#/south east London that’s basically Kent but not

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I have learnt many things in my time at uni, but one crucial piece of knowledge I can impart on you all is don’t fucking date men from Kent

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Hop picking in Kent c.1950.

In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, most families living in East and South London could not afford to take a summer holiday. Instead, there was a mass migration to the hop gardens of Kent. The accommodation was very basic. A family of four, or more would sleep in huts not much bigger than most people's garden sheds today. (A row of original hop pickers' huts still existed near Goudhurst until a couple of years ago. They have now been converted into small business units.)

This Pathe News reel features the Paddock Wood Hop Farm, which today is an event and wedding venue. The oast houses are still there.

[a-room-of-my-own]

A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.

The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.

The row, which has infuriated parents, was allegedly sparked by one of them asking a fellow pupil: “How can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?”

Their teacher told them they were being reported to a senior leader and were no longer welcome at the school, part of the Aquinas Trust, a Church of England network of 11 schools, if they continued to express the view that only boys and girls exist.

‘They are genuinely unwell – crazy’

The Telegraph has heard a recording of the heated exchange taken by one of the pupils, in which the teacher starts by saying “how dare you – you’ve just really upset someone” by “questioning their identity”.

The pupil responded: “If they want to identify as a cat or something then they are genuinely unwell – crazy.”

The teacher then asks the girls “where did you get this idea from that there are only two genders”, adding: “It is not an opinion.”

The teacher said that “gender is not linked to the parts that you were born with, gender is about how you identify, which is what I said right from the very beginning of the lesson.”

She added that “there is actually three biological sexes because you can be born with male and female body parts or hormones” and “there are lots of genders – there is transgender, there is a gender who are people who don’t believe that they have a gender at all”.

The girls said they “don’t agree with that” and that you “can’t have” a gender because “if you have a vagina you’re a girl and if you have a penis you’re a boy – that’s it”.

The teacher interjected in a raised voice: “What do you mean you can’t have it? It’s not a law ... Cisgender is not necessarily the way to be – you are talking about the fact that cisgender is the norm, that you identify with the sexual organ you were born with, that’s basically what you’re saying, which is really despicable.”

The teacher suggested they were homophobic and confused, which the girls denied. When the pupils said their mothers would be on their side, the teacher responded: “Well that’s very sad as well then.”

The teacher said that “if you don’t like it you need to go to a different school”, adding: “I’m reporting you to [senior staff], you need to have a proper educational conversation about equality, diversity and inclusion because I’m not having that expressed in my lesson.”

‘The shutting down of debate’

The Telegraph has contacted the school and the trust for comment.

The parent of the pupil who took the recording expressed fury online and thanked “those who have been kind and supportive” to her daughter.

A parent of another Year 8 pupil at the school who has received the same lesson told The Telegraph: “I understand the point the teacher was attempting to make, what bothers me is the shutting down of debate in such a threatening and aggressive manner, which I don’t believe is appropriate in an educational setting.

“Regardless of the subject, education should serve to build awareness of differing points of view to widen the understanding of a subject. It shouldn’t be a case of indoctrination.”

The Church of England trust that manages the school along with others in East Sussex, Kent and south-east London reportedly told its teachers earlier this year to “re-educate” those using “negative language” such as “that is mental” and “stop acting like a girl”.

A spokesman for Rye College said: “We are committed to offering our pupils an inclusive education. Teachers endeavour to ensure that pupils’ views are listened to, and encourage them to ask questions and engage in discussion. Teachers also aim to answer questions sensitively and honestly.

“We strive to uphold the highest standards across the school. We will be reviewing our processes and working with the relevant individuals to ensure such events do not take place in the future.”

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“...In 1700, as in 1500, the basis of the English economy was still agricultural, and most boys and girls were reared in a rural environment. Two factors influenced the recruitment and integration of children to work. On the one hand, children were bound to be drawn into the workforce early in their lives, since about one-third of the early modern English population was under the age of 15, and labour was the most important factor of production. 

On the other hand, the economy was also characterised by chronic under-employment, and children, not to speak of those of tender years, were physically limited and less skilled than adults. So their work was also bound to have been irregular and characterised by a great deal of unemployment. All this meant that children were employed to carry out single tasks as they grew up, according to the needs and types of skill required by their families. 

Some of the most common tasks allocated by families to children involved animal husbandry; most authors of autobiographies who made any reference to work they had performed in their childhood years mentioned some form of work with animals - for example, sheep, geese or draught animals. Sheep growing, rearing of cattle and horses, and dairy farming predominated in the western and the northern parts of the country, but enclaves of pastoral farming also existed in the south and the east, as well as in the less fertile soils of parts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Many yeomen in these regions kept large flocks of sheep to manure the soil, and children assisted in bringing sheep to the unploughed hill pasture during the day, and returning them to arable fields at night.

