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In January 1988, the Beano strip chronicling the adventures of Dennis the Menace's pet pig, Rasher, was retired... and since its replacement was being drawn by the same artist, David Sutherland, there was a rather unusual handover, with...
On August 15th many churches across the world, Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican, keep a feast for the Blessed Virgin Mary, fulfilling the scripture that says “All generations will call me blessed”, remembering the one who bore our saviour...
Francis Gerard was the author of about twenty-two thrillers in the period 1936-52, many featuring his series detective Sir John Meredith. He also wrote continuations of Edgar Wallace’s ‘Sanders of the River’ stories. He published first...
Snap in an elevator
One week at number one on 9th April 1988This is the first time Vince Clarke has been number one on the NME Indie Chart since 1983, when The Assembly reached the top spot with “Never Never”. It feels as if the cultural bulldozers have...
Rest is important. You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to be exhausted first. Sometimes doing nothing is the right thing to do.
From the same batch of Instamatic slides as last Thursday's post come today's snooze-tastic Jungle Cruise pictures. Not the worst things you'll ever see, but far from the best, also.It's that familiar African Veldt tableau, presumably an...
Really enjoyed this, not even the music (which I didn't) could stop me from liking it. And it works on so many levels- as both sculpture and dance, love and confusion, and anything and everything we experience in life, art, and loss...
Recently one of the followers on our Facebook page posted a comment asking if we'd ever considered connecting together our two Festiniog layouts Dduallt and Minffordd.It's an interesting question, and the answer why we probably won't...
Quick bits The scorching of the Earth continues. My godfather and uncle passed away earlier. I have said it before, but it remains true: fuck cancer. I have made a donation in his name to Cancer Research UK. I1 got a national emergency...
I am currently rebuilding a Fuji S10-S, a road bike from the 1970s. This bike belonged to my dad and is in very good condition. I watched it get rebuilt a couple different times over the course of my childhood, but have never ridden it....
Disclaimer: this is a personal post, and does not represent the views of the BBC. What do most people use YouTube for? Surely, EVERYBODY uses it for the exact reason I do: to watch lots of lovely old BBC2 continuity from 1992. Such as...
The UK university clearing process brings together all the features you don't want in a software project.The software isn't used for 9 months of the year, then, on two specific days, thousands of people need it. And it has to work. Any...
Pizza Hawaii? Das geht gar nicht Doch! Mit meinem Rezept:-) Fruchtig. Etwas spicy. Sehr kross. Sehr einfach. Yippie. Rezept für 1 Pizza Zutaten Für den Teig 100 g Dinkelmehl 630 1,5 g Trockenhefe (wiege ich mit einer Löffelwaage – die...
Crème »Coco« mit Kokosmilch, Ananassaft, Pfirsich, Basilikum und Amaretto Erfrischend, luftig und leicht und ganz einfach… Oft möchte ich mit Gerichten auch ein Gefühl ausdrücken oder ein Moment mit einem intensiven Gefühl. Dieses...