I found these two beautiful sites, both via Fabulist;

An immensely touching little video, Japanese, but with a (slightly wonky) English version. For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about my father lately. He died about ten years ago, and I fear I was always a bit of a disappointment. Anyway, this made me cry a little because of that.

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Time for some pointless web trivia:

Here are some beautiful fungi.

Clearly these people have never read any M R James. There are some nice things on the rest of the site, but this is just creepy.

And a wonderful time-waster: Scanned Images, Pictures and Engravings from Old Books a random and fascinating collection.

The clocks went back last night, but as usual I forgot to change my alarm clock, so I was up bright and early at eight today, wondering where everyone else was. It's windy outside, with a lot of leaves coming down, but not actully raining. Dark, though,and altogether autumnal. Tonight, the seasonal barrage of fireworks will be starting up again ( Read more... )