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Season's Greetings
- Happy Christmas
- God Jul
- Hyvää Joulua
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When I get my first supertanker...
When I get my first supertanker, I'm going to register it with the Mongolia Ship Registry.
Now, aside from the unlikelihood of me ever owning any ocean-going vessel, can anyone else spot what's wrong with the above statement? -
Playing with down...
It's not often I see contemporary dance and think "Wow, that's so cool!". On this occasion I did:
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Taming of the Shrew...
Being an uncultured, knuckle-dragging troglodyte with no sense of how his own life fits into the grand scheme of history has the unexpected advantage that I can still see Shakespeare plays without knowing a priori how they are going to end. Tonight I spent a very pleasant evening sitting on the grass at the open-air theatre in Rowntree Park ( Read more... ) -
Clarinet update...
There were a few "technical difficulties" at the weekend in making the DIY clarinet produce non goose-being-eaten-by-walrus type noises (I think the mouthpiece subtly changed shape between putting it down on Thursday evening and picking it up on Friday evening). This was rectified by some sanding and re-shaping of the mouthpiece, followed by a ( Read more... ) -
Belated sourdough update...
Well, the sourdough experiment went okay (in as much as I didn't poison myself). The loaf rose, but it didn't really have that distinctive sourdough flavour, and (as a friend so eloquently put it) was a bit of a duck-sinker ( Read more... ) -
Amateur lutherie, Post Mortem
Some of you may remember that in February last year I was attempting to build myself an octave mandola. In the end it didn't ( go entirely to plan... )