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Dear people who type in all lowercase, We are the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse. Sincerely, Capital Letters.

According to "Zomboat!" zombies aren't even as fast as a canal boat.

Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang. Almost a three-generational autobiography (two bios and an autobio) of a slightly privileged family in China, covering 1909 to 1978. The family histories are seen within the context of all the political upheaval going on in China at the...

Some guidelines and plans for tarp shelters also available here: http://www.equipped.org/tarp-shelters.htm

I have two of these https://ledlenser.co.uk/collections/lanterns/products/ml4 and one of these https://ledlenser.co.uk/collections/lanterns/products/ml6 and have been very pleased with them. They seem to be of good build quality. They both have several modes for brightness, flashing etc. The...

I've had the Kahtoola Microspikes for many years and have been very pleased with them. Used them up in the Radnorshire Hills (Powys) last Saturday. I've used them in all sorts of terrains (including crossing a frozen lake in Canada!) and they make the transition from ice to snow to frozen ground...

A Hare, methinks, stopped for a moment to look at the view: And for scale, here's my size 11 boot:

And this is one of me topless...

Goliath's Curse - The History and Future of Societal Collapse, by Luke Kemp. Not the cheeriest read but nonetheless very interesting. I found the first part particularly interesting - an aspect to history that I'd not really come across or realised. The final part pulls all the bad stuff in our...

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Nice one Kirsty! Well done...

My central heating and hot water failed on Monday 22nd this week. I messaged my regular CH engineer and he was round and fixed it less than 24 hours later. Customer service...

Slow Horses by Mick Herron. A gripping espionage novel (part of a series) set in and around MI5 in the UK: "It tells the story of a team of British intelligence agents who have all committed career-ending mistakes, and subsequently work in a dumping ground department of MI5 called Slough...

Many thanks, all, for your support and votes. I believe that the (main) fungus in the image is known as Golden Spindles. I call it Witches' Fingers, imagining it as their fingers poking through from the underworld into our world, to see what they can sense or catch. (And no, I've not been at...

Jerven Bag seems fine for your scenarios? Not cheap. But I'm pleased with mine. https://jerven.shop/en-gb/pages/about-the-jerven-bag Might look a bit out of place, though, when downtown...

The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens. An account of part of the colonisation of North America by Europeans from 1860 to 1890 and the consequent displacement of the indigenous peoples. Detailed, very interesting and readable, albeit...

Chris Patten's The Hong Kong Diaries. Published in 2022 they are his diaries describing his time as Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997, preparing it for handing back to China. It also includes an afterword, which I haven't got to yet, on what's happened since. Surprising readable and very...

Piggy in the Middle

I'm tired of all this BST / DST / GMT nonsense. I believe the best thing to do is for us to go metric: 10 seconds in a minute; 10 minutes in an hour; 10 hours in a day (and consequently 10 Time Zones on Earth); 10 days in a week; 10 weeks in a month; 10 months in year (those to date who were...