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Doris Troy, 1969 Soul and R&B singer/songwriter and pianist Doris Troy is perhaps best known for her hit “Just One Look” and as a session singer after she relocated to Britain in 1969. Her popularity in Britain prompted her first tour in...
This summer is really coning on for The End Of Days. No rain at all for July, then a good bit of persistent drizzle on 3rd August but we're back to desertification for the 10 days since then. There is a hose-pipe ban for those who on the...
This week was intense, more intense than expected, but as I sit and write this blog, birds chirping, trains running by on the tracks outside the apartment of my friend's place where I am staying; I feel a sense of calm that comes from...
One of the perennial questions in UK politics and geography is “where is the border between the North and South?” I can now definitively answer that question thanks to MapSplit.Giuseppe Sollazzo’s MapSplit interactive map allows you to...
In the two previous blog posts and in , I discussed the impact of AI on software development and experimented with a new way of developing software. In this article, I'll discuss my conclusions after three months of using several...
“Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?” Secondary student Rikuo Sakisaka lives during a time when Androids have gained widespread popularity. His Android, Sammy, reveals strange messages in her diagnostic logs. Tracing the location to a...
There’s something wonderfully comforting about a dish that starts with humble ingredients and turns into pure, cozy magic. This Enfrijoladas Bake is exactly that kind of recipe — a simple, family‑friendly meal inspired by classic Mexican...
Street photography is something that bothers me, so I want to understand it. And to understand things, I need to classify them and understand how they relate. Call it professional bias. With street photography, I quickly hit a wall: the...
Tracy Friedlander’s post on the three Substack creator type appeared on my Substack timeline one Sunday morning. I found it interesting and it got me thinking about what these types were. But thinking about them made me realise that they...
In a small valley between two quiet woods, there lived a colony of field mice. They were good mice. Careful mice. Proud mice. They gathered seeds, repaired tunnels, counted berries, and kept small maps of every path between the grass and...
My players wanted to Reincarnate one of the war dogs that they got early on in the campaign. Normally the spell does not work on animals, but then again it would be funnier if it does, so I said yes. So here's a Reincarnation table for...
The smoke swhirls through the moon light coming in through what's left of the window after the house burned down.
The nights are drawing in but pike-time seems a long way off - still in drought and yet another heatwave. Couple of hours before it got dark on The Puddle and double #19 on crust - an almost black common at 11lb 4oz (my 10th Puddle carp)...
The new century -- no longer new -- has been insatiably consuming good writers. In the early years of the twenty-first we endured a rough patch. In a five-year span we lost Anthony Powell, Edgar Bowers, William Maxwell, W.G. Sebald, R.S....