After a visit to my bicycle dealer, I’ve decided against the “spare wheel” solution. This isn’t the right time of the year for used parts. However, a side visit to the bookstore means that I can look forward to solving a jigsaw puzzle. There’s a logical link here, given that the puzzle is a collage of old bicycle posters.
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I took part in an interesting discussion this afternoon. When writing a local history, should it be approached as a simple compilation of facts, or is there a place for new research? I mean, there’s always the hope of new material, but when faced with a production timeline that has to be respected, how does the editorial aspect apply?
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An odd day, here on my Island. Sometime in mid-morning, the Twitterverse started to get noisy: “the children are being sent home from school”. Not one school; all of them. Without a trace of snow…
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Not always the cook, or the recipe, or the ingredients. A meal can turn out to be, politely put, ordinary. The same thing applies in cinema.
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Two evenings and my double-feature cinema is over. I decided to dig into the archives, and bring up some Hitchcock from before I was born. A chance to see the world in monochrome.
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I enjoy a really big show. With the sixteen days and nights offered up by the gathered masses in Rio, I can say that my satisfaction is at an Olympic level. Tonight, the culmination.
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Reading on social media that others in this area are still preparing to plant their gardens; a sigh of relief, because we’re so not ready. Actually, push came to shove (figuratively), and the squares are now arrayed close to the treeline. The hares will have access, but short of going for a “green roof”, that’s a given. Country life. I am watching the ads for a cheap electric fencing solution.
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I don’t care. Even if the probs announce frost in the next few hours, I’m through with the white season. The “all other seasons” tires are in the car, ready for the big change-over tomorrow morning. In the field below here, the disc harrow is turning those furrows from last season into something flat and filled with potential – clover, perhaps?
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There you go. Clear sky. No wind. Full moon in view. And then my “old fella” voice murmurs… “Close the door. Cold outside!” Such is my life. Had to go and convince the dog that it was time to come in, before the chorus starts to howl. That kind of evening. I can hear the buoy up at the point, and the occasional rumble of whatever going by on the road outside.
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I’ve just learned that my salad servings lack “greenery”. My take on the subject is that once you’ve added several kinds of cheese, a real meat (think ham, or chicken) and some tomato, there’s not much room left. Also, Popeye taught me that spinach was super; isn’t that sufficiently chlorophyllian?
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