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Sunday 5-24-2026
Commonwealth Day Not a very nice day. A bit cool and showery. Did usual chores and some hoeing down the drive. Quite a bit of rubbish to burn. Put boilers on when I got here this am.
…is not something I’d have thought I’d be setting up on my new phone, but here we are. (This is post-surgery stuff, which will be peppering the blog for the next few weeks or so.)
#SilentSunday
Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)The massive docile ocean sunfish or common mola, Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the two heaviest known bony fish in the world — the other being the southern sunfish of the same genus. As a family, Molidae...
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Catching up. Spring is a good time to go to Greece because all the wildflowers are out. The glossy blood-red poppies, chamomile daisies, lantana and rock roses, small purple scabious, tall wild mallow. They’re all over the archaeological...
In August, Japan will be getting a new version of The Little Mermaid musical. It is a very well-liked story and versions of it have been staged over the years but this production looks very special (if you like that kind of thing!). I...
Blists Hill has reopened under National Trust care, and we explored its Victorian streets, canal path, Inclined Plane, woods and cafés on a scorching day
It’s a long weekend here in the United States; we are celebrating Memorial Day, which is a holiday to remember those who have died in military service. Like many federal holidays, it has been associated with retail sales, and is the...
What Craig Counsell and David Ross have in common is that both are former players and I think that is the context in which one has to conclude that so far Counsell has not been better than the person he replaced. Former player managers...
Yesterday’s ghosts are today’s mermaids. Here is a Fiji mermaid as advertised (above) and in reality (below). Not the PT Barnum specimen, but apparently made around the same time. On a semi-related note, here is some good life advice...