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The Alchemist’s Secret is the story of two women separated by four centuries but linked through one house – Woodham Hall in Suffolk. In 1672, Jeanne is living at the Hall with her older sister, Marie, and young niece, Hélène. Jeanne is...
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke published 2026 In my recent piece for the i newspaper on a new Netflix series Little House on the Prairie: Laura had me at the hat I mentioned the concept of the tradwife – an online definition is as...
Free Map Tiles Providers:OpenFreeMapVersaTilesMaptoolkit.orgOne of the biggest barriers to building web maps has always been the cost and complexity of map tiles. Services such as Google Maps and Mapbox offer excellent infrastructure,...
I had been typing /clear in the Codex App whenever a task got too long. Every time, the agent replied: Context cleared. Except it hadn’t. I found out by asking which skills it had used in the current session. It named a skill from before...
The Furious (2025) • View trailerFour stars* (out of five); rated R, for strong, bloody violence, gore and profanityAvailable via: Amazon Prime and other VOD optionsBy Derrick BangThe dramatic paradigm shifts in martial arts movies can...
More rain this morning. Little Jane very good through the night. Came in our bed at about 7a.m. Had a bit of a fun with her. Did big lawn and gave Jane a swing.
July 24, 2026 She has room in her bedroom to hang 16 garments. Well, maybe 20, but certainly not more than that! Her clothes live in an ante-room off the main part of the attic. Old houses… Her plan for the upcoming cool weather is to...
"Just stay out of Temple Bar" is my general advice to anyone coming to Dublin and looking for beer. Today's subjects were both found in pubs, and both of them technically in Temple Bar, although they're some distance from the Auld...
Well gosh that was quite the week wasn’t it? Oh my. The dissolution of DSIT didn’t come completely out of the blue – I’d seen some online speculation bandied around and then there were articles in the Sundays but it was still shock...
Found by my former boss amongst his belongings, this colorful wooden toy paddle once had a rubber band and a ball stapled to it for hitting-and-bouncing play. Alas, the ball is long gone, the rubber band was still attached but dried to...
Here are two nice Randos for you on this warm Friday. We'll start with this great view from April, 1973, as guests exit the park. There's still plenty of daylight left, so I can only assume that they all remembered that they left the...
Back in 2013 I read my first Vasily Grossman book, “An Armenian Sketchbook”, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, and was bowled over by his writing. I commented at the time that I had one of his best-known works “Life and Fate”...
From the moment Mortal Kombat II’s lightning-flecked title screen appears, it’s clear that this is more than a mere fighting game sequel. This is an event. This is What Happened Next. The arcade attract sequence quickly sets the scene...
I find it incredibly fascinating how memory works. This morning, I saw a post from my friend Forrest where he linked to http://lostmyspace.com/ . Apparently somebody way back when archived about 500,000 songs from the site, before...
I was criticised earlier this week for always watching films with a writer’s eye. The implication was that only non-writers can see movies correctly, and the inference I took away was that there are people who will sit through any old...