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Words in The Loft

I’ve been exploring my parents’ loft in an attempt to rescue various items before my mum decides to discard them to the nearest municipal rubbish tip.
The loft is akin to a rather old abandoned library as there are piles of books in every corner and trying to decide what to keep and what to give [...]

Life on Mars

Space. The final frontier…blah blah blah. I’ll try not to make this post a clichéd ridden one but I’ve already started badly with the title. NASA have managed to land a probe on Mars and the first pictures taken by the probe have been released to the public.

I know that the acquisition [...]

Mental Floss

I know that at the lovely age of thirty-six I should be wearing cardigans or some other comfortable clothing. I already possess some rather fetching jumpers and a rather impressive corduroy jacket.
But after a quick scan on Mental Floss I was rather taken by several t-shirts on display and my favourite is a Fibonacci [...]

New Hall Mill

Today was spent going back in time as New Hall Mill had an open day. A view of how flour was made in the not too distant past was an educational and tranquil experience. It was made even better by the excellent tea and cake I consumed.
I took various pictures of the mill [...]

Liverpool

I was going to write about my trip to Liverpool to see Billy Bragg in concert on this blog but since I used Twitter throughout that day I thought that it wasn’t necessary.
However, I did decide to record a vocal ramble on Utterz due to the fact that I’ve signed up to it but only [...]