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In which rhubarb rhubarb shakespeare rhubarb
- RHUBARB HO appeared to be the name of a fancy new "home" shop I spotted on my recent theatre trip, due to the unfortunate placement of street furniture partially obscuring their shiny sign. I can't decide if RHUBARB HO means "rhubarb ahoy!" or implies very specialised personal services?
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In which there is Insipachu, who anesthetizes its victims with shoddy animation
- I heard a brass band playing Iron Maiden's song Run to the Hills (4mins utu, warning for official video that will potentially offend if you don't also pay attention to the lyrics) while I was strolling past a park bandstand and I thought simultaneously of
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In which there are senior calypso, and junior idk
- Calypso Rose is 76 and still THE Calypso Queen (3min utu), from her 2016 album Far from Home.
- Sign outside the Lamplighter pub with a greengrocers homonym: "Had an accident At work Recently? No? Then your not Drinking enough at lunchtime. Come in and let us help you with your Claim!!!" The nearby Picturehouse has a sign offering hot drinks, ( Read more... ) -
In which if you liked it then you should've put a Ring on it
The lesson to take away from this picspam? Heavily armed women are less angry when placated with PONIES. Altogether now: "Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!"
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In which there are daft monkeys and devil dinosaurs
- It's not a 3 Daft Monkeys gig unless there's a scruffy dog onna string tied up at the back: Days of the Dance, by 3 Daft Monkeys (3min utu), although there are four of them at the moment... but perhaps only the original three band members are officially daft, lol.
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In which there are trainsformers, air that's covered in bees, and Doggin'
- Overheard on a rail-replacement bus service: to the driver of an unmarked coach parked at a bus stop, "Is this the railway?" :-D
- Swarms of emigrating... honeybees: the tree that was knocked flat by heavy rain a couple of weeks ago is still green. Part of it has sprung back up into a coppiced-shape already, as I predicted it would, and the part ( Read more... ) -
In which there are walking, painting, sewing, and dreaming
- Freddie Mercury portraits in Wolverhampton Art Gallery cafe. Freddie Mercury, aka Farrokh Bulsara, was born in Zanzibar to Parsi parents from Gujarat and was, of course, an immigrant to Britain where he arrived as a teenage refugee with his family. Can anybody find me Somebody To Love? (utu, 5mins) And Don't Stop Me Now! (utu, 4mins)
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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 are soundtracks, and stylus scores, and printed lines
- Yesterday my life sounded like this....
• Movingly: Gone by Robert Glasper, featuring Pharoahe Monch, utu 5min. /movies
• Unexpectedly: Girl from the North Country, by Neil Young, utu 3min. /memories
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