I have a couple of lovely kites... somewhere. Really ought to find them and take them for a spin as we have a lovely big park just 1 minute away.
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I have a couple of lovely kites... somewhere. Really ought to find them and take them for a spin as we have a lovely big park just 1 minute away.
Kevin having a problem in the fish mongers as “Six king prawns” is translated into 6lbs of prawns. I mean, I like prawns, but not that much.
Honestly, if one thing comes out of this mess it should everyone going all in on renewables. Even without climate change, it's absolutely necessary for energy security and price stability.
If we'd been building out wind, solar, and the grid as fast as we should have been, this wouldn't be an issue.
It is cold and damp and grey here today. More like autumn than spring.
Crempog blasus!
Crempog! Mae’n flasus iawn!
Mae Kevin yn trio gwneud crempogau Cymreig go iawn y bore 'ma, oherwydd mae newydd gael rysáit wir. Dw i'n edrych ymlaen!
Four panel b&w Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. In panels 1-3, Calvin has a watering can and addressing himself to a few flowers in the ground, with increasing stridency: “SO YOU WANT SOME WATER, HUH? WELL, IVE GOT A BIG CAN OF IT HERE.” “ITS UP TO ME TO DECIDE IF YOU GET WATER OR NOT! I CONTROL YOUR FATE! YOUR VERY LIVES ARE IN MY HANDS!” “WITHOUT ME YOU'RE AS GOOD AS DEAD! WITHOUT ME, YOU DON'T....” In the fourth panel, it is pouring rain. Calvin looks nonplussed.
Came across this old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon today and immediately thought about the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
*glances at headlines*
No, no reason.
Oh no, I'm sorry! That sucks.
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A cat on a lap.
Oh, there was supposed to be a photo attached to this.
Working from the sofa, under a leccie blankie and a cat.
Thankyou John - and, frankly, just what the man said.
At this point, we're looking at other options too, so a pledge indicates interest, appetite, and we'll be in touch regardless.
(of course, if anyone knows someone with sixteen grand knocking about that would help too)
OMG, that is perfect.
Michael Spicer's brilliant take, that is, not Tedious Armstrong's wankfest.
@michaelspicer.bsky.social has a brilliant take on this type of programme:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjnm...
This gives me hope that even if all those MPs - with dollars in their eyes from what they can personally gain from US Big Tech’s ravaging of human creativity - vote for a data mining exception to copyright, the Lords ain’t having it - and the boom will be over by the time any dust settles?
100%
Mad but fun totally sums it up, and is totally what it should be!
For all canolradd or brave sylfaen Welsh learners out there, Nation.Cymru have covered the launch of my new practice website:
nation.cymru/news/ne...
Pop along to ymestyn.cymru to see what it's all about!
Yeah, it's really great. So very, very UKish!
It didn't really grab me, tbh. Though it was the best entry we'd had in years.
I had to call of a crowdfunder last year because it wasn't going to work, and I was only asking for £300. But I now have a better project going, so there's that! And I'm sure you'll bounce back.
This is the first UK Eurovision entry I've loved for years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...
Read this paragraph and then scroll up to see the actual headline
If I was Phillips I would be super mad
It's a rough climate to be crowdfunding in at the moment. Very rough. I don't think this is anything to do with the quality of your project, which looks awesome, but more to do with the fact we're all fricken broke.
three days to go - it seems like we're in need of a minor miracle (plan b starts on Monday afternoon), but if you're minded to add your name to the 'interested' list, it's an offer that won't actually cost you anything right now..
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
(yes, my ego is battered)
...how isolated my childhood was. In some ways, I'm surprised I'm a functioning adult at all, given how little social interaction I had myself or witnessed as a child, and how much of a loner that made me.
...a trip to the ballet for her work. Museums and historic stuff only happened on holiday in Cornwall. My parents never went out to the pub, or for dinner, and rarely went to friends or had friends over. And I had next to no friends living locally (hamlet of 20 houses). I cannot begin...
...actual people made this stuff, or how. I did have my dad's extensive SFF collection of books to read, but again, never really any sense that actual people wrote them and that therefore I could to (even though I wanted to). Cinema, music, theatre, none of that happened unless my mum organised...
Oh, so much! I didn't even know that pop music and Radio 1 existed until I was about 12 or 13. My parents never watched ITV so I only saw whatever they watched on the BBC. I didn't get to watch the Chart Show on C4 on a tiny B&W tv in my bedroom from when I was about 15. I had no idea that...
My mum hates all fiction. Won't read any fiction, won't watch any dramas or comedies or anything on TV. Never has. I suspect dad would have gone to the cinema if it'd been closer/cheaper, but they didn't have time or money. But that's the problem with growing up in rural Dorset.
Our closest cinema was in Bournemouth which was a 25 drive away. My parents hated Bournemouth on principle, and disliked movies, so I barely even knew the cinema existed until I was a teen.