Moreover, until well into the sixteenth century, many households in the south and the east were self-sufficient and kept some animals to provide for their basic needs. In the midland plains, for example, households relied on cereal production, but also on animals; a few cows, pigs, or small flocks of sheep which children could tend to were kept to provide cheese, butter and clothing. In other regions within the mixed farming zone there were still large enclaves of pastoral farming, as in Cambridgeshire and the forests of Suffolk, Kent, Essex and the Midlands, where wood pasture predominated and shepherding by young children must also have been common. 

Where crop farming predominated in the south and the east, children assisted in a host of other agricultural tasks. Although the work was more seasonal than in the pastoral areas, some tasks were allocated to children nearly every season of the year. One major job was ploughing, especially in the autumn season, but sometimes also in the winter and the spring, depending on the crop schedules adopted by individual farmer. Thomas Carleton, William Stout, Simon Forman and Josiah Langdale all remembered working at the plough in their young years. In other seasons, children assisted in “harrowing, scaring birds once the corn was sown, weeding, picking fruit, and spreading dried dung to manure the soil in the spring and summer. 

During the harvest, children also contributed their share by bringing food to those working in the field, leading horses, and helping to bind the corn into sheaves. Older children also participated in haymaking and shearing.'' Among the very poor, children assisted during the harvest weeks by gleaning alongside their mothers. Even in winter, children provided some assistance: threshing, stacking sheaves, cleaning the barn and, in places and soils that required it in the winter, ploughing as well.'' Children carried out household tasks throughout the year: fetching water and gathering sticks for fuel, going on errands, assisting mothers in milking, preparing food, cleaning, washing and mending. 

In some rural industries, which expanded in the north and the west, children were also taught to spin and card, and girls were trained in hand-knitting, lacemaking and stocking knitting; the latter became, by the late seventeenth century, a large industry. In some towns, domestic industries such as clothmaking and pinmaking also provided work for children. The pinmaking industry could employ younger boys and girls to put knobs on pins by hand, and from the 1570s, when pinmaking with brass wire became more widespread, in London it was a source of living for many poor adults and their children.

Gender differences in the tasks allocated to children were to some extent already apparent at young ages. William Stout remembered that while he and his brothers were required to assist in husbandry, his sister was 'early taught to read, knit and spin, and also needle work'. When she grew up, she continued to work alongside her mother, assisting in waiting on her younger brothers, and in preparing food and clothing. Girls also provided assistance in housework: in washing, preparing food and marketing. In an estate near Bolton, payments paid by the bailiff to labourers included those for washing to 'wife Turner and her folks'. Some of these folks were probably young daughters.

But the division of tasks between boys and girls, especially among the very poor, was anything but clear-cut. In a petition of the inhabitants of Hertfordshire to King James I it was claimed that young girls in that region were employed in 'picking wheat a great time of the year'. In some estates in the north of the country, there are records of payments for 'divers women' for turf-gathering and for weeding; and tasks such as fetching water and milk, gathering sticks, picking and spreading dung, and doing errands were performed by young brothers and sisters alike. The account of Henry Best, a yeoman in Yorkshire, shows that his 'spreaders of muck and molehills' were for the most part women, boys and girls.

The pace of entry of children to work was gradual. While younger children could assist in various jobs - fetching water and milk, gathering sticks for fuel, bringing food to those working in the fields, or picking dung - the more demanding agricultural tasks were normally not given to children before they reached their early teens. Thomas Shepard remembered that he was put to keep geese when he was no more than three years old; but tending flocks of sheep normally did not start until around the age of 10. Thomas Tryon, Samuel Bownas and William Stout all looked after sheep when they were 10, 11 and 14 respectively.

Ploughing, which required physical strength and an ability to direct the animals properly, was not normally given to youngsters before 11 or 12 years of age. In the harvest, children under 10 or 12 years of age carried food and assisted the binders; but only at about 12 years and upwards did they begin to drive loaded wagons and lead horses, while participation in haymaking was probably delayed until the mid-teens. If they were strong enough for their age, and the family was poor and in great need, a child could be recruited to plough or join the older shepherds as early as the age of nine rather than at ten. But overall, training in the more skilled and demanding tasks normally began when children reached about 10 years.  

…It is doubtful that a very young child worked full days or very long hours in weeding or threshing. Nor was it likely that spinning would become a normal routine at the age of seven. Evidence from autobiographies written in the nineteenth century by people who grew up in families who relied on handloom weaving for their living suggests that their entry to work was gradual. At seven they spread cotton to help an older brother who spinned; then they began to wind, and at the age of 10 or 11, to spin. Nor was the winding of bobbins done full-time; it began with assistance to mothers, and alternated with going on errands, fetching water, and taking some time off. This was probably how a Lancashire 10-year-old boy, who testified in the 1630s that his mother had brought him up to spin wool, learnt his craft. 

…The pace of entry into most tasks, in agriculture as well as industry, was bound to be adjusted to the physical and mental limitations of the youngsters; so that while child labour was widespread, it did not begin 'as soon as children could walk,' as J.H. Plumb put it many years ago. Nor did it start at a standard age of seven or eight years old. By their mid-teens many children had acquired some agricultural proficiency.”

