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When it comes to mystery books, I tend as a rule to stick to Golden Age Crime which is a huge favourite of mine. However, I was recently offered the chance to review a new collection of modern shorts stories gathered in a Crime Writers’...
28th July 2026 We have three years to protect our constitutional arrangements before a possible radical illiberal majority at the next General Election * There is enough time left, just about, to fix parts of our constitutional...
There are already other ways to do this. Of course I had to do it the hard way.
Whirring, whining, drilling, squeaking, gushing, sucking. Sounds of wet flesh and machine as they entangle in the dance of dental medicine. I swear I am not a psychopath. Atleast my psychiatrist has not broken the news to me yet. When I...
Toward the end of 1951, a customer walked into the East Hills Plating Company in Bellevue, Kentucky, with a box full of old silver items for repair, replating and sale. Among the assorted objects, proprietor George Grainger spotted an...
More 3D Prints today. We have some more from sculptor Curufin with a Star Wars Legion-inspired theme, though this time they’re.. well, they’re not exactly infantry, nor humanoid, but they’re “your dudes”-scale droids. Being the 28mm RN-7...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this working waterfront at Rockport, Ontario, where Andress Boat Works operates as both a gas dock and ice cream shop. The pale blue building with white trim sits directly on the water, its green-and-white...
The series on the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 rolls on. This time: the “what is my code actually doing?” toolbox - the debugger, tracing, enlighten, and the new tap viewer. This was the part of the release I enjoyed working on the most,...
BATTLE DROID (Geonosis, far right) The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch Action Figure Set Item No.: No. F9259 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: n/a Includes: Blaster, backpack, antenna, 2 slightly different red droids and 1 Super Battle Droid...
Among other things! It's the bits and bobs, the accessories, the spares, the detritus, the orphaned elements of other toys or models, and peripheral/consumable stuff, which, due to the drawer of bits on show's-eve, is greater than some...
Another day of cloud and showers. Did wasps’ nest by privet pillar. Started doing the top of the privet hedge round the lawn. N gone to Dot’s. Saw Ron again.
I miss the days when patience was still a virtue.
Tourism websites often present destinations using static maps, brochures and carefully curated lists of attractions. Bigfoot's BC demonstrates that there is a much more engaging alternative. By turning British Columbia into a playful 3D...
Swear… Image by Author, created in AI. Note: Just for grins, here’s an excerpt from one of my previous books. To set the scene: A large chunk of my family has traveled from Tulsa down south to Dallas, wherein I live because I didn’t want...
Hi there Looking Glassers, You may recall that I’m trying to downsize my collection. It’s going very badly and the perfume room/office/dressing room is littered with boxes of perfumes that should have been sold, sent and out of the way....