Saturday, March 31, 2018

Easter Weekend

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There's no doubt that when the early Christians (?) were hijacking Spring Break and calling it Easter a whole raft of odd heathen bit...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Horses on Mars

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Good Friday? One of those rainy and drizzly kind of days when your car battery decides to die in the Aldi car park and the AA have to re...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Confounded

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"Has anyone seen that confounded bridge?" 45 Years ago today that phrase was released upon and unsuspecting world apparently.  ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Great Doughnuts

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Today has mostly been about discovering the next level in doughtnut building. Firstly deconstructing the donut so it's not too sweet,...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Immune to advertising

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I am that's for sure, strong in mind, body and spirit and unaffected by mass media interventions* but despite that I am still wonderi...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Staying put

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I have a healthy respect for tomatoes, as a former grower and an actual consumer I have a well rounded perspective. A bit like these to...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Latest victims

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Only the other day my favorite doctor said to me, "We need to talk about those types of odd shopping choices you make and the subseq...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Stop Working

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Everybody STFU. Here in the UK we're isolated in the nether regions of a popular and possibly corrupt graph. The UK is going it alone...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Band Pics and Lark's Tongues

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 From last night's CD launch in Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms, Norman Lamont and the Heaven Sent. Very Good. You might well say...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Somebody lives here

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Interesting looking residence, up at the top of a hill. Public transport is one of my new things, well buses and travelling on them are....
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Tomorrow Night

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These folks are launching their album tomorrow night at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh (where voodoo may be practiced occasionally). They ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Essentials done

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Without any filters other than the Springtime sunlight. With filters added without me asking, done by the kindly little Google robots ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

The Book of Gibberish

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First few entries: That moment when the golden cube of golden brown cane sugar slowly sinks below the surface of your eagerly anticipa...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Headed for the Highlands

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I'm just not ready for heading to the highlands, another easy way out and into the wilderness yet. There's no escaping local hist...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Overhead crane pulley

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1917 was a great year for overhead crane pulleys as I'm sure you know. Powered by human muscle using chains or ropes, these i...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Power flowers

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My intention was to write a long reflective piece about "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac following on from a chance remark I picked u...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Eight hungry pheasants

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A procession of pheasants. I've been up in Aberdeen for a couple of nights so the regular bird feeding routine has been broken....
Monday, March 12, 2018

Artificial Incompetence

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You just can't afford to drop your concentration at any time, stare at the screen and quietly ruminate. Well I did burn my tongue sli...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Iron Giant

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Here's an iron giant we recently met, it's not actually made wholly of iron but incorporates lots of other interesting materials ...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Imaginary cat

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Here's an imaginary cat that I actually saw lurking in the foyer of the local Tesco store eyeing up the customers and staying warm an...