-  Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, “Early Lives: Separation and Work.” in  Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England

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a lil history lesson for @highnessaisling​ ( and @ anyone else who wants 2 know a bit more abt britain dkjgfkfgj ). a pre-warning, this got long so i’m v sorry! fellow brits pls @ me if i got anything wrong bc i studied this years ago and it’s highly possible i forgot smth!

ok so i just wanted to say that britain is actually the worst when it comes to this bc counties here are reorganised and created as areas have been abolished or whatever reason ( it’s rly confusing, i’m not abt to get into that dfkjfgkjngf ) but essentially, most british counties named after some sort of city or river that’s in them ( i.e. york is in yorkshire, lancaster is in lancashire ) and there are 48 counties, most of which have been around since anglo-saxon times, and a lot of them are the shires ( which if ur not from britain will probs confuse u a lot fjgnfkkgfj ). they were initially created for legal reason, taxes and military organisation, but then were used for local government reasons and elections. they can be split into four categories by name!

shires

in simple terms, shire comes from anglo-saxon times and is french for the word “county”, which is why most of the counties ( 19 of them to specific ) have the word “shire” as a suffix, which is just tagged onto the name of what the county is named after. if u want a list, the shires are bedfordshire, buckinghamshire, cambridgeshire, cheshire, derbyshire, gloucestershire, hampshire, herefordshire, hertfordshire, lancashire, leicestershire, lincolnshire, northamptonshire, nottinghamshire, oxfordshire, shropshire, staffordshire, warwickshire, worcestershire, and yorkshire ( east, west and north ridings, south ) ( that’s a lot of shires skdfgndsfg )

former kingdoms

so these ones don’t end in shire which is probably where it’s gonna get confusing, which relate to the tribes that settled there. first we have essex, middlessex, and sussex ( east and west ), which were eastern, western, and southern areas where the saxons  settled.��surrey means “southern district. there used to be a wessex but it cover a big part of southern england so it was broken up into different counties. then there’s norfolk and suffolk, which literally mean “north folk” and “south folk” ( we think we’re funny kjnkfjg ) which came out of the kingdom of east anglia. then there’s kent, which was an anglo-saxon jute kingdom deriving from the celtic british word for “border” ( cantus ). julius ceasar called it “cantium”, but now it’s just kent. last we have northumberland, which is a modern way of saying “kingdom of northumbria. historically, it used to be known as northtyneland.

tribal

these counties are named after the tribes that settled there. somerset and dorset are old english names meaning “people of somerton” and “people of dorchester”. devon derives from a celtic tribe call the dumnonii, which basically means “valley dwellers”. good ol’ cornwall gets the first part of it’s name from a local anglo-saxon tribe, the cornovii; “wall” comes from the old english word “weales”, which means “foreigners”. cumbria used to be cumberland, which has links to the welsh and comes from the celtic tribe, the crymry; cumberland meant “people from cumbria”. last we have rutland which is named after a guy named rota.

odd ones

west midlands are basically just the west midlands lmao. county durham is literally just taken from it’s county city durham. then there’s merseyside, tyne & wear ( icr where these came from ajsdndkjsf ) and the ones named after their cities; greater london, greater manchester, bristol. then there’s the isle of white, no explanation needed. it’s just that.

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Drag Race UK Season 3: The drought since Drag Race UK ended in March has been one of the most intoxicating to live through. Sure, had All-Stars, Drag Race Down Under, and Drag race Spain to feast on in its absence, but none of them have come close to the cultural phenomenon that drag race UK Season two was for on our cursed island. Drag Race UK season 3, the lineup is incredible. The charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent are off the scales – so meet the cast!

Kitty Scott Claus, 29, Birmingham

Birmingham’s Kitty says she’s going to be the personality and the fun, and that she’s a bit of eye candy “for the dads

Charity Kase, 24, Manchester and London

"Are you seeing this DRAGON drag??? Wowing. Charity Kase describes herself as a mashup of the Manchester and London drag scene and calls herself “hairy, scary and a total fairy”. She says she’s bringing shock, horror, gore, and glamour to the main stage for Drag Race UK season 3."

Scarlett Harlett, 26, East London

"Following in Bimini’s East London footsteps, Scarlett says she’s old east end, real east end, PROPAH! She says she loves to take the piss out of herself and other people and says she’s going to have the acting challenges in the bag."

Vanity Milan, 29, South London

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Choriza May, 30, Newcastle

"The Theresa May punning icon originally hails from Valencia, Spain before she moved to the toon. Choriza describes herself as a sexy mama and the queen of drama, and I’m so ready for her to bring some melodrama and comedy to the main stage. In her own words, “I’d rather be dead than basic.”

