 things to include:

I'm in love with this quote : "If you can overthink the worst, why can't you overthink the best."

Life is strange. You arrive with nothing, spend your whole life chasing everything, and still leave with nothing. Make sure your soul gains more than your hands.

I don't want the Disney princess life that involves Prince Charming and wearing fancy dresses. I want the Disney princess life that involves sleeping for days and having small woodland creatures help clean my house.

A rule that will lower your anxiety: Don’t replay conversations you can’t change, and don’t pre-live ones that haven’t happened. Focus on the next right action. Most stress comes from living everywhere except the present.

The people who make fitted sheets need to sit down with the people who make mattresses and get on the same page. Making the bed shouldn't be like putting a swimming cap over a fridge

It was very cold, and to keep themselves warm they sang Pooh’s song right through six times, Piglet doing the tiddlely-poms and Pooh doing the rest of it, and both of them thumping on the top of the gate with pieces of stick at the proper places. ~A.A.Milne

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire

Just admiring this dazzling Purple-breasted Sunbird (Nectarinia purpureiventris) from the highland forests of Uganda and nearby countries (photo: Lawrence Neo)

Italian painter Elisabetta Trevisan. Almost stained glass patterns This is stunning

Fred Astaire Called This the Greatest Dance Ever Filmed😲

'Morning Underground' (1922) by Weaver Hawkins (Art Gallery of New South Wales)

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, while I am just pretending." Margaret Atwood

Thank you letters ‘The Party,’ 1960 Artist: Harry Wingfield

'Monosyllabic' is not. ‘Abbreviation’ is 12 letters. ‘Thesaurus’ doesn’t have a synonym. 'Non-hyphenated' is hyphenated. Say what you will about English, but it has a sense of humor.