And this is why Egyptology is amazing.

Come join us on the dark side, adultosaur. It’s never too late. We have cake!

Archaeologist working in Egyptology here. I work in a tomb site in Luxor, just over the hill from the Valley of the Kings, in fact. I hope I can give you some satisfactory answers!

When I was a kid, at my grandparents’ house I had this amazing big book with features on double-pages about various famous historic buildings around the world, showing how they were built, giving the historical context, and with little feature boxes on certain architectural techniques and stuff. There was the…

It is THE BEST and I love it. I love Thursday nights and seeing all the rich teenagers turned out in their best clothes and shoes and jewellery, with their hair done and their nails painted, for their McDonald’s fix. And also ideally placed to grab dinner, and then go for a mooch around the temple by twilight as it…

Same: I work in Egypt for several weeks at a time in the summer, and I always used to studiously avoid the McDonald’s next door to the amazing bookstore in the middle of Luxor, on a kind of slightly sanctimonious well-I-don’t-come-to-Egypt-to-eat-McDonald’s thing. However, there comes a point where it’s exactly what…

That’s true - no matter how bad things get, we still have Charlie Brooker. Maybe we’ll be okay after all ...

Indeed. And also the fresh fruit- and vegetable-growing industry here in the east of the country. One of my dad’s friends is a council director in East Yorkshire, and frequently has to deal with the anti-immigrant lot, and he’s just like, Do you realise how much money the fruit- and vegetable-growing industry brings…

Ugh, I know, but unfortunately, it’s going to happen, I just know it. The thing with David Cameron and his ham face that really gets me is his forehead. Like, why is his forehead so bloody huge? It’s enormous! I feel like every time I see him, it gets bigger. It’s taking over his entire face and it freaks me out. He…

Oh, God. This poor little girl. Honey, no, you don’t want Tony Blair. Nobody wants Tony Blair. When you’re older and you understand about war crimes and stuff, you’ll get it.

As a Brit in Cameron’s Britain, I am so incredibly angry about what they have made my country about. The Britain I grew up - increasingly diverse, broad-minded, accepting, and interested in the outside world - has become a suspicious, introspective, hostile place under the Cameron regime, and over the next five years,…

I’m so sorry that this is what my country has become. Truly. There are things about the UK that make me feel proud, but the anti-immigrant rhetoric pushed by the government, quite a lot of the opposition, and large sections of the mainstream media makes me feel so ashamed.

Wow. Um, thanks! Yes, Blandings is brilliant, as is everyone in it. Lord Emsworth’s outrage at having his study Baxtered and not being able to find anything once it’s all been tidied into a neat and orderly arrangement is my favourite thing, as this happened to me once when I was out of the country for a few weeks and…

Thank you! That is glorious. The way he says, “You think you could do better?” and they all just look at him like, “Bitch, please,” is wonderful. Ugh, shut up, Francis.

IF ONLY. I’m sure Aunt Connie would have a great deal to say about Freddie’s behaviour in Poldark (all of it epic, naturally).

Thanks, I’m sure they will!

I’m so sorry that my parents are contributing to you not being able to leave the house over summer! (But if they’re contributing to the local economy, well, that can only be a good thing, right?) They were always so against it because they couldn’t see the point in spending hours and hours queueing down the M5 with…

Just looked it up. It sounds really good! Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out!

Yeah, when we had this in the UK a couple of months back, it suddenly became required Sunday night viewing, because it is so different to the usual run-of-the-mill nine o’clock Sunday night BBC1 costume drama stuff. I think it also feels very current, what with the evil bankers and the upper class closing ranks whilst…

My mother has the same thing - she looks exactly like her paternal grandmother, and apparently always has. Her grandmother was the youngest in the family, and I’ve heard my grandma say that she remembers my grandaddad’s aunts commenting on how my mother looked just like her grandmother even as a baby. We have a lot of…