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There are things that are the most visible when they’re no longer there. Gone Lately, our oldest pet, MiniBeastie (of her real name IV as in Ivy and cat number 4) has not been well. She started coughing and not breathing well in the...
1. The Hungry Tree, King’s Inns Dublin 2. The Trinity Twins, Trinity College Dublin 3. UK’s tallest Giant Redwood, Center Parcs 4. The Anne Frank Tree, Seattle Center Peace Garden 5. Giant Sequoia, Seattle Center Tree Walk 6. The...
I recently went to a weekend of weddings that bent tradition - sticking to some and tweaking others.
August 21, 2026 This is the third year that I’ve started with Boden’s autumn suit (it seems to be something they do each year) to build an autumn/winter capsule wardrobe. The first one was here, and the second one was here. You could...
Three new beers from Heaney Brewery to round the week off.Correct Me If I'm Wrong, with the brewery's sober logo playfully scrambled on the label, is a "farmhouse ale", which I'm taking to mean a saison. Reading that it's brewed with...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
This is absolutely amazing. A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File
I used to like flying. I suppose I still do but the psychic price that comes with the entire endeavour is just too much for me these days. Airports and flying used to hold a mythical status for me as a child. My father used to travel a...
I'd gladly follow her into any battle with this song in the lead- a beautifully infectious, somewhat quirky, and highly melodic song (with a long convoluted history) as are many in Sinead's repertoire. Her rendition captivating and life...
So, speaking of Red Tornado…a couple of you bought up in the last post‘s comments the Kurt Busiek/Carmine Infantino mini-series that was running concurrently with the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. Now, as I noted in the comments last...
I have a swell pair of Leftuggies™ for you today, starting with this pretty photo of Tomorrowland, circa August, 1958. The sky could hardly be bluer! But it was almost certainly very hot. The Clock of the World is known to all of us, but...
A short post today to share a recent arrival in the form of another poetry pamphlet from the poet laureate, Simon Armitage. I’ve amassed quite a collection of his books and pamphlets, several of them signed, so when I saw that Faber were...
By winter 1996 I’d kind of had enough of Lemmings. DMA Design’s Amiga-born puzzle game, as well as its expansion and first sequel, were some of the biggest and most unavoidable successes in the entire hobby. They were on just about...
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If you happen to remember BBC Ceefax, you’ll know that it had pages of news that you selected and read on your TV set. What you will have no reason to know is there were two sets of these pages, and at midnight the system switched from...