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Outer Space - 8 June 2026

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A writer stumbles upon a tiny, motionless creature on a country road and, against all good advice, takes it home.

The resulting memoir, Raising Hare , is a lovely meditation on nature and our relationship to it.

And: have you ever invented a fake swear word to hide the real ones from little ears?

One family’s secret code was bandoozer —and it almost worked.

Plus: what do these words have in common: elver , spat , smolt , and leveret ?

Also, candle bat , hobbyless , jan-ken-pon and Rochambeau , thick as burgoo , pobbies , urp , Rawhead and Bloody Bones, and that’s it, Fort Pitt.

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