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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also written a children's book about futurist undersea exploration and children visiting an undersea base in the future. The late 60s …

Credit: Emma Humphries A Repair Mindset for the Current Trouble 2024-11-15T21:00:52+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 I’d like you all to think about learning more about machining and maintenance. If you’re sick of tech, and like making physical things1, I recommend it. If the incoming administration goes through with their plan to wreck the economy with grievous tariffs, so that the oligarchs can buy it for pennies on …

The Wellcome Collection has a heavily annotated copy of this (in)famous photograph of Major General Horatio Gordon Robley seated before his collection of 33 mokomokai, Māori preserved heads. Its provenance is Stevens Auction Rooms formerly of 38 King Street, Covent Garden. One note says that this is a “1895 photograph”; this copy was presumably given by Robley to Henry Stevens the auctioneer when he attempted to sell Robley’s mokomokai collection …

Week4に行く / に来る / に帰るTo add a bit more of nuance when indicating action, use the に particle.[Location]に[purpose]に[motion verb]Instead of writing this:公園に行きます。本を読みます。You can combine everything on a single quote:公園に本を読みに行きます。Offering Assistance~ましょうか (with rising intonation).英語を教えましょうか。Week 5Te-formru-verbDrop the verb ending る and add て食べる = 食べてu verbThe conjugation rule depends on what sound the verb ends with.買う = 買って乗る = 乗ってirregular verbsくる = きてする = してexceptions行く ends with く but it's an exception. …

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Following completion of the ceiling, it has been decided to build out the bulkhead wall at the Holt end of the coach by around an inch. Some packing pieces, which will be hidden, have been fixed to the old wall and will be suitably clad in due course. A start has been made on the upper panels, which are white to …

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I think this has been long overdue. I will be discontinuing the Mahabharat review series that I started more than two years ago. Despite promising multiple times that I will keep going on, I have come to a realization that I won't be able to. There are multiple reasons for that but the primary reason is that I do not have the time for it. If by some miracle I …

As a kid, I never liked M*A*S*H. That melancholy theme tune and the khaki-and-sand visuals switched me right off. What a stupid kid! I’m watching the show now, at last. I can’t believe (a) how good it is, (b) how much of it there is, and, (c) where Hawkeye has been all my life. I think I’m a little bit in love with him. As well as actually finding him …

For a good overview of Dora Hall musical career, see The World's Worst Records. Not all her records are bad, as Darryl Bullock readily admits : The difference between Dora and other similar artists is that Dora could actually sing. When she sings kid-friendly songs such as Tony the Pony she’s actually quite charming. Her failings, if you will, become most apparent when she tries to sing pop songs; her …

Building an unlikely brand from the ground up Unlikeliest, for sure. Luckiest, definitely. Since returning from the UK I’ve worked methodically to put together Hold Fast Bespoke LLC. It hasn’t happened over night, but piece by piece the blocks have fallen into place. I think it’s fair to say that I owe my success to my winter white coat. The coat that’s opened many doors. The Dream Collaboration Yes, it …

GALSWORTHY ? WELL WORTH SEEING With late Victorians, there’s plenty to bite on: a rising bourgeoisie aflame with parvenu ambition, piety , pannier skirts ,patriarchs, an empire nobody can grasp the idea of losing, and under it all the fresh energy of women deciding they have had enough. Then roll it on a decade or two and everything changes, WW1 leaves old certainties grasping at straws, and cue the roaring …

This will be one of the most boring blog posts I've ever written, but bear with me as it's mainly an aide memoir for me. A few years ago we bought a light fitting for the landing that has ten (yes, ten) individual lights, and hence needs ten individual lightbulbs. Not a problem, I thought, as we have been led(!) to believe that LED lighting lasts years and years where …

Happy Friday <3 made it through another week, huh? Now stop being a pussy... This is 160, featuring: Dagur, Angela Schilling, Piana, Beck, MIDI Janitor, Claire Rousay, Moin, L'Rain, Lyndsie Alguire, Automatic, JooJoo

A post on the Transit Toronto Facebook page here has revealed that two cars from Toronto's Scarborough RT rapid transit line, which closed in 2023, have found their way to the Halton County Radial Railway. The cars are TTC 3026 and TTC 3027, a married-pair set of "people mover"-type automated cars built in 1986 by UTDC. Not only were these cars built for automated, or driverless, operation, but they were …

I was in town for some shopping but it I couldn't resist visiting a pub which only opened yesterday, so I headed up Seel Street to 1936 Pub Co's newest outlet, St Peters Tavern:Wow! 1936 have outdone themselves with this one. The interior on three floors is stunning. Almost all fake, I think, except for the stained glass windows which look original. The usual stag's heads (Where do they get …