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If anyone asks in 20 years what I did during the great 2020 pandemic I will say I listened for 10mins everyday to Sandi Toksvig and then spent the rest of the day contemplating my existence. P.S. VOX TOX is the best thing since baked bread.
Reading is a perfect antidote to the vague thought of vacuuming...
jeannieK1117 lol
Hahhahhaha! I'm embroiding this and puting it on my wall!
@@leavoda3791 Please post a picture when you do! ;)
I'm rediscovering books I'd forgotten I had and a benefit of getting older is that you cannot remember them all, and come to them with new pleasure, like bumping into old friends you haven't seen for years.
I would make the assumption that many devout Christians haven't read the Bible cover to cover. Yet some feel they have the right to preach about the passages the agree with. What I've always been told is that the most important lesson the Bible teaches is kindness. Let's remember that. Be kind kind to each other. Stay safe.
Lukas Oitzl the most exercise some chrischuns get is jumping to conclusions, when they aren’t picking cherries
I think the best thing you can do for a child is encourage them to read. My granddaughter Alice is 7 years old and wanted to know what book I had on the side of my bed. It was 50 Women Who Changed History , my bookmark was at Florence Nightingale. I can’t tell you how proud and thrilled I was that she could read the paragraphs herself, and then closed up the book, hugged it and said that she loved reading about history ❤️ I remember my first ever teacher Miss Russell was one of many who encouraged me to read, and teachers are the heroes, especially in these uncertain times. Thank you for another wonderful chat Sandi x
You're never alone with a book. Thank you.
Thank you for mentioning educators. On the last day of school , before we were officially told to stay home by the government, my advice to our students was "go to the library and get some books- even if you don't usually read". I hope they listened.
Nearly spit up my wine at "since then the education of women has become disgracefully common."
Signed,
A longtime (black woman American) fan of PBDh
(Peak Brit Droll (humor))
I look forward to watching your videos every day. They're lovely, calming, and interesting. Thank you!
How lovely to find this little gem! Thank you Sandi, looking forward to catching up as well as new dispatches.
Thank you Sandi. This was perfect. And the schnauzers, Lotte and Daisy, agreed. During these unusual times, their favourite days are those when my daughter and I sit on either ends of the couch, reading real, proper books. The Schnauzers sit between us occasionally sighing, whilst my 13 year old discovers Louisa M Alcott, and I rediscover Virginia Woolf. Add a pot of proper chai and some shortbread, and we have decided this is our wonderful new normal.
This is lovely 😊 glad I found this little pocket of calm
I've piles of books that I could be reading, but sadly at the moment my concentration level makes reading impossible. However, I've been an avid reader all my life, so I do keep picking up a book and keep trying. In the early 60s when I was circa 8 or 9 years old, the local librarian berated me when I returned the books that I'd read, to the library. I'd read them all in a day, and she told me to keep them for longer than a day. Not really encouraging words for a child to hear as I wanted more books to read. Needless to say, I took no notice of her words!
My grandmother told me if I read too many books like my mother, I would need glasses. My mother and I did need glasses. (By the way my grandmother wore glasses too .)
I was sure this was gonna be about papercuts.
The Yeĺlow Wallpaper ... still makes me shudder having read many many years ago. Have never forgotten.
Thank you Sandi you are keeping me going during this isolation.
I read "The Moon and Sixpence" in high school; I'd found it in the library and it looked interesting. When I told my English teacher what I'd picked to read, she said that Maugham was a "writers writer". I didn't understand what she meant then, but I think I do now. I just read "The Razor's Edge", and when I put it down I marveled again at his skill.
Some long gone authors hold up remarkably well - Virginia Woolf's "Common Reader", Aphra Behn's plays - I remember hearing a lecture by David McCullough in which, at one point, he said that Tobias Smollett's books were still "ripping good reads". No one I checked with had ever read Smollett so I picked up " The Adventures of Roderick Random" and yes, if you've never read Smollett, now's a good time for some rollicking entertainment. The Project Gutenberg website has all of his and Aphra Behn's works.
Books are wonderful - I love the physical ones, but I'm quite happy reading eBooks on my phone these days, too. I've always got a few thousand books in my pocket, an astonishing luxury. If civilization ended tomorrow and I had my phone, a charger and a solar panel, I'd have enough reading material to see me through.
Hi Edgar!
My favourite few minutes of the day. Thank you
'Agitated and not entirely sensible'.....at this point, I've given up on 'agitated' it sucks up too much energy and not entirely sensible is just my constant state of consciousness, with which I am quite comfortable, tyvm Bigg Huggs from All the Way Up Here in Denver !!
thank you Sandi - I'm off to read! x
Thanks so much for doing this Sandi, look forward to it every day x
You used to say, “c’mon in”. I really miss that. But, keep doing what you’re doing. I love it.
I would just like to say thank you. Kindest wishes, Judith Greenwood
Just love these. Thank you!
I love this! I just ordered the book. One of my favorite paintings is Beatrice at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE, USA. It shows a read head in a window reading a book. Lovely PreRaphealite painting and y a woman too! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Spartali_Stillman_-_Beatrice_(1895).jpg
I have just broken off from reading Jane Eyre to watch this!!!!! :-)
The importance of being Ernest: "Cecily. [Coming over very slowly.] But I don’t like German. It isn’t at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson."
Thank you
So what is the etiquette as to which side of a postcard to you look at first? The picture or the writing. I ask as the postcard Sandi is holding would seem to imply that you look at the message first then the picture.
I look at the picture first. Any one else do that.
I find it impossible to believe that we are cleverer and more fair-minded in 2020 than the people of one, two, three etc. centuries ago. Many men today genuinely lament the negative attitude of yesteryear men towards women. There must have been some men then who could not embrace such abhorrent views. Who were they? What were they able to do? I would love to know.
Also a Happy Easter to VoxTox
sarcasm on/
Welp, that explains my Asex!! Thank gawd, I now know.
I'm here wondering if it was my elementary aged selfs' go at Mrs. Frisby or the more recent forray into audio books of Ingersoll which ripped the desire for the act which results in procreation straight from my loins. Again it might be my deep seated desire to hang out with partying otters.
Thanks incredibly ignorant 19th century Dude! 👍
//Sarcasm off
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and for those who wonders about the strange word spoken in danish.. check out Skagen here: www.toppenafdanmark.com/skagen
How is anyone supposed to go about holding/ reading that Bible without breaking a finger?!
The danger of reading books is you might just learn something..yes I said that..and I'm not taking it back
He really was mad.
Sandi .... your 10 minutes a day is just not enough, so I’ve downloaded ’ Between the Stops’ on Audible , go on people indulge yourselves.
Confession - I'm listening to music instead. Please forgive me.
She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. Louisa May Alcott
Lol the fears of men that we like to use our brains...i belive in god but not a bible of men .we are meant to live in harmony with morals and respect and always learn seek knowledge..dont let religious beliefs judge you and hold you back from the truths we seek....
Women! Know your limits.
Andrew Halliwell what are they?
@@jandrews6254 I recommend the public information film produced back in the 1990s by Harry Enfield. Just search youtube for "Women, know your limits." and all will be explained.