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Spain's 2026 World Cup win was hardly a massive surprise to football fans. It was another chapter in what has become an extraordinary period of Spanish dominance in international football. Spain won the European Championship in 2024 and...
Not so nice today. A few showers at first. Cleaned the sump out in the incin. Finished one side of the drive and made a start on the other. N gone to Dot’s.
There is one rule in astrophotography that I know perfectly well: don't use an important, unrepeatable event to learn how your new equipment works. On August 12, I ignored it. We had just returned from vacation that same day. The car...
I haven’t talked about recent UK macroeconomic data for some time, mainly because there hasn’t been any new story to tell. To recap, growth in the UK relative to other comparable countries was strong in the three decades before 2010, but...
A counter for overthinking, "it is not that deep" has found a place in our culture. And I kind of like the saying, but as every trendy saying, it gets overused.
Hi there Crew, I was trawling Surrender To Chance recently and a name caught my attention. Midnight Birch by Dr Squatch. Come ON! What a name and what a house title. Obviously I read the name slightly wrong and it was MUCH naughtier but...
As a fan of the original (and highly existentially conflicted) Frasier TV show, I found this delightful solely because it exists, although a few minutes playing it on the web made it pretty obvious there is a lot of depth I will never...
With news that DB Cargo is for sale, the idea that ‘Modern Goods’ would depict the current rail scene is already hopelessly dashed. Whilst I am no fan of some of the firms decisions, DB and their wonderfully bold red locomotives have...
Here's a leaked video of Apple's AirPods with embedded cameras. Told you so! Related post: The Case for AirPods with Cameras The more I think about it, the more AirPods with cameras in the stems make sense to me. Long-term readers of...
An anonymous photographer from the 1950s seemed to be interested in some of the smaller details in Disneyland. Sure, that castle is great, and how often do you see a moon rocket? But some folks have an eye for the little things that...
Vitoria-Gasteiz is the second largest city in the Basque Country and also its administrative capital. It's located between the coastal cities of Bilbao and San Sebastian but 30 miles inland, so a long drive away. Travellers thus...
I spent the weekend with my husband at LFG Con, a board game and tabletop RPG convention which was started in 2025 by three friendly-local-game-store owners. It was hosted at a hotel across from the Burbank airport, but we made a...
As we close in on the last couple weeks of the open reading period, I am enjoying wading into the submissions pool and have even started accepting some titles for the first couple months of the 2026-27 season (and amazingly am somewhat...
It is common for promotional pamphlets aimed at children to contain a themed variant of snakes and ladders. This is the “game” where the players toss a die, move as many places as the die says, and then some spots on the board have an...
SEVILLE is not a discreet city. The city hits you with its intense heat, the scent of orange blossoms, and the sound of flamenco guitars emanating from every other door. [The ‘old town’ of] Spain’s fourth-largest city is compact enough...