@mudlark  Yaz . I thought I knew my Nan … But if this is true, if this is her life, then she lied to me.

Graham. … that girl in there, she ain’t your nan, yet. It’s only later that she’ll decide how to tell it. And I honestly don’t know whether any of us know the real truth about our own lives’.

This was the first hint of serious depth in this…[Read more]

@pedant hope the aches and pains are now a thing of the past as well as the delayed shock. It looked like a nice day too. I hope you will soon be well enough to get back to the photography.

I was terrified of driving in the U.K though bit of a lead foot here. I did however manage to get to deepest Cornwall. We were staying in Cheddar Gorge YHA…[Read more]

@pedant Don’t “tell her what?”

I’m sitting in m’bed, begging for my laptop, out of the ICU and wanting to do something in between obs, cleaning out the naso-gastric tube (a real hoot-n-nanny), watching CNN & someone’s had a CAR ACCIDENT??  🙁  Holy mother of them all.

I’ve seen some of your dash cam vids before -because I like driving & enjoy C…[Read more]

@pedant

Don’t underestimate the influence of the Wahhabi’s since the 50s.

Yes. In Birmingham in the 1970s I often saw women wearing the salwar kameez , but very rarely with their heads covered, and never with the hijab.

The widespread adoption of the hijab, let alone the niqab is a relatively recent phenomenon.

@pedant

From George Sheard on Twitter:

Ep1: finalised at 10.96m – Highest Ratings for a series opener. Ep2: finalised at 9.00m, which are the highest ratings for Ep 2 since 2008. Then:

Ep3: 8.41m – Highest Ratings for Ep 3 since 2012
Ep4: 8.22m – Highest Ratings for Ep 4 since 2010
Ep5: 7.76m – Highest Ratings for Ep 5 since 2012

Ep6 is still…[Read more]

So my tuppenceworth…
I actually have the same feelings as @jimthefish (and I wonder if I need to say more about that as he did it far better).

I really want to like this series. Its just there’s always a couple of moments where I get jolted out of my suspension of disbelief.
One which seems consistent is when each time the subject is being…[Read more]

@pedant

Your life is certainly being rather on the eventful side at the moment. Glad you emerged from this (relatively) unscathed. Hope you’ll be quickly on the mend….

@pedant Jeez! I see what you mean about the oncoming traffic. That first grey car did well to avoid you. It does look scary. Lucky there was a decent-sized verge too. Round our way the country roads are helpfully flanked by ditches.

It would be outrageous even by insurance company standards to try and dispute liability for this. In the other…[Read more]

@pedant  Ouch!  That looks pretty scary and I join everyone else in hoping you have a speedy recovery.

@pedant As you bring your car to a stop, I am sure we call identify with the universal verbal response to being hit from behind by someone in a BMW.

Glad to hear that the insurance is working out.

@pedant – just to add to everyone else, honestly glad to hear you’re ok (and doing better on the count!)

But top top top person you are @idiotsavon – its the days after an incident that waves of stuff can hit.

And though sometimes I will wince at some of his comments, he now has a 5 day pass at being… [ahem] “tough” with trolls and…[Read more]

@pedant

Just checking in. Straight after a big jolt, you might feel ok but the next 24 hours can really take a toll. Hope you’re still ok.

x

@pedant

Man, I get back from frought bus trip to Myall Creek (no seat belts and tired drivers) grateful to be in a piece and you are not!! 🙁   Bad for Mr P.

BMWs: you should hear my dad talk about some of the Beemer Sunday drivers.

Glad you’re not too injured. But it sounds scary. I don’t have my learner’s yet even. I think no matter how…[Read more]

@pedant

Yikes! What is it about BMW drivers?

And if he was going under 40 mph in a 60 mph zone, he must be the only BMW driver in the UK who drives under the speed limit.

Glad you at least found out the blood sugar is regulating. Hope you’re not too shaken up.

@pedant  O crap on the BMW — I’ve been bashed like that once, no great harm done, by a very old lady driver who told me she’d thought she was on the interstate highway rather than little old Thingie Street, and I found the sheer *shock* of it absolutely — I like a quiet life, thrills and chills and bolts of panic strictly on a viewing screen,…[Read more]

@ichabod

There was a six part BBC adaptation of The City and the City early this year, although I only recently got round to watching it. It diverged in some respects from the novel, giving Borlu a back story and an additional motive in the form of a wife who had disappeared, and greater prominence to the archaeological excavations. What made the…[Read more]

@pedant

Ouch!  and commiserations about this additional sideswipe by the fates; but excellent news about the blood sugar levels 🙂

Fingers crossed that the aches and pains will not trouble you for long.

@pedant Yeah, good news about glucose levels. But what a way to find out. Sounds nasty. I hope the other driver was duly mortified.

@pedant  What sort of show is “The City”?  What popped into my head was China Mieville’s novel “The City and the City” (prolly not).  Mieville is too convoluted for me in book form (I more or less quit at “The Scar”), but I’d love to see a smart screen presentation of his work.

@swordwhale  I watched a documentary about Pony Penning Day on Chi…[Read more]

@pedant I have long believed there is something about BMWs that attracts the wrong sort of driver. I hope all the @pedant constituent parts are in working order.