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Three further weeks at number one from 12th December 1987The way "Birthday" sold in late 1987 was downright peculiar, even by cult indie standards. In a similar fashion to This Mortal Coil's "Song To The Siren" - with whom it possibly...
Here’s a round-up of some news from this month not otherwise covered on the site. The UK government has appointed two operational researchers as direct ministerial appointments: Professors Christina Pagel and Martin Utley will use...
Nearing the end of the titles that received single votes in the fave ’90s indies poll! (Again, that doesn’t say anything about the comic, just about how many different good comics that came out in the 1990s!) Stranger Attractors...
I have a very fun piece of vintage paper ephemera for you today - a little foldout flyer (only about 5" X 3" when closed) touting the surprising number of places where guests could go to drink and dine. Everything from a casual coffee...
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...
I guess we all have authors who are our own personal literary catnip, and a writer who’s become that for me is Richard Holmes. I’ve written about him a number of times here on the Ramblings, and his books about the art of the biographer...
On celebrating your heritageI live in Gloucestershire, so Gloucester is my county town and one of the two big towns near me. Whenever I go there these days I try to take a minute to walk around the bak of Northgate Street to look at the...
When we bought the Hero Camper we opted for having exterior lights installed, one in each corner of the roof-rack, with a simple controller inside the cabin. The two rear lights were facing backwards, while the two in the front were...
Although the six great institutions sprawl across the Home Cluster, your Ship is independent, at least in principle. It’s a certainty that your Captain holds the favour of some institutions and the ire of others. If there’s one that a...
The ever-thoughtful @HG21C gives us the dictionary: Beware the words and phrases that try to disguise the non-effectiveness of an individual or team. For example, they use ‘urgent’ but you know ‘they forgot to anticipate this’ Nicholas...
Three years ago I wrote: “I get the feeling we are running on dregs on the #fediverse dev side. Social movements come in waves; this one is ebbing into the #mainstreaming. No bad thing, but not, I think, what any of us want for ‘our’...
IntroductionTwelve day trip to hike in the Rila mountain range Bulgaria in June 2026 with two adults. The itinerary also includes cultural-oriented days for variation. Where possible, links are to an original source or OpenStreetMap....
We have, mainly through inattention, created a Traditional Hay Meadow. There is grass in there, even some Lolium perenne, perennial rye-grass. If Irish agronomists had their way, a following wind and infinite money, the island's pastures...
A good little reminder about how much different it was in the past. Good graphics. I have mentioned before that life here sits on a pyramid of extremely rare events. We are ignoring them at our peril. Jesse Michaels is on a whole...