Krystal Versace, 19, Kent

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Victoria Scone, 27, Cardiff

"Victoria Scone is making RuPaul’s Drag Race her story by being the first AFAB (assigned female at birth) contestant to ever be on the show. She’s here to make amazing representation and prove that drag is for everyone. She’s bringing the camp and the glamour."

Elektra Fence, 29, Burnley

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Ella Vaday, 32, Dagenham

"Dagenham’s finest export describes herself as a professional West End actress and singer and dancer, starring in Book of Mormon, Wicked and Joseph and the Technicolour Dream Coat. She’s going to be bringing all the diva songs to the competition and says she loves nothing more than being stupid."

Anubis, 19, Brighton

"Following in Joe Black’s Brighton footsteps, Anubis is here to represent her Egyptian heritage. She’s been in the music industry since she was 13 and says she’s known for her sultry vocals. A self-described silly old tart that’s an old lady trapped inside a 19-year-old’s body, Anubis seems like she’s going to be a wild addition to the cast." (Drag Race UK season 3)

River Medway, 22, Medway

"Representing the Kent drag scene, of which River says there’s no distinct style. Describes her drag as camp and she’s 50% white British, 50% Singaporean. Is looking forward to anything dancing and singing and says she’s going to nail the rusical whilst exploring and showing off her heritage."

Veronica Green, 36, Rochdale

"HOORAY! Veronica is BACK! So exciting to see such a talented frontrunner of season two back to dominate, and the trained vocalist seems to be in it to win it after Covid cut her season two run short. The other queens nitely be intimidated because Veronica has already proven she’s got what it takes to get far!" (Drag Race UK season 3) Read the full article

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If an online or offline business wants to be successful, it should concentrate on generating traffic and leads to the extent it can. For a lot of businesses, the best way to get traffic is through free local classified postings. This has proven to be extremely successful and profitable particularly for small businesses operating on a small budget.

General or Categorical

But, how do you find such classified listings? The best place to start your search is the internet; they are there in plenty. However, you must search those that are most suited to your business needs. After all, it is no use advertising "Organic Jam" in a "Car Sale Classifieds".

As already stated, there are categorical classifieds. These are listings that cater to a particular niche. However, it is recommended that most businesses should advertise in the general classifieds section that has various categories to choose from. For example, you can choose to use Gumtree, Bondi Classifieds, Craigslist or Looks Classifieds.

Tips to Write and Place a Compelling Ad

Placing an ad on these classified websites is a free service. Most allow business owners to place as many ads as they wish to. However, some do have a limit as to how many free ads one can place.

All said and done, we now come to the main part. How do you write? What should you include and what should you exclude? A well-written ad has the potential not only to drive your business to success but also to increase your earning potential overnight. But, there is a condition. It should be compelling, brief and concise.

So, how you do it?

You will need a few basic tools:

Microsoft Office, Power Point: This Office application gives amateurs a hand with designing and animation effects. You can use them to create a logo. Browse the internet for free-to-use images that you can customize with ease. When you create a logo, make sure that you do not infringe or copy a logo or design that belongs to another company.

Catch Phrase for your Ad: The next thing you need is to create a catch phrase for your ad; something that will stand out from you competitors and something that will describe your product or service in one glance. It is the most important feature of your ad and can make or break your business.

Seek Help: If you're clueless, you can get help and some ideas by browsing other ads on classified sites.

A Detailed Insight into Your Business: The next thing you need to do is fill in the description area for your business. Here, you state what exactly you do, your experience, method of operation, customer service and guarantee. It should be orderly, clear and brief. Try not to exceed 8-15 lines. Also, mention the trading hours during which you will be available to your customers. However, the one detail you should not disclose is your price.

Add Contact Details: Contact details are a vital link between you and your client and a broken link somewhere could cost you a potential client. It is in your own interest to provide: Your business name Your name Your phone number Email Address You can also provide your Skype Id so that readers can contact you in a manner that is most convenient to them.

In my opinion classifieds are very important to a business. In this modern age, businesses cannot afford not to advertise on classifieds. Other forms of advertising like letter box drops, websites and traditional classifieds are expensive. Lots of business can't afford it. Online classifieds are a really good medium and offer a great return on investment.

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A cartographic plot

The first part of this was written for Spark. I went a bit over the wordcount while talking about the importance of places in my fanfics, and decided to post the entire thing here on tumblr. The bit published in Spark is above, the rest below the cut.

I started writing BBC Sherlock fanfiction in the back of my parents’ car after a week spent cycling in the French Alps. For years, my father had talked about tackling the Col du Galibier, a pass of Tour de France fame, by bicycle. In the summer of 2012, we finally did it. Ah, but Sherlock and cycling? Where’s the connection? When I began writing the story, scribbling on whatever scrap of paper was available in the car, at first the only connection was that I loved both Sherlock and cycling, and that my recent experiences in the mountains, spending hours in the saddle arduously ascending winding roads, had made a deep impression on me. I was desperate for an outlet for my pent up inspiration.

