How Italy Improved My English
How Italy Improved My English by Tim Parks (The New York Review of Books)
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In French
Lewis Carroll
Victorian era
I am in love with this hairstyle. It’s perfect for spring, and it is super easy to do as it is actually not a braid at all. If you feel like trying it for yourself, I suggest you check out @milabu.co’s wonderful YouTube video titled “10 easy braids for short hair tutorial” •
I am heartbroken.
Yesterday, more than one voter out of four voted for the two main Flemish far-right parties, effectively placing them in the House — in a position of power over the entire country, and putting us, the French-speaking minority, in danger. It’s millions of people choosing hate, because they are afraid of immigration, of change, but also because deep down they no longer want to be a part of Belgium.
And today, neither do I. I don’t see the point of sticking together with people who see us as parasites and who despise us so much that they’d rather sell their souls to fascist ideologies than to live with us.
But in these troubled times, I think it is important to stand our ground, and to be twice as kind to each other. For every fascist that will parade tomorrow, we will have to give twice as much to the homeless, to the refugees, to the migrants, to the women’s rights associations, to the LGBTQI+ groups, to research, to cultural institutions, and, more importantly, to our neighbours. We’ll also have to call on people’s bullshit twice as fast as we hear it, not because we stand a chance of convincing them, but because we have to silence this banalisation of hate. It is the fucking right thing to do.
Ultimately, hate can only ever win for a time, and it is our duty to make sure that this time is as short as possible.
We won’t give up. We won’t give in.
Lots of love to you all 🖤 •
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Photograph of the Coudenberg Palace (right) and the former Hotel de Belle-Vue (left) on the Royal Square in Brussels •
Every year, the Belgian royal residence Castle of Laeken opens its greenhouses to the public. They are a very rare example of surviving 19th century greenhouse architecture in Belgium. So Jon took me on a nice day out. Because I nagged him. •
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The spamming continues! Every year, the Belgian royal residence Castle of Laeken opens its greenhouses to the public. They are a very rare example of surviving 19th century greenhouse architecture in Belgium. •
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#travel #travelwithme #wanderlust #iamatraveller #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #photooftheday #igdaily #igers #trip #travelgram #instatravel #architecture #adventure #travelphotography #Belgium #royal #Brussels #nature #dayoff #park #igersbelgium #europe #belgique #castle #plants #royalpalace #spring #greenhouse #history
The spamming continues! Every year, the Belgian royal residence Castle of Laeken opens its greenhouses to the public. They are a very rare example of surviving 19th century greenhouse architecture in Belgium. •
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#travel #travelwithme #wanderlust #iamatraveller #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #photooftheday #igdaily #igers #trip #travelgram #instatravel #architecture #adventure #travelphotography #Belgium #royal #Brussels #Laeken #dayoff #park #igersbelgium #europe #belgique #castle #palace #royalpalace #spring #greenhouse #history
Every year, the Belgian royal residence Castle of Laeken opens its greenhouses to the public. They are a very rare example of surviving 19th century greenhouse architecture in Belgium. Get ready for some good old-fashioned spam! •
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The Royal Palace in Laeken (Brussels) •
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I received photographic lighting equipment for my birthday, and I tested it out with this “early 2000s mildly successful historical romance writer” aesthetic. I am definitely keeping this picture for the cover of my upcoming book “The Darkness Beyond Cabot Cove” about how Jessica Fletcher was the killer all along. In other news, I am now fully equipped to take your passport photos, which might come in handy.
EDIT: Folks, it was intended as a joke; I am not really writing a book about Jessica Fletcher being a serial killer (unless you’re a publisher reading this, in which case I am totally down with it). I am however writing a PhD dissertation on the strategies of transfer of culture-bound items in the French translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from 1869 to 2009, which admittedly is a little less fun than bringing down everybody’s favourite Maine widow, but still needs to be done. #phdlife
So I was having a terrible day trying to sort out all kinds of academic and administrative matters, when Jon suggested taking our afternoon off to go to the zoo.
The Zoo of Maubeuge is a quaint little thing, but it offers some advantages compared to its larger competitors, including but not limited to a cheaper entrance price and apparently, actual dedication to the animals and their wellbeing. It’s still a zoo, and I am very much on the fence on the whole captivity/protection of endangered species debate, but I love the zoo of Maubeuge.
Here’s an albino wallaby, which simply is your regular Bennett’s wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) with albinism. Fun fact: there is a colony of about 200 white wallabies on Bruny Island (south of Tasmania) where they thrive due to the lack of predators.
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