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Friday, 30 May 2014

Pictorial Eloquence

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Tally-ho! We've been busy as [insert industrious animal of choice], here at the Privy Counsel, running hither and thither, and probably...
Monday, 28 April 2014

19th-Century Toilet Letter: A Delight from Start to Fin(n)ish!

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Delightful things keep happening! Being keen Dane enthusiasts we're prone, at the Privy Counsel, to sing the praises of Hamlet's co...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

Toilet Etiquette, or, Ominous Verbs, or, Shit Happens

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We encountered an eminently readable post on the Vagenda blog , about toilet etiquette. This touched a chord as we recently came across thi...
Thursday, 17 April 2014

Whether You Believe in Jebus Or Not: Unbelievably Rampant Linguistic Musings!

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Heigh ho, another religious festival is upon us. We woke up this morning feeling like we'd been hit by a bus - the phrase "death w...
Sunday, 6 April 2014

Woof! Cholera Babe Parade!

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It's no use struggling against the unavoidable: the Cholera Babe Parade has been conga-ing inexorably in our direction, and now it'...
Friday, 4 April 2014

Festive Things That Are Red

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The colour of the revolution is red. Red is also the colour, we've been told, of other useful things like love, ketchup, and British po...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

The Royal Toilet at Kronborg: "A Foul and Pestilent Congregation of Vapours."

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Bunden i vejret eller resten i håret! * We spent an utterly, utterly festive day in Denmark recently! We simply couldn't imagine a bet...