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In a cosy tea room wondering if the back of this sign says "for tomorrow you die".
Also tickled because some scholars suggest the phrase was written on a pagan throne in Tarsus. The occupant would be carried through the streets eating and drinking until they collapsed from it and another took over
Also tickled because some scholars suggest the phrase was written on a pagan throne in Tarsus. The occupant would be carried through the streets eating and drinking until they collapsed from it and another took over
February 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
In a cosy tea room wondering if the back of this sign says "for tomorrow you die".
Also tickled because some scholars suggest the phrase was written on a pagan throne in Tarsus. The occupant would be carried through the streets eating and drinking until they collapsed from it and another took over
Also tickled because some scholars suggest the phrase was written on a pagan throne in Tarsus. The occupant would be carried through the streets eating and drinking until they collapsed from it and another took over
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🆕 🎙️ France v Ireland Preview 🇫🇷☘️
It’s finally (almost) here! With kick off fast approaching, we are back in preview mode to look ahead to this potential grand slam decider.
Sam, Ian and Huw discuss 6/2, set-piece, hostile Marseille and more!
Enjoy 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4kTY...
It’s finally (almost) here! With kick off fast approaching, we are back in preview mode to look ahead to this potential grand slam decider.
Sam, Ian and Huw discuss 6/2, set-piece, hostile Marseille and more!
Enjoy 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4kTY...
February 1, 2024 at 9:57 AM
🆕 🎙️ France v Ireland Preview 🇫🇷☘️
It’s finally (almost) here! With kick off fast approaching, we are back in preview mode to look ahead to this potential grand slam decider.
Sam, Ian and Huw discuss 6/2, set-piece, hostile Marseille and more!
Enjoy 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4kTY...
It’s finally (almost) here! With kick off fast approaching, we are back in preview mode to look ahead to this potential grand slam decider.
Sam, Ian and Huw discuss 6/2, set-piece, hostile Marseille and more!
Enjoy 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4kTY...
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Had a great chat with @caolansrugby.bsky.social about the Champions Cup Pool stages and how the Irish provinces fared. The man really knows his stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-vK... #Rugby #ChampionsCup
January 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Had a great chat with @caolansrugby.bsky.social about the Champions Cup Pool stages and how the Irish provinces fared. The man really knows his stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-vK... #Rugby #ChampionsCup
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A series of monthly Sunday gatherings will follow, featuring authors Rónán Hession, Melissa McCarthy, Orla Owen, Lara Pawson, C D Rose, Julian Stannard and illustrious others to be confirmed.
This Sunday (21st Jan) at 7pm, the first in a monthly series of free online gatherings. We'll be celebrating LONGITŪDINĒS - a multilingual print and digital magazine for creative writing, literary translation and the arts. Details: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2024/01/long...
January 19, 2024 at 5:40 PM
A series of monthly Sunday gatherings will follow, featuring authors Rónán Hession, Melissa McCarthy, Orla Owen, Lara Pawson, C D Rose, Julian Stannard and illustrious others to be confirmed.
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Reading Brian by Jeremy Cooper. It includes a Werner Herzog quote from Reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo:
"This morning I woke up to a terror such as I have never experienced before: I was entirely stripped of feeling...leaving me like a suit of armour with no knight inside."
"This morning I woke up to a terror such as I have never experienced before: I was entirely stripped of feeling...leaving me like a suit of armour with no knight inside."
December 31, 2023 at 10:46 AM
Reading Brian by Jeremy Cooper. It includes a Werner Herzog quote from Reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo:
"This morning I woke up to a terror such as I have never experienced before: I was entirely stripped of feeling...leaving me like a suit of armour with no knight inside."
"This morning I woke up to a terror such as I have never experienced before: I was entirely stripped of feeling...leaving me like a suit of armour with no knight inside."
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Catching up with December on the Blog, and it has been a month dominated by COVID... However, there have been birthday and Christmas arrivals, which you can read about here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/b...
Bookish arrivals – and a bout of Covid… 😳😳😳📚
As I have a birthday very close to Christmas, I normally do a post after the big days rounding up any bookish arrivals; there usually *are* books, as friends and family know me well! However, this yea...
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December 30, 2023 at 11:02 AM
Catching up with December on the Blog, and it has been a month dominated by COVID... However, there have been birthday and Christmas arrivals, which you can read about here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/b...
