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more or less random meanderings possibly related to my interests

4/6/26 05:59 am - on rediscovering the joy of jigsaws

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- just added a few photos of the jigsaw puzzles I've completed so far in carnfroth public library

4/5/26 10:16 am

still amn't dead - sfaiaa - and still mostly on farcebook,

still contributing (mostly in books) to the open-access online resource that is being crowd-built,
attempting to document all vinyl records (33⅓, 45, 78 rpm) ever released, all shellac records,
and all cds ever released, and all videotapes (vhs, betamax etc.), and all dvds ever released,
and all books ever published - and all magazines, too. . .

- come and have a look at the different worlds, browse, talk about your favourites - possibly add items you and your friends have that "45catters" have so far missed. . .

45cat & 45worlds

(hoping i've remembered how to enter a website "here" correctly)

9/5/25 10:08 am - on rediscovering the joy of jigsaws

being somewhat penned-in space-wise, here, it was a pleasant surprise to discover a jigsaw puzzle table in a local public library -

- recognisable by the fairly convincing clue of an only partly-started jigsaw laid out in front of my very eyes!

- yr hmbl srppnt. has since completed over half-a-dozen mostly 1,000-piece jigsaws -

- not including 2/1 - a fairly interesting "astrology wheel" one backed with a fiendish "stars of the night skies" double planisphere - two-sided puzzle i'd bought, but not had space to do in two years, which i donated to their collection, and then was rewarded by the librarian bringing it out [1] wearing "a certain smile" on his face. . .

- it's been a long time since this ppint. last had regular christmice/birthday puzzles to feed the habit.

[1] - as suitable punishment, perhaps?

1/25/24 10:26 pm - bathyphobic bloodsucker warning

a bathyphobic vampire would appear to have boarded
the 555 bus at booths, keswick at or around 13:30 this afternoon -
- a young and rather clumsy vampire,
judging by both the departure time of the bus
(which tends predominantly to cater to junior school girls and boys
headed homewards at that time of the day - if they survive),
and by the sheer widespread distribution of human circulatory fluid
upon the floor, furnishings and four formerly blue tables on the
upper deck of the bus by the time it reached lancaster this evening,
scheduled to become the 17:15 bound back up to kendal and then keswick...

no traces of blood were found upon the bottom deck, but lancaster
stagecoach staff were unable to source cleaning mop, bucket, water
and disinfectant in time to allow passengers onto the upper deck in
time for the 17:15 gmt scheduled departure time, despite the handily
nearby-located branches of lidl, b&m, argos/sainsbury's (etc.) supermarkets:

so the 17:15 555 bus departed with upper deck ''scene-of-the-crime''
taped-off from passenger access at the bottom of the bus staircase.

an ashen-faced mr. s. coach, nw, of lowther street, carlisle,
declined to confirm or deny details.

6/18/23 08:16 am - still aten't dead

still on farcebk

3/13/22 02:47 pm - •tap• •tap• - is this thing still on ?



it definitely *isn't* spring, here, yet - but it can't be far off:

last week, there were barely two dozen lambs in the fields
north of tewitfield (carnfroth-ish), with their mums,
and none at all out in the fields along the a6
north from lancaster to kendal, nor along the way up to keswick;

- today, there were upwards of four dozen,
in just one field off the a6 south of milnthorpe -
- and though fairly large by local standards,
this wasn't aught to boast of as to its acreage -
- and similar orders of numbers in at least three other fields,
too far off, to count accurately -

- has everyone been promising their kids
cute, fluffy lambs for pets as we come out of covid-19 caution - ?

- or is everyone ordering fresh british lamb
with which to celebrate the coming eastertide - ?


(something of an experiment, just to see if there's anyone still out there...)


1/22/22 07:53 am - it's time for a worldwide *howl*-at-the-*moon!*



it's the wolf moon!




it's full moon, and the first of 2022 is quite striking:
if lucky, you'll see a double moonbow, with the colours of the rainbow encircling the moon's disc - twice!
(this depends upon there being lots of tiny ice crystals in the earth's atmosphere above you, when you're gazing up at it)


it's also obligatory that everyone goes out and


*howls!* at the moon!




- so get all your friends in on this year's


*howl!* at the wolf moon!



10/5/21 09:40 pm - sad news: cheadle hulme afper dave, father of two vikings and partner of valerie, has died



afper dave, father of two young viking men and partner of valerie,

has died:

there'll be a ''remembering dave'' celebration on the sixteenth

in cheadle hulme (south manchester(ish));

it'll be outdoors, so possibly wet, and possibly cold:

if you don't have valerie's email or phone number,

let me have your email or uk landline no. (possibly uk mobile no.)

and i'll pass your name + contact on.


- love, ppint.



10/2/21 05:20 am - ''another place'' (farcebk) liable to be hit hard $$ unless it censors aught a dictator dislikes



as the then-new russian owners of lj were obliged to obey the new russian law criminalising anything and everything the ex-kgb etc. president deemed promoted, encouraged or even investigated certain ''sexpol'' topics, ''farcebk'' has been officially required to do likewise - possibly, ''only'' ''in russia'' - but the internet doesn't see national boundaries very easily - so possibly, effectively, either in its world-wide coverage.


the alternative is apparently crippling fines. payable in a hard currency, such as merkin dollars, one suspects: or, just possibly, in gold - ?


yr hmbl srppnt. felt ''nudged'' by this news, sufficiently so to try ''nudging'' old friends who've not posted to lj here for some time - since the then new owners of lj announced that they would be obeying the then-new russisn law - which, of course, they were and are legally obliged to observe. . .


hoping to see some people return, if only to keep a second social channel of communication open. . .


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