"May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019

[Texaco Shirley]

Wordsworth? Or one of the Romantics. Not Keats, Mary Shelley carried his heart (or possibly liver) around with her for ages, didn't she?

Yes, his heart, wrapped in black silk.

[Edith Bacon]

I'm fine here, just having a little conversation with myself about the post mortem dismemberment of literary figures. Don't worry.

I’m finding your chat very soothing

[Bat Macdui]

I can genuinely never decide if hanging round with the Romantics would have been ace or fucking awful. Good drugs though. They definitely had all the good drugs.

[Bat Macdui]

I'm fine here, just having a little conversation with myself about the post mortem dismemberment of literary figures. Don't worry.

I’m finding your chat very soothing

This is basically how all my conversations with my Mum go. Last time we covered 'did the Roman supporting Briton tribes have it as good as the Boomers have had it?'

[Edith Bacon]

Wordsworth? Or one of the Romantics. Not Keats, Mary Shelley carried his heart (or possibly liver) around with her for ages, didn't she?

Yes, his heart, wrapped in black silk.

I (re)posted about this on Facebook recently; Mary Shelley was the gothest goth

[Texaco Shirley]

I think they’d have been self absorbed to the point of tedium.

[Bat Macdui]

Yeah, but you'd be too caned to notice they were dull, wouldn't you? And larking round the Lake District with Byron on opium would be mental.

[Texaco Shirley]

Wordsworth? Or one of the Romantics. Not Keats, Mary Shelley carried his heart (or possibly liver) around with her for ages, didn't she?

Yes, his heart, wrapped in black silk.

I (re)posted about this on Facebook recently; Mary Shelley was the gothest goth

I knew I’d seen it somewhere recently.

[Mountain Goat]

This is basically how all my conversations with my Mum go. Last time we covered 'did the Roman supporting Briton tribes have it as good as the Boomers have had it?'

God yes, Tex. Posh boys swanning around Italy getting high and declaiming tediously at you.

[Texaco Shirley]

Are we back to Johnson in Perugia?

[Mountain Goat]

God, at least Byron et al were talented.

[Bat Macdui]

Coleridge and his albatross though. That would've got really dull very quickly.

[Mountain Goat]

I bet Byron pulled faces when he started on that.

[Bat Macdui]

It's probably why Byron went and threw himself bodily off Broad Strand on Sca Fell. Note: Mountain Rescue strongly advise not trying this without ropes, kit, experience, distinct lack of opium in the system.

[Turtle Bean]

Thomas Hardy, apparently. Misogynist misanthropist wanker.

I hate Thomas Hardy with a passion.

[Mountain Goat]

I am not always a hater of a long description, but I am when it comes to windbag Hardy.

[Mountain Goat]

Though! I am glad I was forcefed some basic Wordsworth as a child because it meant that I picked up on what was going on in I'm Thinking of Ending Things within the first half hour and I'm going to feel smug about that for a week at least.

[Bat Macdui]

I will never forgive Hardy for Jude the Obscure. Never.

[Hazey_Jane]

Oh, I loved Jude.

Something that’s not making the BBC news but I found it on the Grauniad- UK banks are closing bank accounts of Brits living in the EU because no one knows what the rules will be. FFS. I’ve had a bank account with the Shatwest since 1993. I’ve used it regularly since moving to furrinland and always transfer spending money over before a visit instead of using my furrin cards.

I appreciate this is a tiny, tiny bit of Brexit but still. What a shambles.

[Ella77]

That was on Radio 4 this morning.

I suppose there's no alternative. I mean, sure, they could have negotiated a proper agreement by now, but apart from that.