Gnome-Alice

Must be so.

How lucky. Thanks for sharing.

We have been OK since last Friday, although it has meant I have had to stay in every evening.

Hope that works out well.
I am mostly playing loud music so that my wee dog does not hear any explosions. She goes absolutely inside-out with panic at harsh noises.

Meanwhile here in Cornwall people voted for loons.

Well exactly, I'd be astonished were some help not available as part of induction for anyone who ends it.

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Still comes as a shock to see someone mention paying for health care or treatment. Seems both incongruous and wrong in an advanced economy.
And, sorry, your wrist is being bad.

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Just caught this. Hope all is going well.

It was great to see John Woodvine cap an incredible career with ENYS MEN, and my sympathies go out to Mary, Emma, @marghjenkin.bsky.social and all who knew and loved him.

VALE!

chicago police union should file against the feds

Hope you are OK. I am seeing quite alarming messages about your great city, just now.

I am glad you did, a lovely image.

They are f*cking lunatics

They are OK. Although escaping was quite traumatic. Lost everything in the flat. Landlady will have alternative accommodation in a couple of weeks.
They are coming home to W Cornwall in the interim.

Just had a call from granddaughter and partner
They got flooded out of their basement flat in Mutley. Sounded terrifying, they had a struggle getting out against the force of water.

Scientists Strip ‘Diversity’ Language From Research to Keep Federal Grants Some researchers say NIH employees have told them to make the revisions in order to have funding renewed.

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Loving the geometry of your frame, those long seat stays meaning the seat tube almost halves the diamond. And the colour, almost celeste.
Very pleasing on thr eye.

Makes Pete look huge.
Both beautiful though.

The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in black and white. It is an 18th century building in yellow stone, here seen behind a modern building.

The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in black and white. It is an 18th century building in yellow stone, here seen behind a building site.

Atlas holding up the world at the top of The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford

The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford. It is an 18th century building in yellow stone, here seen behind a crane erecting a modern building.

The poor old Radcliffe Observatory is disappearing behind buildings of a different era and, um, different tastes. Developers now like everywhere to be called a "Quarter", and this area is now apparently called "the Observatory Quarter". These pictures were taken in 2021 and 2023.

Don't recall being *that* disappointed. But I am still easily satisfied

Used to irritate me. Leaving her loose hair wound into her hairbrush.
Now, that hair is all I have left of her.

Trump & someone in the White House which is full of Trump-stamped gold bling

Small things make base men proud.

#ShakespeareSunday

Well done for unravelling that knotty thread.

My gar! Some carry-on.

Botallack last evening.

“Come on,” said Moon-Face. “Come and eat a Google Bun and see what you think of it.” Soon they were all sitting on the broad branches outside Moon-Face’s house, eating Pop Biscuits and Google Buns. The buns were most peculiar. They each had a very large currant in the middle, and this was filled with sherbet. So when you got to the currant and bit it the sherbet frothed out and filled your mouth with fine bubbles that tasted delicious. The children got a real surprise when they bit their currants, and Moon-Face almost fell off the branch with laughing.” - The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton.

Ahem. I think you'll find that it was Enid Blyton who invented Google 14 years earlier, in 1939.

Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It’s a scream. It is written like this: “I checked out with K19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was icecold against the rust-colored mountains. The Brylls shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn’t enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google⁵ had told me it wasn’t enough. He was right.” They pay brisk money for this crap?

Happy birthday to Raymond Chandler, inventor of Google

(Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)