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Wigan North Western Station Wallgate Market Place Market Place Today is one of those occasions when colour produces stronger images, and red appears in every photo.Armed Forces Day produces memorable scenes, but many of them involve...
I'm not going to lie, I don't miss many things from my time in Florida (even less so when I see what the place has become in recent years): just a few people and... those guys... And well, wildlife as a whole. Sign up for Liminal Web...
Source Harold von Schmidt’s illustrations for Death Comes for the Archbishop were greatly admired when they first appeared in 1927. And they still are as far as I am concerned. Von Schmidt did over 60 illustrations for the book, and they...
The London borough of Ealing has updated its logo. It used to be this tree with a black stripe, and had been since the 1990s. The most recent tweak had been the addition of the council's web address. That would have looked really cutting...
I can't believe that is is Sunday again as well as being the end of June! June has just whizzed by at the speed of light! On Sundays I like to share with you, my readers, my Meals of the Week. All of the deliciousness which I have...
Sunday Mailbag We got a couple of e-mails this week complaining that we always talk about the same things (specifically, "elections" and "who is going to win"). The rest of the messages in the mailbag would beg to differ, however. Click...
By which I mean me, because I forgot to put on sunblock when I went out birding today and got burnt to a crisp as a result. Tonight I will sleep in a bath of aloe. One preview from today’s birding: A horse, of course. Also, I otherwise...
What's been happeningWe're back in the cold, cold fronts of Sydney... what we'd do to get the warm sun from Seattle back here.. but that will have to wait. To make matters worse, it has been a really cold and wet week. Since switching to...
“With all his gifts, he had of imagination not one spark. Fancy and wit he had in his earlier work; and grace he never lost; but for the rest he had only an immense quantity of that ‘cleverness’ which to the creative artist is of all...
Last year saw the beginning of a new series by Victoria Dowd (who also writes the Smart Women mysteries – see my reviews for more info) starring a widowed journalist from the 1920s named Charlotte Blood. This sleuth debuted in Death in...
I was watching a video by guitarist Rhett Shull. Pretty decent YouTuber if you’re into guitar. I am sometimes, I guess. Anyway, he seems like a pretty reasonable guy. He was encouraging guitar players to investigate the MPC as their...
Sunday 28th June 2026 Well, this route 99 is a bit of a quirky one. It’s the third such numbered bus route in Essex to be featured (following the Tilbury Town service and Southend’s open-top bus route) and exists to provide a very...
Do you know what time it is? Bowser knows what time it is. It’s walkies-time! Here are a few of my favourite shots of the last of the spring flowering we have seen on the trails lately. The oh-so-showy Columbia Lilies. Ready for my...
The World The Iran ceasefire is "holding", more or less, although both sides have accused the other of violations almost immediately and there are some strikes being exchanged over the past few days so who knows what will happen. Further...