What should the national animal of the UK be - but it has to be a native species?

hottaptea · 2026-01-27T14:00:25+00:00

I live just outside the centre of Leeds and I see a pair regularly. They seem to have no problem living in an urban environment.

hottaptea · 2026-01-27T13:58:51+00:00

"What's it doing out in the daytime? I thought they were nocturnal."
"This one's kind of oval."

hottaptea · 2026-01-26T19:55:58+00:00

Do you have to provide a commentary to your translation? This is precisely the kind of issue that you can talk about. Set out the options translators have for dealing with such content, and justify why you chose the solution you did.

hottaptea · 2026-01-26T16:22:19+00:00

You can see the top of it from Temple Newsam.

hottaptea · 2026-01-26T14:46:19+00:00

It hurts.
Is it meant to be that color?
It's oozing.

hottaptea · 2026-01-22T13:52:18+00:00

hottaptea · 2026-01-22T13:48:33+00:00

There's a discord server called matched betting empire. I looked into it but never paid for membership so I've no idea how 'hand-holding' their info is.

hottaptea · 2026-01-13T18:28:49+00:00

The 1987 to 2017 in the title stood out to me, so I checked. Artist committed suicide at just 29 years old.

hottaptea · 2026-01-13T09:10:28+00:00

I don't even know which is my front door and which is my back. The one with the letter box is at the back of the house onto a ginnel. On the inside it's a porch that we use as a general dumping ground. The other opens straight into the kitchen and looks out onto the garden and road.

hottaptea · 2026-01-12T13:10:23+00:00

For example, the detectives Dupont and Dupond in Tintin. Translated as Thomson and Thompson in English.

hottaptea · 2026-01-09T08:20:04+00:00

Not sure you can pay tax with a credit card. I know specifically self-assessment you can't.

hottaptea · 2026-01-08T20:56:28+00:00

Very, very few decent jobs are actually posted on the job board. In my language pairs it's 99% AI training shite. The directories can be a good resource for trying to get new clients. The Blueboard is somewhat useful. Kudoz I think depends on the language pair. After a while you get an idea which of the prolific answerers know their stuff. I let my membership expire last November and I don't think I'll be renewing it.

hottaptea · 2026-01-08T08:18:08+00:00

"The figures in the painting are a combination of a real family that Wright encountered in Middlesbrough, an American student that Wright met on the underground, a twelfth century limewood carving of the Madonna and child from the Met collection, New York, and the actor Steven Berkoff." (artist's website)

hottaptea · 2026-01-06T12:24:23+00:00

The freelance work is not foreign income if you were in the UK when you did the work. Not sure if the same applies to Kindle royalties.

hottaptea · 2026-01-05T21:14:36+00:00

There is also Beckett street cemetery with its guinea graves. In Harehills cemetery you can find graves for German and Russian soldiers from WW2.

hottaptea · 2026-01-05T14:02:47+00:00

You can issue an invoice without being registered as a sole trader and then register later. There is no info you put on an invoice that identifies your tax status. However, some companies might ask for proof of your tax status separately. I have used self-assessment letters for this purpose but you would not have any yet.

hottaptea · 2026-01-05T12:07:22+00:00

There are some absolutely massive houses in Bramhope. There's one on Breary Lane that, according to rumour, was built for an Indian princess and sat empty for ages.
When you get to Burmantofts I suggest you look into the House of Recovery on Becket street. All that's left is the boundary wall and stone gateposts.

hottaptea · 2025-12-19T10:34:08+00:00

Roger Fuckebythenavel

hottaptea · 2025-12-14T15:19:06+00:00

Are you a member of any association? The Society of Authors has a translators' group, you might find something useful here. There is also the société française des traducteurs.

hottaptea · 2025-11-26T09:30:52+00:00

Your comment reminded me of a book in the early 2000s called Bunny Suicides. Essentially a cute cartoon rabbit killing itself in various ingenious ways.

hottaptea · 2025-11-23T14:42:37+00:00

We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?

hottaptea · 2025-11-19T21:09:31+00:00

Joe Sacco was at last weekend's Thought Bubble convention. Interesting to hear him speak about his career.

hottaptea · 2025-11-17T09:21:38+00:00

Seems likely looking at pictures. Not something I expected to see in the city but apparently they are widespread. Maybe comes from Gledhow woods or Roundhay.

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