Peter Simmonds

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@DrCentromere @DalrympleWill 20p!

WOK. Here is my wok. Bought in 1978 on Southall Broadway-48 years ago!! It cost 20p. It is actually a "cheenachatti", a South Indian word that means "Chinese pot". For centuries, South India traded with China, as described in @DalrympleWill's book The Golden Road.

Great to meet Chris Boardman at today's Ride in the Park with Leicester Wheels for All.

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Agree with Esther Rantzen. It would be an abuse of power to block the Assisted Dying bill. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@bikerwise 😥

@PeterSimmo Close!

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@archeohistories @Dr_TheHistories The only problem with this narrative is its "black and white" depiction of the situation. It's a valid "take" while also being over simplified. All involved, including Jane, were capable of dealing with it.

For years, the public loved the romantic image: the brilliant physicist and the loyal young wife who refused to abandon him when illness struck. But the real story of Jane Wilde Hawking and Stephen Hawking was far messier—and, to many women looking back, far more infuriating. When Jane married Stephen in 1965, doctors had already told him he likely had only a few years to live. He had just been diagnosed with ALS. She was 21. He was 23. The future looked terrifying. And Jane stepped straight into it. She became nurse, advocate, typist, caretaker, mother, and emotional backbone all at once. As Stephen’s body deteriorated, Jane essentially carried their entire life on her shoulders. She raised their three children. She helped manage his growing academic career. She pushed his wheelchair, interpreted his speech as it became harder to understand, and created a stable home while the world celebrated his genius. Behind the scenes, however, the marriage was under crushing pressure. Stephen’s fame exploded in the 1970s and 1980s. Universities courted him. Journalists adored him. Scientists revered him. But the greater his celebrity became, the more Jane felt herself disappearing into the background—no longer the woman who had built the life around him, but the invisible support system everyone assumed would simply endure. And endure she did. For years. Then came the betrayal that many observers still find astonishing. As Stephen became increasingly dependent on professional nurses, he formed a close relationship with one of them, Elaine Mason. What began as professional care grew into something far more personal. By the late 1980s, the emotional line between patient and caregiver had clearly blurred. To Jane, who had sacrificed her youth, her ambitions, and nearly two decades of exhausting devotion, the situation felt like a devastating slap in the face. The man she had helped keep alive—and whose global fame had been built during the years she quietly held their family together—was now emotionally drifting toward someone else. Their marriage finally collapsed in 1990. Stephen would later marry Elaine Mason. Jane eventually rebuilt her own life as well, marrying musician Jonathan Hellyer Jones, a man who had long provided her with emotional support during the hardest years of Stephen’s illness. But for many people who look back at the story, the bitterness lingers. Jane Wilde had stood beside Stephen Hawking when he was a young physicist with a terminal diagnosis and no guarantee of a future. She helped build the life that allowed his brilliance to shine. And yet, when the world finally applauded him… she was the one left standing in the shadows. © Reddit #archaeohistories

Another chat during dog walk with a man who described his wonderful canine companion, now gone. "I won't have another", he said. "I couldn't bear dealing with such loss again." I usually change the subject rather than pointing out the irony of his world view, apt though it is.

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Great to see excellent Leicester Wheels for All this morning on its way to Abbey Park. #RidesInThePark. #cyclingisforeveryone

@bikerwise The Wordle concept is perfect, being a brain teaser coupled with a cut off device after six goes. Sometimes wish crosswords featured a similar kind of end-game rather than allowing the solver to go on and on trying to complete. Perhaps this idea might catch on?!

@PeterSimmo Phew. Similar pattern. So many words

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