Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 4hNorwich cathedral cloisters are beautiful and full of ceiling bosses like these. They have a table with a mirrored top on wheels so you can move it around and look at them without craning your neck. 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If they read the Bible they would know that they are not following the explicit teachings of Jesus who promoted loving your neighbour as yourself and helping strangers. Parable of the Good Samaritan anyone? 020 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The language they are using is seriously frightening and reminiscent of the 1930s 031 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That explains a lot! Thank goodness we have an insider like you, Sir Michael, ready to share your insights of the Tory Glory years! 071 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The first book I ever finished and then started again immediately. Just wonderful! 131 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Whatever happened to quicksand? Seemed to be a threat to life constantly on TV when I was a child! 111 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I think he is a modern definition of a charlatan 040 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026One of the readings at my wedding 20 years ago! 110 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026What about the ones in the 70s that were really rather racist? Like “Love Thy Neighbour” and “Mind Your Language”? 121 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It’s shown him up as a thin skinned, entitled, egotistical grifter to some more people who hadn’t yet realised it. 030 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I daren’t look. That 1970s adaptation I saw as a child has really scarred me for life. 020 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It doesn’t surprise me in the least! You had to eat with a very open mind in Japan I found. But it was often rewarding. 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A few years ago we had a holiday with friends in Japan. I enjoyed the food but you often never knew what it was. One morning in a ryokan near Kyoto my friend said “whatever it is, I’m not eating it.” So I know what you mean. 121 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Not sure I will ever finish. Meant to say I will probably read it in English alongside following reading the article. 020 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 26/07/2026After a couple of false starts I have just restarted Proust - but in French. I’ll be doing it piecemeal and am just through Combray I. Thanks to your post I may just do that - and I feel less lonely in my undertaking! 110 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026There are a load of Reggie Perrin references I must be hated for. The top one is “I didn’t get where I am today by…”. I work with far too many young people for this to land in any way other than pompously. 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Paris and Moscow have nights when museums are open for their entirety. And other places too, judging from the replies on here. There is hope after all! 000 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I’m going to do myself an injury laughing at the way people on the right of politics are commenting on this if it goes on much longer. 260 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026As long as you had a few key quotes to throw in and a decent and logical response to the question, a passable essay was assured! 110 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I’m with the incomparable Dr Samuel Johnson - “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”. 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026You do know that’s Therese Coffey I assume! 😊 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This is just hilarious stuff. When’s the actual by-election? Can we string it out to have more time to enjoy the spectacle of Farage up against the evil elitist establishment candidate, Count Binface? On the other hand, I might die laughing 000 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026How was it that they split the Lord of the Rings, an absolute door stop of a book, into 3 films and left out a lot of good parts (Tom Bombadil anyone?) and then filmed The Hobbit, a slim novella in comparison, in the same format? 100 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026You aren’t. Makes me think about the Nazis every time I see it. And i don’t like that. 000 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Just appalling play from Paraguay - I can’t believe the referee is allowing them to get away with blatant cheating 030 0
Reposted by Annabel GrantChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026So it's now 10 years since the vote to leave the EU. For a detailed account and analysis of what happened from the day after that, see my book, "Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to)": www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/brexit... 611541 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I agree totally and imho this was part of the problem. Because it was so ill defined, everyone could project their own fantasies upon it, and that meant no one “got what they were voting for” 021 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Anyone who lives in London is a Londoner. End of story! 020 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Banter is often just an excuse for being racist, sexist or homophobic. And if you complain about it the riposte is “can’t you take a joke?” 060 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I hope you are going to share it with your colleagues when you find out how incredibly amazing it is! 110 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Still a few “true believers” around it seems after all this time! 000 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Is it as hot in Paris as it is in London? (29 degrees). I always remember it as being slightly hotter there. 200 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Sometimes I don’t think people want to understand the facts. They just want something convenient to be outraged about. 000 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Absolutely. We have had panics about all sorts of things. Before smart phones it was video nasties. Before those it was violent films. Before those it was sexual activities depicted in novels and hit records that referred to parts of the anatomy. Before that, TV…. 020 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026That’s so true, it’s made me re evaluate my life. Enjoy yourself - it’s later than you think 020 0
Reposted by Annabel GrantJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The three stages of life: 1. Too young 2. Too busy 3. Too old 1754399 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 01/04/2026At least we will only have to wear the label, not have it tattooed onto us or microchip implanted! 🐟 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I love the idea of having all their cultural offerings “downstairs”! It’s a great arts centre and always has plenty going on. 010 0
Annabel Grant @norwichelf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I love modernist and even brutalist architecture. If I won the lottery I’d buy a flat in the Barbican. Le Corbusier’s idea of a house as “a machine for living” is still true I think. The idea that we have to dress it up in Georgian style is just a yearning for “our glorious past” in my opinion. 120 0
