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One of the coolest things I've discovered since getting a PS5 last year was remote play: you could use a device, such as my iPad Air, to connect remotely to your PS5 and play games. I've successfully connected using both the standard PS5...
Professor Steve Peers, Law School, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Martin Robson, via Wikimedia Commons Recently the Reform Party proposed that in government it would withdraw benefits from all non-UK citizens,...
Hettie O’Brien, in the current Guardian newspaper (UK) has posted this First Edition taster:<info@editorial.theguardian.com> https://www.theguardian.com/uk ‘Apparently, gangs of “feral yobs” now rampage the streets in “lawless Britain,”...
Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Author: Italo Calvino Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Pages: 260 Italo Calvino’s stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding...
11-08-26 Far too long since I'd visited the Botanics. It was sunny enough to bring out a few insects but a little bit disappointing overall, with speckled woods being the only butterfly species out in numbers. I had gone mainly with the...
I'm a sucker for lore, so this bonus entry chronicles all of the books I'm finding in Pagan: Ultima VIII. It will be updated continually until the game is finished. (Note that this entry published at the same time as "Pagan: Skull...
ORKO — 200X MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ORIGINS (MATTEL) Well, this year hasn’t been *without* Masters of the Universe reviews, but it has been a little sparse. I had the two movie tie-in figures of two of the three figures I always buy from...
When writing feels hard, perhaps it is because you are on the cusp of saying something significant or interesting? The thought is oddly comforting to me. Donald Murray originally described this connectionin his essay “Making Meaning...
In this bonus episode, my husband Nick and I chat about decisions we made while planning our wedding—and how one part of weddings I loath affected my search for vendors.
I really quite like the front cover design for Taiwan Travelogue. I would like it even better without the National Book Award Winner stamped on the top right but that doesn’t detract too much from the overall design. Cover design is by...
The blacksmith is sexist and fascist. The Guardian has banished the Avatar to a world that has undergone a cataclysm. The last remaining city (at least, that anyone knows about) is ruled by a tyrant named Lady Mordea. After witnessing...
Latin silentio ‘in silence’. Where I live now (also vivide ‘vividly, vigorously’, but that’s a topic for another posting). I’ve had profound laryngitis (probably a concomitant of cryptosporidiosus, which I’m otherwise holding at bay),...
For this Prom I had a seat at the front of the stalls on the same level as the orchestra. The mostly-sandalled-and-bearded Promenaders, the season-ticket holders who stand every night immediately in front of the orchestra, were just in...
The Tapestry of Time, Kate Heartfield (2024) ⭐⭐⭐ The historical context was good, and fun to read in the acknowledgements what was real vs inspired. Fast-moving novel but not as "deep" as I have been reading lately. Reply by email Share...
Have you ever seen a post online that made you laugh, caught your eye for some reason, or seemed interesting? Did you click that you, "Liked," it or shared it with followers? We all have often done that, but sometimes a post that looks...