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It wouldn’t be Blaugust without a bit of blogging about blogging, so let’s do a little tour of my setup. I appreciate this may not be to everyone’s taste. Physical stuff Desk My desk looks like this: It's not usually this tidy The...
Since I wrote about my fly30 ice skates, I'd continued to battle pain around the navicular bone in my feet. The action that seems to have finally fixed it was to perform a "punch out": a very localized remoulding of the area of the boot...
A good title can carry a show a surprisingly long way.The Spectacular Vermin Sisters: Taking Back What’s Ratfully Ours arrives with one of the Fringe’s best. It promises showgirls, rats, sibling rivalry and the sort of feverish cabaret...
Some comedy arrives dressed in sophistication. Nuns! bursts through the convent doors wearing a fake beard, a questionable habit and the sort of manic energy usually associated with children who’ve consumed too much birthday cake. Thank...
Christmas is supposed to be a season of goodwill. In Steak Out, it feels more like a freezer left slightly ajar: cold, chaotic and full of things slowly going bad.Ruaraidh Murray’s dark comedy follows an Edinburgh family attempting an...
i've been doing and getting into new things lately. mostly quality of life stuff, and most don't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but they are new to me, so i thought it would be fun to list them down. i got into perfumes....
🌒 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 8/? posts in August. Yesterday there was a partial solar eclipse in the UK! I went up to the Bristol Downs, a big grassy area up at the top of the city, after work to try and see it. There ended up...
Student houses are strange ecosystems. Leave a group of young adults unsupervised for long enough and the place begins to generate its own climate. Empty bottles multiply like weeds. Dirty washing forms geological layers. Conversations...
Writers are often accused of playing God. They create people, assign them destinies and, in Shakespeare’s case, have a worrying habit of killing them. MUSE: The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical asks an intriguing question: what if those...
Roden Readers — OK, so I need to retract something from the previous Roden sent just a couple weeks back. The weather in Japan, in AUGUST, has been … SOMEWHAT SANE? A series of typhoons — some glancing off Japan, others smacking it — has...
Greek tragedy usually arrives like a thunderstorm. The audience can see it gathering on the horizon long before the first bolt strikes. Fate approaches with terrifying certainty, and the drama comes from watching people continue walking...
Just before sunset? How could I not, really?
Whenever I start thinking about Women in Translation Month, I take myself off to the study and rummage through my shelves to see what’s lurking at the back, forgotten and waiting to be rediscovered (it can be rather eerie back there…). I...
After a bit of silence here, during which I spent some time relaxing, reading books, and taking a so-called vacation, I'm now picking up where I left off and working on my Kirby plugins. I have a mountain of tasks and ideas piling up.In...
BDX DROID Green Cresh Star Wars Droid Depot Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: 3 other droids Action Feature: Hatless - I repeat, hatless Retail: $49.99 $59.99 Availability: May 2026 Appearances: The Mandalorian and...