Eventually, what started out as a cracky premise for a Post-Reichenbach Sherlock story became Over Hill and Under Hill, a fanfic of 75k words and the first finished instalment of my Over/Under series. In the story, the extreme, beautiful landscape of Savoyen serves as a backdrop for the Baker Street boys to deal with the fallout of the Fall (written before Series 3 aired, my version of Sherlock’s reunion with John is different from canon) and their feelings for each other while basically doing what I had just done: climbing Alpine passes on their bicycles. At some point, a case creeps into the story, too, which Sherlock solves from abroad.

Apart from telling my version of the reunion, I wanted to write a story about grandiose nature, the hardship of ascending two thousand metres of altitude on a bicycle, the elation of standing on top of the pass glancing over the mountains, and the rush of adrenaline during the steep descents. I yearned to include some of the strange people we’d met on the way and who return as minor characters in the story, such as the chap cycling all the way in tight black swimming trunks and nothing else. How fortunate for the storyteller that the long ascents give John and Sherlock time to think and to talk, while the descents make their adrenaline junkies’ hearts soar. They have to share a room and a double bed at the hotel, of course, which leads to ... things. The plot itself is structured by the landscape, almost following the roads they cycle on bend for bend and landmark for landmark. Weather conditions such as hot, relentless sun and a sudden thunderstorm add a touch of drama. Stops along the way provide incentives for reflections, conversations and realisations, and for the boys getting to know each other again after their separation.

I was surprised by how well it worked to transfer these very urban characters so closely associated with London into this new setting and unfamiliar activity, keeping their essence (hopefully) while letting the landscape and its particular blend of beauty and danger work its magic, moulding the two men into the couple they hadn’t realised they’d been all along.

Looking back, the way Over Hill and Under Hill came about shouldn’t have surprised me. Of the books and stories I grew up with, and which have left a lasting impression on me, most have a very specific setting and precise sense of place. Be it the stories by Astrid Lindgren, mostly set in the Swedish region of Småland during the time of her childhood in the early 20th century, or Vasapark and the small islands around Stockholm of her adult life, or Otfried Preußler’s masterful descriptions of the Lausitz region in Eastern Germany where his captivating novel Krabat is set. Or be it JRR Tolkien, the master of making the fictional yet reality-grounded landscape of Middle-earth absolutely integral to the plot and structure of his writings. Even if many believe Middle-earth to be found in New Zealand, based on Peter Jackson’s film adaptations, the true inspiration for the Shire are Tolkien’s beloved West Midlands. The hemlock glade where Beren sees Lúthien dance for the first time in The Silmarillion is based on a similar glade near Great Haywood Tolkien watched his wife dance. And the gruesome Dead Marshes on the borders of Mordor Tolkien experienced himself on the war-torn battlefields of the Somme. I think it’s safe to claim that the landscapes that he encountered as a child and young man seeped into his writings, in many cases becoming not just interesting tableaux to add colour to the stories, but important tools to provide characterisation, suspense, and poignant reminders of the preciousness of the natural world.

For me, the spatial setting of a story and its detailed description have always been an important requirement for my enjoyment of a tale. The “willing suspension of disbelief”, to quote Tolkien, works best for me when the setting of a story is as detailed and well observed as possible, grounded in physical laws and restrictions as well as the distinctive laws of the story. Weather, vegetation, distances, languages and the effects they have on the characters have to be realistic – both when existing and imagined places are described –, otherwise I’m quickly pulled out of the narrative and lose interest (by the way, this is one of my major gripes with “The Final Problem”: the way it sets at naught many of the basic “laws” established in previous episodes of Sherlock). Hints at local customs and peculiarities add colour, depth and believability to a setting, providing the characters with material to rub against and to engage with, to test their limits and limitations.

For me as an author (and illustrator), researching locations for fanfics or art is part of the enjoyment of writing, especially when it can be linked with visits to said locations (my excuse for frequent trips to the UK – I’m based in Germany). I’m a stickler for detail born out of a profound interest in the natural world, in botany, eco-systems, geology and geography, but also in the way historic events shape and influence landscape and its inhabitants. All these aspects I need to see reflected in fiction, and rendered faithfully, or else I can’t take a setting seriously, not the characters and their motivations. Most of the fanfics I’ve enjoyed so far have a very strong sense of place, be it London, Edinburgh, New York, Continental Europe, the Near East or the English countryside. In my own stories, I try to emulate this, preferring to write about places I’ve come to know through repeated visits and extensive literary and online research, as well as correspondence with locals.

