[ Meta-gubbins about having fallen out of the habit of jabbering on LJ oh noes all the cool kids are doing it, etc ( Read more... )

For reasons of Elves and the safety thereof, Bath council have closed the majority of the river path. It transpires that the one bridge across that section that isn't completely ugly had been carefully ignored until it rotted enough to need proper money spending. At which point panic and hi-vis jackets everywhere. I assume it's been covered in ( Read more... )

The gnomes all come from broken homes ( Read more... )

The Martin-Marinetti Futurist Rocket Corps.

The payload of each projectile is an artist who will record the furious noise of rocket propulsion.

It's less bell, book and candle and more floor, book and hot water bottle around here ( Read more... )

The combinatorial sailormur and the spectral Cory Doctorow talk a deal of sense about writer's workshops in general, VP in particular and the practice of writing interrupted by crows.

In poking around randomly on that Wikiwiki site (theme song 'Jam on it' by Newcleus), vaguely looking for Hymeks as it turned out, I discover Cotswold Rail, who keep a loco named 'John Peel'. It was the work of mere seconds to idly speculate about the wisdom or running a London -> Whitby special, to enable the drinking to begin on platform 33 1/3rd ( Read more... )

You know what really grates? English people speaking of 'movies'.

I still don't know what a 'major motion picture' is. As opposed to what? A minor still picture? Such as a postcard?

There's some grim bollocks disguised as language and no mistake.