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This is really quite something. Astonishing that he actually feels confident enough to say it out loud.

I think my favourite bit of Lord of the Rings is when Treebeard totally loses it and the ents tear up Isengard. It's a little known fact that that pit of doom that they flooded with the river is now the world's deepest swimming pool, in Dubai.

I'm in that pre-holiday hopeful mood, where I've bought six new books on my Kindle and borrowed two from the library. I'm still reading the same novel I started in May half term 🙈 hoping for lots of beach time over the next few weeks. Or maybe lots of rain.

18 years ago, I married Mr Thorne. Today, I nearly sent him into an early grave when we thought, for 5 minutes, that we had driven two and a half hours with no tent poles. We didn't. They were rolled up inside the tent. Happy anniversary to us, hopefully it won't be our last.

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My favourite cognitive dissonance of this week is the Ballerina Farm superfans howling about how the British news article did her dirty because they're lefty, liberal, feminist scum who hate tradition and families. The newspaper in question is the Times, icymi.

Mr Thorne told me earlier he'd heard there was a protest going down in Bristol this evening and I predicted this would be the result. Hope all those in the hotel are ok.

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Today I visited a site combining all the core Hums in one picture and there was a pigeon posing there too, Team Hums love a pigeon #historyteacherontour

Reading An Instance of the Fingerpost. The final narrator is a book enthusiast and I am so here for it.

Herculaneum is owned by cats.

When you're staying opposite a volcano and start hearing explosions, it is a relief and a pleasure to find out it's just a huge firework display from the sea right outside your apartment, nbd

'Britain stood alone' in WW2

Sitting on Southsea Common, exactly where I used to play lacrosse when I was at school ('play'), Victorious Festival. Louis Tomlinson has just complained to the crowd that it's windy. Trying being here in January in a gym skirt, Louis.

I've got 2 hours free in London today. What should I do? Anybody been to the Tudors exhibition at the NPG?

Really sad to hear that Helen Snelson has passed away 😔 I enjoyed every bit of time we spent together. She's leaving such a big gap.