Researching my WW2/codebreaker AU Enigma constitutes a special challenge in this respect, because it not only requires me to gather information about existing locations like Bletchley Park, Kent or London, but also wartime Britain in general, removed not just by space but by more than seventy intervening years. Although the internet is a brilliant tool for research, while trying to find out more about the history of the Enigma locations, visits have brought the places to life for me, particularly Bletchley Park. The venue has been transformed into a commendable museum that seeks to recreate the atmosphere of it’s hay-day as a secret codebreaker base through reconstructed huts and historical installations, as well as information about important figures such as Alan Turing, and live demonstrations of his inventions. Interestingly, at the museum, I even found factual confirmation of what I had considered an invention for my story. When it came to locating Sherlock’s and John’s billet in Bletchley in 1941, Google Maps was of limited help: most of Bletchley was built after the war – it’s now part of Milton Keynes –, and from the map, it was almost impossible to tell which parts of it would have existed during the war and which were built afterwards. Old maps or arial photographs were scarce. So I used a bit of deductive reasoning and common sense, basically looking at the main roads leading in and out of town and assuming that they would have been built first. On a whim, I chose one of those thoroughfares, Buckingham Road, and placed the billet there. And lo and behold, during a subsequent visit to the Bletchley Park Museum, I found a photograph depicting billets of the park’s staff situated on the very road.

Lucky coincidences aside, nothing beats a visit to a location one wants to write about. However sometimes, due to constraints of time or money, visits aren’t possible and research from afar has to suffice. I worked like that when I started writing The Summer Boy. I’d been toying with the idea of a story partially set in Sherlock’s childhood for a long while. 1980s nostalgia played a part since I was a child during that decade as well, as did the desire to get to know the character better and to speculate what made him the man we encounter in the show, after glimpses of his past shown in Series 3.

However, a fitting setting for my story to unfold long eluded me. I was striving for an atmosphere similar to that of one of my all-time favourite films, “Stand By Me”, a bitter-sweet yet authentic depiction of childhood with a strong sense of spatial setting. I wanted the location to be a rural one, preferably close to London, with a distinctive landscape and somewhat fragile eco-system, the partial destruction of which would feature in the story to symbolise a place Sherlock could not really return to, but that offered him the chance of “growing up“ and finding an alternative retreat through his developing relationship with John.

Given the canonical links Sherlock Holmes has with Sussex, I began looking for potential locations along the Sussex coast and in the South Downs. I didn’t just want to invent a village or landmark, but wanted the story that was going to contain mythical and supernatural elements (based on how it’s interpreted, at least), to be set in a real place. The landscape and particular vegetation of the chalky downlands were going to play an important part in the story. And remember: stickler for detail. The plants, animals and historical sites Sherlock encounters had to be correct. So I researched the South Downs and their particular chalk-based vegetation, read up on South Down sheep, about Bronze and Iron Age settlements and their remains, and about the myths and legends of the area. I found striking similarities to Terry Pratchett’s masterful depiction of the Chalk in his Tiffany Aching series (The Wee Free Men and its four sequels), which is doubtlessly based on the chalky Wiltshire Downs he lived on. The link to Pratchett, his blend of real, meticulously observed, and fantastical elements based on myths and local culture (which are again inspired by the landscapes they originated in) seemed a good foil for my own story, which grew to contain lots of references to his works. I even partly modelled some of the characters on figures from his series of books.

Still, the dilemma remained to find a concrete place, preferably one featuring an ancient site or landmark such as a hill-fort or a barrow that would function as a focal place for young Sherlock to discover and to spend time at with the mysterious friend he encounters there, and who seems to be a personification of the South Downs, and of summer. By chance (and Google Image Search), I stumbled across a place called Chanctonbury Ring, a henge of trees planted in the 18th century on an Iron Age hill-fort. The South Downs Way leads past it, it commands a good view all around. Sheep graze there in summer, and on the grassy and partly wooded slopes surrounding it many rare plants grow. It’s in walking distance of a quaint village (Washington), which I could use as a base for Sherlock to be accommodated at with relatives. And what ultimately made Chanctonbury Ring the perfect location for my story was the fact that during the Great Storm of 1987, the trees of the henge were almost completely destroyed. I had wanted to set the story in that very year, because I imagine BBC Sherlock’s age to be around Benedict’s and my own (we are only seven months apart), which would make Sherlock around nine in the story, pre-pubescent. Perfect. His fake gravestone from TRF even says 1977, so that fit. And we all know what’s said about coincidences and lazy universes ...

So, perfect spatial and temporal setting found, I still faced the sad fact that I hadn’t actually visited Chanctonbury Ring, nor could see any chance of getting there soon. Nevertheless, the story demanded to be written. Consulting Google Maps as well as photographs helped to get an idea of the place. I looked at similar places in my home country across the Channel. Thus equipped, I started writing (the muse wouldn’t suffer any delay and kept pestering me until I relented), in the hope to actually be able to visit Chanctonbury Ring before I had come too far, enabling me to revise potential mistakes.

Eventually, when the story was already half written, and during the wrong season of the year (the story is set in the summer, I went in December), I visited Chanctonbury Ring. I was pleased to find that my descriptions of the landscape were surprisingly accurate based on what research I’d done, although the visit did add a feeling for the place that hopefully enabled me to make the latter chapters more poignant.

