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sjhoward.co.uk

Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff.

  • By Simon Howard
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly one post per day
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Organs, zzz
Yesterday, you might have been taken aback by the appearance of a certain ‘z’ on the WD Stephen’s fountain: The engraved text refers to ‘great organizations’—but surely we Brits, and especially the fastidious engravers of …
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Lofty ideals and strenuous endeavour
As I mosey to and from work each day, I pass a number of Victorian water fountains, none of which work. In the late Victorian era, much of Newcastle’s drinking water supply was rather too …
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God in the bedroom
I’ve worried about the Virgin Mary before, but this book review in The Economist gave me new causes for concern: They knew that the Holy Spirit had made the Virgin Mary pregnant but that she …
On , by sjhoward, 205 words