A wee gift, for all of you and specially for Penny, Femme, Noe, Bubba, Brammers, Shezan, Vaysh, Tiger, Kitty, T&L, Darry, the RSM - well, actually, all of you. Happy Christmas.

[Lessons at Christmas]

Lessons at Christmas

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GMW Wemyss

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Of all those seated in the - rather unfortunate and damnably uncomfortable, if historic - pews of the Chapel ( Read more... )

Starting at some point tomorrow - in that MSP is jetting off from the wilds of Texas to New York / New England to lecture on Titanic, thus interrupting daily online collaboration on the next actual book - I shall take on an eremitical disposition and go to ground to work on a fest entry. I expect you all to continue following HD Fan Fair, and I ( Read more... )

I remind you all, nonetheless, that for all the marvels of Fan Fair / Career Fair, you are missing out terribly if you are not also following dudley_redeemed.

Delighted as we all are, quite rightly, that prompting is ongoing for the HD Fan Fair / Travel Fair, I advert you to the fact that prompt claiming is ongoing for this year’s Dudley Redeemed, and implore your participation.

Carry on.

( That was the year that was. )

( For Femme: It does not do to dwell in dreams )

( For Femme. )

As a sound Tory, I am tempted to suggest that the first duty is not to act like the world’s most famous community organiser. But let that pass.

I speak here from some experience (as well as with some asperity), being a community owner myself.

There are communities and communities, of course. Some of them exist only as a separate, dedicated ( Read more... )

Rather early on in Advent-tide - yet late enough that the bitterness of the winter was already predictable, and in places evident and present, and the Great Freeze readily foreseen - my Uncle George rang up, as uncles will. (Some readers may recall Uncle George for having said, of a recent jaunt to France, ‘Surprisingly pleasant people, really, and ( Read more... )

It’s a perfect day here in Southampton and I’ve actually found a wireless connex that will route to the ISP I use (always use a Yank ISP: they have friendlier laws, free speech, no EU, and no Labour spying: I had that advice from Tom Strathclyde some years ago). For a confirmed Luddite, that constitutes a rare triumph.  The lovely marguerite_26 has now opened ( Read more... )