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Årsta Castle, Österhaninge, Sweden
Årsta Castle, Österhaninge, Sweden Originally uploaded by Swedish National Heritage Board Sometimes an image just makes me stop and stare. This design is so beautiful.
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Space Travel
What if humanity does develop the technology to identify and reach a planet that could sustain Earth life, but initially that technology is one way only, ie the outward bound traveller can never return? Would we send robots? prisoners? [I ask as an Australian, living in a society partly established on convict labour] What about…
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Death and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell
I’ve been reading Mitchell’s books for a few years now, picking up stray copies here and there. Reading out of order has a certain delight. You meet old friends in their younger years or unexpectedly learn what happened to a character from an earlier book. Although Death and the Maiden hasn’t become my favourite Mrs…
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The Parents, Ogden Nash, quoted in More Comic and Curious Verse, selected by J M Cohen
Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.
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Kairo : bords du Nil et Dahabieh. Originally uploaded by New York Public LibraryMade me think of Amelia Peabody and smile
Kairo : bords du Nil et Dahabieh.