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From the office of Prof. Neville Morley, Supreme Plenipotentiary, Überboss and Vice-Chancellor of Ex University, Earth 2: Your ever-caring and responsive senior management team has heard your pathetic whining about the Why On Earth...
Well, it’s gone quiet around here again. The Euro-branch of the clan has moved to the other end of the lake before taking the skies and heading home. But first they took in a game Wednesday between the Jays and the Sox, as illustrated....
Women of Music Volume 23 Ann-Marget on cover tracklistAnn-Margret - Dance With Me Henry.mp3 Beti Webb - Tic Toc.mp3 Bonnie Tyler - Those Were The Days.mp3 Carmen Taylor - Ooh I.mp3 Cindy Carson - Just As I Am.mp3 Jane Morgan - Girl Named...
I’m trying something new. Every so often a software developer reaches out to tell me about a new app they’ve built for film photographers. They’re invariably a film photographer themselves, and they built an app they wanted for...
In the late 1930s comparisons were often made between new art and ancient landscapes. In British Art: Ancient Landscapes Sam Smiles cites an essay by John Piper which refers to the work of Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, who 'has landed us...
Looking across from my train at Blackfriars Station, down along the Thames to the silhouette of Tower Bridge and the city around it, already in the early morning beginning to bake in another heatwave at the end of a completely rainless...
We had a partial solar eclipse in the UK yesterday, about 80% of the sun was obscured by the moon at about 7pm. It was really cool. My youngest kid - now in his mid 20s - was with me in front of the house as I held up two pieces of card...
It wouldn’t be Blaugust without a bit of blogging about blogging, so let’s do a little tour of my setup. I appreciate this may not be to everyone’s taste. Physical stuff Desk My desk looks like this: It's not usually this tidy The...
Since I wrote about my fly30 ice skates, I'd continued to battle pain around the navicular bone in my feet. The action that seems to have finally fixed it was to perform a "punch out": a very localized remoulding of the area of the boot...
A good title can carry a show a surprisingly long way.The Spectacular Vermin Sisters: Taking Back What’s Ratfully Ours arrives with one of the Fringe’s best. It promises showgirls, rats, sibling rivalry and the sort of feverish cabaret...
Some comedy arrives dressed in sophistication. Nuns! bursts through the convent doors wearing a fake beard, a questionable habit and the sort of manic energy usually associated with children who’ve consumed too much birthday cake. Thank...
Christmas is supposed to be a season of goodwill. In Steak Out, it feels more like a freezer left slightly ajar: cold, chaotic and full of things slowly going bad.Ruaraidh Murray’s dark comedy follows an Edinburgh family attempting an...
i've been doing and getting into new things lately. mostly quality of life stuff, and most don't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but they are new to me, so i thought it would be fun to list them down. i got into perfumes....
🌒 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 8/? posts in August. Yesterday there was a partial solar eclipse in the UK! I went up to the Bristol Downs, a big grassy area up at the top of the city, after work to try and see it. There ended up...
Student houses are strange ecosystems. Leave a group of young adults unsupervised for long enough and the place begins to generate its own climate. Empty bottles multiply like weeds. Dirty washing forms geological layers. Conversations...