Arguably the most important location for writing Sherlock fanfic is London, a place I’ve become very familiar with in recent years due to frequent visits with long walks and a full timetable of museums, exhibitions, galleries and cultural events, lots of reading about the history of the city, a strong interest in current events, and constant curiosity that lets me explore places off the beaten tracks.

London was one of my favourite places even before I my obsession with BBC Sherlock happened. Actually, I’m convinced the way London is portrayed in the series is one of the main reasons Sherlock struck such a chord with me. Apart from the humour, the obvious chemistry of the protagonists, the cleverness of the dialogues and the overall aesthetics, it was the way modern London was depicted and made an integral character that fascinated me so much about the show. Despite large parts of Sherlock being filmed in Cardiff and elsewhere, they nevertheless feel like parts of the British capital just off the main tourist tracks. Sherlock’s London is both familiar and strange, ugly and beautiful, dark and bright, historic and modern. The character’s particular way of focussing on seemingly unimportant details is reflected in the cinematography. The choice of unusual settings and locations such as Speedy’s Café, Battersea Power Station, the streets of Soho, Leinster Garden, a disused Tube station and the banks of the Thames add atmosphere and colour, making London a living, breathing character in the show – as it was in the original Conan Doyle stories. Occasionally, a touch of Victoriana, ever present even in modern London, creeps into the series, linking it back to the stories it’s based on. Sherlock has definitely rekindled my love of London, or rather, has fanned the already existing embers into hot flames. In the sequels to Over Hill and Under Hill, and several of my other Sherlock fanfics, I’ve tried to honour this tradition by including curious locations in, and little-known minutiae about London to make it come to life as an integral part of the narration, and also to create credibility for the setting.

I have plans to dive even deeper into London past and present. For about a year and half I’ve been working on a Sherlock/London graphic novel in which the location becomes centre point. The story is simple: to alleviate boredom, on his birthday, Sherlock is sent on a “treasure hunt” through London, moving from riddle to riddle and clue to clue set, from one little known location to the next, discovering facts and anecdotes about what he visits in the process. The idea for the book was born out of my many walks through London, along the South Bank, through the City on Sunday mornings when it’s like a ghost town, deserted, along the Regent’s Canal to Camden and on to Hampstead Heath, through the East End and the West End, Chinatown, Soho, Bloomsbury, through Chelsea and Kensington, and further out to the Docklands and Greenwich. I’ve discovered real gems through these walks, some of which Sherlock is going to visit as well – as many as I can realistically squeeze into twenty-four hours without completely exhausting the poor man.

The project is going to occupy me for a good while yet. Also planned are two sequels to The Summer Boy. One is based on a painting I did for the Holmestice Exchange and which depicts John and Sherlock in a disused Tube station. There was some clamouring for a story based on the image, so I’m going to oblige. Since the Tube is such an integral part of London and I’ve long been fascinated with its history, I look forward to researching it.

The second sequel is going to be set in the Lake District. Some of the research for this new story has already been done, and another visit to the area has been booked for the autumn. I haven’t really thought of a plot for the story yet, some vague ideas aside, but I’m very sure that the landscape of Cumbria will provide it once I’m there. A cartographic plot, as usual.

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Week 5

The last week in London! 

During our last week here on the Journalism in London program, we spent a lot of time working on portfolios, Linked In, and creating our online footprint. 

Heres a link to my portfolio (a work in progress!):

https://www.susannrush.com

Industry Reading:

I read a story about how a new app that's similar to Facebook was just launched in Vietnam. The 'made in Việt Nam' Gapo social app aims to attract  50 million users by 2021. It is also partnered with Sony and has received 22 million in funding. The app has been created at a time when “the Ministry of Information and Communication is calling for the establishment of ‘made in Viet Nam’ social platforms. Several apps have been built, such as VietnamTa and Hahalolo, but they have lacked basic investments.” I thought it was interesting to see specific countries working to grow there own forms of social media where their target audience is only those who live there. I wonder how this will change larger platforms? Will other countries follow?

Here’s the article: https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/523052/facebook-like-social-media-app-launched-in-viet-nam.html#Cq8Uof625Y7qSQVi.97

OVERALL TAKEAWAYS FROM THE COURSE:

Digital regulation

privacy and consumer protection Monopolies and market power Standards (digital advertising) for existing and emerging platforms

     2. Societal implications of tech and social

Face to face vs. electronic communication

Blurred line vs real world

     3. Concerns about digital youth

Digital parenting

Cyberbullying and trolling

Online idealism

Digital addiction/overload

6. Digital activism

Kony 2012

7. Digital literacy

Critical thinking

Ability to create content and use services

Understand the implications of online behaviors

Guest Speaker Laura Garcia:

- Laura Garcia is a broadcast journalist with a wide range of television and online experience. Her work as a multimedia journalist started back in her home town of Mexico as a photographer for a newspaper. She also worked for newspapers and film production companies in the US before coming to the UK on September 2011.

