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Retired. Rejoiner. VdGG & Peter Hammill. Gigs, films, SF. Bath City FC and Somerset CCC. Reading Pepys’ diary daily.
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Pleased I’ve finally found a reason to mention llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc, a place I was somewhat obsessed by as a child.

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Also visited the beautifully air-conditioned Higgins Art Gallery in Bedford. One room had three Turners on display and no-one else in it. ‘A First Rate Taking in Stores’ is just magnificent.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Finally visited The Panacea Society Museum in Bedford. The Society had prepared the house and gardens for Jesus’ Second Coming. The trustees still hold, somewhere, Joanna Southcott’s Box of Prophecies, sealed since 1814, awaiting the Church to provide the 24 bishops needed to open it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This article on autonomous drone warfare is very scary. AI powered drones are already being used by Ukraine. ‘All those airport checks are completely useless. You can just wait outside with the drone… you can fly into the airport 100 drones, 1000 drones in automatic mode’

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Good to see the Aristophanes stans out for Sondheim’s version of The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse tonight. A strange piece as you might expect, but not unenjoyable. First performed in the Yale swimming pool in 1974 with Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver in the supporting cast.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A frisky black squirrel is annoying four jackdaws in the back garden.

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I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but... the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

I think we can all agree as we approach this blessed day that Daniel Hannan was a fucking psychic and not an execrable piece of idiotic garbage living in a fantasy world stoked by reality-challenged British nationalists.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Another terrific win for the England Test team.

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Alarming description in The Observer of a Puffin Club outing to Lundy Island in the 60s or 70s. I took this trip in 2022 and was violently sick, so can only imagine the scenes.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Finished a rewatch, for the first time since broadcast in 1971, of the BBC Drama, In Search of the Nile. Although not quite at the level of producer Christopher Ralling’s later The Voyage of Charles Darwin (1978) this is still a fine achievement, shot mostly on location and with a superb cast.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Zulu.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The old Sheffield Wheat factory in Welwyn Garden City, now up for redevelopment as The Wheat Quarter.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Raising a glass to Brian Wilson. So pleased I went to the 2004 gig at the Royal Festival Hall.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

That was an extraordinary tennis match. Another one. www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

So glorious.

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