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I was really looking forward to "The Hawk". I usually get a kick out of Will Ferrell. Not this time, I'm afraid. I don't mind if a show is silly, but it also needs to be funny. This is not funny. The problem is that the actors,...
Day 8, the “middle day” in Nagoya. No new kyujo to report. On Nakabi, the Kyokai displays its new Jonokuchi wrestlers. If you’ve been under a rock, or ignored the maezumo coverage earlier this basho, this cohort includes Eisei, a recruit...
I’ve lived here a while now and this bank of light switches remains a guessing game every time.
A member of our Wild Fen Edge Whatsapp group alerted members to the presence of Wasp Spiders in one of our local nature reserves, specifically on the edge of the small woodland adjacent to Wort’s Meadow in Landbeach, Cambs. It’s 8 years...
Tintagel flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
It’s my fourth day straight in the park. Marshmallow ice cream, then Solero, I couldn’t finish the new marshmallow-flavoured Twister, and today, one scoop banoffee, second of marshmallow but the banoffee is way too sweet. Peeling off the...
July 19th is the day when two significant issues in Hawkworld history were released: Hawkman Vol. 3 No. 13 and Legend of the Hawkman No.1. Hawkman Vol. 3 No. 13 Cover Date: September 1994Release Date: July 19, 1994 Script: William...
The following is one of the projects in Jögge Sundqvist’s book “Karvsnitt: Carving, Pattern & Color in the Slöjd Tradition” Cutting patterns and symbols in wood, and enhancing them with vibrant color, are folk traditions kept alive in...
I split the Wild West relatively randomly into two plunder posts, these are the ones shot with the same background, it was a pretty basic dividing system! But lots of useful bits here, and some new horses which are intriguing me! The two...
Write it.Write that damn messageBefore it's too lateBefore time pulls his triggerBefore life plays a joke on youChoosing what you should have chosenWrite that damn letterPress your pen on that sheetAnd drag it along the pageBefore you...
I think if I had been less drunk I would have just started speaking in Esperanto. I remember him saying something vaguely about him trying to be open-minded or something. (The irony!) I told him that I was uninterested in being...
A while ago I mentioned that I was having a chat about whether I had an idea for a book with a genuine, real life publisher. As it happened I had two which is just as well as one of them has actually been bagsied elsewhere Now I don’t...
This is a new post. Unlike my last few posts, which were not entirely new. They were old posts I had already published here a year ago, but edited and then re-published during the last two weeks, as if they were new ones. Except the...
So many tricks and tips for dovetailing your corner joints, but seldom do you hear, "Get it straight off the saw," as it was said to me. This has been my way for six decades to date, ever since I heard George, my apprenticing mentor, say...
From time to time, I have to admit that I just have too many tabs open. Which means I am not likely to get back to them any time soon. When that happens, I make a post like this and just link out to all the pages I’ve been holding open....