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2020 was a weird year for all of us. Moreover it was a time when a book I read as an impressionable child warned of comets and them being harbingers of doom, woe and U2 albums. The book, Comet Catastrophe by Roger Sutherland (available from Amazon here), talks about how whenever theres a comet, human…
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Back in the olden times, like way back, before even 1998 — we’re talking the 17somethings — salt, the stuff you might sprinkle liberally on your chips, was a valuable commodity with a similar value to iPhones, though mostly only because of the high taxes imposed on it by wigged gentlefolk in London. Often people…
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Last time I wrote about the end of social media was in November 2022 . I say wrote, in effect I shouted into a dark room and nobody heard me because of all the other people shouting into the dark room. At the time Elon Musk had begun his terminal fiddling with the Twitter platform…
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![Picture of the Day: City of Badeggs [2017]](https://stegzy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_2352.jpg?w=450&h=450&crop=1)
Today in 2017, Mrs Gnomepants V2.0 and I embarked on a day trip by boat from Pula in Croatia (where we were on holiday) to the lovely, but slightly fusty smelling city of Venice. Venice was always one of those “be nice to go one day perhaps but no worries if I don’t make it”…
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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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