Tag: Blogland
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Bah, Humbug! It’s Valentine’s!
“Valentine’s what?” one of my teachers would have said to me centuries ago when I was in school, if I’d have dared write something as I did the header of today’s post. “I’m waiting!” She would have glared over her thick-rimmed glasses, steam bellowing out of her nostrils individually. Bony fingers tapping the wooden desk…
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Valentine Week Woes
Oh, woe is me. I’m completely woed to the brim. Woed out. It’s Valentine’s week, and I’ve gone and done something so silly, it’s unbelievable. Something I never do. Something I would never do. And I received a congratulatory email for doing it as well. Oh, no! Oh, woe! No, I haven’t gone out and…
Tom
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Offa’s Wheel
I wonder what went behind the invention of the wheel? Was it created after many months of trials of objects of varying shapes and sizes by our Stone Age ancestors until they got it right? Or perhaps the wheel had been invented many eons earlier than the Stone Age, and kept a closely guarded secret,…
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February – Already?
If you’ve suddenly noticed that things seem to be a little bit on the blue side around here, please do not adjust your sets! The Ambience Engineers are in, and are pulling out all the stops to try and make this blog as relaxing and restful an experience as possible. No, that doesn’t mean that…
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View from the window: Re-emergence
Back from the void I return, filled with tales of epic adventure and daring rescues known only by those involved. Clawing, as I did, from the immense tug of a large swirling mass of anti-matter-swallowing nothing, I thought I’d write a post on this, if I got back. I thought I’d write a post on…