This is more like 25 years, but I feel like I have an excuse.

Nothing quite brings home how long ago the millennium was like remembering the existence of the lira. Or indeed 25-odd other European currencies that no longer exist.

Took Le Carré's 'The Mission Song' (2006) on holiday two years ago, and found an amusing comparison to an Egyptologist in it (R). I'm reading 'Single & Single' (1999) this time, and just found another one (L).

Every time I hear about US politics it's incomprehensibly bonkers. it's always like "Congress enters its 86th week of Noping after the High Ombudsman, Millicent de Vries-Buitenboom wore a blue dress."

post a photo from 2019 Cropped out two of my best friends, but yes that is the Great Pyramid, and yes that is why I'm grinning so inanely.

Very excited to see the paperback in the flesh!

I'm realising rather slowly that the end of the Starmer government is, once again, bringing to mind The Leopard:

*clears throat* Sit nomen Domini benedictum...

Doing my best on the shoe front.

I'm convinced there's a factory near Gouda.

"Even as we speak, Ayatollah Bush and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power."

My favourite Dr Who episodes are also Nag Hammadi texts

Well, now you've given me tge excuse to post my favourite brief communication (no alt text because it's a photo, sorry):

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts.

I've no idea if Eliot had read Sinuhe while composing the Waste Land, or even which translations might have been available in 1919-1922 and whether they correctly convey this part, but the similar phrasing is striking, anyway.

I hear dying of laughter is very in this season.

But Stephen, Starmerism isn't chicken-feed - it's the best!

A bluesky user, yesterday:

Cherie's found a fresh victim

"How it might look"

The French language doesn't exist, its just misspelled English.