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August has rolled around once more, which means it’s time for one of my favourite events of the blogging year, Women in Translation Month! Founded by Meytal Radzinski back in 2014, it offers readers and reviewers an opportunity to...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using AI and digital art techniques. The work shows a cluster of pink flowers—from pale blush to deeper rose—arranged against a soft blue-gray background. Several open flowers display visible stamens...
Personal notes for week 32 of 2026
Birds of the District of Columbia used to be a weird little secret at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, an exhibit I often had all to myself – a bunch of taxidermied birds in old-school wood and glass cases, lining...
SindriCAD displaying a multi-material parametric model SindriCAD is an AGPL-licensed, history-based parametric CAD application aimed squarely at 3D printing. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, wrapping build123d and OpenCASCADE in a...
“You won’t have many action shots today,” so said one touchline wag today. They were wrong. Not because today’s game, a late pre season friendly at a parched Pilot Field, was a classic, but because it featured a lot of very heavy...
Earlier this year I found myself suddenly coveting a retro handheld. If you’re not familiar, they’re small gaming devices, typically running Linux or Android, that are designed to play old games from an SD card. It’s a pretty crazy...
The first thing to say about this book is that it’s definitely not the light summer read you would probably expect from the cover and title. It’s actually a tale of lies, betrayal and treason set during the rise of the Nazis in 1930s...
Somewhere in the wheat belt this season, a farmer will bring in several hundred hectares in the time his grandfather needed for a single paddock. He will do it largely alone, from an air-conditioned cabin, above a header that steers...
August 3, 2026 Time to drop in on our graphic and typography expert. You just have to imagine that she has a clear view of how things look on paper or on screen; that doesn’t necessarily translate into a crispy-edited wardrobe! But we...
The beer range at Marks & Spencer is something I tend to pick at, rather than actively pursue. But there's a bigger range of them in the UK, and I couldn't help but grab an armful of randomers last time I was passing through that way....
Well I’m not going to kid myself and claim that I’m going to post every day this month as per the Blaugust challenge. That’s okay. What I will do is try to post a lot more frequently than I have been to try and get back in to the habit...
Not quite so bad today. A nice sunny afternoon. Cutting hedges again today, only the top of the big hedge to do now, thank goodness. Should have it done tomorrow.