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English creepy-crawlies
As well as taking endless photographs of flowers over here, I’ve also had the opportunity to capture some wee beasties, mostly spiders and their unwilling companions. The fellow on the right, however, is actually a snail up close. It turns out that the house in Wivenhoe was host to quite the army of snails, which [...]
Love (Squashed tomatoes and stew)
A little late on this, but no surprise there, eh? Sunday was my lovely wife‘s birthday, which we celebrated with a nice, quiet day together at home. One definite (and excellent!) sign that we’re getting settled here is that she’s pulled together some art supplies and begun to litter the apartment with wonderful bits of [...]
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Two scotch eggs and a jar of Marmite
I don’t think I’d ever had a scotch egg before, so when Sub-Evil Boy saw them in the grocery store and asked about them, we got a few to try. All through the experience I kept thinking of the splendiferous Half Man Half Biscuit song "24 hour garage people", with the bit: Two scotch eggs [...]
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JOCP! We can recycle shiny round discs!
An e-mail from the fine folks at Brainwashed promoting an upcoming release included a link to CDRecyclingCenter.org. Apparently you can send these people you dead discs (and cases) free of charge (but you have to pay shipping) and they’ll process them for recycling. They separate out the metals, yielding a plastic that can be used [...]
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A different kind of computing curriculum? – Thoughts on an interview with Smalltalk Dave
I finally got around to listening to this interview with Smalltalk Dave Thomas (as opposed to Ruby’s Dave Thomas) from the Agile Toolkit Podcast. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in this puppy, and curriculum design would be a totally different animal if more academics were listening to people like Thomas. He’s clearly a big [...]
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Gosh, but I love trains
I really do love riding on trains. I also really like city buses, especially double deckers – I’m a sucker for sitting in the front up top and gawking at the world. For longer trips, though, trains just rule. The space, comfort, and ability to get up and move around some are all just splendiforous. [...]
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Departed this life
There are several churches (both new and old) in the town centre of Colchester, and at least two of them have been deconsecrated and put to other uses. One, rather amusingly, houses a natural history museum; I haven’t visited it yet, but intend to. The other is now the Colchester Arts Centre; we haven’t attended [...]
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A very long distance dedication
I just heard Sage Francis’s excellent “Got up this morning”. This is not, in and of itself, terribly surprising, since I really love the song, and Sub-Evil Boy gave me the album (Human the death dance) for my birthday a few months ago. The cool part here was that I was listening to KUMM from [...]
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Different hairstyles (Under one roof)
We regularly pass these doorways on our walks into the town centre. I really like the painting on the brickwork over the openings. No tag for this post. Related posts No related posts.
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A look around the University of Essex (from above)