July 2012
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Oh and if you want to know what the dig looked like today, imagine 160 miserable wet people in a muddy pit, scrambling around on their knees, trowel in hand, or haphazardly trying to draw onto wet permatrace. Fun.
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Making a very thorough list of things to take with me to France. Questions I have so far asked my parents; ‘shall I take an egg cup?’ ‘Shall I take a box for my jewellery?’ ‘Shall I take my copy of The Cookery Year?’. Answers to all three were, regretably and predictably, ‘no’. I’m not even going to ask them about my other 300 or so books....
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Selvironi.
I finally made a decision about uni. Sort of. I am interrupting as of September. So I won’t need to do any university work next year at all. Little do they know that I’ll also be applying to ULIP and Oxford for French. But anyway, the point is, now I don’t have to do work, I really want to. So I think I will start with an essay on literature, keeping it simple. Suggestions...
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Wow.
Just wow. So hot. The trench at silchester is totally exposed to the sun and totally sheltered from wind. Bad combination. I just wanted to mention (as in all the excitement of getting home yesterday I totally forgot) that yesterday I was given a lecture by Richard Bradley. I had a bit of a fangirl moment. It was so good. Just to demonstrate: I referenced Bradley 24 times in my essay...
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I think my Dad might have
had the best day of his life. I mean, apart from getting married and having kids and all that crap. He cycled out to watch the Tour de France time trial today. I bet he’s chuffed.
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Archaeological News: An olive stone from 150BC... →
archaeologicalnews:
Iron Age Britons were importing olives from the Mediterranean a century before the Romans arrived with their exotic tastes in food, say archaeologists who have discovered a single olive stone from an excavation of an Iron Age well at at Silchester in Hampshire.
The stone came from a layer…
YES!! SILCHESTER!! SEE YOU IN TWO DAYS!!
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Why do all left wingers drink herbal tea?
Because proper tea is theft.
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Lists
Things I’m enjoying about being back in England:
The smell of my parents’ house.
Being able to use the internet on my phone. Anywhere.
Friends.
Wearing my Dad’s slippers.
Oat milk.
Efficiency.
Good coffee.
People not commenting on my breasts in the street.
Tea being more than just a hot drink.
Not scanning the ground a foot in front of me for dog shit.
My garden. My...
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“Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea...”
– Khalil Gibran on marriage. I was looking through my Aunt and Uncle’s wedding album, and in the front was tucked a card from her mother, my Nanny, containing this poem, perfectly handwritten. I really like this. There is some religious stuff at the beginning but my Nanny omitted that and so...
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Anonymous asked: Your photos are beautiful.
Old friends and new habits.
Soon I’ll be reunited with my lovely, old, half-broken film camera. I don’t think my blog will change much though. I can’t post daily pictures with a film camera, really. Those photos will remain unseen, a little secret of my own. Plus I’m still learning about the digital age.
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Oh, England..."The privatisation of higher... →
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Oh I remember.
If you’ve never seen your blog on a mac…you should. Just find a friend with a mac and open up your blog. The photos etc. look much better. If only I had £1000 lying around…
Just a couple of side notes;
According to the blood in my urine (tmi, sorry) Logiflox® doesn’t work
Shit what else was I gonna say?
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