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on rediscovering the joy of jigsaws

feetnotes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:59:21 GMT

oh! -

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

feetnotes — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:16:52 GMT

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)

on rediscovering the joy of jigsaws

feetnotes — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:08:34 GMT

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?

bathyphobic bloodsucker warning

feetnotes — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:27:01 GMT

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.

still aten't dead

feetnotes — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 07:16:17 GMT

still on farcebk

•tap• •tap• - is this thing still on ?

feetnotes — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:47:13 GMT

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...)

it's time for a worldwide howl-at-the-moon!

feetnotes — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:53:12 GMT

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!

sad news: cheadle hulme afper dave, father of two vikings and partner of valerie, has died

feetnotes — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:40:06 GMT

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.

rabbits! - where do ''rabbits!'' come from?

feetnotes — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 04:46:54 GMT

younger friends - some of them - have a habit or superstition of saying ''rabbits!'' on the first day of every new month.

when and where did this originate?

- n.b. not, where do you assume or presume it did -
- when did you first do this, or see & hear it done, in real life,
- and do you know where and from whom you picked up the habit/superstition -
- and which of these is it, for you - if you do it - ?

the school playground tradition yr hmbl srppnt. knew - and experienced, sometimes painfully - was

''a pinch and a punch for the first of the month!''

- with the action appropriate to the word being demonstrated upon the hapless victim, sometimes viciously. . .

- as a result of which, the near-instant addition was frequently made:

- ''and no returns!''

- which, by tradition, absolutely forbade the same harsh treatment being inflicted upon the person who'd just meted it out, in reflex.

- this was in the school playground etc,
in the late fifties and through the sixties,
- experienced by yr hmbl srppnt.'s self, in north london,
and reported from other cities and large towns in england.

- did you know of - and did you experience - did you engage in inflicting? -
- this observation/habit/superstition ?
- and where were you,
at the time(s) you indulged in inflicting it upon your friends ? -
- or were the unwilling recipient of the resultant bruises?

''another place'' (farcebk) liable to be hit hard $$ unless it censors aught a dictator dislikes

feetnotes — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 04:20:05 GMT

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. . .

happy bursarversary!

feetnotes — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:20:04 GMT

happy bursarversary!

- if indeed, bursars are still to be found in these parts

and have not been murdered by a distracted

karenk@voltaire/the_vodka_vixen
*nor* their offsprig(s)

(*nor* all of the above. . .)

tamarday 2021

feetnotes — Thu, 20 May 2021 06:29:55 GMT

happy tamarday today

- hoping it's a good day - and that 2021's a good year for you.

tried to post a huggg with maybe helpful suggestions follow-up to j3nny3lf; couldn't not a friend

feetnotes — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:47:01 GMT

what header says: tried to post a *hugg* in follow-up to j3nny 3lf's latest post,
with possibly-useful-to-her suggestions that have worked - and still do work - for yr hmbl srppnt.,

- but couldn't & can't, as i'm not her friend.

- glinda_w ?

yr hmbl srppnt.'s a sneaky feeling there's something missing. . .

feetnotes — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:40:15 GMT

yr hmbl srppnt. has a nagging, sneaky feeling there's something missing here°,°° -

- but *what*?

° - staveley, north-west of kendal in the english north-wet, westmorland

(or cumbria, in these somewhat diminished latter days,)

°° - personally, yr hmbl srppnt.'s inclined to blame the scandawegians,

rather than the danes (lesser or great)

hoping it's been a happy happy lancre witch day!

feetnotes — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 23:59:16 GMT

happy lancre_witch day

(trusting it's been less soggy for you, than it has here...)

happy jacquamoe day today!

feetnotes — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:23:53 GMT

🏞🐎🐦🐑🐑,
🏞🐎🐦🐑🐑,
🏞🐎🐦 dear jacquamoe,
🏞🐎🐦🐑🐑.

🍸🍸🍸🎂🍰🍰🍰🍰🍷🍷🍷

feetnotes — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:13:53 GMT

with the lockdown and the continuing restrictions - which are still badly needed - it's been five months since i went anywhere purely to look at the plants - the wild flowers, and the trees growing in the lake district; that's just under half of the year 2020, most of the spring and all of the summer - almost all of growing, flowering, tree-blossoming here in the northern hemisphere gone for the year.

but, after a reminder of what's been going on all the same, despite our very real troubles, it's just coming into the season of fruiting shrubs and trees - it looks like it could be a good season coming for conkers, and it's already getting into brambles, and well into rosehips and wild briar hips - and soon, all those imported sycamore ''helicopters'', and is it plane trees' keys in bunches? - to keep an eye out for, before the toadstool season gets under way.

