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In which there are a hundred owls and nearly a century of trains
- Post: I'm currently awaiting the delivery of 100 owls from China (and a special snowflake, lol).
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In which Our Heroine is haunted by the ghost of Tolkien's car
- I saw a late 1920s Morris Cowley car parked in a Cotswold village on the only occasion I've set foot in the Cotswolds between Oxford and the Vale of Evesham for many years. The car is, of course, a very similar model to the one Tolkien used to drive through the area on visits to his family. At least I'm not being haunted by CS Lewis or Charles ( Read more... ) -
In which there are ill-intentioned government snoopers and well-intentioned do-gooders
- Disability rights, UK, reminder: if you receive disability benefits from the UK government (e.g. the DWP) then from 29 Nov 2016, i.e. last week, you will probably be safer from snooping by using a VPN connection for ALL your internet browsing: at home or via a mobile device. Also remember that no library internet connection has any security from ( Read more... ) -
In which there is Gardening in the Tropics
- Reading, books 2016, 156.
153. Gardening in the Tropics, by Olive Senior, 1995, is a volume of poetry. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy reading Ms Senior's work, which is often deceptively simple in form but has multiple layers of meaning: such as in The Immovable Tenant which might be a narrative poem about an elderly tenant and her mean landlord ( Read more... ) -
In which there are close encounters of the religious kind, presence of mind, and absence of god
- Quote of the [current reading]: In point of fact his women to date numbered only two, both dancing teachers, with whom his relations had been limited to rather half-hearted scufflings on divans, and it was for this reason that he had not joined the Oxford Group. He could not bring himself to publicly confess that his most poignant erotic memory ( Read more... ) -
In which there are pirates, social music, husbands, and fashionistas
- The Friendly pirate airship Cake Or Death, crewed by Brianne and Ayesha and their pets. I don't have enough Friends Lego to make a perfect rebuild of the Ninjago Raid Zeppelin but I did manage to make all the weapons systems into red flower bombs, although I also added new pink cherry bombs. I left the flag untouched in honour of Ching Shih.
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In which there is skating "Upon the Ice", 1884-1954
Upon the Ice, 1884: "They were young and lovely, both. They were the dearest friends. They clung to one another tenderly, whilst we looked on with envious eyes. [...]"
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