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Akiko #4 Date: June 1996 Publisher: Sirius Entertainment Cover Price: $2.50 2013 NM Price: $3.00 Stats: 22 black & white pages plus "Letters to Akiko" and one ad Story & Art: Mark Crilley Notable Notes: A dream and a storm! Realistic...
Today is Emancipation Day in the Netherlands, a day on which we commemorate the abolishment of slavery in our “former” colonies. There is a march, a ceremony by the national monument, and a festival known for its danceable music, long...
Last week we took our semi-regular trip to the Uffington White Horse, a 3000 year old horse carved into the chalk of a hillside somewhere between Swindon and Oxford. The horse is maintained by the National Trust, and each year they get a...
I replayed Return of the Obra Dinn. Even though I know the story, it's still a 10/10.
1987-1988 Rainbird Software Platform: IBM PC To coincide with the launch of Richard Hewison’s excellent new Kickstarter project, “Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software“, we are taking the opportunity to preserve and share a...
Today's subject is something of a sequel to Victoria Málaga, which featured in a post about Spanish beer last year. Rosa Blanca is also from the Barcelona beer giant Damm, and is sold in a 66cl bottle. That becomes rather less...
Double Maths First Thing is apparently abelian. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing maths. Today, though, I’m on a train to speak with a client about modelling extreme winds,...
Welcome to the new month for the RPG Blog Carnival - our topic for July 2026 is "Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!" You can find some deeper background on the RPG Blog Carnival on 'of Dice and Dragons'. Write what you like around...
I first visited John Wooden’s wonderful 009 model railway, the Isle of Stoner in 2019. I think it feels as if it was longer as I was familiar with John’s modelling from 2016, when I started modelling in the scale and joined NGRM. John...
This Month’s Picture… Bulleid ‘Battle of Britain’ light pacific 21C151 ‘Winston Churchill’ was allocated to Salisbury and is being turned at Fisherton Sarum. She has recently been fitted with extension to her original short deflectors to...
Have you ever ridden the thermals above the Alps, gliding silently over some of the world's most spectacular mountain scenery? Thanks to OGN 3D Replay, you can now experience something very close to that -virtually.This new interactive...
Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses | The Verge: This week, it quietly announced that your glasses’ Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you...
We’re continuing the Canadian literature here, and there will be others to come, as I get around to writing about the books I read on my holiday to Calgary and Vancouver. Up today is the first book that the booksellers in Pages, Books in...
July 1, 2026 While many of us are struggling with the lack of brightness and contrast in this wardrobe, I think most of us at least really admire this painting: At the end of June, our heroine the landscape designer had this capsule...
Another lovely warm day. Hoed borders round vet lab and cleared off. Bill Batchford and Harry Yardington came to see me. Dot and Jane home today.