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Travels last session (yellow) and this session (blue). Well, that was unpleasant. Sorry for the long silence. I'll resist the temptation to let it delay my progress with some kind of "special topics" entry and just get right back into Betrayal at Krondor. As the session starts, the party is in Tyr-Sog contemplating roads to the north and east. The northern route makes a greater loop and takes us through …

A life-affirming film about one transgender woman in conservative Texas, Our Dad, Danielle tells the story of Danielle Joy “DJ” Healey, who make the transition from father, husband and high powered male patent lawyer to middle-aged woman in her forties. Healey is no stranger to the camera in terms of stories being told, as her... The post Film review: Our Dad, Danielle appeared first on LouReviews.

We know that time is limited... In this episode, I talk about what it feels like to know that time is finite.

Experimental Critter from 2020 — HB TysonVia https://bsky.app/profile/hbtyson.bsky.social/post/3k3zgqcdurn2a

إِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ وَإِنَّهُم مَيِّتونَ You will indeed die, and they [too] will die indeed. Surat az-Zumar 30 On the first of January in the year 15XX, I, Domingo el Monje, translator and scribe, was ordered to the Office of the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition in Toledo by the Lord Inquisitor Don Francisco de Pinar, then in the second year of his office, having succeeded to it from Valencia by …

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, …

Possibly my favourite animal if I had to choose one, and while there won't be a tree up for a fifth year, it hasn't stopped me looking for additions for the tree, and one of the themes became, not that many years ago, hedgehogs or hedgepigs, which used to be called urchins in medieval times, giving rise to sea-urchins, because they looked like land urchins! This one came in a …

So it’s the end of another year already… that one went fast didn’t it? In July 2025, Thesis Whisperer will be 15 years old. Does this mean I am now a bratty teenager instead of a menopausal woman?! I feel there’s life in the old girl yet, so I’ll still fire up the blog monthly, never fear. As is tradition, the end of year post should contain some reflections on …

To be frank, 90% of the perfumes I smell are disappointing, if not downright awful. Which is why I’m starting a series dedicated to reviewing (or should that be ‘roasting’) the duds. Sogni (Meo Fusciuni) Sogni is quite possibly the worst thing I have smelled in a long while. I can usually find something positive to talk about in any perfume – and I am inclined to give indies like …

Features / November 27, 2024 In my mind and in my carWe can’t rewind we’ve gone too farPictures came and broke your heartPut the blame on VCR —The Buggles, “Video Killed the Radio Star” ROBERTS: I saw this on Facebook the other day and had to call an emergency round robin. I don’t know the original image source but I’ve seen it on several clickbait nostalgia pages at this point. …

The current BBC production of Wolf Hall: the Mirror and the Light, the last of Hilary Mantel’s novels charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, is a reminder that Cromwell’s dynasty did not end with him on the block. In this post, Dr Robin Eagles considers the careers of some of the direct heirs and how Cromwell’s descendant, Elizabeth, attended the coronation of Queen Anne when she probably should …

I have written before about how photography works in a technical sense. But that’s like knowing how the engine works when what you want is to drive, or more accurately, get somewhere in a car. To follow the analogy it’s perfectly possible to drive a car without knowing how it works, but to get the best out of it it’s useful to know something about how some parts of it …

I bought a couple ounces of Song Zhong the last time I found myself in Chinatown. Red Blossom recommends brewing it at 210°F. I did this for my first few sessions, and was not impressed with the tea. Then one day I accidentally brewed the Song Zhong at 190°F (I thought it was my old pal MLX in the gaiwan). That resulted in a much tastier liquor. I’ve been working …

‘Drive your car in London. Not so difficult as many women think’, urged Margaret Montague Johnstone in the pages of The Motor in March 1933. As well as being a keen shopper and motorist, Johnstone was the daughter of the first man to go around the world on a bicycle! Johnstone recommended several choice parking spots around Oxford Street, noting that ‘Debenhams and Freebody have their own private parking ground …