The identity of Ellen, or Elen More, is discussed in scholarship as the subject of Dunbar's poem, the woman named in the accounts, and the actor in the tournaments

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Last night we went to a fancy restaurant and the sommelier took to us as if we were old friends. He had spent ten years in the UK, arriving as an 18 year old, attending catering college, his first jobs etc. A tear in his eye talking about the awfulness of Brexit for kids getting started in life.

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Elon Musk's betrayal of Ukraine is appalling. We, together with our European friends, must stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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Damn. Looks like my Bigod earls of Norfolk movie might not be happening. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Disappointed this morning to have to turn down an invitation to speak in Normandy next year about William the Conqueror on the 1000th anniversary of his birth because I have to be in Cumbria the same weekend to talk about the 1100th anniversary of Æthelstan's meeting at Eamont. #TooManyAnniversaries

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