MrsDoyle @ MrsDoyle @sh.itjust.works

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Ah, the Scunthorpe problem... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

If I Google my name it comes up with the victim of an unsolved murder in the US. Quite good for privacy, but it must discombobulate some old acquaintances.

Yes, Kindle does now support epub. Annoyingly, it no longer supports mobi. I mean, I can still read all the mobi files on my ancient Kindle Keyboard and on the Kindle phone app, but any new book files have to be in epub format. I have a massive amount of mobi files, now have to convert them with Caliber if I want to add them to my Kindle.

I mostly use the ReadEra app on my phone, it does pretty much everything. My favourite feature is that you can control screen brightness by touch while reading, without ferreting around in settings.

I use WhatsApp on my computer, in a web browser, but you do have to activate it from your phone via a q code.

I kissed the blarney stone once, disgusting business. I lay down, half my body hanging out under the parapet, while a man held on to my legs. Reached up my head and put my lips on the stone. What was I thinking?!?

It's an upper crust thing. A bit old-fashioned as well.

Orbital, by Samantha Harvey. It's just won the Booker prize so I thought I'd check it out. It's set on the space station, and is basically the astronauts on board thinking. I can't believe how beautiful it is, how gripping.

At my brother's house for dinner, yum, chicken casserole. Six-y-o niece: "It's not a chicken, it's a rooster. It bit daddy, and daddy cut its head off." Still delicious.

A friend going to work in Oslo was asked if she had sorted out clothing for winter. She said, "Well I have my winter coat," indicating the one she was wearing . Her colleague-to-be fingered it and said, "No, that's your autumn coat." Her winter coat, it turned out, was a down-stuffed waterproof.

So many things! But mostly that I have a lot of wonderful friends. I was a pretty lonely child, awkward and uncool.

I'm in the UK and KFC has gone downhill here too - something I'm very grateful for! A few years ago I got a real craving for a crispy, juicy piece of chicken with the colonel's secret spices. I ended up with a grim, wizened leg that tasted of stale oil and despair. Never again. My own cooking is sooo much better, and cheaper too. Win win!

How do you say 1901 then? One thousand nine hundred and one? Nineteen hundred and one? Or nineteen oh one? Have you ever heard of the Eighteen Hundred and Twelve Overture?

I'm in the "twenty oh one" etc camp, it's concise and consistent.

Scotland too: "hen" to women, "pal" to everyone.

TERFs are absolutely a tiny but vocal minority. Most people couldn't give a toss.

Ah. Maybe work up a few phrases explaining your situation ahead of the trip?

Be open, humble, friendly, listen more than you talk. Try and learn a bit about the country you're in, not to have opinions about it, but to better understand the people you meet. Happy travels!

My favourite joke, being the only one I can remember. Still gets a laugh!

Oh, that is so much more interesting than wordle! Thanks.

Was playing Trivial Pursuit with family one time, classics question came up. My brother replied "Pericles". His 10-yo daughter said "Wrong!" He knew he was right & demanded the "correct" answer.

"Testicles." Pronounced to rhyme with Pericles. It was the answer to another question on the card - What is removed from a horse to make it a gelding?

The poor child. Her face as we all screamed laughing. "What?!?"

Brian Cox shows ball and feathers falling together in vacuum: https://youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs