Great to have you with us, AA. And good news about the work. No wonder you're tired!

Smoking may be a perk of office, but have eyepatches become fashionable for Feds?

Smoking may be a perk of office, but have eyepatches become fashionable for Feds?

Especially More ciggies, which were marketed at women.

Perhaps like doing needlepoint while waiting to go into battle?

Effete gents also accepted.

I was thinking more that you have proved that you are hard enough, so can do things normally considered effete without it reflecting on your manliness.

The primary school today (for voting) had a big neon screen saying "Slushies on Fridays" with a pic of disgusting coloured ice thingies. We commented on how kid ought not to be given those but instead should be allowed to go and make some slushies with puddles and mud in the playground. Helotrix would be such fun for kids!

Tarrant's clothes don't half show up in the half-light. It's like the girls wearing shoes with loud heels. Thoughtless and dangerous.

Servie has little time for civil servants.

On the other hand it does allow us viewers to follow him in the dim light.

They tend to follow the system, but she needs people who follow orders. Her orders.

I think we'd recognise the hair by now, if not the face.

The rebel Helots have no problem firing on adapted Helots.

Liking that decanter.

More pointy sideburns, I see.

A-ha! I don't know what brand it is but I have found one. Vila uses the same decanter on Liberator. What my brother calls chemistry set crystal.

More pointy sideburns, I see.

I might have known.

Enter Dr Strangelove.

Anne - is it confusing to teach school French as opposed to Old French?

Totally Peter Sellers. Even his lines could come from some Peter Sellers character.

Very confusing - the worksheets were based on imagined French social media posts, all modern teenage slang (probably slightly outdated by the time it made it into the textbooks), so language I didn't know at all. Most of it I could guess, though.

Perhaps that's the only representation of a scientist in a wheelchair that Edgar Wreford could remember.

Very confusing - the worksheets were based on imagined French social media posts, all modern teenage slang (probably slightly outdated by the time it made it into the textbooks), so language I didn't know at all. Most of it I could guess, though.