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Tales of an Antiquary: chiefly illustrative of the manners, traditions, and remarkable localities of ancient London by Richard Thomson 1828 A view of Fleet Street and the church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, circa the 1840s. I’m starting the new year with a new literary excavation project! Tales of an Antiquary (1828) purports to be the memoirs of an antiquarian named Sylvanus Beauclerk, who takes his readers on a literary tour of …

Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 47 No. 1 (Friday 10 January 2025)

Medicine Hat practices this week, in anticipation of Saturday's show. We're learning a new one which I posted about previously, and it's pulling us back together. Maybe we'll record it? Maybe we'll write more?

Original poster art for 'The Lost World' (1925).This weekend takes me to the fair city of Cleveland, Ohio, where I'll accompany 'The Lost World' (1925) at this year's annual Sci-Fi Marathon at Case Western Reserve University.It's the 50th annual edition of the Case Western Film Society's marathon, at which diehard movie buffs spend a mid-winter weekend watching sci-fi films of all types 30 to 36 hours non-stop. And next month, …

The days between Christmas and New Years Day are an annual gift I give myself, a peaceful pause in the march of days when no ‘to-do lists’ are allowed to intrude. Instead there is just a gentle drifting, a pottering and flitting between things that feel right at the time. We walk with Toby every day out in the quietly dormant countryside, and then it’s back home to warm up …

Speaking of titles that I played obsessively for a time, 2024 also saw the release of a new Creeper World game! But it occurs to me that I never posted about Creeper World IV here, so let’s talk a little about that first. Creeper World IV was the franchise’s foray into 3D, and it was fine. If you’re a fan of Creeper World, and you’ve wondered what it would be …

Icelandair’s first A321LR, TF-IAA, at a gate at Stockholm Arlanda Airport following its inaugural revenue flight from KEF Icelandair has, other than their domestic/feeder airline, long had an all-Boeing mainline fleet consisting of 737 MAX-8 and MAX-9, 757-200, 757-300, and 767 jetliners. That all changed on Dec. 10, 2024, when the airline placed an A321LR into service as TF-IAA, named Esia, per their protocol of naming aircraft after Icelandic volcanoes. …

I had a great conversation recently with Katie Wilde about the reliability space. (You can see or hear the conversation here). She made a wonderful observation about reliability work: all of the incentives in the reliability space are wrong. Doing the right thing in reliability is almost always the thing that isn’t rewarded. In the discussion, I found some lessons and techniques that I think are worth sharing, not just …

Everything old is new again and now that things aqueous and lightly transparent, with a mist of cool fresh air like Drop d'Issey, are making ripples, it's time for a comeback for those musky, airy, cool and dewy fragrances that defined an era. The presentation for Oxygène by Lanvin followed the trend for diaphanous or light blue (Light Blue anyone?) bottles that dominated the 1990s and

You left me departing from the Red Lion at Rusthall, and heading for the nearest bus stop. My intention was to catch the 14:27 service from Rusthall Church, which would safely see me back in Tunbridge Wells ahead of the school rush. Not only did I achieve this, I also managed to jump off the 291 Metrobus outside Tunbridge Wells station, and then hop onto an Arriva bus service that …

This is a sculpture to our taste. We see a reader because reading is Kb’s favourite pastime. Not while standing, but comfortably in his rocking chair. But reading is reading… Dina, Siri and Selma also need reading like others need their coffee. Das ist eine Skulptur ganz nach unserem Geschmack. Wir sehen hier einen Leser ...

Hop on a Greater Anglia train from Liverpool Street for forty minutes and you will see the density of central London gradually start to dissipate away. The train takes you up the valley of Lea River and eventually over the border into Hertfordshire. You will arrive at a stop called Rye House, on the outskirts […] The post A Journey Through The Centuries At Rye House appeared first on Living …

I have been growing mangelwurzels for over 27 years, mostly to make wine from the roots and use the greens, which resemble chard, in meals. This statuesque easy to grow […] The post Mangelwurzel Curry Recipe appeared first on Stephanie Hafferty.

Sad to hear that Tony Slattery has died, and it inevitably prompts a slew of posts, many incorporating clips from the TV show where most of us first encountered him, Whose Line Is It Anyway? This one, for example, which gives us a chance not only to mourn a mercurial talent, but also to gaze back at a time when a major channel would put out a show with the …

Note: This special Weather West article focuses on a new peer-reviewed scientific review article, recently published in the journal Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment, that I led with a fantastic team of collaborators from NSF NCAR, ETH Zurich, UC Merced, Desert Research Institute, Stanford University, WSU Vancouver, UMass Lowell, and UT Austin over the past several years. What is […] The post Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth first appeared …