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05 December 2022 @ 01:15 pm

Just testing to find out if I can still post on the grotty crap-ridden remnant of what used to be a fun journal.
(Unable to pay roubles for it so stuck with tacky ads; have lost favourite icons and can't post photos. But not a lot of people around here these days anyway, so it probably doesn't matter.)

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07 March 2019 @ 11:27 pm

Book covers, day six?

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04 March 2019 @ 10:39 pm

Book covers, day five

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02 March 2019 @ 10:08 am

Book covers, er... day four?

(It was my mum's copy and the magic erupts from a shabby cover and tiny tiny print. Realised the cover is almost anonymous - it is Rebecca)

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21 February 2019 @ 09:55 pm

Book covers, day three

(Cheating? But I never got the omnibus edition or it would have been here)

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20 February 2019 @ 01:02 am

Book covers, day two

elmey nominated me to post covers of seven books I love - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanation or review, just covers. But with no dust jacket, I have posted the title page too.
And since I am not sure of the rules, I am opting out of nominating someone else this time.

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19 February 2019 @ 10:31 pm

Book covers day one

elmey nominated me to post covers of seven books I love - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanation or review, just covers. Each time I post I will ask someone else to take up the challenge. Obviously it goes without saying that if I tag you and you don't want to it, you don't have to do it. Please do not feel obligated to join in. If you have time,

loxleyprince

(And I am not sure of the rules. The books I love most have travelled with me for decades and some have lost their dust jackets along the way. Do I filch a modern image or photo my elderly plain volumes?)

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04 July 2018 @ 12:35 am

An ancient fountain in the sunlit courtyard of a ruined palace

And it is in Scotland!!! We are having a record-breaking heatwave here with unbelievable temperatures going up to and over 30deg, and wall to wall sunshine.
These walls are ancient.

Tags: photos

Current Mood:

cheerful

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03 March 2018 @ 07:51 am

I got icicles

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07 May 2016 @ 09:48 pm

The short-lived baddies

Picked up a 1965/1966 Film Review annual at an antiques fair in Edinburgh today, mainly for this entry. WASP was quickly swatted!

Current Mood: amused

amused

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10 December 2015 @ 08:34 pm

The Doctor must be here somewhere

More public art on the way back from dinner tonight:

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07 December 2015 @ 03:50 pm

When two worlds collide

Here is a poster advertising the Museum of Communism in Prague. It is above McDonald's.

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19 November 2015 @ 11:19 pm

Early training

I've just realised what this is. On the face of it, it is a child's puzzle; but I have just recognised the same pattern under the desk here, and realised it is actually grown-up training.

If you learned it properly you could sort out the wires for the keyboard, the mouse, the screen, the router, the computer gubbins, the scanner, the speakers, the desk lamp, the Skype camera, the mobile phone connections, the digital camera, and the wee machine that puts the tape recordings of Mr McCallum reading into digital files - most of which have two sets of wires.

Of course, the illustration does not reflect all the challenges - for example, I want a speaker on either side of the desk. And it does not show a demented human being in the middle of it all.
BUT IT DOES EXPLAIN WHY THREE MONTHS AFTER THE HOUSE WAS REWIRED MY PRINTER IS STILL NOT CONNECTED UP IN ANY WAY THAT WILL LET IT WORK.

I obviously did not do enough of these puzzles as a child. (And no, I have no idea who Mordecai and Rigby are.)

Tags: real life

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29 October 2015 @ 08:18 am

Good morning world!

This was the view from my bedroom window this morning. You can't hear the wind howling in the still photo.
I put on my digging thermals to go down for breakfast, and here's the view on my return:

The mist is closing in. But the room is huge and cosy. It is 8.20am, and I may go back to bed for the day.

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28 October 2015 @ 06:23 pm

Not walking today

Things have been a bit fraught these last weeks so yesterday I went online and booked me a hotel in Skye.
Here is the bridge, but I wasn't walking over it today. Muncle gym star has become a toad, and the weather was appalling. I was driving up through grey murk so solid that I could not tell what was spray coming up from the road, and what was downpour from the wet fog hanging over the world.

It was bad. But I am in the hotel room now, heading for a bath, and then I am not moving from the bed until morning.

And at least I can still do that drive!

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18 October 2015 @ 04:42 pm

Aaarrgghh

I'm watching the rugby on the radio with the sound off. I can't cope with it any other way.

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13 August 2015 @ 12:09 am

eBay - moi?

Got this yesterday, and I love it. Suspect it was the view from the holiday cottage window a century or two ago. Photo does not do it justice, but it is old and nailed into its frame, so it can't go in the scanner.
Yeah, I know; supposed to be clearing out the clutter and I buy more junk. (Sigh)

Worldly goods still in storage and we're awaiting the Return of the Decorators. Dog a bit better.
Been outside standing like an idiot watching the stars for the Perseid meteor shower; nothing moving and too cold to stay out, so have given up on shooting stars again. The glories of life just pass me by!!

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15 May 2015 @ 05:07 pm

New York, Old Friends

Bumped into a couple of compatriots in Central Park this morning:

Spent the day between the park and the Met Museum, appreciating the finest art:

Tags: new york

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13 May 2015 @ 05:43 pm

New York, Wednesday

A busy day - everywhere from the Statue of Liberty to the 9-11 memorial pools.

It was a pre-booked bus tour - And it turned out that we were the only two passengers. But the guide valiantly went through his entire spiel anyway.

But it was the flatiron building that tickled me most. How did someone design this??? It takes my breath away.

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01 May 2015 @ 08:38 am

It's May

And I need to scrape the ice off the windscreen

Current Mood: amused

amused

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15 March 2015 @ 11:04 pm

Can't read comments in my own journal

Getting this message:

Error running style: Died in S2::run_code running EntryPage::print(): Method called on null Comment object at 'Flexible Squares' (#4472608) line 2506 at /home/lj/src/s2/S2.pm line 544, line 7739.

Edited to add: Sorted, thanks to Elmey.

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04 February 2015 @ 05:32 pm

Sunset

I just looked out the window there and thought: Wow!!!!
It was -12C here this morning, but a bit milder just now although probably still below freezing.

IMAG1684

Current Mood:

impressed

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16 November 2014 @ 06:26 pm

Heaven

Andy Murray v Novak Djokovic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Swoons

Unbelievable! There will be no work done here now!

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19 September 2014 @ 08:06 pm

Here be fun

Here be fun: Elmey's Mother of Invention project for the Mood-Y MFU 50 challenge, with a wee bit from me. Please admire my double amphibrach; but over there, not over here.

brochure

http://network-command.livejournal.com/441103.html

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14 September 2014 @ 04:04 pm

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Times today has special readers offers on courses:

course

Yes, I can just see me sitting all winter stuffing squirrels in this brave new world. The price must include your first squirrel. WTF!
I can't see that attracting new readers somehow.

Tags: real life

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