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So we DID go to the village show, which after migrating from field to field around the village for some years, now seems to have settled conveniently in a field just up the road from us so it's easy to walk to.  It is tradition that our village show should occur on the one really wet weekend in July, but not this time.  The sun shone, the sky was ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention that while on holiday, I met this magnificent hornet. It retreated to begin with, but then came out to be photographed in a sunbeam.

Then I opened the door and it flew away making a rich deep buzzing noise, like a small propeller driven aeroplane. 
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Quenta Narquelion otherwise known as the story of Ghost Feanor and the War of Wrath is finally complete!  I think I started writing it in October 2016, blimey ( Read more... )

I *still* haven't quite quite finished off Quenta Narquelion, previously known provisionally as Dead Feanor Zooming About Invisible and the War of Wrath.  I need to do a bit more development on Chapter 18 : The Struggle for East Beleriand and Chapter 19: Sauron & the Winged Dragons.  (these are not the last chapters.  The last chapter is 22: Lindon ( Read more... )

Sometimes I listen to random music on Youtube in another tab and just see where the Youtube auto-feed thing takes me (weirdly often it takes me to Lou Reed, although often from wildly different starting points ( Read more... )

If you collect hair from your cat when you groom him, you can then felt that hair together into a small pointy hat and make him wear it.
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We really should have stayed home today, cleaned the house, sorted the garden and other similar chores sadly overdue.  But the weather forecast was hopeful, and the tides were right, so we abandoned our dusty house and overgrown garden and ran away in the canoe instead ( Read more... )

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... )

Every year, Plymouth hosts the British Fireworks Championship, in which six professional firework companies compete over two days.  You can go and watch for free from lots of places all around the city : a couple of times, Pp and I have sat on Plymouth Hoe to watch, which gives a pretty good view.  But from the Hoe, you can't help noticing that the ( Read more... )