Happy Solstice, happy Lithe, happy half birthday cuvalwen!

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So, sollersuk, your LiveJournal reveals…

You are… 11% unique (blame, for example, your interest in late antiquity)), 6% peculiar, 44% interesting, 22% normal and 17% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy languages). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting ( Read more... )

Upton upon Severn, by a monumental effort, managed to hold the Folk Weekend despite really adverse conditions ( Read more... )

Some of it is probably my own fault but I've had a diabolical week and a half and no sign of let up yet ( Read more... )

I stayed on into the Seventh Form at school for two reasons: I needed to re-sit A Level Latin (this may be irony or it may be a real help because in recent decades I have had to read a great deal of Latin, including Boethius' "De Arithmetica") and I was sitting the Oxford Entrance Exam. There were three or four of us, so to keep us out of mischief ( Read more... )

My thoughts on this were triggered by re-watching the Doctor Who episode "Silence in the Library" with the knowledge that it was shot in the old Swansea Central Library.

A close friend of my mother's ("Uncle Les") was chief librarian in my childhood, and on one visit to Swansea he took me round, and I was awestruck. I think that that experience, at ( Read more... )

sollers's Dewey Decimal Section:

219 [Unassigned]

sollers = 9522589 = 952+258+9 = 1219

Class:
200 Religion

Contains:
The Bible and other religious texts, books about the general philosophy and theory of religion.

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Once again there have been comments on the poor uptake of electric cars in the UK. Once again, no reference to the big problem ( Read more... )

Just because I feel like it, I'm jumping to some aspects of Mam's schooldays. These took place between WWI and WWII and in true St Trinians style she wore a gymslip and knickers which came so far down the leg that they made up for the lack of pockets.

In those days in Swansea, the boys who continued their education went to the Grammar School and the ( Read more... )

To begin at the beginning.

It helps to develop a sense of history if you come from long female generations. Mam (it feels too odd to keep referring to her as "my mother"), like her own mother, did not believe in using bogeymen to instill good behaviour, but she did tell me what my grandmother had told her: that my great-grandmother used to use the ( Read more... )