And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass#
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough:
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
- Read: Snow by John Banville ★★★☆☆ 📚
A nice trip to Ireland & crime fiction’s past. Country houses, local colour and character. Somewhat disrupted by the gory details.# Read: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie ★★★☆☆ 📚
#Read: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ★★★★★ 📚
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Super book, full of small incidents, ageing, illness, deaths & disappointment in a 14th century nunnery. The Black Death, a phoney priest, riot, rape & murder. A really sense of time passing, & quite a few laughs.Read: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ★★★☆☆ 📚
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Pretty good 🦠 recovery material. Light on character, mad plot, very fast moving.Read: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler ★★★★★ 📚
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A re-read, from 9 years ago. I love the narrator’s voice, funny & smart. A tricksy telling that worked even though I knew the twist.Read: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead ★★★★★📚
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Lighter than The Nickel Boys.I was expecting something akin to Chester Himes but this was gentler, more thoughtful & a more absorbing read. Politics handled lightly. I hope Ray, keeps out of trouble, if not I want to read about it.Read Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal ★★★★☆ 📚
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An introduction, for me, to a strange artistic world painting trompe-l’œil. Lovely long sentences. The heroine has a ‘lazy’ eye looking two ways at once. The eye recalls Dory Previn – The Holy Man on Malibu Bus Number 3
- Read: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ★★★★★ 📚#
- Super book, full of small incidents, ageing, illness, deaths & disappointment in a 14th century nunnery. The Black Death, a phoney priest, riot, rape & murder. A really sense of time passing, & quite a few laughs.#
Squeezed uncomfortably into a corner the chaplain looked at him with a malevolence so habitual that it was almost indifference#
- The Subsume Plugin — Turn links into sliders! TW plugin for using the html details tag. Sliders seems a little misleading, I've added this to the maths TW I am making which pulls together E&Os, Benchmarks and resources. #
- Font Awesome — using Font Awesome with TiddlyWiki 5 could be used to prettify a wiki.#
- Mini Mangonel – Alom Shaha blog with some pretty simple making stuff for the classroom.#
- Outdoor Learning ideas Outdoor Learning Resources#
- Digital Downloads | Dust-to-Digital We increase access to hard-to-find recordings via preservation, research, and production#
- The possibilities for using Drummer just opened up for me. The script looks as if it is going to open my eyes a bit. I've only really scripted posting to WordPress via XML-RPC using AppleScript. I am guess tags and categories could be handles in the same way Frank get the image and inlineImage attributes from items?#
- This could be delightful.#
