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As mentioned, I spent a couple of nights in beautiful Malvern – sadly I felt pretty ropey with a cold, but it didn’t stop me popping into the excellent Malvern Bookshop, and Amnesty secondhand bookshop and the Malvern Book Collective. For a small town, it is well-served with bookshops! On my way home, I stopped for chips in Tewkesbury and a pop-in to Cornell Books, which has a very well-selected …

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When one thinks of the paranormal, they imagine Duke University. But UCLA? Half a century ago, according to John Harlow, their paranormal department investigated a curious poltergeist case in Culver City. Just to drive the point home, it seems even the restless dead are not keen on Black Sabbath. Half a world away an Alleged Ghost Hunt At Abandoned Building Leads To Trespassing Arrest In Malaysia. Heed Tim Binnall's advice …

My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my physician was sick. I thought it would be fine to go a couple of weeks without, but my recovery from my alternate-day-exercise-routine worsened gradually until I had a POTS flareup. Just mere walking alone made my heart rate go up to 130s. This is highly disturbing for someone like me who can run 7km without …

On Friday, I finally crossed Rotherfield off from my list of pub places to visit. This followed one reconnaissance visit, whilst on the return journey of a bus trip to neighbouring Mayfield, and then a failed attempt, two weeks later as part of a CAMRA bus outing. The latter was the result of the dreaded, “essential” roadworks – notice how such disruptive activities are always “essential” but as I wrote …

The first priority of the UK’s recently-elected Labour government is to “secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.” Although economists did not talk of growth until after the Second World War, it quickly became the favoured panacea of politicians. If it can make “everyone, not just a few, better …

There is nothing more satisfying when the weather is cold than a good old curry. This one is a simple recipe that had ground pistachio nuts as one of the ingredients and me being a tight git, everyone of those pistachios that are eventually ground up were deshelled by your truly.A labour of love most certainly but this is one of the richest tasting curries I have in my homemade …

On the advice of his friend, Dr. John Silence (Malcolm Hayes), Stephen Hubbard (Fraser Kerr) heads off to Germany on a convalescent holiday to the monastery where he studied as a child only to discover things are very different from how he remembers.One of the more pulpy of the Silence stories this breathless adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's 'Secret Worship', one of his John Silence stories, was one of several made …

A recent paper on housing, written with Mariana Mazzucato, outlining some ‘home truths’ about homes, and exploring the human right to housing alongside the rights of the environmentAny of the numerous so-called ‘housing crises’, at least those littered across the countries of the Global North, cannot be solved simply through that bluntest of tools: mass home ownership, based on the house as a financial asset, delivered predominantly by the private …

In my final post exploring the Royal Docks, I am looking at the King George V Dock, the last of the three docks that make up the Royals, and was opened in 1921. I have a copy of the book that was issued to commemorate the opening of the King George V Dock, and at the back of the book are some fold out paper maps, one with a view …

The Anne O’Byrne Centre that was part of the Launceston General Hospital was demolished in early 2024. The imposing building stood on the corner of a steep slope on the corner of Charles and Howick Streets, I always admired how challenging the steep site must have been to build on. I remember documenting the building around a decade ago when the facade was renovated, not this and the entire building …

My dad always complains about money so I put all of my tip money from work in a small cup where he often puts his own change in to save. [written on back] The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it's only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen to include some bits of code. And because I'm a perfectionist, I would like this code to be syntax highlighted, like this: Rust codelet addr: SocketAddr = config.address.parse()?; let ln = TcpListeneraddr? …

November has been a month riddled with reading events, and although I’m happy with the amount of involvement I’ve had with these, I very nearly got to the end of the month without picking up on a really interesting one – Norway in November, hosted by Dolce Bellezza. Fortunately, an online mention of the event reminded me, and then I had the fun of deciding what I could read. A …

In Nigeria in November 2024, the National Commission for Mu­seum and Monuments 'marked the 75th anniversa­ry of the massacre of 21 coal miners at Iva Valley, Enugu, by the colonial masters. It could be recalled that 21 coal miners were shot dead in Enugu on Nov. 18, 1949, by the colonial mas­ters for agitating for better working conditions and improved welfare packages'.A monument to the massacre in NigeriaThe massacre took …