Help required. Well requested ( Read more... )

(by a nice doctor chap ( Read more... )

I think this is the longest I've ever spent reading a book, and all for the right reasons. I was given it by Toby and ar_gemlad last Christmas (being 2006) so has taken me near on a year and a half ( Read more... )

Others round here, bateleur perhaps primary amongst them, have been keeping an eye on the BBC News website's "subversive caption guy".

Well he/she appears to be moonlighting for the Metro...http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=153159&

I saw some of Alfons Mucha's stuff years ago in Prague and liked it so much I bought the T-shirt. It's rather threadbare now and faded, and spent a while being accidentally borrowed by a friend, but I still like it ( Read more... )

2nd May 1808 was the start of the Spanish uprising against Napolean (nominally invited in by the King, but plainly occupying by then). And so last week was 200 years later. The Spanish are fond of a fiesta and the socialist gov't seems to like nothing more than spending public funds on public events (more power to them ( Read more... )

The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school/university, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend; ( Read more... )

I have always had a fondness for Rube Goldberg machines - the way that deterministic physics can be used to create the surprisingly inevitable ( Read more... )

Life is essentially good at present though the working week is rather dominated by, well, work. There are deadlines, projects unfinished and a smidge more stress than anyone would like.

No diary style update, but here's a meal I've been meaning to write up for a while.

leathellin's birthday was last month and formed an excellent excuse for dinner ( Read more... )

Quick funniness from B3TA...

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