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Ancient cars in LA
Indeed: That was photoed by this blog’s setter-up Michael Jennings, last month, in Los Angeles. Presumably these cars were for some sort of movie or TV show. Whenever you see cars being carried about...
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Here. Nine seconds of video. An Other creatures posting, not just because it’s a parrot picking human teeth, but because the human teeth are those of a Fox.
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Those thirty-five photoer photos from October 20th 2007 that I promised you
Yes, as earlier promised: There’s a lot I could say, by way of a photo-essay, about these photoer photos. But, do you know what the best thing about them is, in my opinion? How good they are. Oh,...
View ArticleA Happy New Year of sport
The weekend just concluded is one of my favourites of the entire year, every year, because of sport. The Six Nations rugby gets started, which this time involved Italy getting slaughtered by Wales...
View ArticleCreature tweets
Lost of animal stuff on Twitter lately, as always, with much of the stuff I liked best involving dogs. First, a dog’s unique way of getting past a gate. Next, a reunion. I looked up “cats and dogs” on...
View ArticleThe voice of the Falklands War
This afternoon, Patrick Crozier and I recorded another of our podcasts. In due course, assuming the machine recording us didn’t misbehave, it should be showing up here. Towards the end, during the...
View ArticleI actually did the “simultaneous sip”…
… before watching what Scott Adams has to say about the Democratic Debate that happened in Las Vegas last night. This is the first time I have done this. This only happened because I happened to have a...
View ArticleSilencing the many voices
I am in the habit of opening windows, each window with lots of open tabs, and of leaving them all open. Pocket (thank you again 6k) has been a life saver, because I can now close a tab and still have a...
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Time tricks
When I woke up yesterday, I could have sworn it was Friday. And I at once did two things. I checked for an incoming email telling me when a food delivery would happen, which wasn’t there. Odd. And, I...
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Howard Goodall on the world’s first recording star
I’ve been dipping into Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs, which is a book (based on a BBC TV show), whose subtitle is “The Story of Five Discoveries That Changed Musical History”. I have started at the end,...
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The ups and downs of cricket (and of the City of London)
Ten years ago today, England beat Australia in the Final of the ICC World Twenty20, in Bridgetown Barbados. It seems that Australia batted first, lost early wickets and never recovered. I watched the...
View ArticleAnother Twitter dump
I had a Twitter dump earlier. It feels so good to be getting this stuff out of my system, so here’s another. Again, in no particular order, and not chosen for bang-up-to-dateness, just funness and...
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One year ago today: “You cannot do that!”
I love to photo the front pages of newspapers, while in shops from which I also buy things I still want: And that was the front page of The Times of a year ago tomorrow, June 1st 2019. The headlines...
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Lockdown chat with Patrick
On June 2nd, Patrick Crozier and I had another of our recorded conversations, this time about Lockdown. In the course of this, I refer to a photo that I did take, and a photo that I didn’t take. The...
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Girly men
Found this here: I love The Internet. This would never have been allowed on mere television.
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New River walk with GodDaughter1 from Bounds Green to Enfield
On April 2nd 2016, GodDaughter1 and I went on a photo-expedition along the New River. It was most enjoyable, and I prepared another of those big photo-clutches that I could seldom bother to do on the...
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Friday creatures Twitter dump (3): All the others
Further proof that a dog will put up with just about anything, including being biffed by a cat half its size, if it has been subjugated by humans and if the humans say it mustn’t retaliate. Well that...
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An England v West Indies memory – at least I got how the stumps looked...
Tomorrow, assuming I have it right, a test match begins between England and the West Indies, in Southampton. There’ll be no spectators, but they’ve all played either English county cricket or whatever...
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Strange sport
In between the first two photos I showed in the previous posting, of and from the coutyard, and the second two, of the hair and the mugs, I also photoed this: That’s Vincent Square. In the far...
View ArticleHas television rotted brains?
When I did education blogging, this was one of the opinions I acquired, that television may not exactly rot the brain, but it does, shall we say, interrupt its development: One very specific factor,...
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