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Christopher Nolan's epic film adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey opens soon, bringing to the big screen one of fiction's greatest journeys. From Odysseus' ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War to the road trips, quests and adventures...
My Boy, The Engineer, who has worked in transport all his life, has internalised the NATO alphabet [whc prev] to ensure better comms over crackly, lossy, phone-line. That prevlink also hat-tips Clapham & Dwyer's Surrealist Alphabet...
Part 4 now. Thought I would have hated an allegorical novel but pleasantly surprised. I grew fond of the Hamilton and the Trask families.
We’ve been distracted these past few months by getting certified as wildland firefighters, learning to drive excavators, competing in running races, and suffering from technological breakdowns. Now, these activities have abated, allowing...
Gill Kernick saw the Grenfell Tower burn in 2017 from the Trellick Tower. After her return to the UK in 2011, she and her husband had lived on the 21st floor or Grenfell for three years. Some of the 72 people who died in the fire had...
I spent my Sunday evening enjoying the Monogram Matinee Volume 3 from the Warner Archive Collection.This Blu-ray set features two "B" Westerns, UNDER ARIZONA SKIES (1946) and RANGE JUSTICE (1949), both starring Johnny Mack Brown.The...
Went to a rose garden today.
...hiding the thing in plain sight, and also because I love the mystery AND aesthetic as rendered in these Tibetan glyphs. ངོ་མཚར་དཀར་ཆག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བདག་གི་ཚེའི་འོད་ཟེར་ཐ་མའི་ལས་འདི་བཀོད་ཅིང་བཞེངས་ཏེ་སྐྱོང་བ་ལ་རོགས་མཛོད།...
The first time I tried to go to pride consciously I didn't know what to wear. My outfit at the time didn't have anything with a rainbow on it, outside a single pair of work issued pride month socks that I took from someone who didn't...
Perfume PosseAC UK I have a friend whose name is Ann Caroline but everyone calls her AC. Every time I hear the abbreviation AC I think of her. Not the machine that makes the air cooler. I mentioned in last week’s post that… Continue...
Julia Letlow Wins the Louisiana Senatorial Runoff On Saturday, Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) beat state Treasurer John Fleming in the runoff for the Republican nomination for the Senate. It was a resounding win, 57%-43%. She had Donald...
Wednesday, 11th April, 1821 My dear friend William, I hope this letter finds you in both good spirits and rude health, and I must convey my most sincere apologies for the unavoidable delay in sending it. I find myself at last back on the...
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) worked in many areas as an artist, and is probably best-remembered as a painter and illustrator. Among the many books he illustrated were Beowulf (1932), translated by William Ellery Leonard; The Canterbury...
A new station opened yesterday, possibly the most significant since Crossrail. It's CAMBRIDGE SOUTH and I have taken far too many photos of it. [42 photos] (I actually took 255 but managed to narrow it down) The station's two miles south...
Obliging providers of new car parks to cover them with solar panels seems a smart idea. Yet the UK government has rejected it, without explanation. CC-licensed photo by ATIS547 on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up...