Well done punkdoc, very impressive (maths has always been problematic for me) - glad you're going to get to do the thing you want .
Re: Harry Potter. It's not fantasy. I can't get on with fantasy at all - Lord of the Rings bores me, can't get into Pratchett much as I'd love to. In my opinion, Harry Potter is classic Enid Blyton boarding school story with some magical wish-fulfillment thrown in (and even that is more Wishing Chair than fantasy early on, tbh). Admittedly, the latter books tend toward the fantasy genre much more, and I think I probably wouldn't have liked them had I not already been entranced. But if you haven't read them because you think they're fantasy, scrap that idea. That's my tuppence worth anyway!
And I'm with the rest of you re: Bercow.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I've been looking up a chap called Georges Clémenceau because there is a museum to his life and lots of streets named after him. Turns out he was a perspicacious politician born in the mid 1800s and died in 1929.
One lovely quote from him -
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Well done Punkdoc.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Obelixx, Clemenceau, as French PM was one of the BIG THREE involved with the Treaty of Versailles. Lloyd George, the British PM referred to him as Napoleon because he GC wanted such harsh terms against Germany.
Not surprising really given events and it was a centuries old tradition to make losers pay for wars. He supported Dreyfus and published Emile Zola's "J'accuse" so he got a few things right.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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indeed so Joyce.
Just heard that about Bercow!
Brilliant doc. I admire anyone who starts something challenging when over the age of 27
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I always thought Bercow was a bit of a t##t, he has gone up in my estimation, let us hope the Commons now manage to get the visit stopped.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Just heard Bercow speaking
Someone has to tell Trump he's only POTUS; he's not God the Almighty 
Well done Pdoc - we'll be with you every step of the way ... sort of
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well done punkdoc, very impressive (maths has always been problematic for me) - glad you're going to get to do the thing you want
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Re: Harry Potter. It's not fantasy. I can't get on with fantasy at all - Lord of the Rings bores me, can't get into Pratchett much as I'd love to. In my opinion, Harry Potter is classic Enid Blyton boarding school story with some magical wish-fulfillment thrown in (and even that is more Wishing Chair than fantasy early on, tbh). Admittedly, the latter books tend toward the fantasy genre much more, and I think I probably wouldn't have liked them had I not already been entranced. But if you haven't read them because you think they're fantasy, scrap that idea. That's my tuppence worth anyway!
And I'm with the rest of you re: Bercow.
I've been looking up a chap called Georges Clémenceau because there is a museum to his life and lots of streets named after him. Turns out he was a perspicacious politician born in the mid 1800s and died in 1929.
One lovely quote from him -
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Well done Punkdoc.
Obelixx, Clemenceau, as French PM was one of the BIG THREE involved with the Treaty of Versailles. Lloyd George, the British PM referred to him as Napoleon because he GC wanted such harsh terms against Germany.
Not surprising really given events and it was a centuries old tradition to make losers pay for wars. He supported Dreyfus and published Emile Zola's "J'accuse" so he got a few things right.
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I love this thread.
Supportive, friendly people and you learn stuff too.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The Forkers and the OU - what more could anyone need?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.