Do you dream of sunglasses?

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Maybe some people do, and maybe for them this spam email subject line would make sense?
The sunglasses Of Your Dreams Has Arrived C Come And Get It!Amazing Price Now!
Except, you know, problem there with whether 'sunglasses' takes a singular or plural form...

Might be disturbing for people who dream about Scary Sunglasses.

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I learnt a new word today: 'screeding', as I passed by a van for Floor Screeding Services out of which a large rubber hose coiled across the pavement into a basement, twitching and heaving.

Apparently it is 'the simple act of applying a well blended mixture of Ordinary Portland Cement with graded agregates and water to a floor base, in order to form a sturdy sub-floor that is capable of taking on the final floor finish or act as a final wearing surface'.

Really not sure I shall ever have occasion to make use of this knowledge.

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If invisibles work in jobs that are unseen when done perfectly, how do they survive in a culture that seeks endless pats on the back? Was thinking on the Tube home this afternoon that the term 'rockstar archivist' is pretty much an oxymoron.

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This should possibly be posted to trennels given that current discussion is of Falconer's Lure, Y/N?

Though I thought the delay in publishing The Goshawk was because White shelved the ms for Reasons, i.e. that he had mentioned some really really rare hawks (?Harris hawks?) nesting nearby in the text and feared that unscrupulous egg-collectors would be able to deduce their whereabouts.

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Forget focusing on the under-representation of women in politics. It’s time we looked at the grossly disproportionate number of elite white men. Avoid the comments.