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Love the birdsong!
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Thatās beautiful! I hope the lake has some nice fish in it!
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The ālakeā is actually a dam that belongs to the neighbouring sheep farm. However, the house is within a kilometre of this boat ramp onto the Tamar River:
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Thatās a really big brown trout! 
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Nurse shark?
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Amazing true story. And I always did think Lord of the Flies is cynical bullshit.
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
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I love all the wood in the house, though Iām not a fan of film finishes like poly on wood floors.
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To be fair, āLord of the Fliesā was an allegory of the elite British boarding school system specifically, and it was a pretty darned accurate portrayal.
ETA: also WWII, but Golding was a school teacher and clearly drew from that experience.
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True enough, but those facts have little to do with its enormous popularity. Whatās more significant, what a bookās author may have meant, or how most interpret it? (I do agree that it may not be fair to blame Golding himself for the latter.)
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Iāll quit with the house stuff soon, but one more:
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Nah. This is nice stuff.
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Seconded! 
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Chomsky was speaking in an interview to mark the launch of the Progressive International, a global initiative to unite, organise and mobilise progressive forces around the world.
First convened by Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, and Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, it aims to mount a fightback against the increasing rise of rightwing populist movements around the globe.
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Excuse the wind noise; filming on my phone, and it never stops blowing down here.
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I think Iām in love!
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Thatās lovely. What a nice place to live!
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Scenic spots on or near water is why I cannot stop watching Cruising the Cut:
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