10 May 2008
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Have I been transformed into a viper? No – this picture shows an adder that I encountered earlier this week while on holiday. Despite being thirty-mumble years old and having spent a fair amount of time in the great outdoors, … Continue reading
9 May 2008
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This Sunday afternoon sees The Pico Brown Five return to The Brief on George Street in Croydon. So far this has turned out to be a fairly quiet affair so we have largely used it as a chance to rehearse; … Continue reading
8 May 2008
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Having just got back from a few days in the countryside and checked with more experienced rustics, I suspect that the “cuckoo” I thought I heard last month was, in fact, a pigeon. Weak as I may be at identifying … Continue reading
7 May 2008
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I am not sure how best to categorise the next addition to my reading list, which is Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. It might well be filed under science fiction but was also a best-seller (deservedly so); speculative fiction … Continue reading
6 May 2008
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I have not read so much science fiction recently because I have read a lot more detective novels. One that Paul, instigator of the reading list project, set me onto was Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith. It … Continue reading
5 May 2008
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More for the reading list: A Fall of Moondust by the late Sir Arthur C Clarke. Science fiction used to be my main reading material but not so much in recent years. I am sure some other works in that … Continue reading
4 May 2008
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Time for my first notes on the reading list project. We are not playing by Desert Island Disc rules, so the Bible and Shakespeare do not get thrown in for free. However, as I’ve noted before, the Bible is the … Continue reading
3 May 2008
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My fiftytwo photo for this week features one of my large coffee mugs and similar processing to the soul patch I showed a few weeks ago. Want to add something? Please join the conversation about this posting (nb. Yahoo! account … Continue reading
2 May 2008
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A friend of mine, Paul, recently stumbled across some reading lists we (and a few others) wrote a few years back. The idea was to give each other some ideas for further reading based on what each other had discovered … Continue reading
1 May 2008
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Today is the day when Londoners get a chance to vote for their mayor. How many seize that opportunity remains to be seen but I think there are good reasons, not least the fact that there are some candidates with … Continue reading