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You see that sign there? It says 'apple sauce.' Former BBC radio studio manager, former teacher, Bristolian in exile, loves C20th fiction mainly by female writers, writing, classic TV.

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This is handy: find listed buildings near you, via the Historic England website. Until they launch a proper subscription Pevsner app (when?) this'll do. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

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Columbia Phonographs (1957)

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I just re-read chapter 12 (‘Twelfth Chapter’) of A Room with a View and yes, it’s a doozy.

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New episode of Inside No. 9 just dropped on Channel 4.

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What a Greggs steak bake sees when you reheat it

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With all the recent discussion of Sesame Street's intersection with the world of highbrow drama, I might as well dig this out again.

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This episode of The Avengers is on Great! TV at 10pm tonight.

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Now SpaceX have moved from blowing rockets up in the sky to doing it on the launchpad, their trajectory (so to speak) is clear: "Here are the blueprints for the new rocket, sir..." FOOM! "I've just had an idea for a new rock..." FOOM!

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There are books on the shelves of all independent book shops that will never be sold. That is not their purpose. They are there in retirement, saved from the knacker's yard of the recycling plant to live out the rest of their lives as horse and pony would at a sanctuary farm. #writing

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33C in the shade according the micro:bit on my patio.

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Just had some Kellogg’s Special K instead of supermarket own brand.

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Once on a BBC World Service night shift a journalist colleague signed off a phone call to a US general with the words ‘I love you.’ Not in air, but even so…

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Two Chinooks just flew over so assume an assault on Penge is imminent.

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There are only five working actors in Scotland, and three of them are Jamie Sives.

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Thought I knew most books about Bristol but only discovered this one recently: a collection of poetry to mark 600 years of Bristol becoming an independent county published - by the Arts and Leisure Committee - in 1973. I hope there were lots of vociferous committee meetings about it.

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There are only five working actors in Scotland, and three of them are Jamie Sives.

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I'm sure this has been done but dreaming of setting myself up as The Reverse Pomodoro guru, come to my talks, subscribe to my blog and podcast, buy my books on how working 10 minutes then taking 20 minute breaks to look at the flowers will improve your creativity and productivity.

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Dreamt I was in a BBC building that wasn’t in Salford but in central Manchester looking for archive clips of Tony Wilson presenting a Saturday morning kids show called The Pier with Margi Clarke. Everyone was very helpful.

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Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

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It's a rare piece of computing history that predates the moon landing, and it could be the only surviving example of its kind.

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This is the future we could have had.

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"What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?" - Artificial Intelligence is an old area of Computer Science that covers a lot - none of it is like Data from Star Trek - ChatGPT et al. are garbage - news about "AI" in medicine, archaeology, etc. is _not_ talking about ChatGPT-likes

This is handy: find listed buildings near you, via the Historic England website. Until they launch a proper subscription Pevsner app (when?) this'll do. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Columbia Phonographs (1957)

I just re-read chapter 12 (‘Twelfth Chapter’) of A Room with a View and yes, it’s a doozy.

New episode of Inside No. 9 just dropped on Channel 4.

What a Greggs steak bake sees when you reheat it

With all the recent discussion of Sesame Street's intersection with the world of highbrow drama, I might as well dig this out again.

This episode of The Avengers is on Great! TV at 10pm tonight.

Now SpaceX have moved from blowing rockets up in the sky to doing it on the launchpad, their trajectory (so to speak) is clear: "Here are the blueprints for the new rocket, sir..." FOOM! "I've just had an idea for a new rock..." FOOM!

There are books on the shelves of all independent book shops that will never be sold. That is not their purpose. They are there in retirement, saved from the knacker's yard of the recycling plant to live out the rest of their lives as horse and pony would at a sanctuary farm. #writing

33C in the shade according the micro:bit on my patio.

Just had some Kellogg’s Special K instead of supermarket own brand.

Once on a BBC World Service night shift a journalist colleague signed off a phone call to a US general with the words ‘I love you.’ Not in air, but even so…

Two Chinooks just flew over so assume an assault on Penge is imminent.

There are only five working actors in Scotland, and three of them are Jamie Sives.

Thought I knew most books about Bristol but only discovered this one recently: a collection of poetry to mark 600 years of Bristol becoming an independent county published - by the Arts and Leisure Committee - in 1973. I hope there were lots of vociferous committee meetings about it.

There are only five working actors in Scotland, and three of them are Jamie Sives.

I'm sure this has been done but dreaming of setting myself up as The Reverse Pomodoro guru, come to my talks, subscribe to my blog and podcast, buy my books on how working 10 minutes then taking 20 minute breaks to look at the flowers will improve your creativity and productivity.

Dreamt I was in a BBC building that wasn’t in Salford but in central Manchester looking for archive clips of Tony Wilson presenting a Saturday morning kids show called The Pier with Margi Clarke. Everyone was very helpful.

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

It's a rare piece of computing history that predates the moon landing, and it could be the only surviving example of its kind.

This is the future we could have had.

"What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?" - Artificial Intelligence is an old area of Computer Science that covers a lot - none of it is like Data from Star Trek - ChatGPT et al. are garbage - news about "AI" in medicine, archaeology, etc. is _not_ talking about ChatGPT-likes

Why do curtain hooks suddenly disappear?

I'm rating my chances as 50/50 at best...

The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki