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A set of medium/light guitar strings and a metal biscuit tin with a reindeer(?) picture on the front. Vital parts of a home made guitar gestating in my head.

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@telescoper.bsky.social

Thank you for posting this. I adore Jackson Pollock's dribble paintings ...I can lose myself in them so easily.

Have been known to do dribble painting myself ... proverbial Robert Jackson Pollocks.

@bengoldacre.bsky.social

Going back a few steps to before Section 106 payments by builders to fund useful stuff in the community, and the payments being part of the contract/planning permission, the risk/suspicion was that the builders were paying bribes to the relevant local officials.
The […]

Timetable no 422 on the Australian Rail Maps website now showing Pimpama station which opened today.

Pimpama station, Australia's newest railway station, opened today. On the Gold Coast line one hour south of Brisbane, Pimpama sees 2 trains per hour off peak and 5 trains per hour at peak times.

Australian Rail Maps Timetable no 422 now updated to show Pimpama. railmaps.com.au/routedetails...

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So Kai's getting his own back for his ticking off last week ... being cheeky about Anton du Beke.

High risk strategy that imvho :)

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So Kai's getting his own back

A stool standing on carpet. The stool has 5 castors only three of which are visible. The seat of the stool is the body of a bass guitar missing the fretboard and tuners. The stool's height adjusting lever is reminiscent of a whammy bar but to different effect!

#SilentSunday

No surprise that from Shirley. No spoilers :))

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Alex ... Just astonishing. Johannes brings out the best.

Had a great time presenting on Fighting Fake Archaeology at New Scientist Live @newscientist.com!

Recorded a podcast with them too, so I'm sure that'll be out at some point

@kissane.myatproto.social

Er ... yes I see it.

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The last "image" I can see in media is abt 8 days old ... the one abt tarot cards.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKjlS4BqgjQ&si=Gdj1HckplzND4zPb

Phil Moorhouse natters about politics ... and there's a really catchy folk song at the end.

#Politics

Anyone else had #YouTube app (on tablet) home page change to showing only 2 videos thumbnails on a line?

It's vile :(

I fixed it by uninstalling all updates from the YouTube app (which it really didn't like) then restarting the tablet then getting the update from the play store.

For now it's […]

A Rusty iron gate with metal flowers in the ironwork. In the background is a gravestone with the names of the James Clerk Maxwell family

Went on a little pilgrimage today to Parton, the resting place of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland’s very own Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell. Quite the pause when I realised he was only one year older than me (48) when he died. ⚛️🔭

Cartoon of man at a table with a book, a plate, a knife and a jar in front of him. He is touching a blob on a page of the book. Caption: I've got jam on my autobiography! Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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Text of poem - Seventieth Birthday. Made of tissue and H20, and activated by cells firing - Ah, heart, the legend of your person ! Did I invent it, and is it in being still? In the competition with other women your victory is assured. It is time, as Yeats said, is the caterpillar in the cheek's rose, the untiring witherer of your petals. You are drifting away from me on the whitening current of your hair. I lean far out from the bone's bough, knowing the hand I extend can save nothing of you but your love.

‘Seventieth Birthday’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
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blackhorse road station. I just like the little black horses

same, but relief not window decoration

cycle path along forest road

the lord palmerston, a pub i have never entered

... which Kai took on board!

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Kai has had a bit of a ticking off there :(

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a follow. My timeline is a delight :))

@christianp

Very good!

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Thank you all for another very interesting hour ... another useful arrow in our quiver of family history research tools!

Have a good fortnight each :)

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Indeed!

:))

Screenshot from online archived book

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A quick search for "Smethwick " brought up a member of the Chance glassworks family in a biographical dictionary of ?UK? Jewry.

And more ... whoah!

So there will be reference to folk local to my family roots in England.

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Thank you ... that's my evening's viewing sorted out ... looks like an excellent YouTube channel :))

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Well, I've just opened the search engine within the ACPL website ...