Anna, this was an amazing read. I think I’d have thrown myself overboard by about day 3: more power to your sticktoitiveness.

We use a Nespresso machine in our office in the UK - a guy from Nespresso actually comes and picks up the bags we fill with pods. Absolutely no excuse for not recycling them; they make it as easy for you as they can.

I think she’s fantastic. Love her to death.

Have you reached the reading comprehension part of your high school syllabus yet?

All the stars for you.

This is just so rude.

I should like to star this several million times.

I have a pair of those boots! They used to belong to my (English) Mum in the 1970s. She’s about a size larger than me, but thick socks deal with that.

My “type” is Chris Evans.

Nothing new in the world: “And all the stars who never were/Are parking cars and pumping gas.”

Well I don’t know about you guys, but I clicked on it to see if the other people in the comments were as sick of Molten X Being Poured on Y - See What Happens! as I am.

Concentration is necessary (in my case at least) when giving head. It’s also necessary when receiving it. I find it is totally impossible to concentrate on both things at once.

I’m so sorry; that sounds absolutely terrible.

Hillary: about stupid pregnancy food restrictions. Have you read Expecting Better by Emily Oster? You’ll feel a lot more sane if you do.

I am unable to see the costumes. I am distracted by Chris Evans, who is unaccountably still very handsome dressed in that jersey pyjama set.

Hang on - you’re “not a vegan or anything”, but you’re “against that sort of thing”?

I found the boyband *prettiness* of Uhtred (I LOVE the books) and the costuming way too 2015-by-way-of-hemp for immersion: at one point before I stopped watching Brida was wearing what appeared to be a Saxon hoodie, in the same scene that Uhtred was sporting a manbun.

That’s kind of traducing Vikings. I’m a textiles nerd (yes, we exist), and a lot of the costuming’s really, really thoughtfully produced. There’s a LOT more going on than leather - I know this because I’m the sort of idiot who pauses the show to try to work out what processes they’ve used on certain fabrics.

I went to a talk given by Neal Stephenson in Cambridge, UK just before Quicksilver came out. He spent a portion of it talking about how he’d wanted to write about knights templar, and had tried to do research in the UK where he had access to sites like Temple Church and resources like the British Library, but…