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Random Doctor Who Picture
Sep. 26th, 2026 05:11 pm
A Pot with a View
Sep. 14th, 2026 10:13 pm
Katie the Fairy is about to go to art school having been doing some art A-level equivalent at a local college. Her final display involved a selection of hand made pots with an ancient Greek theme and she donated one to us for the not-Mansion. Here it is enjoying the view.
Reading, Listening, Watching
Sep. 9th, 2026 07:52 pmReading A Memory Like Empire by Arkady Martine. Matryoshka gave this to me for my birthday last year so I am pleased to have got to it within a 12 month - have I tamed the to read pile? Seems to be space opera meets whodunnit. I'm two chapters in and enjoying it so far.
Listening An archive episode of In Our Time on Hapshetput. Good, but my attention was wandering.
Watching We've been watching Celebrity Masterchef from 2019 where the celebrities seem less obviously annoying than they have previous times we've watched this. We still don't believe the man who said he only ever cooked using the microwave who then promptly served up sirloin steak with chimichurri sauce, garlic butter mushrooms and vine-roasted tomatoes... and we're counting ourselves lucky to recognise one celebrity each episode.
Listening An archive episode of In Our Time on Hapshetput. Good, but my attention was wandering.
Watching We've been watching Celebrity Masterchef from 2019 where the celebrities seem less obviously annoying than they have previous times we've watched this. We still don't believe the man who said he only ever cooked using the microwave who then promptly served up sirloin steak with chimichurri sauce, garlic butter mushrooms and vine-roasted tomatoes... and we're counting ourselves lucky to recognise one celebrity each episode.
Reading, Listening, Watching
Sep. 2nd, 2026 09:02 pmReading: I have decided to re-read all the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. I've started at Whose Body? and am mostly struck by how conspicuously annoying Lord Peter is. I hope he mellows and it isn't just that I've got older.
Listening: I have reached the point where Flight Through Entirety moves on to the new series. A slight re-working of team, and at the moment they are just discussing their varied reactions to the news that the show was coming back.
Watching: Nothing this evening, but we watched Sewing Bee last night. I also recalled that, having claimed last week that this was the only telly made this decade we were watching, that we've also been enjoying the new series of Ludwig
Listening: I have reached the point where Flight Through Entirety moves on to the new series. A slight re-working of team, and at the moment they are just discussing their varied reactions to the news that the show was coming back.
Watching: Nothing this evening, but we watched Sewing Bee last night. I also recalled that, having claimed last week that this was the only telly made this decade we were watching, that we've also been enjoying the new series of Ludwig
Reading, Listening, Watching
Aug. 26th, 2026 05:42 pmReading: In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross. A murder mystery novel from the 1960s. I've read a few 1960s SF novels of late and had identified a trope in which a man (usually a man), would begin a long paragraph with "as you know Steve, orbital mechanics dictates..." and had chalked it up as a late golden age SF quirk. However this book is much the same, though a lot of the long paragraphs are about psychoanalysis and the misunderstood lifestyles of psychoanalysts and university lecturers rather than orbital mechanics. It also displays, though not to the same extent, some of 1960s SF's ideas about the innate qualities of men and women. The mystery itself is engaging, even though I do feel slightly lectured at. The jury is out.
Listening: I've been trying out Sophie Aldred's Ace Odyssey podcast. An interview based show, but framed by a fantasy and a slight story about the ageing spaceship Sophie apparently inhabits. I'm not entirely sure the interviews and the fantasy entirely mesh. Again, the jury is out.
Watching: Sewing Bee and an anime called Clevatess are probably the only things made this decade that I have watched of late.
Listening: I've been trying out Sophie Aldred's Ace Odyssey podcast. An interview based show, but framed by a fantasy and a slight story about the ageing spaceship Sophie apparently inhabits. I'm not entirely sure the interviews and the fantasy entirely mesh. Again, the jury is out.
Watching: Sewing Bee and an anime called Clevatess are probably the only things made this decade that I have watched of late.
Bill Icons
Aug. 25th, 2026 07:17 pm
Texture in the fifth by spiritcoda.
Snagging is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved.
Random Neolithic Stones on a Friday
Aug. 21st, 2026 05:53 pm
The avenue approaching Avebury (I think)
Offa's Dyke Day 9: Bodfari to Prestatyn
Jul. 24th, 2026 05:03 pm
A fairly easy final leg of the walk, over rolling hills, along the top of an inland cliff and then down into Prestatyn to the beach.
( Picspam under the cut )
Bodfari to Prestatyn: 15m/19km
