Whatever crossed my time on the day, usually general muttering and rebelliousness over shady pricing by big companies, but also grammar, humour (100 funny insurance quotes is popular), and more
Intro I’ll tell you how it is for me, then I’ll shut up and let far more prodigious, established writers say it more eloquently. My style, such as it is, is down to earth, as rambling as this is now. Yes, I know, I need to work on that, but it’s still my style, I […]
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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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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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