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This final round-up of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander (Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers) covers Stockport. And Hazel Grove, and one pub in Heaton Chapel (which should probably have gone in an earlier post), but mainly Stockport – and mainly Old Tom. This post also includes my first and last WWW trips out – both of which, you may not …

Well, it wouldn't do to let the whole of 2024 pass without a blog post on record, so I'll take this opportunity to look back over this year. It's been a rough one in many ways, but, as always, there are some nice things to note, too.LossThe loss of my Mom casts the longest shadow over the year, partly because she was awesome (dedicated her adult life to being a …

Due to recent life events, I’ve been engaging with realtors, banks, and lenders. In all cases, I’m looking for information on their services and start by filling out an online form which should lead me to find such information. Typically instead of directly providing the answers I seek, the process breaks down with a statement of “we’ll get back to you”. Then, at random hours, I receive unsolicited phone calls …

After reading Kathleen Jamie’s Cairn (short poems and very short prose bits and pieces) I thought I’d like to reread Glyn Maxwell’s On Poetry. Maxwell is SO good: he explains and illustrates and most importantly he enthuses. After rereading Maxwell I was smitten again with Gerald Manley Hopkins’ fantastic lines that open ‘As Kingfishers Catch … Continue reading John Carey, A Little History of Poetry →

It’s funny when you watch a sci-fi movie, because sometimes there is a prop which just seems a little out of place, usually because something doesn’t mesh with how it’s been built. Yes, I know, it’s only a movie – but sometimes it’s the little things that matter. In Star Wars The Force Awakens there is a poster with Rey holding her staff, and there in plain sight is a …

Segundo que año que hago recopilatorio. Me gusta mucho consumir este tipo de contenido en cualquier formato, así que me parece una buena idea ofrecerlo yo también. Y es de gran ayuda para recordar lo que has leído y la impresión general que te ha dejado. Este año he leído 43 libros. Es una dato, no le doy mucha importancia, porque no es lo mismo leer libro de 1000 páginas …

I've been invited to guest over at the excellent Indie Tsushin, so you can find my latest post over there. I wrote about iTA-Choco Systems's excellently strange Rodem the Wild (Yaken Rodem, 野犬ロデム).

Steffen Glacier calved off the Z group of icebergs at start of December following on a March prodution of X and Y bergs and a December-February 2023/24 breakoff of A,B,C. The Z icebergs have an area of 3 km2, false color Sentinel image. Steffen Glacier is the largest south flowing outlet of the 4000 km2 Northern Patagonia Icefield (NPI). On December Dec. 6, 2023 the terminus tongue has a narrow …

I ticked over 15 years as a marriage celebrant this year and I’ve realised I’d grown complacent. I’m reminded of wisdom around complacency by a former employee of a formerly massive computer company whose lunch has been eaten by the current first and second biggest companies in the world by market cap. Former Intel CEO, chairman, and employee number three, Andy Grove, in his autobiography Only the Paranoid Survive wrote: …

Busting out of nowhere in 1977 with his debut novel from Dell, John Saul had success immediately, watching as Suffer the Children hit the bestseller charts and sold millions of copies, thanks to an easy-to-remember name and a first-ever tv commercial ad campaign. Saul wrote his books fast, like in a month, so the publisher was always happy to have a new paperback original from him every year.

Housekeeping to Room 501 (USD$9.99) by taxicomics and Catladygames Note: I received a copy of this game for free. Tidy rooms in sinister hotel while discovering its secrets. A compelling simulator with spooks that inspire dread and never feel cheap. Buy on Steam for USD$9.99 The post Housekeeping to Room 501 appeared first on Weird Fucking Games.

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Donate to #TeamEvie and the Literally Healing program at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Go to either TinyURL.com/giveTE for a monetary donation or TinyURL.com/TeamE24, pick a book and make sure to pick Team Evie as the shipping location. I’ll have more ways to donate soon, so watch the feed. In this episode we …

You arrive at a gate with two guards. One guard likes big butts and he cannot lie. The other guard hates big butts and he cannot tell the truth.

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If I were to dump out a puzzle from its box and ask you to put it together, you’d likely start with the edge pieces, as we’ve all been taught to do. Recently, however, while watching my seven-year-old assemble one of his own, I realized this isn’t necessarily the best strategy. The puzzle he was working on was circular, and the circumference was uniformly white, surrounding a clear design in …