Intro Depending on my mood and reason for reading, I can flick through an entire text book in seconds, speed reading to gauge its usefulness, or take a full day or two to read a fantasy novel, savouring every chapter. I can’t begin to guess the number of books I’ve read over my life, but […]
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Miscellaneous and addenda These are late additions to be sorted later and a selection of other quotes I liked but couldn’t quite fit into the categories of the five main pages. “The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old
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Update June 2012 The site has been sorely neglected these past few years. Hopefully, as I fight my way out of depression, I can begin to rectify that and catch up, updating all areas gradually. ~ Paul
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These are the words we found in the blocks, if you found any new, I’m impressed, do let us know. deer / dree / reed eras / rase / sera erne / neer /reen ores / rose / sore bird /drib aril / lira lame / male mase / mesa / same nose / ones
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Spoiler alert! These are the answers to the Nexus puzzles nxa001: They can all be preceded by SUN, or by MOON nxa002b: They are all anagrams of boys names: Sean, Karl, Stan and Eric nxa003: The can all have LIGHT as a suffix nxa004: The can all be preceded by SUN or end with LIGHT
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Photography word puzzles: Answers Hint: this was first written back in the 80’s – a bygone era with no PC’s as such, no Internet and no photo printers – when film cameras ruled the world and photographers used dark rooms to process pictures. Fill in the word / letters which best completes the first word
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TWENTY FOUR PHOTOGRAPHY QUESTIONS: Answers These are the answers to the following quiz: 24 photography questions to test you: 1) Around 400 BC by Aristotle 2) Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke and/or Imogen Cunningham 3) Increase the development time by 183%. Ideal development would be 16 minutes at 20 degrees Celsius in Micropen
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DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION An analysis of Jasper Carrott’s stage routine over time, as compared to his written material, using his ‘Mother-in-law’ sketch. As well as being shown on TV, recorded live at Palladium (with London Weekend TV, if I recall), and since, it features on his album ‘Beat the Carrott’, and in one of his
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