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A pet peeve of mine is seeing flags with the wrong dimensions. Maybe I should learn to move on, but I can’t help it. Designers with a love for visual consistency are quite happy to show you every country’s flag with the same length and...
The rumor has led you far into the wild, to a stone temple guarded by robed monks and venomous snakes. Two blind women, one ancient, one yet a girl, sit cross legged on an ornate rug. Incense fills the room, choking and cloying. A monk...
Read the full post at - A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk is one of the Top 5 best novels I’ve ever read. I don’t say that lightly. And I almost missed it entirely. I was browsing a vintage...
Monday again, so it’s time for Fantasy with Friends! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about the work of Brandon Sanderson: Are you a Brandon Sanderson fan? Some readers online...
I found this diary comic from (checks notes) five years ago. In last Friday’s email, I wrote: In the “Who’s having fun?” section of Don’t Call It Art, I quote Ed Emberley saying, “I am determined to have fun doing my work… if I’m...
Summer Time, Higham Oh look! It’s another one for the collection. I love em’ all.
When trying a new hotel or campground, my general rule is to stay just 1 or 2 nights. Some places don’t give refunds once you’ve paid. By staying 1 or 2 nights, it’s no big deal if it doesn’t work out. My track record is pretty good but...
Most cities have bus routes that vary from infrequent to frequent. While the majority of routes may be infrequent and a minority frequent, you will typically find it is the frequent network that caters for a disproportionate number of...
Hickok Hall at Coe College, where your humble and mostly retired blogger wrote this postI've been out of full-time teaching for two years now, which has left me with more time to read and write. This is a good thing! I write a...
Status: Most of the stuff my PE teachers at secondary school said went right through me as it was irrelevant nonsense, but one thing has stuck with me. I remember one of them talking about the importance of keeping up sports once we left...
We’ve now totally moved on from green summer to yellow summer. Maybe, with the flowering and fluffering of the thistles, with an intermediate stop at purple summer.Rain has forborne pretty much all summer, so the fields are dry and...
What have I been up to these days?
Two and a half years ago, I found a piece of paper in our parcel box, asking if anyone would consider becoming a governor of a local primary school. I ummed and aahed about it, and decided to express an interest. Within a few minutes I...
The only image I took today, because I was so busy with work and other stuff. (It is only the fourth A41 image this year, btw!) Meet-and-greet evening at school. We now know who Suvi's teacher will be – and most importantly what the...
Markdown won because it disappears: you write text, and the markup stays out of your way. But anyone who has used it for real documents knows where it stops disappearing – the moment you need a table with a merged cell, a numbered...