Botulus

*Cough cough*... This week Susie and Gyles explore the language of diseases. From Cholera to Mumps, and Malaria to Influenza, they have you covered.

Also, we reveal the WINNERS of our 'To Dent' and 'To Brandreth' competition!

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Shackbaggerly: Disordered and unkempt.

Komorebi (Japanese): The patterns cast by sunlight filtering through trees.

Gruttling (old East Anglian dialect): A strange, inexplicable noise.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Sick Room' by Billy Collins

Every time Canaletto painted Venice

he painted her from a different angle,

sometimes from point of view

he must have imagined,

for there is no place in the city

he could have stood and observed such scenes.

How ingenious of him to visualise

a dome or canal from any point in space.

How passionate he was

to delineate Venice from perspectives

that required him to mount the air

and levitate there with his floating brush.

But I have been sick in this bed

for over sixty hours,

and I am not Canaletto,

and this airless little room,

with its broken ceiling fan

and it monstrous wallpaper, is not Venice.

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