That was my first taste of Germany, exchange trip in year 9

Shock as at least 1 in 5 children now need glasses - is social contagion to explain for the rise in testing? I Went To Specsavers, said I couldn't see the letters even though I could and they just gave me special lenses. I tried them on and now I have a headache. What are we doing to our kids?

Yes, that's what I thought too

I also had a fear of topiary hedges after the first episode of The Children of Green Knowe and never watched the rest of the series!

Pretty much everything scared me as a child, but we were shown Watership Down at school when I was about 5 or 6...

There are good and bad books of all genres (including lit fic), and yes, some are more demanding than others, but can we please ditch the "guilty pleasure" idea unless you're talking about something actively harmful! Literary fiction is neither innately morally superior nor necessarily more skilful

The same people that decided the Z in chorizo was the same as ZZ in pizza, presumably!

Open to all who've worked with UK publishers, not just UK-based translators!

Red admirals hibernate. It'll be all right!

ah yes I love seeing all these men in my timeline agreeing with each other about the “lesser” nature of romance novels yes yes snobbery is good they say, don’t these silly silly women realize that their silly little formulaic books could just as well be written by machines

god that just. that line alone is so healing after years of ‘worth the calories’ comments. Food doesn’t have to be earned.