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Today's featured weathervane was photographed in New Bedford, Massachusetts.This two dimensional sperm whale weathervane is located on the cupola over the front door of the Fairfield Inn on the waterfront in New Bedford harbor. It is a...
There’s a saying that all of the institutions are really just about pushing pencils. The FXT buys the pencils, the NCA tells you what colour you’re allowed to use, and Sovereign tells you that’s not your pencil so put it back.I didn’t...
Mike Forde – lead vocals Jimmy Collins – lead guitar Geoff Chinnery – bass guitar/vocals John Turner – rhythm guitar/vocals Lindsay Bex – drums This west London band was formed in April 1961 and were originally called Mike Forde & The...
Last weekend I attended my first Finncon. I haven’t been part of the fancon scene but I’ve been hanging around people who have enough to know that con reports are an important part of the culture. I have only read one though: Tero’s...
How To Make A Portrait Of A Bird.–Jacques Prevert First paint a cagewith an open door,then paintsomething pretty,something simple,something beautiful,something usefulfor the bird. Then place the canvas within a treein a garden,in a...
I'm building on my prev. post here. I want to take a step back and understand their mentality. The humility to re-invent, to excel and perfect. To get humbled, identify weakenesses and re-invent. What is it that makes these tennis...
STATUS + Proof of life. #status
After my illness last year, I didn’t think I would ever return to work. The illness cost me something; I’d been feeling for many months a tiredness so heavy that it demanded an explanation. After my diagnosis, I was in hospital for six...
Gosh, it's been about ten minutes since our last visit to Frontierland. I still maintain that it is the most-photographed land, though I have no hard data to back up that claim.First up is this nice sunny photo of the Friendly Indian...
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...
Back in 2024, I stumbled across a random book find in my local Oxfam, which turned out to be a marvellous read – “Writing Landscape” by Linda Cracknell, published by the lovely indie, Saraband. I enjoyed the book so much that I’ve had...
When you write the history of the last hundred years, there’s always a source if you just dig deep enough. People leave traces, them or their friends, there’s such an abundance of written material. Go back further, though, and it’s...
Manhattan is filled with boring skyscraper boxes. But fortunately Manhattan is also filled with the buildings that predate the boring boxes, so there are many opportunities to see incredible decorative elements. But you may have to look...
A quick note to myself:Make mistakes. Even stupid ones. Dance like nobody’s watching. Fall down. Get back up. Learn from it. And try again.
St Swithen Got up at the usual time not a bad day. Dot and Little Jane came about 10.30a.m. Spent a happy day with Jane. Nothing of importance to report.