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The end of an era hughhowey.com There will be meat-book fanatics. People who care about the stories behind the stories. Readers who will pick up my Molly Fyde books and care about the person who wrote them, the fact that I spent years of my life sailing a run-down little boat between foreign islands in my 20s, a...
Simon, Tommy and I have started doing a little 5k on the seafront, then having a couple of beers by the beach huts. It's very civilised.132 words · 1 image
After visits to (West) Germany and Russia, itâs time for our Women in Translation Month travels to take us back to Japan, and todayâs choice is a book that sees us heading a fair way back in time, too. Weâre off to thirteenth-century Kyoto, where weâre to make the acquaintance of a woman brought up for great things,...
Holy Island â LJ Ross First in the DCI Ryan crime fiction series. Lots of groundwork introducing key characters and relationships, along with the main plotline featuring murders by a satantic cult on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. All the better for having been there recently, which makes it easier to âseeâ the...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this scene at Antelope Island State Park in Utah, where rust-toned rocks anchor the foreground beneath a darkening sky. The Great Salt Lake stretches across the middle ground, its shallow channels reflecting muted tones of gray and white. Storm clouds build overhead, casting diffused...
In a total solar eclipse, the difference between 92% and 100% is everything. At 92% the sky goes a bit weird and those with glasses see a small solar crescent. Curmudgeons remain unimpressed. At 95% the solar disc is still aflame but sunset appears to be approaching early. At 98% the daylight dims and, if you're...
Debunking Hollywood is LWONâs very occasional series that takes a hard science look at common TV and movie tropes. This instalment originally appeared in August 2017. Nothing says interstellar travel like a hibernation pod. The heroes of the 2016 holiday blockbuster Passengers, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Chris...
Our writing group was slowing down. It was again a whole year between rounds - but we weren't dead! After six years of writing several stories per year, we were all losing a bit of excitement I think. But our yearly Halloween round kept us coming back! This was my entry for Round 30 in 2011, and I wrote a super...
One of the things I do struggle with when taking photos of people on the street is the question of ethics. Is it ethical to capture an image of someone without their permission? In Australia, as in the UK, it is legal to do this. But nevertheless there is a certain uncomfortableness or feeling that I am doing...
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