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Last week, James mentioned the Holyhead Breakwater Railway and he’s produced a really beautiful series of sketches over on his blog this morning. The idea of building a model of the Holyhead breakwater railway, in some form, in some...
Bill McKinnen, in A Question of Margin:
For over ten millennia of the farming era, most folks saw themselves as tightly tied to small groups that lived in a largely alien and hostile world, under the thumb of empires and elites selected by tradition and power, elites not...
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but our world isn’t doing so well. Even as there still is endless denial by fossil-fuel corporations and the politicians they’ve bought climate change has started to wreak havoc. In addition, in many places...
Last time, I discussed the first sound/color Zorro movie, The Bold Caballero from 1936. The next Zorro screen production was just a year later, Republic’s 1937 serial Zorro Rides Again—no relation to the 1931 Johnston McCulley novel of...
What is a weekend? #DowntonAbbey
What an odd feeling, to see familiar hands filling pages after pages with events and feelings you could no longer find within you, not even vaguely.
Got up at 9.30am,. Not a very nice day. Did some more digging on borders. The gang came for dinner. Went home 7pm. Never went out. Watched telly.
Disasters are certainly not natural: hazards are natural. Disasters come as a result of how we live, how we build structures, how we plan and organise our environments— Horace Glaze, operations manager, Red Cross, Jamaica quoted in...