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This week, Susie and Gyles explore fragrances and scents. Join us as we inhale the sweet aromas of people and places...



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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 



Acang: To act foolishly, lose self-control.

Anythingarian: One who professes no creed in particular; an indifferentist.

Coleworts: Old news. Literally, a cabbage-like plant. From the proverb for “old news,” “coleworts twice sodden’.



Gyles' poem this week was 'Home Thoughts, From Abroad' by Richard Browning



Oh, to be in England

Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough

In England—now!



And after April, when May follows,

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!

Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge

Leans to the field and scatters on the clover

Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!

And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew

The buttercups, the little children's dower

—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! 



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'I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.'

Mae West: American actress, and a unforgettable sex symbol.

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*Cough cough*... This week Susie and Gyles explore the language of diseases. From Cholera to Mumps, and Malaria to Influenza, they have you covered.



Also, we reveal the WINNERS of our 'To Dent' and 'To Brandreth' competition!



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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 



Shackbaggerly: Disordered and unkempt.

Komorebi (Japanese): The patterns cast by sunlight filtering through trees.

Gruttling (old East Anglian dialect): A strange, inexplicable noise.



Gyles' poem this week was 'Sick Room' by Billy Collins



Every time Canaletto painted Venice

he painted her from a different angle,



sometimes from point of view

he must have imagined,



for there is no place in the city

he could have stood and observed such scenes.



How ingenious of him to visualise

a dome or canal from any point in space.



How passionate he was

to delineate Venice from perspectives



that required him to mount the air

and levitate there with his floating brush.



But I have been sick in this bed

for over sixty hours,



and I am not Canaletto,

and this airless little room,



with its broken ceiling fan

and it monstrous wallpaper, is not Venice.

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut: Satirical writer, American soldier, and prisoner of war.


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This week, Susie and Gyles unravel the intricate history of dictionaries, those indispensable guides that serve as gateways to language. From ancient lexicons to modern compendiums, we explore how dictionaries have shaped our understanding of words and the world around us. And Gyles lets us know how his weight lifting is going...



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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 



Idioticon : A dialect dictionary.

Limbeck: To rack the brain and exhaust yourself in an effort to come up with a new idea.

Proggle: To poke, prod, or grubble about.



Gyles' poem this week was 'Shakespeare at School' by Wendy Cope



Forty boys on benches with their quills

Six days a week through almost all the year,

Long hours of Latin with relentless drills

And repetition, all enforced by fear.

I picture Shakespeare sitting near the back,

Indulging in a risky bit of fun

By exercising his prodigious knack

Of thinking up an idiotic pun,

And whispering his gem to other boys,

Some of whom could not suppress their mirth –

Behaviour that unfailingly annoys

Any teacher anywhere on earth.

The fun was over when the master spoke:

Will Shakespeare, come up here and share the joke.



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Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour...

Peter Ustinov: English actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, raconteur, and humanitarian.

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