If Paris gets its name from being Lutetia Parisiorum ('of the Parisii'), and if the Parisii were also present in what's now the East Riding of Yorkshire, and if the main city of the East Riding is Hull, then I think Hull has a claim to be a second Paris
This was a good call
I heard about Duolingo firing their staff and replacing them with AI so I asked for a refund on my subscription and spent the money on a bread maker
It’s my dad’s 60th in a couple of weeks so I bought him the Philipe Starck lemon squeezer he’s been on about wanting for decades. He’s never juiced a citrus fruit to my knowledge but functionality isn’t really the point is it
When I first saw this picture without the caption I thought the joke was that the original cat had passed away by the time the first draft of the manuscript was ready, and I found it very relatable
When I was 6 or 7 my parents bought me some ‘Laurence Llwelyn-Bowen’ branded bed sheets and it was very exciting because I thought that meant someone off the TV had touched my bed sheets
The best birthday present I received yesterday (alongside an ironic Charles III coronation mug) was a shoutout on my favourite podcast!
Listen to this episode from A Language I Love Is... on Spotify. It's episode 15 and the finale of the first series of ALILI! To mark the occasion, the tables have been turned and your usual host now f...