Some recent animal tweets from SS-W
Whenever Friday comes around, I like to do postings that involve the other animals with whom we share our planet. I mean, this is the internet. And currently my favourite source of animal stuff is the...
View ArticleCar seat laws as contraception
I love the animal tweets that Steve Stewart-Williams does, but a lot of his non-animal tweets are excellent also. For instance: OK, I wasn’t expecting that: Car-seat laws function as contraception....
View ArticleThe Babylon Bee joins Twitter and Facebook in seeking to suppress claims that...
Yes, my favourite insect has for many weeks been a bee, the Babylon Bee. But now, the Bee is telling me this: Since you did not click on that article, you were not horrified by all the alleged...
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Frogs in rain
Indeed. A couple more creatures to round off my Friday. The casedemic rages on, but there is still an Internet out there, with cute frogs on it: Found these two grown-up tadpoles here, which was the...
View ArticleLondon’s starchitecture explained – but the problem isn’t confined to central...
Paul Cheshire: The Planning for the Future white paper tackles one costly feature of the British planning system: its peculiar reliance on case by case, essentially political, decision making for all...
View ArticleBaby chimps reunited
It’s been a while since I have consulted the Twitter feed of Steve Stewart-Williams. Of his recent tweets, this is my favourite. Plus see also Dog retrieves tennis ball from pool without getting wet,...
View ArticleI have lung cancer
This afternoon I sent out an email message to about fifty or more of my nearest and dearest, saying that I now have lung cancer. Since among my nearest and dearest are those who read this little blog...
View ArticleThoughts on giving away the ending … or not giving it away
I am a lazy person. And I just sent an email to my niece Roz Watkins, who writes of crime fiction. Some of this email was personal and private, but a couple of bits seem to me to be worth recycling...
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Propping up a new facade
Incoming from Cousin David: Here is a pic which my daughter Molly photoed the other day when we were on a bicycle ride somewhere between Stratford and Bow – thinking that it contained elements that...
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Modernism plus vegetation
Now that I am reduced to scrabbling through my archives for photos to show here, Cousin David is helping to fill the gap. Recently he sent in some photos of cranes and new construction, in the City of...
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