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Particularly interesting this week, thank you.

Useful material for the ongoing "discussions" on twitter.

Although sometimes they degenerate into insults & blocking, some do go the other way - a couple of instances of long exchanges with people I disagree with this week, which ended up in respectful & cordial disagreement and also mutual learning. It can be done, sometimes, and each one is a step forward.

Social media where I agree with everyone I meet seems so unproductive.

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Thank you, interesting as usual. I have recently been nurturing an interest in history in my Grandson. A little bit sneaky, as it was through his new hobby of metal detecting! I am glad to say that his passion for insects, fossils and minerals and rocks remains strong! He is 13.

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Good plan. At that age I was terribly in to rocks and minerals (had my own collection, paid for with pocket money), mosses and lichens (I once spent a weekend explaining all about them to my mother - my poor mother, who I now recognise was going through a rought time personally), Assyrians and ancient Egyptians.

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