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![Picture of the Day: Tilly Whim and the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty [2018]](https://stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_2973.jpg?w=450&h=450&crop=1)
June 2018 found me on holiday on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. This area of England is firmly embedded in the imagination of anyone who has ever read an Enid Blyton novel. An area rife with friendly farmers, well spoken children with their dog, smugglers coves, slumbering villages and ruined castles. The central
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![Picture of the Day: He rises [2023]](https://stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_0910.gif?w=450&h=450&crop=1)
In the mid-80s Tomy brought out a range of toys for boys that mixed the thrill of building with dinosaurs and robots. Sounds mad but it was a thing and it was called Zoids. Being a child at the time, I was gifted the flagship Zoid – Zoidzilla -by my eldest brother when I was
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It’s bank holiday and lovely weather so what better than a trip to the seaside for fish and chips, ice cream and a lovely walk by the sea. Mrs G suggested Swanage and that she would drive, so I thought why not. Roads were fairly empty at 9am on a Bank Holiday Saturday then typically
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The “last days” of Twitter (I say last days, social media platforms have a kind of undead quality to them) remind me of the “last days” of Livejournal. If memory serves, LJ’s decline began in around 2009/2010 when it was bought by a Russian social media company and bot accounts on the platform started flooding
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Every year since 2010 I have created a playlist of tunes that I’ve really liked and played heavily during the year. I do this on a variety of platforms but mainly on Apple Music and Youtube. If you’re interested here is the Youtube playlist for this year…. I add to them regularly so if you
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For years now, I have been idly online window shopping for a method to digitally scan cine film. I’ve seen many expensive solutions come and go and whistfully dreamt of supplementing my income through the conversion of people’s home cine and videos to edited masterpieces of memory. This year I set my heart on making
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The Adam Project 2022 ★½ Watched Mar 12, 2022 Stegzy Gnomepants’s review published on Letterboxd: Corny time travel sci-fi hokum with an interesting premise that rapidly becomes a boringly predictable Reynolds action flick. If I could go back in time I’d tell myself not to bother. https://boxd.it/2ELQ2D
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![Picture of the day: Memorial, Sledmere [1999]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0eb3e4ff-6f68-48e4-9bc8-6082dc25bb5f_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=450%2C367&ssl=1 "Picture of the day: Memorial, Sledmere [1999]")
Back in 1999, Mrs Gnomepants V1.0 and I went to visit her granddad who lived in Scarborough. I think I’d never been to Scarborough before, let alone it’s Fair although we may have got the train there once before a few years previous, I can’t remember. I do have some vague memories of catching a
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![Picture of the Day: Farmer Stegzy, Hunningham [2013?]](https://i0.wp.com/stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2d32c96a-fdc7-4eb9-b449-d9fb82619941.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1 "Picture of the Day: Farmer Stegzy, Hunningham [2013?]")
The Red Lion in Hunningham near Leamington Spa was once one of mine and the missis’ go to places to take visitors. They used to have these really cool comic book pages stuck to the wall in proto-hipster fashion and a slightly traditional menu. Then the frightful types swamped the town in their Audi people
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