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Essex coastal walk from Shoeburyness to Haven Point via Wakering Stairs and then along the banks of the River Roach. First we explore the fascinating site of a Victorian brickworks now buried beneath the coast with Professor Kate Spencer...
YouTube recommended me a segment from Cal Newport’s podcast lately with five rules for combating brain rot.[1] Here’s a quick summary with some comments, minus Newport’s overly nerdy procedures for doing these things. Read long-form...
Over at our sibling site, the Ark in Space, is a piece about my garden – or rather the crows that come to visit it to take advantage of its amenities! They are clever birds, these corvids, and are very, very quick to take advantage of...
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness...
During the Summer of 1990, television viewers and reporters descended on Snoqualmie Valley, Washington in search of damn fine coffee, cherry pie and the locations where Mark Frost and David Lynch filmed their groundbreaking series Twin...
This week's projects include the blog's code and library updates.
There are many bands I want to write about. Bands that I was interested back in the day and then never got around finding more information about them. So I was looking at one of them and stumbled upon a compilation called “I’m With Cupid...
The Almeida Young Company have really gone from strength to strength, and in a period in which Rupert Goold’s 13-year tenure is being celebrated ahead of his departure from the venue, it is likely that the brilliant Young Company...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom,...
4 May 2026 This goldfish looks familiar. Someone didn’t want it or couldn’t keep it anymore so they dropped it off in the nearest waterway to let it “swim free.” Big mistake. The goldfish above was found at Presque Isle State Park but...