This is the Post of Easter Past. Placed here so that, come the end of 2012, I’ll be able look back and convince myself I posted every week without fail, and didn’t spend 15 April swanning around in Hull (City of 1001 Chip Shops) getting fed by my mum, sleeping late (and during the day) [...]
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During this enforced break from my WIP, I’ve been occupying myself with all sorts of useful and important activities. Watching TV ads, for example. Like this one… I’m fond of hedgehogs; we have them in our garden and like nothing better than watching them toddle around the flowerbeds on warm summer nights. (I’m less fond [...]
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I recently got back the marks for my latest Open University assignment. I’m doing a general science module this year (compulsory for the Natural Sciences degree I might obtain some time this century) and last month’s topic was biology. Disturbingly, despite my background in zoology, I scored lower on this assignment than on any other [...]
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That back in 1972, astronauts from the Apollo 17 mission found the head of popular Star Wars android C-3PO lying in what can only be described as an extraterrestrial scrapyard in a crater on the Moon. My source for this astounding revelation is a website I unearthed via the always entertaining Reddit r/conspiracy forum. If you [...]
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So what’s all this about, then? The enigmatic poster depicted above first appeared on the Oxford–Abingdon bus service a couple of weeks ago, and continues to intrigue me. It somehow reminds me of both this: and this: [...]
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I hear that, in Swansea, the world record has been broken for the greatest number of people dressed as Smurfs in one place. How far it has fallen, that once edifying publication The Guinness Book of Records! As a child, I remember being fascinated by entries such as ‘the biggest number’, ‘the longest and and [...]
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From almost out of nowhere, I am suddenly the proud possessor of a tiny pink netbook (to match my tiny pink camera, and tiny not-pink phone — though give it time). A month ago, I had never heard of such things, but a trip to London last week left me in no doubt that a [...]
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We treated our car to a new aerial topper this week, retiring the previous incumbent to the Curtain Rail Of Shame (which resembles a Black Sea sanitorium for worn-out party officials — except for being a curtain rail, and nowhere near the coast). All of our previous toppers are resident there, having come to the [...]
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Here in sunny Abingdon, our Waitrose donates £1000 per month to local ‘good causes’. There are three each month, and the amount that each one receives is based on the shoppers’ vote — whenever you make a purchase, you are given a green plastic token, which you drop in the box of your favourite cause. [...]
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Tuesday was an important day in the life of my new camera: I bought its first accessory — a suitably tiny case. I considered getting a fancy pink one, but this would have cost a third of the price of the camera, so I settled for a Tesco Value Digital Camera Case (a snip at [...]
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