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Please share. Full details of this year's live online pantomime performed by The Carthorse Orchestra Players: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-... All welcome: Thursday 28th December at 7pm UK time. Free (donations to The Trussell Trust are welcome)
The Carthorse Orchestra Players 2023 pantomime
Since 2020 The Carthorse Orchestra Players have been performing a live online pantomime every year, starting with a candle-lit production ...
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December 16, 2023 at 9:37 AM
Please share. Full details of this year's live online pantomime performed by The Carthorse Orchestra Players: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-... All welcome: Thursday 28th December at 7pm UK time. Free (donations to The Trussell Trust are welcome)
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New on the blog today...
Part one of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, featuring recently published books by Claire Kilroy, Samantha Harvey, Deborah Levy, Kathryn Scanlan and more!
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Part one of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, featuring recently published books by Claire Kilroy, Samantha Harvey, Deborah Levy, Kathryn Scanlan and more!
tinyurl.com/4w7w2f3e
Books of the year 2023, my favourites from a year of reading – recently published books
Despite the political turmoil unfolding across the world, 2023 has been another great year of reading for me. I’ve read some excellent books over the past twelve months, the best of which feature in...
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December 14, 2023 at 7:29 AM
New on the blog today...
Part one of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, featuring recently published books by Claire Kilroy, Samantha Harvey, Deborah Levy, Kathryn Scanlan and more!
tinyurl.com/4w7w2f3e
Part one of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, featuring recently published books by Claire Kilroy, Samantha Harvey, Deborah Levy, Kathryn Scanlan and more!
tinyurl.com/4w7w2f3e
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December 12, 2023 at 11:22 AM
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I write about Paul Griffiths's two superb novels 'let me tell you' and its long-awaited sequel 'let me go on' in the current issue of Literary Review. You can buy both, beautifully printed and bound, direct from the publisher here: henninghamfamilypress.com/product/let-...
let me tell you | Paperback Bundle
Paul Griffiths is one of a handful of fine writers to find the secret passage leading from restriction to richness.— Adam Mars-Jones Let me go on is a dazzling, virtuosic short novel th
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December 7, 2023 at 11:44 AM
I write about Paul Griffiths's two superb novels 'let me tell you' and its long-awaited sequel 'let me go on' in the current issue of Literary Review. You can buy both, beautifully printed and bound, direct from the publisher here: henninghamfamilypress.com/product/let-...
Comprehensive overview of the rugby week and good referee chat at the start.Well worth a listen!
ICYMI: Episode 19 of 🏴☠️🏉 is go with @kavanaghck.bsky.social! youtu.be/DaRhSzMRopw?...
December 6, 2023 at 6:10 PM
Comprehensive overview of the rugby week and good referee chat at the start.Well worth a listen!
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'Some New Tech Terms'
a helpful guide I created for New Scientist 🧪
a helpful guide I created for New Scientist 🧪
December 4, 2023 at 4:02 PM
'Some New Tech Terms'
a helpful guide I created for New Scientist 🧪
a helpful guide I created for New Scientist 🧪
Highly recommend using Kenny’s! Never had an issue with an order and prices very competitive. A great Irish business! 📚
Tis the season to shop local!🎄 Here are 6 benefits of shopping with Kennys this Christmas:
-Huge selection of new books available
-Big discounts
-Great value & prices
-ZERO delivery charge in Ireland
-Personal customer service
-Supporting an Irish business
www.kennys.ie
-Huge selection of new books available
-Big discounts
-Great value & prices
-ZERO delivery charge in Ireland
-Personal customer service
-Supporting an Irish business
www.kennys.ie
December 4, 2023 at 12:34 PM
Highly recommend using Kenny’s! Never had an issue with an order and prices very competitive. A great Irish business! 📚
Via Charles Arthur Overspill newsletter. What could possibly go wrong! 🦖
December 4, 2023 at 9:49 AM
Via Charles Arthur Overspill newsletter. What could possibly go wrong! 🦖
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So very late…here’s what I read in September and October.
Lots of good stuff here, but my favourites were BRIEF LIVES, AT FREDDIE’S (a re-read) and ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT.
(I also enjoyed Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn and Jo Baker’s The Midnight News on audio.)
Lots of good stuff here, but my favourites were BRIEF LIVES, AT FREDDIE’S (a re-read) and ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT.
(I also enjoyed Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn and Jo Baker’s The Midnight News on audio.)
December 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM
So very late…here’s what I read in September and October.
Lots of good stuff here, but my favourites were BRIEF LIVES, AT FREDDIE’S (a re-read) and ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT.
(I also enjoyed Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn and Jo Baker’s The Midnight News on audio.)