one of the two most beautiful - and variety-filled - seasons in the year to come, just starting.

a little later on in august... ...august 2020. . .

feetnotes — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:22:38 GMT

and well into a genuinely worrisome pandemic -

- which word is now being about as universally° misused as is ''epicentre'' -

- seeing as it actually means, an epidemic affecting multiple continents:

it gives no necessary indication of any particular severity°° of symptoms suffered by those infected by it;

- but in any case, i hope that none of my friends as may remain ''here'' on lj suffer badly from covid-19,

and that one or other of the currently likely-looking vaccine candidates proves successful,
and is rapidly made universally available:

for not only does this particular pandemic provide warning that healthcare is a global concern;

it has, by its source, spread - and costs - reiterated that the health of the rich & megawealthy few
is truly dependant upon the health and living standards of the poorest and most crowded-together many.

° - i.e. on uk tv, radio and in what little of the press now read by yr hmbl srppnt.

°° - nor severity, nor lack thereof

flooding reported in south yorkshire: hoping roobarb, family & friends are all o.k.

feetnotes — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:24:47 GMT

reports on tv news of quite severe flooding in south yorkshire;

hoping roobarb and family, and friends, are all o.k.

transport in carnforth, summer 2019 current era

feetnotes — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:30:25 GMT

- wish i was sure quite what mix'n'match of drop-down windows'n'selections'd worked. . .

- meantime, a dozen photos seem to've uploaded from dmctz60 to tablettything, and be findable. . .

feetnotes — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 23:29:41 GMT

while yr hmbl srppnt.'s trying to persuade tablettything and the camera to talk to one another (again°),

''here's one i took earlier'':

this year's fireweed season's underway,

and this week promises to see whole drifts of them fully into flower;

up and down roads, railways and canals're classically the places to find 'em,

but along cycle-paths made out of former railways (closed down by the tories fifty to sixty years ago)'s been the best drifts i've seen. ...

° - whether directly, or via the wifi router, or - howeveritwasthatitworkedlasttime°°
°° - i *hate* the way windowed/graphic user interfaces prevent me learning how to do things. . .

''good omens'' dramatised serialisation on bbc r7^W r4extra this week

feetnotes — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:09:53 GMT

bbc radio7^W 4extra (dab, dvb & online) is running its
dramatised serialisation of ''good omens'' again this week,
six episodes, 17:00-17:30 rpt. 2300-23:30 gmt (18:00-1830 rpt 00:00-00:30 bst)
- and i think prob'ly available from the bbc.co.uk website too. . .

- have fnu!

the long and winding wall. . .

feetnotes — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 11:01:01 GMT

sometimes you have to wonder:

- antedates ''the rolling english drunkard made the rolling english road'' by quite a few tens of thousands of years. . .

(drystone wall to the east of the grasmere-keswick road, north of thirlmere in the english north-wet)

hello?

feetnotes — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 13:07:57 GMT

fx: tap, tap

''is this thing on?''

(everyone seemed to abandon lj when tsar vlad-the-impaler poutine I of all the russias imposed not merely censorship upon it, but made its by-then russian owners criminally liable for any posts it carried ''advocating (?only male, human?) homosexuality''. . .)

- but there was a *nudge* just a little while ago;

- so, maybe not *everyone*'s dead. . .

- ?

.. .. .. ..

feetnotes

on rediscovering the joy of jigsaws

on rediscovering the joy of jigsaws

bathyphobic bloodsucker warning

still aten't dead

•tap• •tap• - is this thing still on ?

it's time for a worldwide *howl*-at-the-*moon!*

it's the wolf moon!

*howls!* at the moon!

*howl!* at the wolf moon!

sad news: cheadle hulme afper dave, father of two vikings and partner of valerie, has died

rabbits! - where do ''rabbits!'' come from?

''another place'' (farcebk) liable to be hit hard $$ unless it censors aught a dictator dislikes

happy bursarversary!

happy bursarversary!

tamarday 2021

happy tamarday today

tried to post a *huggg* with maybe helpful suggestions follow-up to j3nny3lf; couldn't not a friend

yr hmbl srppnt.'s a sneaky feeling there's something missing. . .

hoping it's been a happy happy lancre witch day!

happy jacquamoe day today!

a little later on in august... ...august 2020. . .

flooding reported in south yorkshire: hoping roobarb, family & friends are all o.k.

transport in carnforth, summer 2019 current era

''good omens'' dramatised serialisation on bbc r7^W r4extra this week

the long and winding wall. . .

hello?

it's time for a worldwide howl-at-the-moon!

howls! at the moon!

howl! at the wolf moon!

tried to post a huggg with maybe helpful suggestions follow-up to j3nny3lf; couldn't not a friend