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EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT again – and its reflection
Ever since doing this posting, I have had that photo up on my computer screen, and I remain very fond of it. Here are two more photos of that same piece of art/signage, photoed around the same time,...
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Another quota advert
Yes. Spent the day chasing details, and keeping half an eye on the Six Nations. In an empty Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the crowd was not missed much and Wales beat England. Oh well, it’s only a...
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Email problems: EIG2BA
I am suffering email problems just now. I can send them, but I can’t receive them. As of now, I am relying on The Guru to ensure that …: … which they surely will, eventually. Meanwhile, the only other...
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I only watch a few of the videos that the Quotulator likes to put up at his excellent blog, but I just watched this one and enjoyed it greatly: What I find so entertaining about this chunk of history...
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A walkabout five years ago
I am awaiting warmer weather, in the hope that I will then feel up to taking a photo-walkabout, somewhere in London town. Meanwhile here are some photos from a walkabout I did, walking (about) from the...
View ArticleHow the artificial meat story will play out
Andrew Lilico tweets: People seem to imagine there’ll be a “Yuck!” factor barrier to lab-grown meat. But a) in a sausage or burger are you even going to notice? And b) if you think “Yuck!” about...
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Castelnou
Castelnou is a small and impossibly picturesque hill town in the lower reaches of the Pyrenees, in the far south of France. GodDaughter2’s parents and I went by car, just over five years ago now, in...
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A strange discovery on the other side of the River from me
Just over a year ago, in May 2020, I went walkabout, across the River, after Lockdown had really started to kick in. At the time, I wrote here about how I crossed Lambeth Bridge, and then …: … wandered...
View ArticleThe League of Nations builds itself a custom-built headquarters in Geneva
I have been reading The Mighty Continent by John Terraine, which is a history of Europe from 1900 to the 1970s when it was published, being a spin-off book from a TV show. On page 145 of my 1974...
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