Lots of good stuff here, but my favourites were BRIEF LIVES, AT FREDDIE’S (a re-read) and ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT.
(I also enjoyed Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn and Jo Baker’s The Midnight News on audio.)
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New Podcast 🎙️ URC Block 1 Recap
With all 4 teams in the top 8, it's been a good start to the campaign for the provinces this season.
Today I take a look at each sides opening 7 games, their bright lights and question marks.
Enjoy!
🎙️ traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG48132714...
📽️ youtu.be/kur6sOCiq1s
With all 4 teams in the top 8, it's been a good start to the campaign for the provinces this season.
Today I take a look at each sides opening 7 games, their bright lights and question marks.
Enjoy!
🎙️ traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG48132714...
📽️ youtu.be/kur6sOCiq1s
December 3, 2023 at 12:49 PM
New Podcast 🎙️ URC Block 1 Recap
With all 4 teams in the top 8, it's been a good start to the campaign for the provinces this season.
Today I take a look at each sides opening 7 games, their bright lights and question marks.
Enjoy!
🎙️ traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG48132714...
📽️ youtu.be/kur6sOCiq1s
With all 4 teams in the top 8, it's been a good start to the campaign for the provinces this season.
Today I take a look at each sides opening 7 games, their bright lights and question marks.
Enjoy!
🎙️ traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG48132714...
📽️ youtu.be/kur6sOCiq1s
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The Bluesky micro-universe has now reached the "Name ten things" stage of evolution.
Scientists calculate that it will be at least seven weeks before it reaches full on "crazy Nazi hate bot" sentience.
Scientists calculate that it will be at least seven weeks before it reaches full on "crazy Nazi hate bot" sentience.
December 3, 2023 at 12:02 PM
The Bluesky micro-universe has now reached the "Name ten things" stage of evolution.
Scientists calculate that it will be at least seven weeks before it reaches full on "crazy Nazi hate bot" sentience.
Scientists calculate that it will be at least seven weeks before it reaches full on "crazy Nazi hate bot" sentience.
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Link now working. Here are my Books of the Year for 2023 (and forthcoming indie press highlights in 2024):
davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2023/12/book...
davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2023/12/book...
December 2, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Link now working. Here are my Books of the Year for 2023 (and forthcoming indie press highlights in 2024):
davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2023/12/book...
davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2023/12/book...
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The warmth and light beginning to go now. Coffin on its way. Fade. Gone. (Gardening Samuel Beckett style.)
December 2, 2023 at 12:54 PM
The warmth and light beginning to go now. Coffin on its way. Fade. Gone. (Gardening Samuel Beckett style.)
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Fortnightly 158, the penultimate issue of 2023:
On eclectic reading, Chetna Maroo, Catherine Taylor, Barbara Oakley, Jon McGregor on Vermeer, attention in class, graphic novel CPD, Roger Robinson, the Eblana Theatre, and more.
mailchi.mp/884c0a9c6d42...
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On eclectic reading, Chetna Maroo, Catherine Taylor, Barbara Oakley, Jon McGregor on Vermeer, attention in class, graphic novel CPD, Roger Robinson, the Eblana Theatre, and more.
mailchi.mp/884c0a9c6d42...
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December 2, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Fortnightly 158, the penultimate issue of 2023:
On eclectic reading, Chetna Maroo, Catherine Taylor, Barbara Oakley, Jon McGregor on Vermeer, attention in class, graphic novel CPD, Roger Robinson, the Eblana Theatre, and more.
mailchi.mp/884c0a9c6d42...
💙📚
On eclectic reading, Chetna Maroo, Catherine Taylor, Barbara Oakley, Jon McGregor on Vermeer, attention in class, graphic novel CPD, Roger Robinson, the Eblana Theatre, and more.
mailchi.mp/884c0a9c6d42...
💙📚
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🚀 Send your name in a message in a bottle on the Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa! (Really help them build (optional) mailing list, but still fun symbolic public engagement😉) ✍️✉️🍾🚀
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a...
(h/t @rossb-brighton ) 🧪🔭🎢
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a...
(h/t @rossb-brighton ) 🧪🔭🎢
December 2, 2023 at 10:16 AM
🚀 Send your name in a message in a bottle on the Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa! (Really help them build (optional) mailing list, but still fun symbolic public engagement😉) ✍️✉️🍾🚀
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a...
(h/t @rossb-brighton ) 🧪🔭🎢
europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a...
(h/t @rossb-brighton ) 🧪🔭🎢