what a difference a year makes

This time last year we had the Beast from the East.  This year we are very nearly sweltering in a heatwave.

thick with daffodils

gorse in bloom

It’s beautiful, but it isn’t winter.

sequestering carbon, several books at a time XCIV

The latest batch:

pass the parcel

Different second hand book vendors have different attitudes to packing their wares for the rigours of posting.

I just received a book wrapped in a paper bag, then a layer of bubble wrap, then a repurposed cardboard box, then brown wrapping paper sealed with packaging tape.  As I was opening the delivery, I was wondering if there was indeed a book inside at all!

Dominic Grieve

A Tory MP talking sense on Brexit, for once.

Dominic Grieve DID NOT HOLD BACK! pic.twitter.com/ExYJsaGfVQ— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) February 14, 2019

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limericky

I came across this while clearing out some old papers.  It’s a variant of the liar paradox, as the last of four “limericks”.


There was a young girl from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
     When someone asked why
     She said with a sigh,
“It’s because I always attempt to get as many words in the last line as I possibly can.”

Another young poet from China
Had a feeling for rhythm much finer.
     His limericks tend
     To come to an end
Suddenly.

There was a young lady of Crewe
Whose limericks stopped at line two.

There was a young man of Verdun.

clouds at sunset

I love this kind of interplay of clouds and sun at sunset.

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