Popped down to the Oval Tavern on a Saturday evening, as some friends had said they were heading over to see at act that they'd seen elsewhere (and the Oval tends to be a nice place to be, anyway). Took the camera along, just because (although the Oval can be challenging for photography!)

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The first Elegant Decadence event of 2017, at Nambucca.

Nine Day Decline - post-punk goth three-piece.

The Ghost of Lemora - the long-running alternative act have had a bit of a change of line-up since their last album, with new a drummer, keyboardist, and bassist, and slightly heavier sound than before.

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Photographer Josh Smith's aerial photographs of the patterns made by Australian agriculture are rather striking.

And here they are.

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The first hundred issues of White Dwarf (and some of the specials) are now available on t'internet as an archive.

White Dwarf Archive(These were the days when WD wasn't an in-house advert for expensive miniatures, but a wide-ranging gaming magazine that covered games by a number of manufacturers. Somewhere I've got my old copies in a box - which ( Read more... )

Quite a good review of Croydon, mentioning a few pubs that I rate, and a very fine restaurant.

'Croydon for a pretty girl ...'

(Title from an 18th Century rhyme, included for free in the review. Be warned, review may contain language.)

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For personal reference, a couple of sites with advice on running one-on-one RPGs.

Gaming For Two
Solo Roleplaying

(Links originally scrobbled from the Bundle Of Holding offer on two-player games.)

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One reason why I like buying books from The Book Depository is that each is delivered with a bookmark, ready to mark where you've paused.

I find that this encourages the practice of reading in odd moments - even if it does also encourage the tendency to have several books 'on the go' at any one time.

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A tale of an award-winning design for a seminary, its construction at the wrong time (from the point of view of changing church priorities), and a proposal for giving the listed shell a new purpose ...

BBC News In Pictures

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If you find background noise useful for helping you relax, or concentrate, then this site could be useful. It has several shedloads of dynamically configurable noise generators, of a whole load of types.

myNoise - also available as Apps.

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This may be somewhat sensationalised, but it's an impressive tale of an impressive woman ...

Nancy Wake

(And here's the Wikipedia version.)

(Some might suggest that it was what any Australian woman would do in the circumstances, possibly due to watching lots of Miss Fisher Mysteries/)

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