So, about a week ago, I drove into the centre of London... to Trafalgar Square. It was to go to the National Portrait Gallery. I should've been more well-prepared, but I thought there'd be plenty of multi-story parking garages around... which I saw on the map... but when it came down to it, some of them were closed and we had a real hard time ( Read more... )

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To me, it was a bit of a disappointment... Not much change, really.

SNP gained a seat.
Conservatives stay on the same number they had.
Labour (my preferred party) lost two seats.
Greens (I like, but didn't vote for this time) gained two.
Lib Dems lost one.

No other parties got a foothold.

I'm glad the SNP didn't achieve an outright majority... They've got ( Read more... )

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From an LJ map-related thing I get on my feed...

Anthony Hoyte uses a fitness app to draw pictures on maps.

This year's effort, a giant reindeer sprawled across London, took 9 hours to 'draw'.


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Yesterday, we had Ayla stay for a sleepover... We watched Tangled, the Disney film about Rapunzel, which is a great film, by the way... and earlier we went out to eat at Table Table. All good fun ( Read more... )

My blog here doesn't get a lot of views... but the ones that I get are often from Russia... according to this thing that I put on my page a long time ago, which counts views and maps them... I think I've mentioned this in the past... I figure the Russian views come from the fact that Livejournal is owned by a Russian company now for several ( Read more... )

I thought this was interesting.


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I have this map thing on my LJ that supposedly records where visitors to my page are from...  I put it on there over 10 years ago and I don't pay much attention to it these days... but I just checked it.  Why so many visitors from Maine in the past couple months ( Read more... )