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Spanish 11/12 year olds:

'Matt! Matt! Can I go to the loo?'
'Mark! Mark! Can I go to the loo?'

Italian 16 year olds: Greta, Ilaria, Alice, Elizabetta, Sylvia, etc



Mr Phillips, John Lanchester (disappointing)

He writes 'more clear,' and uses food and drink to describe colour: 'a girl's beautiful tea-coloured midriff.'

Reviewing paintings at Tate Britain:
'... it implies that people are different at different times and contain lots of aspects to themselves. We are all many. Seven out of ten.'

'She was the sort of person you could tell at say a fourth meeting that you'd had a dream about them, or even, conceivably, if you really were getting on, that you'd had a crush on them for ages.'



Requiem for a Dream - Selby: all carnival, even though elderly and alone.



Bath Literature Festival


Carrie chairs Tim Liardet and Gerard Woodward debate in Victoria Art gallery.
Exhibition of Keith Vaughn's work.

Matt: Would you say this exhibition is representative of Keith Vaugn's work?
Gerard Woodward: It's a retrospective.

Brian Patten's comforting cadence.

Howard Jacobson on The Very Measure of a Man: 'You like it? Many people don't.'

Comedy is necessary to encompass the human experience.