The book is basically about Victorian squalor and child exploitation poverty made into a jolly musical. Like erm well that Les Miserables. I wonder why they don’t pick another novel. Just as long as it isn’t set in “chim chimeny Lahndan town” and properly in America. Because the accents alone would make me want to…

They don’t know what is happening or how to stop it and are eating themselves alive. That for sure is clear.

“Look let me explain something to you”

I feel like I was there. :) And an excellent dog too. I looked up Wheal Coates and blimey - that is Cornwall from expectations. Wild seas, CLIFF TOPS! I have never been to that bit - only Devon but I may venture down once the planes start their season again (don’t think you can get to Newquay or Penzance from…

Dr Enys and his modern haircut is the best. Yes to all you said, West Country person. Do you have a pewter tankard on the side board? Do you like clifftops? :)

This also sits badly for UK audiences because, hello, Ched Evans. And all the MRA support coming along. Jeez. Bad work, BBC.

I like Demelza for being a windswept ginger like me but also, for the best side eye. But she never wears a hat or coat, just wanders around with the breeze. That would be a death knell back then. Also, women who didn’t wear hats outdoors pre 1959 were considered slovens and harlots. :)

Your ass and your mum’s ass is brill. :)

Absolutely. The similarity is nothing at all really. I suppose it is because people think one bad decision is like another but, in reality, there are many many forms of terrible decision. The only loose parallel I can see is that someone has tapped into a very vocal form of nasty supporter - but we can’t pretend…

The town I grew up in voted Brexit leave (very poor, NW England) and huge part of it was pretty much because nobody came to talk to people except the Brexit promoters. No Momentum or no leaders of business or none of the Left wing people who would come over other things like, say, fracking. Instead they got the BNP…

Bad also are doors that take FOREVER to close behind you. I learned my lesson when some creep tried to get in my stairwell (when I lived in city on major road) because slow closing door. I always closed the door behind me and checked it was shut. A bummer we have to do this but I would rather that than worse case…

Donald is such a horrible horrible stupid person with no filter speaking on all subjects. He clearly knows nothing about women’s health though no doubt he has paid for a few abortions over the years.

Yep I know the feeling about radio. Lots of traditional music on the stations so you probably picked up. It isn’t really a “pick it up” as you go language. Both my ma and pa are Celtic language speakers by birth/ family (Irish and Welsh respectively) so even I with my tiny bit of reading skills are at sea with the…

They all sound familiar, ta. :)

Poke him in the eye. Same way you make a Maltese cross.

No she didn’t speak Scots - Lowland dialect of Burns. That is from Ayrshire and she came from the opposite end of the country - from Stornoway. I live in the Scottish Borders. She maybe modified it when she came to the US. As many did. His mother was also a Free Presbyterian, which is an ultra religious breakaway…

White people also bought the slaves too. I bet there is a lot he doesn’t know.

I am also pretty amazed that a Trump supporter (see photo) doesn’t know how to draw a swastika.

Karlie Kloss has a walk worthy of Drag Race. The rest not so much.

When I worked in shops as a teen (shopping centre tastic WH Smiths), we did not tackle shoplifters because one of them punched my manager in the face and she had to go to hospital. It is not worth a broken nose for a tenner.