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Dear loiterers It’s First Sunday, This Sunday and so time for a wander together – and this time we are venturing further than ever before. By popular request we will be loitering in Warrington. We’ve broken our own Greater Manchester...
A better day today with some sunshine. No car cleaning today. Finished cutting the hedge round the big lawn. Cleared Bernard’s bin and box of paper. Poor T Cott died.
I came across a video from Jared Henderson on an online sentiment that new books are not as good as the old ones. He touches on a few ideas on why he thinks this idea is going around. One of his points was discussing the sheer volume of...
I got slightly addicted to blogging about blogging. Easy on this lovely platform since we're all bloggers or writers of one kind or another. I got indigestion so I'm wondering if you got it too? Overindulging on a wave of other blogging...
Photo: © Stan B.Having grown up in New York, I've always admired a sense of style. It takes something to possess one, even more to own it; and says something about the person and how they move in the world. Of course, it's ultimately...
Nota bene: I discuss Adam Smith’s first “dire warning” here. As promised (see here and here), I will now turn to the last part of Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet (Part #13, pp. 47-79), Additions and Corrections to the First and Second...
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
We finally made it to Bude Sea Pool this week, 88m lengths of beautiful swimming on Summerleaze beach in Cornwall.The pool opened in 1930, dug out next to the beach's rocky cliffs. It is a tidal pool, which means the water is refreshed...
I like to include a thank you in every commission, and to help with that I produce a range of bespoke cards. This is the third batch and they continue to give me a great deal of pride and joy when I fold them carefully to pen a few words...
I find it highly amusing that it has taken this long for people to realise that the passport form factor is actually more usable–if only because you can reach across the entire screen with your thumb–and that a 4:3 foldable makes far...
Oh boy, vintage Disneyland ephemera! My favorite. Today I am featuring a wonderful 1963 brochure printed for the "World Premier Engagement" of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room (which debuted on June 23rd of '63). These are rare-ish, but...
Every year I update my table of thirty-plus temperatures, as recorded at Hampstead. Here's how we left things last year. Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C May JunJulAugSep 2010 279/10 2011 27 2012 2518 2013 13...
River otters at a Northern California lagoon have learned to climb onto resting brown pelicans, grab them by the neck, drag them underwater, and hold them there until they drown. The behavior was first documented in 2006. By 2024 the...
I was under the impression that Cities Skylines 2 was still bad. It isn't!! Cities Skylines 2 launched badly. I am not enough of an expert to be able to comment intelligently on the badness - I bounced off of CS1 several different times....
"There's stuff in there that has been in there for years," I told J. I was moaning about not being able to fit anything into any of the three drawers that constituted the freezer compartment of our fridge freezer. That was about four...