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I’m joining the inimitable Carson Ellis for a conversation at Bart’s Books this month! Come help celebrate the release of her new book, One Week in January, on October 12th in the Bart’s courtyard from 6-7pm. We’ll be chatting about creative booms in funky towns, spending time with our younger selves, and finding community in rural spaces. Event details here. Here’s a bit more about the book: In January 2001, …

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire. Along the way, we checked out some new spots, and visited some old favourites. We connected it all with a collection of class 4 roads, singletrack, dirt roads, and -- occasional -- pavement. On the eighth day, we rested. OK, I took a ride up …

Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans published 2024 Young people use a phrase: IYKYK, which looks like you banged on the keyboard, but means ‘If you know, you know’. It describes how I feel about Lissa Evans: I, and many others, love her books and wait impatiently for the next one. All her recent novels have been set in the mid-20th century – though there are also the children’s …

“Busy” is a relative term. It’s not the same as a cashier handling a Christmas rush, a doctor managing an emergency room during a hectic night, or a delivery driver working all day for Amazon as a side hustle. For me, “busy” means my mental capacity to handle things in a timely manner has greatly diminished. I’ve been so consumed by work every day that things are starting to slip. …

originally published on: instagram i may be smiling in this photo but i had barely slept with unexplained elevated heart rate in the middle of the night (thanks to covid 1.5 years ago still affecting me in unseen ways) – she was inevitably awakened by my insomnia. i kept apologising, and she kept trying to soothe me back to sleep, for many sleepless hours. she is someone who loves and …

Le mappe sono potere—sia nell’era coloniale sia nel sistema imperiale odierno. Ma come è possibile destrutturarle, riconfigurarle, condividerle tra molti utenti e utilizzarle per tracciare futuri alternativi? Come possono accogliere il flusso continuo del tempo e la molteplicità di prospettive incarnate? Le mappe digitali possono ancora mostrare il territorio? Le mappe del potere possono diventare delle vie di liberazione? The post Rivermap by Brian Holmes appeared first on Digicult | …

The hills are alive with the smell of heather and the sounds of bagpipes during the week of the Highland Games in Braemar, Scotland. This British Pathé newsreel shows footage of the event from the 1969 games. The annual Scottish sport ceremony was sponsored by the Royal Highland Society and gathered dignitaries from throughout Scotland - even the British monarch and her children attended this event since they lived in …

1 KC & The Sunshine Band– Get Down Tonight2 Hotel De Love Wedding Band– Sooner Or Later3 10cc– I'm Not In Love4 Tim Finn– In A Minor Key5 Ronnie Grey– Howzat6 Little River Band– Reminiscing7 Cowboy Junkies– Blue Moon Revisited / Song For Elvis Blue Moon8 Hotel De Love Wedding Band– Sway9 Ronnie Grey– Baby I'm A-Want You10 Tim Finn– In Love With It All11 Leo Sayer– You Make Me …

1. The Asheville Blade had some links to resources both for those affected by Hurricane Helene, and those looking to assist. In general local groups are going to need cash. Government resources are there, but often tend to take time. To get a sense of the creativity to getting resources into the mountain, there's a group that sent supplies via mule. (West coasters tend to scoff at East coast mountains. …

Would you believe me if I told you guys that I have never tried anything from ANUA until this review? I swear I haven’t and I’m sorry if that was a bit of a disappointment for you guys. They just have too many skincare products and I didn’t know which ones I should try out […]

The 2025 CAMRA Good Beer Guide was published a few days ago, bringing with it joy to those had been included, particularly for the first time. The day after publication I visited one such place and then called in a former Guide regular only a couple of miles away that had failed to make the cut once again this time....Pecket Well is a small village situated on the edge of …

It’s been a wild year. Relay turned 10 and 512 Pixels turned 16. Later this week, are winding down our 6th-annual fundraiser for St. Jude. In January, I joined forces with David Smith and survived my first major iOS release, helping get Widgetsmith 7 out the door just a few weeks ago. On the home front, my wife started a new job, our middle child started high school, and I …

To mark the 40th anniversary of Elite by Ian Bell and David Braben, Ian has added further sources to his archives for the likes of Apple, Atari, C64, NES – but crucially a few unreleased titles too. This includes source … Continue reading →

With work seemingly intensifying day by day with the countdown to the launch of the car I've been working on forever and a day, some much needed me time was needed so on the way back I stopped off at the convenience syndicate stretch.The river had been over the banks and in the fields and when I arrived at the parking spot luckily the river was now back within its …

Failed, would-be comedian Kevin (Steven Webb) is on the wrong side of 40 and doesn’t have his troubles to seek. Failing at work, as well as relationships, he’s currently confined to the attic of his childhood home as he isolates with his parents during the COVID lockdown (yes, we are now sufficiently removed from the pandemic to have comedy musicals set during it). Kevin is a life-long Dolly Parton fan, …