An excerpt from this piece by @swin24.bsky.social and Tim Dickinson, which is... whoo
It is very rare for anyone to laugh at any food. Unless it's in Nanny Ogg's cookbook. University canteens could be vastly improved using that template.
Exactly - hence pretty photos. Ditto in departments. NOBODY thinking of studying science needs to see someone in a white coat staring earnestly at a test tube. Cool hangout space near labs, though...
Campus photos can help, if the place is at all attractive. Huge blocks of text alone are very offputting, especially to seventeen-year-olds.
Enid Blyton was a terrible mother, too.
Yes, so I gather. The hair tied in knots story happened to one of her sisters. Did you read the story about Arthur Ransome coming to complain about all the noise the children made?
She lived there most of her adult life, but she grew up in Essex and Cumbria, then studied at Oxford.
She worked for nine months after leaving school and saved for the trip. You couldn't do it now. I have signed copies of Fire and Hemlock, Homeward Bounders and The Skiver's Guide. She signed them when I met her at a pub meet in Bristol.