Category: Time
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One Minute Ramble: First Snow
The first snow ofth’winter fell this mornIt ne’er settled and soon was gorn.The clouds gathered up in’th skyThen cleared, and revelth’sun up high.The sun though wasn’t warm.Hence the snow that fell this morn. Forecast has it that today is the first day of a hundred days of bitterly cold weather. The forecast has been wrong…
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John Johnson and the Winter Queen
During the cooling latter days of the year, a pesky plan was afoot to cause a right royal commotion. A servant by the name of John Johnson was using his utmost stealth and skill to smuggle and store gunpowder into a cellar, in readiness to blow up both the King of England and Parliament. He…
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Winter’s Back!
Today saw the first frosty morning of the winter. Usually, things take a gradual approach, so one morning there would be a gentle covering of dew, then the next morning a subtle layer of ice, gradually getting thicker and heavier as the days pass by. But no, not this morning. Oh no, we may as…
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NaBloPoMoNaNoWriMo
I was debating whether to join up for NaNoWriMo this month, as a way of kick-starting my book that I keep promising to write. Part of me was geared up for the challenge, but the other two parts were more than dubious about the whole thing. Not the challenge itself – it seems a good…
The Mansionic Perspective 