Read: The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood ★★★★ 📚
Reading this between two funerals here. A comic novel set over several funerals in Australia. Covering catering, food, death break ups and new relationships. Good fun.
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Walk round the Glen Douglas trio on Thursday. Glorious day. blue sky & touch of frost. Very quite a few skylarks singing & the first frog spawn I’ve seen. walkmap with photos & notes..
#SilentSunday
Greenside again. Bright sun to start, a strong gusty wind, dulled down after half an hour. A small tortoiseshell sunning at the side of the track, flew away quickly so no picture. First butterfly of the year. A month earlier than last year. First coltsfoot out too. Ravens enjoying the wind.
A bright almost spring like afternoon at Greenside. First toad of the year, unfortunately squashed by a motorbike on the footpath. A couple of ravens with big crusts of picnic bread by the reservoir.
No it is not, it depends on where you look.
Beautiful News
RSS
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I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.
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Flickr
For both it API & Creative commons I’ve long appreciated flickr: Flickring Free & Good Call Flickr.
DS106
DS106– the open online course on digital storytelling that began at the University of Mary Washington and continues as a community of learners across the globe
Welcome to ds106
Small but mighty.
OpenStreetMap
To many to mention
Things people give away for love & money, small groups, weird ideas, indieWeb, mastodon, micro.blog, open source etc.
For a review of Scrubs in the guardian today.
They should have had a Scottish Doctor 🤣
Read: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng ★★★★★ 📚
Somerset Maugham is collecting material in Malaysia, visiting an old friend & his wife. Layers: a murder, affairs & Sun Yat Sen gathering funds for revolution. Details & the unfolding of all sorts of complexity of characters, relationships & situations involved me completely.
Read: Watershead by Percival Everett ★★★ 📚
Geologist, Robert, becomes involved with fictional Native Americans exposing pollution plot. Mixed in with quotes about geology & legal treaties. Details of Robert childhood & his families involvement with the Black Panthers fits well with the Plata tribe fight for water rights. His awful relationship with a 'mad' girlfriend less so.