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Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Pubs and Taprooms in Peterborough: A Unique Exploration A day exploring various pubs and taprooms in Peterborough, each with unique atmospheres and histories. Starting at The Shed, which features vintage railway memorabilia, the …

The last time a book by Beverley Nichols featured on the Ramblings was back in 2023 when I shared my thoughts on the last of his five detective novels, “Murder by Request“. He’s long been a favourite author of mine, though I suspect he’s not as well known as he used to be and is probably mostly remembered for his house/gardening books. However, he’s made a good number of appearances …

Lighting is typically one of the last things people buy when it comes to their miniature painting setup. And just The post Redgrass Creative – R9 Solo Review for Miniature Painters appeared first on FauxHammer.

Oslo City Map Oslo is the capital of Norway and home to the greatest selection of restaurants in the country. The success and spread of the New Nordic cuisine, combined with chefs gathering inspiration from all over the world, has led to a revolution of the Oslo food scene. Unlike the other Scandinavian capitals, the city is more about affordable and accessible places, and less about fine dining and white …

Early January 2024: the blue stain of the tree-killing fungus is all over the big pine's sapwoodMy wife told me she could feel that big pine hit the ground from our house, maybe 200 yards away. I had had my eye on it as a firewood source for several years, and because I had been more the Grasshopper than the Ant during late 2024, I needed more wood now. And …

As one of the biggest days in my life nears I’ve been thinking a lot about Mom. How I’ll address and remember her, how I’ll honour her in a way that is appropriate to her, which will likely be a joke at her expense, a chink of glasses, and a tear in the corner of my eye. It has been ten years since she passed. Ten long years, and it …

This was more than just your average funeral. Brompton cemetery was filled with thousands of mourners. They crammed themselves in as the gun-carriage took the remains of a national hero to his last resting place. Another man whose life had been prematurely shortened by this dreadful war. His death was more than just a chance […]

This is the third generation of the DGMLive website – and it will undoubtedly continue to evolve. There are already features that we have planned but not yet implemented. The role of the website itself has changed over time. Twenty years ago, DGMLive might have been seen as the primary place where fans would go for news and discussions. Much of this, of course, now happens on social media. The …

Here’s an interesting analysis of the famous bet between Ehrlich and Simon on the future costs of commodities. Simon won but he probably would not have won so clearly if the bet had been made in other decades. Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity?

Back in November, before the whole advent calendar series started, I was looking at Mattel's new Dream Besties. These dolls have an accompanying YouTube show featuring six friends: Malibu, Teresa, Renee, Brooklyn, Daisy, and Ken. However, dolls representing two of the characters (Daisy and Ken) were not released with the very first wave of products, so I didn't have them on hand for

American Cover After working on Sonic Advance 3, Akinori Nishiyama (the director for all three Advance titles) wanted the next handheld Sonic game to contrast from how complicated the series had gotten by the mid 2000s. This involved going back to a simpler style of gameplay focused purely on speedy action, picking up where Sonic Advance 2 had left off and refining it. The end result would be Sonic Rush, …

The temperature crept above zero and the ESNG members came out in force! 10 members, two visiting friends from the West Sussex mob, and a smallish offspring. Our treasurer recovered enough from his cold to attend and collect all that lovely money. I turned up a few minutes late to see everyone already putting up a very large 4×0 layout. Obviously, I’m the lazy one who wants a small circuit! …

Darkside “S.N.C” The first minute and a half of “S.N.C” is about what you’d expect to hear from Darkside – moody, muted palette, sensual but not overtly sexual – and it’s gorgeous. They could have stayed in that mode through the whole song and I’d love it. But then it gets much more interesting – a Stevie Wonder-ish clavinet riff struts into the mix, the funkiness gets dialed up by …

When we have the ball, it’s a game and when we don’t, it’s a fight. — Manuel Ugarte Love this quote and why this player is quickly becoming a cult hero.