Was in China earlier in the year. They try to block it, but I found a couple of radio re-broadcast sites that carried the World Service in through the Great Firewall. It felt like a vital link to an outside world that I was otherwise cut off from for a fortnight.

Trump and his two-bit shyster lawyers should be referred to the answer given in the case of Arkell vs Pressdram.

(Tagging @privateeyenews.bsky.social for obvious reasons.)

Absolutely agree with this. I HATE it when I set up the geography of a novel in my head after I get some description, but then the author gives more detail later that shows that my mental map is wrong and has to be dismantled.

This right here is why those 3 or 5 flashes are a stupid, hateful idea that can get in the bin. I spend far to much time shouting at my car "STOP IT! I DIDN'T MEAN THAT. STOP IT NOW!"

Bah. You have just spoiled my joke that I had not got around to posting, about it being high time that Robbie Gibb went back to his squeaky singing career.

I have been to both this unconformity and the one at Siccar point (blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey... and blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey... ). It is a pity that one cannot now get the full set of three as the one at Jedburgh was buried at some point.

You were also on the radio, although that was presumably recorded earlier.

Gravity plots working again at www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/gravity/

Today's trace shows waves from yesterday's quake in Japan, and from a smaller one this morning.

I don't like either of those teams, but, yeah, very well played indeed.

Haha LoL.

The things that have changed are interesting: the outside of that big hotel with the clock has been cleaned, so it is now beige rather than black. And the area in front of it has not been a car park in the 33 years that I have known it.

The chap who wrote books about scotch whisky, right?

. . . for which you pay the most stupidly high price per km of any rail transport anywhere.

The UK was never in the Schengen area, but the rest of this post appears to be correct.

Channelling @stevebrusatte.bsky.social right there.

I looked at the roof timbers with a bit more interest since learning from @dendrochronicle.bsky.social that they came from near Gdansk in the middle ages. I also fess to fading out the Grandsire because the last two leads were not up to the standard of the rest of the touch. (2/2)

Fascinating! Some of the high areas are obvious: they are on top of granite. But what is going on with the Derbyshire dome and the area around Dover? Concealed granite plutons? Some other thing?