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The end of an era hughhowey.com There will be meat-book fanatics. People who care about the stories behind the stories. Readers who will pick up my Molly Fyde books and care about the person who wrote them, the fact that I spent years of...
Simon, Tommy and I have started doing a little 5k on the seafront, then having a couple of beers by the beach huts. It's very civilised.132 words · 1 image
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After visits to (West) Germany and Russia, it’s time for our Women in Translation Month travels to take us back to Japan, and today’s choice is a book that sees us heading a fair way back in time, too. We’re off to thirteenth-century...
Holy Island – LJ Ross First in the DCI Ryan crime fiction series. Lots of groundwork introducing key characters and relationships, along with the main plotline featuring murders by a satantic cult on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. All...
Our writing group was slowing down. It was again a whole year between rounds - but we weren't dead! After six years of writing several stories per year, we were all losing a bit of excitement I think. But our yearly Halloween round kept...
Debunking Hollywood is LWON’s very occasional series that takes a hard science look at common TV and movie tropes. This instalment originally appeared in August 2017. Nothing says interstellar travel like a hibernation pod. The heroes of...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this scene at Antelope Island State Park in Utah, where rust-toned rocks anchor the foreground beneath a darkening sky. The Great Salt Lake stretches across the middle ground, its shallow channels reflecting...
In a total solar eclipse, the difference between 92% and 100% is everything. At 92% the sky goes a bit weird and those with glasses see a small solar crescent. Curmudgeons remain unimpressed. At 95% the solar disc is still aflame but...
One of the things I do struggle with when taking photos of people on the street is the question of ethics. Is it ethical to capture an image of someone without their permission? In Australia, as in the UK, it is legal to do this. But...
Last Monday I took a trip on the River Stour In Kent, to look at wildlife, in particular to look for beavers. The trip was organised by Grove Ferry River Trips (contact details below), who provide the boat and the skipper plus a very...
The uncertainty that surrounds the rest of Diageo doesn't seem to be affecting the folks at Guinness: the one bit of the drinks multinational which looks to be washing its face, and no doubt the faces of Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan...
Another lovely day again with warm sunshine. Think I am out of the dog house at last. Thank goodness. Started to clean the borders up the drive. Did wasps nest.
You Don't Need the Title to Signify What This Art Represents, Which is Why I Don't Include It.Among the One Hundred: The ProfessionalsWhere it comes to first capturing favorites, timing is all. I came to The Professionals, rather it came...
Last month, a Brown professor wrote about discovering that a majority of his students had used AI to cheat on his take-home exam. He was irate about this “scandal,” despite the university seemingly doing little to respond. I attended a...