Originally posted on Memoir of a Writer:
I prefer hymns over contemporary Christian music. I prefer traditional anything over (most of) modernity. (Save A/C, because in Texas I couldn’t live without it.) I’m going to start looking into different hymns. Most of the time they have the most in-depth language describing Christianity / Christian thought.…
Sütterlin: what is it? Here’s the Wikipeda article. It’s a form of handwriting, like: Copperplate Italic Gothic Here’s a sample: Here’s another sample, albeit computer-written: Personally, I think I’ll stick with my spidery, copperplate-like handwriting when I write my daily diary this evening. (With Lamy fountain pen, and not an old-fashioned, quaint quill.) Can you […]
You may have heard of the song, Mack the Knife. But have you heard German-language song from which it is derived? Long live the knife!
Now here’s another hit by AC/DC. Whack your stereo volume up! Long live Angus!
You can’t beat a bit of AC/DC on full volume. Long live AC/DC!
Verily it seems like three score days and ten since I metaphorically put quill to parchment. For some reason, I now have a little more time to blog, clean my house, alphabetise my book collection, go for a stroll. I promise not to mention the C-word, however. Earlier this week, on discovering there was nothing […]
Originally posted on Lion & Unicorn:
The standard photograph of the 1979 Winter of Discontent is of Leicester Square, London piled high with rubbish-bags, during a refuse-workers’ strike. March 1975 saw the same phenomenon in Glasgow, but on an even larger scale. ‘In some places the piles of rotting garbage rise as high as 20ft,’…
Originally posted on Lion & Unicorn:
Terry Nation’s 1975 television series Survivors seems particularly appropriate as the coronavirus continues to dominate the news. The following passage is extracted from Alwyn W Turner’s book The Man Who Invented the Daleks: The Strange Worlds of Terry Nation (Aurum, 2011). The story opens in the familiar television world…
Phew! That took a while to get the hang of it! Google was again my best friend! Long live Google!
Oh dear, how do I find out how to add colour to this blog! Sorry, it’s a big black and white. 😦 Down with monochrome!
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