- Laura has been working in different newsrooms across the UK: ITV Meridian, BBC South East, BBC Radio Kent, NBC News, R4's The World Tonight and ITN's Channel 5 News. 

Laura talked a lot about the misinformation age and fake news. She explained that the term fake news is much too broad and that it overall doesn't make sense. The topic of fake news is very complex and there are many ways in which news can be inaccurate or just simply told in the wrong way. She also described the importance of what you put online about yourself. she gave us multiple websites that show you where all your information shows up that basically anybody can find. What you put online should be important and have meaning. 

10 take aways from Damian

1. Replicable/ real world / skills/experiences

Pitching ideas

Sharing ideas

Demoting and work in progress

Real and new tools (medium, scavenger hunt)

Working solo, in pairs, groups

2. Understanding of social media strategies

Bbc

Instagram stories

Vogue

The economist

Industry reading

Emerging platforms assignment

3. Understanding of trends (so you can ride them)

History of social change

Changing practice

Future of social

Verification and disinformation

Instagram stories

4. developing your digital footprint

About.me

Linked in

Portfolio site

Class assignments

5. Advise on job apps, hiring, and networking

6. Telling stories with social

Scavenger hunt

Instagram stories assignment

7. Consuming critically

Weekly journals /reflections

In class news exercise

Talk from FIRST DRAFT

8. Taking advantage of the location

Visits to media and news organization

Field assignments

In-person guest speakers

9. Recognizing change in this space is constant

10. Hope this gives you confidence

Developed useful knowledge

Portfolio and online presence you can be proud of

Continue the journey

Industry reading

Use the resources from this class

Explore other classes at SOJC

Out of class opportunities

Learning and experimenting in your own time

Use the resources from this class

Explore other classes at SOJC

Out of class opportunities

Learning and experimenting in your own time

Social media club: Allen at 6pm

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Expert agreement cleaners can clean workplaces and workplace buildings for businesses of all sizes. From basic daily tasks such as workplace hygiene in cooking area and bathroom facilities to the care of windows, walls and the carpets; workplace cleaners can clean up the lot.

Rug Cleansing

Carpet cleansing experts can also be employed to look after any rugs that require cleaning. Whether it is an Oriental carpet that needs to be delicately managed or an antique carpet, the most suitable approach for that type of rug can be utilized efficiently by a rug cleaning company.

Mattress Cleaning

It is very important to oversleep a truly clean and sanitary bed, however, these days individuals rarely clean their bed mattress, allowing dust termites and germs to grow. This can be unhealthy, so regular bed mattress cleaning company can clean the mattress for you, leaving you to have numerous a great night's sleep.

London Cleansing Agency

Lond Cleaning agencies are offered to provide a series of domestic cleansing services to customers, typically domestic cleansing services to individuals as well as industrial business. Cleaning Agencies can be employed to clean a house or workplace; to an exceptionally high requirement.

Cleaning Business in London

If your office or home is in requirement of a good tidy, either on a one-off cleaning or regularly, you can work with an expert domestic cleansing business to satisfy your requirements. The flexible variety of services a London cleaning business supplies can be trusted to successfully clean your living or working environment to your total fulfillment.

End of Tenancy Cleaning

This is a specialized deep-cleaning service that can be used to clean any rented house all set for brand-new tenants to move in, or to get the place looking clean and tidy again so you can claim back your deposit. In either case, these cleaning company can sterilize the property and make it look clean and welcoming once again.

Upholstery Cleansing

If your furnishings upholstery and/or curtains are in requirement of an excellent tidy, there are services readily available that can visit your office or home in London to offer an option. Upholstery can be cleaned up using either the damp or dry cleaning approach which includes stain treatment.

Window Cleaning

It is relatively typical to discover that your windows look dull, filthy and smudged. This can considerably affect the outside view. Professional window cleaning services can make sure all the accessible windows in your house or office are left shimmering tidy and smudge-free so you can appreciate the view once again.

Ironing and Cleaning

Have you ever wished you didn't need to do all the cleaning and ironing that appears to be constantly accumulating? Even if you simply desire a brief break from these tasks, domestic cleaning services are offered in London that can look after these obligations for a while. Professional London cleaning company can be hired on a regular or even regular monthly basis to eliminate the concern of these necessary domestic tasks.

After Celebration Cleansing

Once the celebration is over sometimes the mess left over can be a real problem. By utilizing these services the rubbish can be cleared, pots washed and the bathroom and kitchen can be returned to typical for you.

After Contractors Cleaning

The contractors might have left, however the destruction left in your house or office can make you feel distraught. Cleaning services can eliminate all the remaining structure dust and dirt prior to cleaning, cleaning and scrubbing all the surface areas for you, making the location look habitable again.

Party Help

Cleaners can also supply help at parties; whether you need aid with the cooking, serving drinks or the general cleansing - both prior to and after the event.

The perfect recommendations is to use an expert cleaner."