Some years ago in a fit of enthusiasm, I made elderberry wine.  The enthusiasm lasted long enough to get it into a demijohn, and then faded away, so in the demijohn it had sat ever since ( Read more... )

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I have just come past a neighbour baling out his MX5 with an old Costa coffee cup.

"It doesn't leak!" he announced, in defiance of the evidence. "It's just there's so much condensation!"

And also to the Hobbit.

And you may well ask: but bunn, why did you write a happy ending to the Silmarillion?  And why is it 41291 words long?  Did you have nothing better to do?

I have no answer to these questions and am avoiding your eyes.

The House of Fëanor : Little Pity

Except, at long last, it IS.   Or at least it is it is for the next 12 years.   After that, r_blackcat informs me that we will be expected to bring out the second edition. I'm imagining something leather-bound and gold-embossed, for suitable gravitas.  :-D ( Read more... )

I bought a new screen for my knackered Kindle on Ebay and replaced it myself. And it all works, and I only had one screw left over!

I FEEL SO ACCOMPLISHED.

And now I don't have to make a decision about buying a replacement for it. But I do need a new 00 screwdriver head because all the tiny tiny screws knackered mine.

I was just looking at this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%A2n_the_Blessed

And I noticed the note: Not to be confused with Brian Blessed.

I shall never again be able to imagine Bran the Blessed as NOT played by Brian Blessed. :-D

It occurred to me that I tend to share photos of pretty landscapes and flowers and things, and that these things change surprisingly little over time.  So as the weather was a little gloomy yesterday, I thought I would try photographing some transient things:

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I was just reading about Edward Thorndike's puzzle boxes - an experiment where he put a cat or dog into a box that had some sort of release lever to let it out, and waited to see if the cat or dog would work out whether/how to press the lever ( Read more... )

Today I have seen so many shares of photographs of Nelson Mandela with inspirational captions ( Read more... )