- Happy solstice! ::waits for midwinter sun to renew:: And today's photos postulate the following questions.... (1) Robin or penguin? (2) How can a plastic sheep look so much like Tom Baker playing the fourth Doctor?


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- Happy pre-solstice night!


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Nobody reads Friday night posts, y/y? Good. Look away now! No, rly. I hated these graphic novels. Don't say I didn't warn you. Last chance: instead of reading my post you could read this post on cracked that basically exposes dystopian post-apocalyptic fic as unrealistic libertarian propaganda (but does so with subtlety and humour ( Read more... )

- Fossils on Ynys Echni, aka Flat Holm island, the southern point of Wales in the Bristol Channel: (1) trace fossils or geology, I dunno, (2) fossilised ripples, (3) a ancient member of the evil gastropod conspiracy from the dawn of time!!1!!


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- 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... )

- On Romeo and Juliet: it occurs to me that if my name was "Juliet Capulet" and I lived in a society in which women change their surnames on marriage then I'd probably also want to get married young.

- I was somewhat confused by these hanging in the Ladies loos of a not especially trendy pub in Llangollen as I suspect your average lady of ( Read more... )

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- 6412 taking on water at Totnes Littlehempston station on the South Devon railway.


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