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I make science exhibits. I wrangle two small children. I sing.
On a Rubbish Day, all the more happiness induced in your friends at the thought of you enjoying excellent biology as a small gift from evolution and your friend with the bottle and the good idea.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
On a Rubbish Day, all the more happiness induced in your friends at the thought of you enjoying excellent biology as a small gift from evolution and your friend with the bottle and the good idea.
Somewhere I have my grandmother's recipe cuttings book, including a 2940s/50s (rationing-era) page from an English newspaper about how cabbage is good, really, despite what everyone who's ever been to school thinks.. it's just that 10 minutes is plenty of time to cook it for..
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Somewhere I have my grandmother's recipe cuttings book, including a 2940s/50s (rationing-era) page from an English newspaper about how cabbage is good, really, despite what everyone who's ever been to school thinks.. it's just that 10 minutes is plenty of time to cook it for..
No.. we had hymn books. But I did show Mr 7 and Ms 5 the (Janet and?) Allan Ahlberg version of When A Knight Won His Spurs (I think it's called The Headteacher's Hymn) a few weeks back. Which I slightly regretted when I had to (1) explain the joke and (2) sing both versions repeatedly..
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
No.. we had hymn books. But I did show Mr 7 and Ms 5 the (Janet and?) Allan Ahlberg version of When A Knight Won His Spurs (I think it's called The Headteacher's Hymn) a few weeks back. Which I slightly regretted when I had to (1) explain the joke and (2) sing both versions repeatedly..
Mmm. Where I am (Cambridge..), if it doesn't fit in the letter box (or sometimes even if it does) it quite often gets left on the doorstep... Royal mail are pretty reliable, but all the other delivery services, not so much. (And it's not even always *our* doorstep) Even when we're at home.
October 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mmm. Where I am (Cambridge..), if it doesn't fit in the letter box (or sometimes even if it does) it quite often gets left on the doorstep... Royal mail are pretty reliable, but all the other delivery services, not so much. (And it's not even always *our* doorstep) Even when we're at home.
You know, I was wondering exactly this. I think it may have been superseded by the whole irradiation bit..
October 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You know, I was wondering exactly this. I think it may have been superseded by the whole irradiation bit..
You can achieve scorched earth 'merely' by burning off all the life with conventional fire.. or you can nuke it and then it's scorched and also radioactive?
October 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
You can achieve scorched earth 'merely' by burning off all the life with conventional fire.. or you can nuke it and then it's scorched and also radioactive?
I can see that the beading rights at that point would be a motivator!
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I can see that the beading rights at that point would be a motivator!
Did that mean that there was less footage than final episode? So.. title sequences? What else goes in?
October 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Did that mean that there was less footage than final episode? So.. title sequences? What else goes in?
I misread that as 'pursue statutes' which... would be a different sermon again.
September 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I misread that as 'pursue statutes' which... would be a different sermon again.
Oh, look! There you are!
September 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Oh, look! There you are!
... but when you're talking about complicated and/or difficult subjects you need thinking pauses, and if you're doing something else as well (sewing, knitting, painting, washing up...), you don't just spend those pauses looking at each other. I guess another one is driving, looking out the window.
September 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
... but when you're talking about complicated and/or difficult subjects you need thinking pauses, and if you're doing something else as well (sewing, knitting, painting, washing up...), you don't just spend those pauses looking at each other. I guess another one is driving, looking out the window.
Someone, I think it was Terry Pratchett in Monstrous Regiment, described 'women's work' as (roughly) "backbreaking, monotonous, and social" (referring to doing laundry). I'm not sure it is so much the embedded bias against talking about feelings (tho I'm sure it's there)...
September 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Someone, I think it was Terry Pratchett in Monstrous Regiment, described 'women's work' as (roughly) "backbreaking, monotonous, and social" (referring to doing laundry). I'm not sure it is so much the embedded bias against talking about feelings (tho I'm sure it's there)...
(I had to look up the refuge nation flag.. I think the refugee Olympic team just use the Olympic rings, but there's an orange/black/orange flag someone designed in about 2016. No one is going to recognise it, but it looks a bit like a RIB motorboat..)
September 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
(I had to look up the refuge nation flag.. I think the refugee Olympic team just use the Olympic rings, but there's an orange/black/orange flag someone designed in about 2016. No one is going to recognise it, but it looks a bit like a RIB motorboat..)
Hang up a refugee nation flag next to it? Or progress pride would probably also annoy them?
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hang up a refugee nation flag next to it? Or progress pride would probably also annoy them?
I'm pretty sure we called ours 'heat proof mats' because they Definitely Weren't Asbestos Now.
Mid 90s Suffolk.
Mid 90s Suffolk.
August 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm pretty sure we called ours 'heat proof mats' because they Definitely Weren't Asbestos Now.
Mid 90s Suffolk.
Mid 90s Suffolk.
Dunno.. I certainly lied to Facebook. I didn't think it was any of their business, but I got bored of being asked. Can't remember what I told Google.
August 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Dunno.. I certainly lied to Facebook. I didn't think it was any of their business, but I got bored of being asked. Can't remember what I told Google.
They reduce their environmental impact by increasing the margin on the tat to optimise the profit-per-g of the first use plastic?
August 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
They reduce their environmental impact by increasing the margin on the tat to optimise the profit-per-g of the first use plastic?
Well, y'know, got to keep him from just wandering off..
August 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Well, y'know, got to keep him from just wandering off..
I've been explaining what bluesky is to Mr 7, and showing him some of my posts. He wanted to know if I had recommended The Lookout, and when I said yes, wanted to know if I'd said the staff are very friendly. I said, not specifically, but I can. So I am. The staff are lovely.
August 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I've been explaining what bluesky is to Mr 7, and showing him some of my posts. He wanted to know if I had recommended The Lookout, and when I said yes, wanted to know if I'd said the staff are very friendly. I said, not specifically, but I can. So I am. The staff are lovely.